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I've recently upgraded my home desktop (actually desk - I installed the computer in the desk!) to Win 8.1. Now that I've uninstalled most of Apps, disabled the Metro crap and installed ClassicShell it's hardly different to what I'm used to (I'm happy about that). I can't help feeling that I must be missing some point though - I can't imagine when, on a desktop, I'd want to run an 'App' rather than run a program from the desktop the normal (proper?) way.
Does anyone run Metro apps on a desktop? If so, which ones and why? It just feels to me like you are trying to run your desktop in 'kiosk' mode - why would you want to do that?
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No, not really. When the kids are on the computer, it can come handy, since they cannot click on something else or close the window, but apart from that...
I am a big fan of the tiles for launching programs, though.
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I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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The only thing that bugs me about the Metro apps is the lack of features compared to the desktop versions they were meant to replace.
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That's exactly the reason it feels 'kiosky' to me - its like Windows is saying "I'm capable of much more than this, but I'm only LETTING you do THIS much"...
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It seems the Metro apps are scaled to run on the ARM/RT system.
Why, here I am with an 8 core CPU and 32 GB of RAM, and the stupid Reader App won't let me open more than 5 PDF documents.
Even if they are only one page each. And nothing else is running on the PC. 5 measly documents. Grrrr.
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I don't think the Metro apps were ever intended to replace desktop apps. They provide something different/new which is intended to be more appropriate for a touch screen. But they don't replace the desktop.
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I run two apps regularly.
The News App is very decent, it fits so well, cant imagine it to be a desktop app, ever.
The second is the Music App, especially because you can clip it to a side of the monitor.
God is a Sphere!
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Kyudos wrote: Does anyone run Metro apps on a desktop?
I also used to shy away from the metro apps when I first started out on Windows 8 but now run a few regularly.
Weather, News, Health & Fitness, Calendar, mZip, Book Bazaar Reader, VLC (Metro), My Notes, Maps, Alarms, Music, Calculator, Reading List, Video. To name a few.
Like anything else they are strange at first but once you learn to use them they become the new regular way of doing things.
And no I do not need a start button, the start page is a better way of doing things.
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
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JimmyRopes wrote: And no I do not need a start button, the start page is a better way of doing things.
Each-to-their-own I guess, but I'm afraid I'm in the 'text-driven' camp  I never used the 'desktop' the way I see some people use it - hundreds of icons! I typically have a link to the computer, the network and the recycle bin (although I don't use that either). I have browsers on quick launch and that's it (at home anyway, at work I have a few more links, but not many). It's why I still despise the ribbon - menus are just so much more efficient (for me) - and I prefer the 'old' style multi-column start menu.
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Rage against the narrative.
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Eggbert Bartholomew Bligh wrote: Rage against the narrative.
So let's talk about my royalties here
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Install the guest additions (Start the VM, then press Right Ctrl + D) , then open the VM properties, go to General > Advanced > Drag'n'Drop > Choose an option. Shared Clipboard is there as well.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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I installed allready this VBoxGuestAdditions, but no success.
Clipboard works (bidirectional), but means only copy&paste some text. Drag&Drop I Need to check, maybe an UAC thing....I don't think...I think it is simply not supporter.
Just tried VMware-Player (one can really create a virtual machine with player, notes from VMWare do "exclude" this option)... Drag&Drop works perfect
Bruno
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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As others mentioned, you have to load the guest editions.
Now, I know your VM in W7, however, in my experience with Ubuntu, I was never able to get copy and paste to work. IIRC, it worked in the 32 bit Ubuntu version. Don't know though if that problem has been fixed.
Isn't VMWare free too?
BTW, I almost never use the VM's "screen" directly -- I found it much more efficient to remote in with remote desktop, PuTTY, and WinSCP. Go figure. 
Marc
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I installed allready this VBoxGuestAdditions, but no success.
Clipboard works (bidirectional), means copy&paste some text. Drag&Drop I Need to check, maybe an UAC thing.
Yes VMWare is also free, but only for personal use.
Thanks for your hints.
Bruno
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Just tried VMware-Player (one can really create a virtual machine with player, notes from VMWare do "exclude" this option)... Drag&Drop works perfect
It seems I need to spend this bucks to use it. And the $ is really acceptable from my point of view. Thank you very much for this hint.
Bruno
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Bruno Sprecher wrote: Just tried VMware-Player
Cool, I will have to consider using VMWare then too.
Marc
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And why that UI is so pathetic.
1. A huge waste of space, taking up 80% of my monitor unless I resize it.
2. Chat window requires clicking on some obtuse icon.
3. It's tiny, because of course 80% of the UI has to be reserved for ads, so I have to resize it manually.
Skype has become such a piece of sh*t since Microsoft got hold of it (not that it wasn't before, haha).
It's funny, I was just thinking how pathetic most UI's have gotten in the last few years, as they make room for more and more ads, social media bling, and other crap that I don't need. I think if you showed the UI design of 2014 to someone in the late 80's, they would scream at all the bullshit taking up valuable screen space.
Marc
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Thank you - we just got letters that the company unifies the usage of IM software. From January we all move to Skype...
Can't wait for it 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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And I thought I'm nearly the only one which fights with this s**t. I just thought it is my advancing Age
Yesterday I did not use skype after updating. Today I had to start to communicate with customers....and holy sh*t! Yes really tiny chat, one line, boooahhh.
Bruno
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Have been reading about this initiative of expert advice on programming questions that is in the main section of CP. Did anyone notice that the link back to CodeProject is broken on Google's page? https://support.google.com/helpouts/topic/6109483?hl=en&ref_topic=6093032[^]. Someone should be fired...! 
Anything that could possibly go wrong in some moment, will definitely go wrong in the worst possible moment...
In the worst way that could be possible! –Finagle's corollary to Murphy's Law (paraphrased).
modified 21-Nov-20 21:01pm.
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No it's not, I just tried it. Must have been fixed.
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