Thread: Windows 8: Good or Bad?

Originally Posted by davehc

Hi Kemical.
Is that a picture of the start screen or the "All Apps" feature?

Yes Dave that's my Start screen, it's a little confusing as I used 3 shots to get it all in so hence some repetition in the pictures. I don't like many icons on my desktop so configured my Start screen like an old style win 7 start menu. (or at least, like mine was )

Don't forget that you can also drop the cursor in the bottom left hand corner as if to bring up the start page but right click instead. This will give you another link list. I'm yet unsure how one could add or subtract from this list but you can bet I'll find out.




Cool menu Randy..

Just to add to Rachels post, Microsofts line on upgrading is: If your already using Windows 7 then there might not be a huge reason to upgrade other than to try the new os. If however your using something say pre Windows 7 then it might be time to come in from the cold..

How did you manage to get the folders (Maintenance etc) into the start folder? I have them in all Apps, of course, but haven't figured out how you accomplished that??

I have another thread somewhere, where I was discussing how I had customised the right click "Power" menu. But in the end, with third party file menus around, I finally decided it was a waste of time - still a couple of clicks away, whichever choice one makes!! But I did have most of my old stuff in the Power menu, when I had finished.

You name the blocks of icons you create..



See the above piccie? Below the arrow and in the corner you see a slot or minus sign? Click that and it will reduce the menu to a smaller size. You can then right click each block and then name it. So I never actually moved the folder I just renamed a new one.

Oh, my, lot of ground to cover...

Rachel:

Windows8 is better than Windows7. And that's saying a lot & hard for me to say because Windows7 (I have always felt/known) is very good.
Nothings says one "needs" to move to Windows8 "@ the moment" or even in October.
True, some ppl don't or won't like it, no matter how impressive it is.
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The Power Users menu can be modified. We messed about w/ that a bit during the CP. It's not the most straight-forward thing to accomplish nor did we find that much point or need to doing so. And the "cool menu" is not something a User creates, it's standard equipment, in the OS, available to everyone.

As for not wanting to pile a bunch of icons on the Desktop, I couldn't agree more... notice I have none on my Desktop. However, any icons can appear on the Desktop Toolbar, also, as I showed whilst, not showing those same icons on the Desktop itself. And by piling a whole bunch of (unnecessary) icons/tiles on the Start screen, now, they need to be organized & 1 has to keep (unnecessarily) going to Start & scrolling across it to see them all while trying to find the one wanted, @ any given moment. Putting an Applications folder on the Taskbar eliminates all of that, plus eliminates having to leave Desktop & bounce around, back n forth to other screens.

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To get items (unnecessarily) on Start from All Apps, it is done as follows: (I'm in 7, @ the moment, so, forgive me, cus, I'm going by memory)

Highlight an item on the ALL APPs screen... no, wait, it's Rt Clk... it gets a 'border' around it & a check mark in the top-right corner & @ the bottom of the screen is an ADD to Start icon. Clk that & voila, that item will now & henceforth have a tile on Start. I'll dbl check when I go back to 8 & correct this, if, need be.

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The references I made, above, to things I've shown are in entries # 8 & 10 of this thread.

As, I said, you can see the tiles on my Start have, also, been organized, grouped & named. Difference is, although, almost none or none of them, actually, need to be there, @ all, they purposely are kept few enough that they don't go beyond or take up more real estate than can (ALL) be seen w/out moving the screen, no scrolling needed.

Cheers,
Drew

"Nothings says one "needs" to move to Windows8 "@ the moment" or even in October."

The most sincere and true statement that is currently in any Windows 8 forum!

Kemmy. Doesn't do it for me. I have something similar to yours in my "All Apps" which is quite similar. I created my folders in the Windows explorer Start menu, and, of course, they automatically were created in the All Apps.

Cool Dave, that's just it, whatever works for you. Seems we all have our own way of using the tools that have been given us..

Hi Guys

I think that the guy who wrote the review is essentially correct.
I do think that the interface is inappropriate for large screens.

I can almost guarantee that people aren't going to like it.

This is like saying some people drive a truck so everyone is going to have to drive a truck.
I don't want to drive a truck, I want to drive a 1964 Lotus Super 7.

On the other hand as the new owner of an iPad 3 I see the need for an interface like this.
But not on a PC that doesn't have a touch screen, that just doesn't make sense.

Some things in Windows 7 didn't make sense either, like having to scroll through a hundred apps in a tiny little window to get to the one you want.

Well they did fix that, but not the way I wanted them to.

There should be, if not two different interfaces, a built in choice about how you are going to use the computer, without having to modify the interface using third party apps. I't like they are trying to ram it down our throats.

If the stuff I've read is true they are trying to remove the legacy code that makes it easy to switch it back to a Windows 7 style interface.

As long as they leave it the way it is now, I'm happy with it.
I can modify it to work the way I want but the average computer user isn't going to know how to do that.

Here's my interface, I never go to the start screen for anything and have it set to log in to the desktop instead.



I'm sure that whatever they do, someone will find a way to get back to a sensible interface.
It's just that they shouldn't have to.

It performs well, I haven't seen a lot of bugs, and when they come out with a powerful pad computer running it I'll buy one.

I really don't like the Apple interface, it just doesn't seem logical to me, even as I learn to use it.

I would have purchased a Windows based pad if I could have found one, there just isn't anything equivalent to the iPad yet.

An unrelated note, I just finished editing my first video shot in Full 1080i HD, all shot with the iPad and it looks fantastic.

When I show it on my 42" HD TV it looks better then the commercial stuff.
Crystal clear, what blast, I now have a new hobby, now I want a Windows pad that will do the same thing.

Mike