Everyone always misses windows NT and 2000 in their "good shit" rant. Both NT and 2000 were awesome, although since 2000 is a much better NT, you could theoretically say NT is the "shit" one of the two.

I'm not impressed at how half the programs won't run form metro. (eg: click and nothing launches.)

saajiik wrote: I'm not impressed at how half the programs won't run form metro. (eg: click and nothing launches.)

did you do an upgrade over windows 7? if so, that's why. many people facing same issue.

technoguy wrote: did you do an upgrade over windows 7? if so, that's why. many people facing same issue.

No, I installed it on a fresh partition.

How do you revert? I think I dun goofed

Mettler wrote: Everyone always misses windows NT and 2000 in their "good shit" rant. Both NT and 2000 were awesome, although since 2000 is a much better NT, you could theoretically say NT is the "shit" one of the two.

2000 was great loved using it. NT well that was a real server os!

****, didn't put the ISO onto a flash drive like I was supposed to, just unzipped it and ran it from there.

May need to reinstall Windows 7.

technoguy wrote: did you do an upgrade over windows 7? if so, that's why. many people facing same issue.

i upgraded from 7 and i don't have issues with metro apps not loading. none of them seem any good though.

Abo wrote: Had a play with w8. Its looks like it will be absolutley useless with one screen, it was kinda usable with two. No start bar = fail and whole screen start menu = total fail. It looks and feels worse than unity which is a pretty big statement to make e: also lol@the weather app only in Fahrenheit

you go to the right hand side (hidden) and you can go to settings and change it.

i'm getting used to the full screen thingy. the biggest problem is realising if something is apps or system.

like "administrative tools" is under system not apps.

I just installed Windows 8 normally with the custom option. Retains all your bootloader settings, so both my Windows 7 and Linux Mint (which was installed inside Windows 7 via Wubi) installations still work just fine. And if you set Windows 7 as the default from the Windows 8 bootloader, it'll also default to the vista Bootmgr, so you don't have to wait a week to select your OS (And Windows 8 will load just fine from there as well).

nice article on windows 8 keyboard shortcuts. win + x, win + prnt screen

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/shor...er-preview/4587

so yeah I am hooked tbh.. first impressions = shit

However after a few days its great...... my only complaints

-Task Manager is fantastic.. but it only seems to show "Installed" programs in the history page
-A lot of Metro at the moment seems pretty useless for a desktop PC .. more of a gimmick.. if you just use it as a glorified start menu its fine.. but the music player etc ?? useless on a desktop

I dont really see a reason to go back to 7 TBH ... seems faster for gaming which is a shock

What a twist!

I agree most metro apps are shit for a desktop, but as I said before nobody is forcing you to use them instead of your normal applications.

Windows key + X does wonders for power users

technoguy wrote: Windows key + X does wonders for power users

Holy Crap! That is amazing.

Anyone tried if this registry change still works on the new build?

http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-...ssic-start-menu

Stardock are already working on a way to return the Start Menu too if anyone is worried about missing it.

http://forums.stardock.com/418946

Markuchi wrote: Holy Crap! That is amazing.

you can also hover your mouse to the zero pixel area (start button) at bottom left corner and when you see the preview for the start/metro screen, right click to reveal the same menu.

Simonatron wrote: Anyone tried if this registry change still works on the new build? http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-...ssic-start-menu Stardock are already working on a way to return the Start Menu too if anyone is worried about missing it. http://forums.stardock.com/418946

cannot as of yet disable the metro UI.

Hmm...

I just RDP'd into my W8 test box (windowed), and had a **** of at time operating anything since none of the shortcut keys work, until I changed the options to make the RDP window intercept the keys. 1 extra step to make things work where previously it just worked.

Also, having to 'slide' the screen upwards instead for login instead of the usual just click & go? Really? This is not a tablet. It's a desktop, with no touch interfaces. At least that can be reverted to the old CTRL+ALT+DEL to logon system.

What is M$ trying to do? Merge desktop and tablet OSes into one? While tablets undeniably have their place, I think this is going to end badly.

We all know how well Windows Vista/7 runs on those older pseudo-tablet PCs which use stylii... that's what happens when you take a desktop OS and slap it on a tablet and expect it to work good.

L@mer|2 wrote: Also, having to 'slide' the screen upwards instead for login instead of the usual just click & go? Really? This is not a tablet. It's a desktop, with no touch interfaces. At least that can be reverted to the old CTRL+ALT+DEL to logon system.

Press enter at the initial screen instead of 'sliding' anything and it jumps instantly to the login screen..

Simonatron wrote: Anyone tried if this registry change still works on the new build? http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-...ssic-start-menu Stardock are already working on a way to return the Start Menu too if anyone is worried about missing it. http://forums.stardock.com/418946

yeah it doesn't.

cool about stardock.

President wrote: Press enter at the initial screen instead of 'sliding' anything and it jumps instantly to the login screen..

Ain't that some shit... that should be clearer.

On another note anyone tried Server 8 yet? http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/...id=TEC_108_1_33

New features: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2393449,00.asp

Upgraded my Dell Vista Laptop yesterday so have spent today playing with it. Must say very impressed so far, quick and easy to navigate, well thought out and fully customisable. Would liek to see the X to close reintroduced though.

Finally got around to putting it on my server. Love it. Although agree with X to close.

So I assume developers are going to be able to create metro tiles? I can see that getting cluttered pretty quickly.

just had to rever to windows 7. Couldn't get my graphics card to work. ATI drivers just gave a white screen