Windows 8 interface

[woohoo]

25 minutes - life's too short: the shorter version is Learn Windows 8 in 3 minutes (OK, it's really 4:17)

The 25 minutes vid is for the technically challenged, so I stand by my link. Only joking! I much prefer a short link unlike my great big bloody link.

[Sysman]

The 25 minutes vid is for the technically challenged, so I stand by my link. Only joking! I much prefer a short link unlike my great big bloody link.

Fair comment.

It's a useful link to lob at our technologically challenged family and friends, and lets not forget users.

And Mr C. of course

But why oh why didn't Microsoft do this?

[minestrone]

From my brief trials and reading online, you need to get in the mindset of hitting windows-key and they simply typing the app name.

That does work.

But at this rate feck knows what windows 9 will be all about.

CD into the exe dir and command prompting the application to start.

[Cliphead]

CD into the exe dir and command prompting the application to start.

Ah, memories. Path statements and batch files were yer friend.

[minestrone]

First boot up will be asking you want your autoexec.bat file contents should be.

[Sysman]

Took me two mins to learn a couple of things which makes the software more usuable. How does that make me a shareholder?

This is quite helpful so im told... The Missing Windows 8 Instructional Video - Scott Hanselman

I take back my previous comment. Now that the meter isn't running I have taken the time to watch this and I can see ways of using TIFKAM*.

I might switch Classic Shell off for a day or two and see how it goes.

* The Interface Formerly Known As Metro

[ThomserveBAS]

I've just upgraded a couple of my machines (both physical and virtual) to Windows 8; one of them is my Media PC, the other a "server" that provides DVB TV to clients around the house.

The driver for me upgrading was how quickly Windows 8 boots (especially on an SSD).

I've installed the excellent StartIsBack (StartIsBack - real start menu in Windows 8) which gives you a native Windows 7-style Start menu back, allows you to boot straight to the desktop and other lovely tweaks.

My biggest annoyance right now is the fact that they've removed the option from Windows Media Center to boot straight into the MCE interface I've got a logon event set up to launch ehshell.exe once a particular user logs in but (a side effect of the speed of the boot/SSD) the interface launches before the desktop and hangs for a few seconds whilst it fathoms what the crack is

[cojak]

Well Mr C is quite happy with Win 8 as I gave him woohoo's vid link to go through while it was loading (thanks woohoo! )

You are quite right though - why didn't Microsoft do this in the 1st place??

[Cliphead]

Spending more time with win8 just to be sure I'm giving it a really good try out.

I kinda like the powershell, I know it's been around for a while but since I'm a unix / linux guy I've had no reason to spend much time in a win environment. Scripting I like and powershell uses unix aliases which is nice. Can't see me ever having a use for it but it's fun to mess around with and kinda takes me back to old DOS days, it even has the old 16 bit edit app

[kingcook]

The driver for me upgrading was how quickly Windows 8 boots (especially on an SSD).

Comments like this always make me laugh.

I imagine your life has changed dramatically for the better now you have to wait around 20 seconds less for something you probably only do once maybe twice per day