Windows 8 Consumer Preview

rwenzori said:
Looks like MS has found a way to take www.fixingwindows8.com down. Bleh.
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Its called traffic overload. There use to be a great way to prevent it with mirror sites, but thanks to copyright despites all we can now do is suffer till demand dies and the author fix his site, or post it on another that can handle the traffic.
 
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SirSlothXCI said:
That's cool! :eek:. Is it only for touch-screen devices or can you do this with mouse gestures as well?
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Yes, it takes left click as the touch action, so you hold it in while you draw the circle or line and release to move to the other position.

To set it up on start screen just type "Picture password", should be under the settings filter.
 
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Elimentals said:
Yes, it takes left click as the touch action, so you hold it in while you draw the circle or line and release to move to the other position.

To set it up on start screen just type "Picture password", should be under the settings filter.
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or get Windows connect?
 
wily me said:
Windows Kinect? :twisted:
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/Facepalm.... I was thinking that but thought "naa can not be else he would have used a K"

I wish I had one to see, in theory most of Windows 8 UI is designed with kinect in mind so I can not see why not.
 
Elimentals said:
so you hold it in while you draw the circle or line and release to move to the other position.
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Yep to be properly secure you should use 3 full gestures, but at minimum a click is seen as a gesture.

Being lazy, all I do is use a complex picture and use 3 points on it to click in sequence to login.
 
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Elimentals said:
/Facepalm.... I was thinking that but thought "naa can not be else he would have used a K"

I wish I had one to see, in theory most of Windows 8 UI is designed with kinect in mind so I can not see why not.
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I slipped. My fault!
 
Elimentals said:
Yes, it takes left click as the touch action, so you hold it in while you draw the circle or line and release to move to the other position.

To set it up on start screen just type "Picture password", should be under the settings filter.
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Awesome. I'm slowly but surely starting to favour Windows 8 over 7. :twisted:
 
SirSlothXCI said:
Awesome. I'm slowly but surely starting to favour Windows 8 over 7. :twisted:
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There sure is a lot to love. In fact I "fixed" my windows 8 with ViStart and will not look back.

only 2 things that still needs to be addressed for me is kind of minor. The visual q's for new users and the fact that the hot-spots are to small and disappear when you move your mouse away from the side. But thats because A. I am use to Gnome 3 so its a habit to move my mouse away from the side, and B. running dual-screen with my secondary monitor on the left of my main screen this makes find the sweet spot a bcth of note.
 
I think I'm finally beginning to understand what MS is trying to do in Win8. They have taked two separate and incompatible operating environments and tried to bodge them together into one. Like taking an Atos or such-like - a little zippy mini-car made for dwarves - and a Fortuner - big flabby urban tank, but capable, slicing them down the left-right axis and bolting the left Atos half onto the right Fortuner, and hoping the thing will impress. All because some MS exec decided that tablets are the future. The more I read and experiment the more I realise just what an abortion this thing is.
 
rwenzori said:
I think I'm finally beginning to understand what MS is trying to do in Win8. They have taked two separate and incompatible operating environments and tried to bodge them together into one. Like taking an Atos or such-like - a little zippy mini-car made for dwarves - and a Fortuner - big flabby urban tank, but capable, slicing them down the left-right axis and bolting the left Atos half onto the right Fortuner, and hoping the thing will impress. All because some MS exec decided that tablets are the future. The more I read and experiment the more I realise just what an abortion this thing is.
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You "think"? Bwahahahaha. ROFL, >LOL<
Stop now, your jokes are really cracking me up.

Serious now, if you do not like it stick with XP, Ubuntu, OSeX or something!
 
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For me the new metro system helps me find my apps more quickly. I whack into the corner of the screen, and then hit the first letter of the app I am looking for. So much faster for me as I have so many apps.
 
rwenzori said:
I think I'm finally beginning to understand what MS is trying to do in Win8. They have taked two separate and incompatible operating environments and tried to bodge them together into one. Like taking an Atos or such-like - a little zippy mini-car made for dwarves - and a Fortuner - big flabby urban tank, but capable, slicing them down the left-right axis and bolting the left Atos half onto the right Fortuner, and hoping the thing will impress. All because some MS exec decided that tablets are the future. The more I read and experiment the more I realise just what an abortion this thing is.
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BGO
 
ghoti said:
For me the new metro system helps me find my apps more quickly. I whack into the corner of the screen, and then hit the first letter of the app I am looking for. So much faster for me as I have so many apps.
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Exactly, quiet useful if one wants to give the new OS a chance, but some is just to lazy to learn and experience something new it seems. I just have to get used to all the new methodologies. I am so used to the "click and select" syndrome that I forget all about just typing the application name.
 
wily me said:
some is just to lazy to learn and experience something new it seems.
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Some is, is they?

Not really. Not hard to learn. But only marginally less unpleasant and unproductive as being forced to self-administer a prostate examination prior to being allowed access to the bathroom in the morning.

But you fanbois carry on. MS clearly saw the revenue Apple earns in its online stores and had to rush something out to climb on the bandwagon - you fanbois go pay MS lots of money for all your "apps".
 
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