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The Official Windows 8 User Thread

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TechAZ said:
I don't think you've thought this through. Windows 8 is still a mouse based OS on desktop. It just has touch screen functionalities built in.

Gamers, video editors, photo editors, and businesses almost all prefer a large monitor, 22" or bigger. You cannot get that on a tablet, and it's not even preferable on a laptop as it takes away from the point of being a laptop.

I don't care what anyone says, smaller form factors will never replace PCs.
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Correct and Tablet fad will go away soon enough

wand3r3r said:
Perhaps he could say the personal desktop at home. I wouldn't be so sure, but in general desktop sales are declining rapidly.
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That's because hardware in general hasn't advanced enough to warrant most companies/people to buy new hardware. Most office people/home basic users are doing just fine with 4-5 year+ old hardware.

At my company (small software company) our computers are well over 3-6 years old and upgrade hasn't even crossed our mind (even though we can easily do it if we wanted to). There is simply no need and it would be a big waste of money (for what we do).
 
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Holy crap, I think I like Metro. Not for everything, certainly, but there are some really nice apps and some nice things about it.

I think the average user will be completely lost at first, though.
 
Dominato3r said:
I used a Microsoft account during the beta for testing purposes, but if you can get all the functionality without "logging in" I'd rather just do that. Any functionality missing if you go local?
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I'm a big fan of Skydrive, a long-time subscriber of Zune Music pass (now Xbox Music) and like the settings sync between my main PC and my laptop in the living room. Plus, I'm just a big user of Microsoft products (WP7.5 and Xbox owner) so the one account for all just rocks my world. 🙂

What exactly you'll miss out on without a Microsoft account, I don't know.
 
Ahhhhh!!!!!!

Just upgraded to Win8 on my laptop, and it's really screwing with my Synaptics settings.

I'm generally a tap-to-click user, but currently with no matter what I try it's tap-and-hold until I finger-bang the crap out of the pad to release it.

Any tips? I've gone through the secondary set of Synaptics settings for mousepad customization, but nothing seems to be working. 🙁
 
basslover1 said:
Ahhhhh!!!!!!

Just upgraded to Win8 on my laptop, and it's really screwing with my Synaptics settings.

I'm generally a tap-to-click user, but currently with no matter what I try it's tap-and-hold until I finger-bang the crap out of the pad to release it.

Any tips? I've gone through the secondary set of Synaptics settings for mousepad customization, but nothing seems to be working. 🙁
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Check for updated drivers. W8 installed drivers for every single piece of my hardware but I found a couple of things either didn't work or weren't up to snuff until I updated my drivers. It's like it goes for the initial impression so it'll stick whatever driver it can possibly find in there, whether it works or not.
 
As a long-time Zune user, I was a big fan of the Zune software. Easy to use, navigate, etc. Almost all music I own was purchased from Zune. With the move to Xbox Music now, I'm finding it difficult to figure out. First, I'm not seeing anywhere to configure a default download location for purchased music. Second, it's auto-adding a ton of songs that throwing them into "unknown album" because it's not reading the mp3 tag info. Some it's working fine, most others it is not. Third, it's adding a ton more that what I have and I don't know where it's getting it from.

So far, Xbox Music is a huge let-down. If I can't figure out what it's doing by the end of the weekend, I guess I'll move to WMP.
 
blurredvision said:
As a long-time Zune user, I was a big fan of the Zune software. Easy to use, navigate, etc. Almost all music I own was purchased from Zune. With the move to Xbox Music now, I'm finding it difficult to figure out. First, I'm not seeing anywhere to configure a default download location for purchased music. Second, it's auto-adding a ton of songs that throwing them into "unknown album" because it's not reading the mp3 tag info. Some it's working fine, most others it is not. Third, it's adding a ton more that what I have and I don't know where it's getting it from.

So far, Xbox Music is a huge let-down. If I can't figure out what it's doing by the end of the weekend, I guess I'll move to WMP.
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xbox music needs help I can't tell if its playing local music or streaming it half the time

it's crazy but metro is making a better htpc experience than media center ever did. I've turned on the "make everything bigger" option in pc settings and most of the metro stuff looks really good on my tv in the living room. Reading the news app, pop sci app etc on the couch while listening to music, and the multimedia 8 app for my network videos. I didn't even have to fuss with codecs xvid and h264 seem to be supported natively, and I've never used mkv containers.

Then I have Netflix and I know amazon instant video is on the way, and I'll be set then
 
I haven't had the chance to look around on Xbox Music in Windows, but the Xbox client is slick. Using smartglass creates an amazing experience.
 
Carfax83 said:
Downloading Windows 8 Pro. I hope I'm not making a mistake :\
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I would load it on a second drive and use it for a couple days before replacing 7 as your main OS.

Cause it sounds like you never tried any of the prelease versions that were out.
 
Windows 8 copy/paste is the freaking bomb. Sad it took them so many years to get it right but it's really nice. I had one folder with about 1200 items then another folder with about 1700. The latter has all the files of the former, but I wanted to consolidate all the files into the location of the former. I just selected all 1700 items and copied into the 1200 items folder. It first copied all the files that had no conflicts, THEN told me I had 1200 files with the same name and asked me what I wanted to do. I said to skip them and it was done.

I was expecting it to tell me such-and-such file was already there and what do I want to do. Then you typically have to click skip and do that for all other files. It wasn't asking that and I thought it was creating duplicates. Turns out Microsoft just finally figured out how to properly do it.
 
Anyone that's already installed Windows 8 and has a PS3, can you answer this question:

Can you still connect and stream your Windows 8 PC to your PS3? I do that a lot on W7 - connect W7 media player and stream my music and pictures to my PS3 - works wonderfully - hope that feature still works in W8. Can anyone confirm?

TYIA,
 
Well, one day in, and it's actually been somewhat frustrating. When in Windows 8, it's been fine, but I've had more headaches with this install than any I can remember. Boot issues, followed by some odd problems here and there with my OC. And now, even though it's great and fast and smooth, about every other time I reboot (been rebooting a fair bit due to updates/new installs, etc.), it'll hang on the blue windows logo. A reset will then be fine and boot into Windows without problem, but it's happened several times already. A bit frustrating coming from Windows 7. I'm sure these bugs will iron themselves out, but it is a pain.
 
hondaf17 said:
Anyone that's already installed Windows 8 and has a PS3, can you answer this question:

Can you still connect and stream your Windows 8 PC to your PS3? I do that a lot on W7 - connect W7 media player and stream my music and pictures to my PS3 - works wonderfully - hope that feature still works in W8. Can anyone confirm?

TYIA,
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Works the same way on Windows 8.
 
im so lost in Metro, it's slightly frustrating. i bought the upgrade without looking at the reviews, 40 bucks and still retained my win7.

If someone was locked into MS services, it's really slick. I'm hoping Google gets their stuff in the MS market, i'd love live tiles with Google Calendar, email, Drive, messaging .. kinda like Chromebook but with the option go into desktop mode and run games.
 
MS has the Windows 8 Pro Upgrade download for $39.99. I have Windows 7 installed but if I go Windows 8 I will do a clean install and future clean installs in the same PC for example after replacing the motherboard or something wrong goes on with the OS that the only resort is to clean install the OS. I can get Windows 8 Pro OEM full version for $126 locally. With the upgrade download version from the MS website, is it tied to the hardware after installing it and do I need Windows 7, Visa, or XP already installed in my system in order to install this one?
 
How do you disable/uninstall the native flash that came with Win8? Chrome has flash built-in and takes care of all of my flash needs and I don't really want another flash on the system...
 
Makaveli said:
I would load it on a second drive and use it for a couple days before replacing 7 as your main OS.
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Haha, too late for that 😛

It's all good though. I haven't had any issues with my upgrade so far, other than my X-Fi soundcard not wanting to remember it's settings, and Perfect Disk 12 not being compatible (Diskeeper 12 is though)..

Performance wise, I can definitely notice an improvement over Windows 7, in boot times (about a 6-7 second decrease) and general snappiness.

IE10 = awesome. It's definitely the best and fastest browser out right now imo, even faster than Chrome.

Gaming performance hasn't changed either, which is good. It's just taking me a while to get used to the new interface, which I find very unintuitive for a desktop OS..

I only paid 15 bucks for the update, so if after a few months I still like it, I'm going to buy the full version and do a clean install.

Cause it sounds like you never tried any of the prelease versions that were out.
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Well I am adventurous :biggrin:
 
I got a question.
I have a FiiO E7 plugged in witch headphones running out of it for audio and unlike windows 7, I cant use the little sound settings in the toolbar to adjust the volume. It seems that in the video and xbox music app that is the only way to adjust the volume besides the volume controls on the FiiO itself is the general volume control which does nothing with my FiiO connected. Anyway to make that volume slider work?

I'm really liking W8 besides this little annoyance.
 
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