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Help with Win 8 feedback buy or not to buy?
kitamesume:
tbh the taskbar is much more space efficient than the metro-ui, i don't know why they didn't make it any more space efficient though, even android's application shelve is way more space efficient and much more wallpaper friendly.
Freedom Kira:
--- Quote from: Ivon on December 14, 2012, 03:48:40 AM ---"What do you mean?" You ask? How many desktop icons do you have on the desktop? More than 5 (Recycle Bin, Computer, User's Files, Control Panel, Network)? Congrats! You've been using a Metro-like UI and didn't even notice it.
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There's a big difference between icons and live tiles. Or rather, several big differences.
Tiffanys:
@Ivon - let me introduce you to a little program called ReNamer: http://www.den4b.com/?x=downloads
You can just drag all the files that aren't playing nice in there and then add a rule to delete characters after a certain length, or delete certain things like group names, and so on. It's really quite easy. It might save you a lot of headache...
Ixarku:
--- Quote from: occasional on December 13, 2012, 11:03:08 AM ---
--- Quote from: Ixarku on December 12, 2012, 10:48:43 PM ---Personally, I'm doing the same thing I've done with every other major Windows release after Win 98 -- skipping Win 8. As a desktop user, I just don't see any incentive for me to upgrade from Win 7 at this time.
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Better performance?
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I'm running an i7-2600k with 16gb of ram and a GTX 560 Ti. Increased performance isn't much of a concern for me right now.
Ivon:
--- Quote from: Tiffanys on December 14, 2012, 08:56:57 AM ---@Ivon - let me introduce you to a little program called ReNamer: http://www.den4b.com/?x=downloads
You can just drag all the files that aren't playing nice in there and then add a rule to delete characters after a certain length, or delete certain things like group names, and so on. It's really quite easy. It might save you a lot of headache...
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Issue is I need to either:
a) not seed back (check my ratio, I love to share ^_^)
b) spend a lot of time with 'relocate'
I don't even think the suppliers mean to do it. I hazard to guess most are running Linux, which doesn't have the 260 character limit in Name/Path Length.
--- Quote from: Freedom Kira on December 14, 2012, 08:43:34 AM ---
--- Quote from: Ivon on December 14, 2012, 03:48:40 AM ---"What do you mean?" You ask? How many desktop icons do you have on the desktop? More than 5 (Recycle Bin, Computer, User's Files, Control Panel, Network)? Congrats! You've been using a Metro-like UI and didn't even notice it.
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There's a big difference between icons and live tiles. Or rather, several big differences.
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I turned Live Titles off (cept for Weather)...course I also made all the Tiles 'Smaller', so that every tile would be the same size...even if it was the shortcut of an program (like TeamSpeak).
The only real difference is in what some of the Tiles can do, but those are Metro Tiles. But if you install all the programs you use, you'll see the Start Screen has all the shortcuts, rendering shortcuts on the Desktop obsolete, unless you're lazy and want shortcuts of the documents, pictures, videos, music, etc ...really hate that, #1 Pet-peeve when it comes to computers is people who litter the desktop with shortcuts to FILES. DESKTOP IS NOT A POST-IT NOTE BOARD! >:(
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