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Hold on man 10s' a commin.
And we can complain anew then too.
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Yep, waiting for that one...
Hopefully Win10 will be like Win7...
Vista reworked everything to add new capabilities and stability, but had a horrible GUI... Win7 fixed it.
8.0 reworked everything to add new capabilities and stability (?), but had a horrible GUI... Win8.1 tried to fix it, but failed miserably... Maybe Win10 will fix it properly.
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Ian Shlasko wrote: Hopefully Win10 will be like Win7...
Vista reworked everything to add new capabilities and stability, but had a horrible GUI... Win7 fixed it.
This seems to be Microsoft's MO, these days.
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No Start button. 'nuff said.
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I think you mix something up.
a) Windows 8.1 has a start button (only the first Windows 8 release was missing one -- at least by default)
b) The only ones complaining about a missing start buttons are usually fanboys of X or haters of MS / Windows
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c) Those of us who haven't found the option to reinstate the Start button yet.
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The start button is available (and instated) from the beginning in Windows 8.1. Therefore I assume you are talking about something different (either OS or functionality).
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Actually, I have two start buttons... One that opens the metro screen, and one (Third-party, pre-installed by Lenovo) that opens up an ugly-looking imitation of the Win7 start menu.
8.0 was missing the button... 8.1 put it back.
I don't use either of them... I just hit the windows key on the keyboard (Which opens the metro one), and type a few letters of what I want... Just like I do in Win7.
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I hated W8.1 for about the first two weeks. After finding all settings to make it looks like W7 (and also some behavior like W7) I would never go back to W7.
Bruno
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Bruno Sprecher wrote: After finding all settings to make it looks like W7 (and also some behavior like W7) I would never go back to W7.
Uh, it sounds like you have. What about making W8.1 look and behave like W7 still gives it an advantage over W7?
Marc
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Bruno Sprecher wrote: My outdated Borland c++ 6.0 environment does work more reliable on W8.1 than with W7.
Now that's the first good reason I've heard!
Marc
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Thank you for your compassion
Bruno
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Ian Shlasko wrote: my machine has downloaded updates and will restart in 15 minutes
We've had Windows 8 and 8.1 for about a year now (I honestly don't remember when we bought the laptop; it was when the last one died). I see notifications saying updates have been installed and Windows will restart the next DAY, but never in 15 minutes...
I've always been able to stop what I was doing and complete a clean restart.
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You must have fixed it already... A one day warning is acceptable... A 15-minute warning is not.
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We didn't change anything; it was preconfigured that way. It is an ASUS, so before they had that set up...
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Always liked Asus, ever since my TF101... Guess Lenovo just doesn't configure for geeks.
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Actually Windows 8(.1) has sucked for quite some time already
My blog[ ^]
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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I thought Windows 8.1 sucked, everyday, not just today.
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Well yeah, but "everyday" includes today... And I thought I'd stick with the standard subject format.
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Ian Shlasko wrote: I found you can manually create a specific registry key to disable this behavior...
After 8 versions (and numerous sub-versions), you still have to manually tweak the registry.
Then again, at least it's configurable. In Linux, often enough your only option is to change the damn OS code!
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: In Linux, often enough your only option is to change the damn OS code!
You must have a real misunderstanding of how Linux works...
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And it was Windows Update which yelled so? (I cant believe it)
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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I shudder to think of what this poor soul has been through, and can only hop that Santa will do the right thing to help him get back to, hopfully, a path to a good future ! [^].
«OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. » Alan Kay's clarification on what he meant by the term "Object" in "Object-Oriented Programming."
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Maybe it's really, really good at jumping? It's got the legs for it!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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