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Yay or Nay? The Windows 8 Metro Interface
mgz:
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--- Quote from: AceHigh on July 04, 2012, 02:54:26 PM ---I think that for desktop users Win8 is completely irrelevant. At least I haven't seen any important changes like new DX or any other significant "under the hood" improvements.
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I would consider faster start up time, an "under the hood" improvement.
The new metro interface really is horrible on desktop, and it have added extra step for tasks that normal was fast and simple, like searching and turning of your computer. At the moment you can't turn of the metro UI and if it stays the same for the final version, I will have no desire to upgrade from win7.
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i feel like for a lot of people who use computers a lot start up time is irrelevant because the computer stays on most of the time.
AceHigh:
--- Quote from: avatarl on August 19, 2012, 10:35:51 PM ---Eh... That was... still a crack, and the WGA crack tended to break with Windows Updates, unless of course you followed the "prestigious group's" moronic (or shady) advice of not installing Windows updates. That, or you wait for the next crack version, which sometimes takes too much time to get out.
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You must be talking out of your ass, because you have no idea how my release works. My windows is activated (screenshot) and WGA is simply removed while my windows updates works just like any legit OS.
There was only one update that I didn't install during all this time I had Win7. It is called KB971033 and it's only function was to detect any tampering or exploits of windows activation. Hell, now that I think about it, I actually have WGA on my pc, it was my sister's rig that installed that update, so I had to use a WGA remover to make it "legit" again.
Also you don't seem to know how the scene works. There is a reason why the releases are of good quality and how quickly the trojan releases are nuked. Also never had any problems with viruses this last decade, so you are really talking out of your ass here... or you have some paranoia like that older generation that still thinks that you get viruses from copying songs from a cd. Oh wait, there is another possibility, the one where you are butthurt that I got for free an OS (best version of it too) and just like a legit customer get all the updates and support from Microsoft, while you were too stupid to think of it.
--- Quote ---Windows Explorer actually has previously hidden options that everyone was using, like hidden extensions and invisible files, out in the open, one click away.
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"File Explorer". Windows explorer is the name of the shell that Win7 is using now and has been used since win95. They renamed the shell to File Explorer on win8 while adding that horrible MSOffice-like ribbon interface on it. Not that it matters, there are other shells out there like SharpEnviro and LiteStep.
megido-rev.M:
--- Quote from: Freedom Kira on August 19, 2012, 10:54:43 AM ---
--- Quote from: Tatsujin on August 19, 2012, 08:44:45 AM ---Vista was still better than XP ...
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You really think so? I got my first laptop back when Vista was out and was definitely happy to down(up)grade it to XP, something the laptop came with.
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I did this for by little sibling's past prebuilt. I tweaked the OS but hell was it still all crappy, so I installed XP over it.
Slysoft:
--- Quote from: Freedom Kira on August 19, 2012, 10:54:43 AM ---
--- Quote from: Tatsujin on August 19, 2012, 08:44:45 AM ---Vista was still better than XP ...
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You really think so? I got my first laptop back when Vista was out and was definitely happy to down(up)grade it to XP, something the laptop came with.
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Vista sucked up memory like it was going out of style. Vista came out when the majority of people had computers which quite frankly were not powerful enough for the OS (although the majority still uses these crap desktops, windows 7 is less resource intensive than vista was). Coupled with some new features which were probably better disabled (but most people aren't smart enough to even think about tweaking their OS) is what gave vista alot of it's bad reputation IMO.
I used vista on my at the time bleeding edge bloomfield i7 build and after tweaking some of the settings it worked just fine.
Pagonis:
Vista was nice after SP1. Fact. :P
I still miss "Stacks" feature in File Explorer from Vista, going into My Music catalog and "replacing" original files and folders with virtual foldersw based on genre was useful. :( "Group by" in Windows 7 is a slight regression in my opinion.
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