Oh, I didn't know about that bottom-left right-click; thanks. btw, you can get the same with Win+X Man, in Win8 buttons Win, Win+C, Win+W, Win+F, Win+Q, Win+D, Win+E, Win+X, and Alt+F4 on desktop are like cheat codes
I can totally see if you have way to many programs, you'll have to customize the UI for your needs, and yeah, there's no much instruction on what you can do.... For the boot thing, IMO with time this will be good, when the OS will have as many metro app's than desktop, and you'll have them both in the start menu. As for me, since I put my pc to sleep 99% of the time (rarely restart my gaming laptop), booting to the start menu never got in the way.
Hi Speed Weed, This made my day Hitler is informed about nvidia geforce gtx 680 kepler it was so f..king funny i piss'ed my self. I play'ed around with windows 8 pro x64, for about 4 days it's not that bad at all. Come on people stop arguing.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I like the new start menu and keyboard shortcuts more than the windows 7 environment. At first everything sort of pissed me off, but once I started learning I started liking it more and more. Some developers at my work agree with me. The OS itself is snappier than windows 7, even with all the added in features and effects. Running on a dell XPS 15z.
I think everyone that has used the thing and gotten used to it agrees with you. I wasn't fond at all, at first, eventually I got used to it. I still don't think it's as significant as an upgrade as Windows 7 is, definitely sidegradeish, but for $40 whatever.
I'd say that's pretty accurate overall. I mean, the $40 cost is hard to justify if you're 100% happy with Win7. If you just like screwing with something "new"....$40 isn't really a lot of money. It doesn't really feel like an upgrade to me....just a new UI on top of the same old thing.
Can't wait to see what 8's gonna be like after a service pack or two, the thing is bloody fast as it is for a just launched OS.
If your talking from log in to UI then maybe a few seconds or so, but from cold boot to UI then just as long, if not longer, than my vista machine. Anyone know of a way to disable that stupid full screen Time and Date thing that needs a key pressed to go away to get to the log on screen -No one needs the time and date to consume a whole 40+ inch screen, I don't care who F**K! you think are, lol.
@HeavyHemi, Awesome! thanks As mentioned by others, I also find it strange how M$ have included almost no instructions of even simple pop up tips as to customizing this version of windows and the fact that the LGPE is even required to change such a thing is...well.
In my case the difference is greater. With Win7 it was quite alright, but in Win8 it may be <10s from power to desktop (perhaps due to UEFI support in my lappy).
@Ven0m, okay its going faster than when I first counted it, win7 was about 19 seconds and my stopwatch just said 15.5 seconds from power button click to login screen on win8. Be noted it took 7 seconds of the bios before the windows logo came up. Took about 2 seconds to stabilize to desktop from login.
