So it's time for me to try out Windows 8 and see what it’s like, I have seen and heard a lot of negative things about it, but then again I also heard the same when XP, Vista and Windows 7 were being touted around and most people were just talking utter rubbish, oh and it was amazing to find that most of the haters had never even tried them, go figure.
First off i wanted a fresh install with no dual boot so idecided on a new SSD hard drive to try it on, on checking around for a cheapie i found a OCZ Petrol on PC World website for £59.99, now that was a must for a128GB ssd, site said 3 GB/s but when i collected it they are 6 Gb/s , result.
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/ocz-ptl1-25sat3-128g-internal-2-5-sata-ssd-128gb-12872039-pdt.html
Install and setup was just easy as pie as ever and i was ready to play and see what impact it was going to have on my computing life, below is where i am at the moment.
Ok, i love it, yes i do and i expect a bit of flaming for saying it but it was not love at first sight. To start with i pondered and fussed about the missing start bar/menu, then i thought about how much i use it, er yes, i shut my pc down or restart it and i also use search about once a week so i soon got used to the fact it was not there. I did add a gadget to the desktop for the shutdown/restart function though as the windows 8 one is a few clicks to many to be useful, so here’s how it looked after i altered it to suit me.
(This is setup on 2 monitors by the way)
The side menu bar or “charms” opened up on the main monitor and that was a worry as i did not want it over on the far right of the second monitor as they are 27” screens and it a long way lol, the
task bars and wallpapers are customizable to the point i no longer needed ultramon installed to do the job and it was easy to get the taskbar to display what i wanted over the 2 monitors.
I have now got used to going to the old start location in the lower corner of the screen and just right clicking for the menu, and to be honest it’s a lot easier to find my programs in the window than it was in the small windowed list that was in previous windows releases.
Click “search” to bring up the apps page.
Ok it’s time to talk metro, i do like the metro side even on a keyboard/mouse it’s so easy to use and after an hour all the swishing and sliding becomes as natural as using the mouse itself, i have a bamboo touch tablet and will be trying that out at a later date. Got to say though the metro page is becoming untidy as i install my usual programs, you can shuffle stuff around and delete unwanted but why not just one tile for a program instead of many tiles, just take a look at nero for instance in the picture below, shocking.....
One tile for nero that opens up the menu would have been sufficient,even vlc managed to spew 3 tiles onto the metro screen.
Just a few initial gripes and i bet one of you can help me out here.
I would like the apps screen shortcutting to my desktop.
There does not seem to be any volume control/slider in video or music player (see pics below)
Few things i have done to make it suit me are assign pics to a viewer and same with audio, if you don’t they will open from the desktop into metro and that gets tedious when trying to multitask, other than that i am very happy with it.
One more thing, the logon and typing passwords, set a picture one and use mouse clicks or swipes as it’s so much quicker and easier, i used the piccy below and chose the eyes as click points in a certain order to log in, very fast and very easy to do.
The only program i could not install was Kaspersky and every bit of hardware i have is fully functional, Games are running sweet and no crashes yet.
Thank you for taking the time to read this and let’s have your thoughts, good and bad.
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