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| Thread ID: 120589 | 2011-09-15 21:10:00 | Windows 8 ~ Your Comments | dpDesignz (15919) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1231365 | 2011-09-16 22:00:00 | How to enable start screen here (www.intowindows.com) | plod (107) | ||
| 1231366 | 2011-09-17 00:09:00 | Well, this is being posted from Internet Explorer 10 (!) within Windows 8 - so some of it is definitely working. I've had it installed for about 60 mins, so this is a very early impression. Clearly touch-screen oriented, although I'm managing to find my way around with a mouse. The switch between the metro and the classic interface is a bit weird. I hope there is a way to default to one or the other. Most confusing thin? - who to shut down The only way I could find was CTRL-ALT-DEL to bring up a screen that gave me a shut down option. I hope I'm missing something. I installed from the booted DVD rather than within Windows, and now have the PC triple-booted with Win7 and Vista. One interesting thing - I got a quite nice graphical boot boot options screen initially. I changed the default boot to Win7 and now it has reverted to the classic option screen. |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 1231367 | 2011-09-17 00:22:00 | Most confusing thin? - who to shut down The only way I could find was CTRL-ALT-DEL to bring up a screen that gave me a shut down option. I hope I'm missing something I had the same problem -- Thanks to Iantech, he provided the answer in another thread.. Move the mouse pointer to the very left bottom corner of the screen where the Black "start" button is - a Menu opens, click settings, on the right a menu flies out - Click Power - you have the options to shutdown,restart, sleep. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1231368 | 2011-09-17 00:35:00 | Move the mouse pointer to the very left bottom corner of the screen where the Black "start" button is - a Menu opens, click settings, on the right a menu flies out - Click Power - you have the options to shutdown,restart, sleep.Yes, I just found that myself - still not the best though, I think. I'm about to test out the "low required spec" hype by trying an install on another PC with an Athlon 2.10 GHZ and 4gig RAM - although I suppose that is not that low a spec. |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 1231369 | 2011-09-17 01:29:00 | U run dual normally and the most annoying thing to me with W8 is the taskbar is always on top on the second screen. I haven't worked out how to turn this off yet. I right clicked the taskbar and bought up the properties, it the lower half there is a check box that says Show taskbar on all displays, uncheck it (if that is what I understand you are meaning). I also like that you can have a unique taskbar on each display. All these features may be on Win7, I dont normall run dual screen, just got a spare one here until tomorrow. |
Iantech (16386) | ||
| 1231370 | 2011-09-17 02:24:00 | Where can I find the min spec requirements for it? | plod (107) | ||
| 1231371 | 2011-09-17 02:27:00 | In the 3rd post | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1231372 | 2011-09-17 02:53:00 | OK, this is coming from the "other PC with an Athlon 2.10 GHZ and 4gig RAM - although I suppose that is not that low a spec. " The install went perfectly smoothly, although I appear to have lost my dual-boot with XP - only temporarily, I hope. It would be interesting to see what is the lowest spec anyone can do a successful install on (grammar?) - this thread or a new one? |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 1231373 | 2011-09-17 02:55:00 | Someone try it, then we'll find out | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1231374 | 2011-09-17 03:16:00 | So far got it running on a P4 2.8 + 1.5 GB RAM | wainuitech (129) | ||
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