Windows 8 was a car-crash and anyone who thinks otherwise has been puffing too many Jamaican Woodbines.

 

Yeah, comments like that take away any credibility you have...

 

All techies that I've spoken to and myself like Win 8. Once you've adjusted to the changes it's MS's best OS yet.

 

But then I've only been playing with computers since my IBM 386, working with them for over decade and repairing them since I had to fit a CD drive to said 386...

 I don't understand this, am I missing something? If you boot to desktop you can have it pinned to the taskbar and open in one click, if you boot to metro you can have it as a tile in there and open in one click. Or do you mean something totally different?!

 

I have no idea; I push the power button on my desktop/laptop and it's the screen that appears.

 

Am I booting to Metro or Desktop?

 

Either way, how do I get to Excel in a click?

Works laptop is touchscreen and I can't see it being better in any way. If anything I find it more clunky, but that could be Acers fault.

One question I do have is why does win 8 laptops consume battery when the laptop was shutdown (not sleeping or hibernate). My HP does it, works Acer does it and parents Asus does it. Seems to drop 1-2% every 24 hours.

When you choose shutdown in Win 8 it actually hibernates. It calls it "fast start" or something similar. If you turn it off boot time increases markedly.

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Yeah, comments like that take away any credibility you have...

 

All techies that I've spoken to and myself like Win 8. Once you've adjusted to the changes it's MS's best OS yet.

 

But then I've only been playing with computers since my IBM 386, working with them for over decade and repairing them since I had to fit a CD drive to said 386...

 

Yeah, you're a kid, 386's FFS, do you even know what a ZX81 is?

 

And your post is like saying "once you've adjusted to the changes Ford have made to your car (i.e they've removed the handbrake and changed the steering wheel for a polo mint) it's their best model yet".

 

Stick to living with "mom" and playing Dungeons And Dragons (or whatever the 2014 equivalent is).

Lovely! You're a complete arse! Bog off to back in the day, you obviously can't keep up with modern times...

 

Go dig out the ZX81 and keep playing with that, it's apparent anything more recent baffles you...

 

I wish I was living with "mom". Be a lot cheaper than mortgage wife and kids - judging by your attitude not something you are familiar with.

 

Yeah, you're a kid, 386's FFS, do you even know what a ZX81 is?

It's completely and utterly irrelevant when it comes to a modern OS. you don't need to worry about wobbly ram packs any more.

Now we all know that internet forum moderators are a weird bunch who all have 58" waistlines and live at home with "mom" ( I was banned here previously for daring to question why someone was allowed to spam the forum with "we can supercharge your engine" posts before it dawned on me that the person doing the spamming "sponsored" the site )........but Windows 8 was a car-crash and anyone who thinks otherwise has been puffing too many Jamaican Woodbines.

Interesting.

No you were banned because, just as now, you got everyone's back up. The ghost of Taff170 clearly lives on.

Well if it truly is, then history will repeat itself.

Best polish off that bag of doughnuts, otherwise my I'll never keep my 58" waste.

I have no idea; I push the power button on my desktop/laptop and it's the screen that appears.

Am I booting to Metro or Desktop?

Either way, how do I get to Excel in a click?

Is this a joke? Or do you not actually know what 'metro' and 'desktop' are?

Desktop is the one with a background of your choosing, like desktop has always been, metro is the new bit with all the live tiles and apps (in case it was a genuine question!)

From the metro, click the down arrow at the bottom left, it will list all your programs. From there, right click on excel (listed under E!) then select pin to taskbar (on the desktop) or pin to start (makes a tile in the metro).

Then click the icon.....

When you choose shutdown in Win 8 it actually hibernates. It calls it "fast start" or something similar. If you turn it off boot time increases markedly.

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Do PCs do this too? How do you know if it has actually turned off or not?.... I don't want it to hibernate!

Is this a joke? Or do you not actually know what 'metro' and 'desktop' are?

Its dead easy:

This is a Metro:

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They had to drop the name Metro about 18 months ago because someone else had a copyright on it. It's now called "Windows 8" UI.

Ah ok, most people seem to still call it metro ..... anyway, same description as above, replacing 'metro' with 'windows 8 UI' !!

I saw it referred to as 'tile world' on a win8 tips website.... I think that's definitely the best name haha!

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I've been using and programming computers since my pimply, adolescent years way back in the 1980s.  Sinclair ZX81 with 16K RamPack anyone?

 

So my viewpoint might, just might, carry some authority.

 

 

haha.  No, I assume you are still using the same programming languages from ZX81 days then.  Move with the times.  I am a software engineer, having started off with an Acorn Electron, through to an Archimedes, numerious PCs MS-DOS 3.21 and Windows 3 up to 8.1.  Obviously Windows 8 introduced a number of GUI changes, from the 9x style interface, as did win 95/NT4 from windows 3.x/NT 3.5.  You need to move with the times and embraces these changes, they are implemented for the greater good.

 

People didn't like the ribbon when it was first introduced, because it was different.  Remember: different isn't BAD.

 

 

 

 I haven't found this at all, what sort of situation do you mean? The times you'd need to "swipe" on a touchscreen, like in the App Store or when viewing the full list of apps and programs on the pc through the metro thing, you just use your mouse scroll wheel and it scrolls sideways. Anything else you can just click as normal. If anything, I think that's easier than a touchscreen as you don't even have to move your hand! It is already on the mouse. I really can't imagine ever wanting to prod my monitor all the time. Also, I cannot abide being on top of my monitor, I like it as far away as possible.

 

The only time I really want to touch my screen is when I press win-i to get the settings side bar up, to then select power & shutdown.

 

Most programs I use regularly I have pinned, and others I hit the Start button and simply start typing the name of the application I want to run rather than looking for it in the list as I find it quicker that way (there is always a place for a keyboard in my life!!)

Do PCs do this too? How do you know if it has actually turned off or not?.... I don't want it to hibernate!

 

It is the default for Windows 8 and the only reason to disable it is if there's problems with the PC, it doesn't hibernate the entire PC (only the base OS) and it doesn't use any power (the PC powers off entirely).  The Sleep/Standby modes use power (although considerably less than when the device is powered fully up), in this mode the PC is powered off but the ram is still powered to allow the PC to instantly resume.  When the PC hibernates, it saves the current state of the ram to the hard drive and then powers down entirely, when powered back up it uses the data from the hard drive to restore the PC to the same state as when it was powered down but it's slower than sleep/standby.  Windows uses a hybrid shutdown/hibernate system when you shutdown/restart to improve speed, it kills the user space but hibernates the base OS and then on startup it resumes the base OS and creates a new user space so you still get a fresh start.

 

John

That sounds rather complicated! Just out of interests sake, how do you stop it doing it?

That sounds rather complicated! Just out of interests sake, how do you stop it doing it?

Have a look in

Control Panel | Hardware & Sound | Power Options | System Settings

 

There is a tickbox under 'Shut-down settings' section called 'Turn on fast start-up (recommended)'