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Apathy Curve · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 3:51 pm Post subject:

@Win8.1 update: Microsoft just don't get it, do they? I DO NOT WANT a tablet interface on my desktop computer. Period. No amount of tweaking, coaxing or cajoling is going to make me want it. Ever.

Just freakin' stop pushing your lame-ass app store in my face and produce a basic operating system. One that, you know, operates the system. That's it.

Greedy jerks.

gx-x · Elite Member Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 2652

"Leaked video shows Wi-Fi Sense in Windows Phone 8.1"

They did not have all that before? o.O Android and iOS have these features since like....forever...Androids puts wifi to sleep when device enters deep sleep, or you can tell it not to if you prefer constant updates to get every single tweet/spam...As for remembering user/pass for networks, wow, just...wow...What's next? mobile IE that supports bookmarks?

spectra9 · Contributor Joined: 29 Jul 2010 Posts: 38

Metro looks like ugly even on the OS it was designed for. What was MS thinking when they design this thing Rolling Eyes

Kompressor · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2014 5:15 am Post subject:

This is a conspiracy. Microsoft is trying to get everyone to buy Apple computers and invoke a shitload of hardware sales.

gx-x · Elite Member Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 2652

I actually installed windows 8.1. It's terrible, it needs a lot of fixing and tweaking to get it to acceptable levels (most of those are minor things but very irritating, like, win8 takes your background picture and compresses it to 300KB and then it looks ugly, you need to convert wallpaper to PNG so windows wont compress it. Took me like 5 hours to figure this out (using google ofc))

I disabled appstore and changed nagging UAC to totally off because I couldn't even uncompress some archives if I don run WinRAR in exclusive mode (not all but some archives)...thats just a few things I personally had to change, there are more of course but to each his own. I made start button on keyboard shortcut to "Launchy" (a great little customizable indexing launcher that can replace windows search and most of the shell if you want to and like to type), as for start menu, luckily, I type fast so I can open/find things very fast via launchy, but anyone can if it's indexed... (you can choose to index just first 3 levels of depth of drives instead of every junk file like windows does).

anyway, I installed it (win 8.1) because some games run better. I was sceptical but they really do.

spectra9 · Contributor Joined: 29 Jul 2010 Posts: 38

I'm sticking to Win8 right now, because Win8.1 brings nothing worthwhile for me, most of the updates are Metro related, which I don't use. Not to mention that it's reported to conflict with the driver I used to flash my tablet.

Metro and UAC are the first things that I ditched when I installed Win8. I also install Start8 and thankfully, haven't needed to see any Metro abomination so far. I agree with the wallpaper compression issue, what an annoying one that is, how can MS mess something so simple like setting a wallpaper that's been working fine since Win95. When I see a cool picture, I always have to restrain myself from right clicking it and setting it as wallpaper because I don't want to mess with the procedure to fix it again.

I actually had come to a point where I uninstall Win8 and go back to Win7, only to find out that strangely, Chrome does not work properly via RDP on Win7. Starting Chrome in RDP will result in the Chrome instance in local machine to hang somehow. So, back to Win8 for now

gx-x · Elite Member Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 2652

8.1 has some speed improvements, gaming vise Smile

Couldn't care less about metro... As for wallpapers, just save whatever you like and convert it to png with image editor/viewer of your choice and then set it as wallpaper.
The reasoning MS gave for atrocious compression is "it makes for a smoother desktop workflow experience" . While I do agree that setting a 2MB wallpaper on a 1GB memory tablet is not a very good idea, I am not using windows mobile and that approach should not be used on non-mobile versions or at least we should be presented with a choice.