Windows 8 Consumer Preview

Tun@ said:
Just curious after the dilemma i went thru last night of getting the ISO to install to a chosen partition,Does the ISO give you the "custom" option after your enter the serial or not?
I got nervous of it overwriting my w7 install when it was wanting serial before partiton choice & had to do a bit of googling to find a solution.
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Yes, you have all the normal options like first "Upgrade" or "custom" then select partition you want to install. It will overwrite everything in chosen partition so beware and select the correct partition based on exact size.
 
Pr⊕phet said:
Why dual boot when there is virtual machines?
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Simply for the hardware connectivity and speed! In VMware it did not recognize my network but on clean boot all worked fine also iIn virtual mode it was much lower.
Dual boot is simple. You do nothing just install on new partition and you are done. You even after reboot have the choice to select the boot partition from the Windows8 menu.
 
had a brief play in a VM. Is Alt-F4 the only way to exit apps in metro?
 
milomak said:
had a brief play in a VM. Is Alt-F4 the only way to exit apps in metro?
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Hey Hey

If you move to the top of the metro window... your cursor should become a little hand, click, hold and drag to bottom... the metro app will reduce in size, follow and exit when you reach the bottom of the screen...
 
milomak said:
had a brief play in a VM. Is Alt-F4 the only way to exit apps in metro?
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Left bottom corner go to "start", left top corner will show all open applications, right click on application and close. Alt F4 is quicker but I fear you may lose data with some applications?
 
kilobits said:
Hey Hey

If you move to the top of the metro window... your cursor should become a little hand, click, hold and drag to bottom... the metro app will reduce in size, follow and exit when you reach the bottom of the screen...
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Thanks :)
 
For people to buy windows 8 the hardware manufacturers will have to start selling touch screen laptops.

Anyway anyone know any useful Apps to download from the App Store?
 
bekdik said:
If you don't have a touchscreen, it would appear to be the only option.

As a keyboard/mouse user I find the Metro interface unusable.
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Not true. read the last few posts. Use the 4 corners to get to the start screen and other functions. Right click in start screen to get to the all applications icon. The only thing is to get used to the new ways and to reconfigure the start-up display and desktop to suit your requirements.

The more I use it the better it feels!
 
oh they've got the Expose thing going. i probably didn't spend 10 minutes on it. i'll install it properly and give it a proper go.

i'm guessing i'll struggle with my winfast tv2000xp card though.
 
wily me said:
Not true. read the last few posts. Use the 4 corners to get to the start screen and other functions. Right click in start screen to get to the all applications icon. The only thing is to get used to the new ways and to reconfigure the start-up display and desktop to suit your requirements.

The more I use it the better it feels!
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That one can do something in a particular way doesn't necessarily make it usable.
 
@milomak--Metro apps, according to MS, are not meant to be closed-they run in the background all the time, including your desktop (it is another app); they make it hard to do close apps; problem is, if you do not close apps, you leave behind a trail of evidence for the next home user to see what you were browsing/using--unless you log off!.
So yes, close with Alt+F4.
 
Smiley_lauf said:
@milomak--Metro apps, according to MS, are not meant to be closed-they run in the background all the time, including your desktop (it is another app); they make it hard to do close apps; problem is, if you do not close apps, you leave behind a trail of evidence for the next home user to see what you were browsing/using--unless you log off!.
So yes, close with Alt+F4.
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That's one reason to close them.

I hate to think what will happen on a network with all the files left open simply because users can't close the app. Never mind apps which have a limited number of concurrent logins.

But then maybe Microsoft doesn't see Windows 8 as a business user product.
 
For those who want easier way to shutdown:
1) Create a shortcut (new->shortcut) on a classic desktop.
2) Direct it to shutdown.exe -s -t 0
3) Put a nice icon on it
4) Pin it on start screen
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One nice workaround I did find is to go to C:\Windows\ and search for "Shows Desktop". You can then copy that shortcut to C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup Doing that means that Windows 8 will, in a fashion, boot directly to the desktop so you can bypass the Start Screen initially.
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Also an old favourite of mine still works. Hit Win-key + R then type "control userpasswords2" and hit enter. This will bring up a dialog where you can choose to bypass the login process allowing your PC to fully boot into Windows without interruption.
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bekdik said:
That one can do something in a particular way doesn't necessarily make it usable.
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The same can be said that just because you cannot find the required actions usable does not mean it's a problem with the product :)
 
Alt f4 while on the desktop brings up shutdown/restart/switch user.

Alt f4 anywhere else closes the current application.
 
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