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Thread ID: 120589 2011-09-15 21:10:00 Windows 8 ~ Your Comments dpDesignz (15919) PC World Chat
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1231385 2011-09-17 05:16:00 +1
It seems to suspend them, only way I have found to kill them so far is ctrl/alt/del and end task.Yep, that's what I did. I'm glad it isn't just me! 		Tony (4941)
1231386 2011-09-17 05:41:00 Finding win 8 very interesting?!? Installed it yesterday on a Toshiba TE2300 lappy (1.4Ghz 40GbHDD) with only 512mb RAM. Wouldn't install from within windows XP - came up with a message saying 'not enough RAM' but installed sweet as from a reboot in only 36min. It runs suprisingly quite smoothly. Bogged down a bit when I installed Office 2007 but still useable. Love the new task manager and IE10. XP took 2min 5sec to boot up. Win 8 takes 2min 50sec. Will throw another 512Mb RAM in later when I remember where I put it. I think this OS may have lots of potential by the time the final release is available. Paul Ramon (11806)
1231387 2011-09-17 05:41:00 OK, day 1 summary:

Like:
startup is fast. 35 secs to the logon screen then 20-30 secs to the "desktop". Mind you there are no startup items at present, so who know what it will eventually take.
The RSS handling is interesting.
If you only have a small number of apps, the metro interface could be quite good.
Installation on old hardware seems to be very good.
Installation in general was easy.

Not so sure:
General look and feel. The switch between the metro skin and the desktop is awkward.
The way you sometmes start on the metro skin and then have to move to the traditional desktop for some functions.
Closing apps - how do you do it?
Not as intuitive atm as Win7.
Navigation is not obvious - although I am finding new things all the time.

However:
This is a developer preview. I am absolutely sure the UI will change dramatically before release. This not even a beta, as it says in the Windows 8 blog. 		Tony (4941)
1231388 2011-09-17 06:25:00 from here (arstechnica.com)

This kind of goes on this line www.zdnet.com

I have flash loaded on my metro style IE10. I was playing Facebooks games overnight. I'll get some photos next time I'm booted in there. I also managed youtube. 		dpDesignz (15919)
1231389 2011-09-17 06:34:00 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.

:). No I still want it there, but it's always on top of everything. Even VLC in full screen



Next question - how do I terminate an app on Win8? I've tried some of the games etc, and once they are started, I can't find any way to shut them down.

Fastest way is hit ctrl+esc to go to the start menu and then hit show desktop. That will shut it up anyway. The only way to shut down currently is to terminate using task manager.

How I've had the app shut down process explained to me is when you push it aside (ctrl+esc) it sits there, and once you computer realizes you aren't using it anymore it will suspend it for you...

My notes after a couple of days playing with it:

Of course I hated it at first as usual, but now after playing with it for a while I have gotten quite use to it. Which scares me. :). It is very good with our internet, not much network usage at all. I like how you have to allow an app to access parts of your computer, location etc etc. Kind of like a FB app. It's taking a while to get use to, but I have all my big programs running so far. Microsoft Office Pro, Adobe CS5.5, Visual Studio 2011 etc. Love the load times though! And have my picture password is quite fun. I would love to try it on a touch device now. Anyone have a spare one sitting around? :D 		dpDesignz (15919)
1231390 2011-09-17 06:41:00 This kind of goes on this line www.zdnet.com

I have flash loaded on my metro style IE10. I was playing Facebooks games overnight. I'll get some photos next time I'm booted in there. I also managed youtube.sso your linked article says the same as mine. So how are you able to use flash in metro without it going to the desktop version? 		plod (107)
1231391 2011-09-17 07:00:00 sso your linked article says the same as mine. So how are you able to use flash in metro without it going to the desktop version?

I ran this labs.adobe.com Seems to work. It isn't smooth. Bit laggy, but still worked. 		dpDesignz (15919)
1231392 2011-09-17 08:55:00 I've noticed if you drag from the left side a thumbnail preview of another app shows. It doesn't terminate a task but at least you can switch tasks... pcuser42 (130)
1231393 2011-09-17 20:08:00 I rather wonder what age group it is aimed at? Apple users perhaps?
So far it absolutely fails to recognise my Wag 54 router/modem, and twice on shut down it has scrambled the BIOS, a most novel occurrence. With quite a few OS's tried/used on this hardware, the only hardware problems so far are from Windoze Ate. I expect it will have fan bhoys - but I won't be among them as it stands at present. 		R2x1 (4628)
1231394 2011-09-17 20:24:00 I expect it will have fan bhoys - but I won't be among them as it stands at present.I rather think we have to suspend judgement for a while - this is a developer tool and has a huge lack of the polish that will eventually be required. As to the BIOS scrambling and lack of device recognition - it seems to me that is just the sort of feedback Microsoft would love to get. There are certainly bits of both the look and the feel that I'm not that keen on, but they are mostly the bits that look to me like scaffolding at the moment rather than the final surface. Tony (4941)
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