Posted on 01/22/2014 9:52:38 PM PST by This Just In
Seriously, if you don’t bother to take the time to read a brief summary of the features, then you shouldn’t be complaining that you don’t know how to use the features. I mean, I’m personally a big fan of “if all else fails, read the manual”, but I still do have “read the manual” in there.
Don't use it!
LOL! Well and good, but I described a use case (”Here! Make this work!”) that unfortunately doesn’t come with a manual.
I would also gently point out that when I installed Windows 7, I didn’t *have* to read the manual because it worked pretty much like XP, which worked pretty much like 2000, which worked pretty much like NT4, which...
These newfangled devices aren’t there yet. You yourself point out that new incarnations often have significant interface differences with the same manufacturer’s prior version.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not meaning to step on your religious views. :-) Where computing devices are concerned, they’re just tools to me — I’m brand agnostic.
Anybody know how to work with PDFs with Win8? On XP I could always minimize the file and go work on something else. I can’t figure out how to do that with Win8. I have to close the pdf.
Seven minutes?
You have something seriously wrong, friend. Take it in somewhere to be serviced and have the crap removed that’s loading on startup
I dreaded going from XP to Win7.
When I finally got a new machines with Win7, the first operational thing I did was turn off the UAC (User Account Control). Until then, Win7 was unusable. There were other similar tweaks just to make Win7 usable. Win7 still has some irritants, but it is usable now.
Microsoft could make a killing financially, if they came out with an XP version that was able to use extended memory.
I cringe at the next Windows update. Going from XP to Win7, I only lost one peripheral — a Minolta laser printer. No driver for Win7 bit 64. I did lose a few software programs, but managed to tweak a few other XP programs to run under Win7. I recall losing several peripherals when I went from Win98 to XP. New Windows programs can get expensive by killing peripherals and software programs.
I bought a new desktop and made a point of getting one with Win7 Pro instead of Win8. My work phone is a Windows 8 phone and it does work well for a phone.
You were looking in the wrong places.
Once you own the PC you can install whatever you want, its yours..you get the 1 year warranty for hardware, never software..the issue I had with my PC is that it would take about 5 minutes to shut down, turns out it was because of a bluetooth driver that was causing it to take forever to shut down, had to talk to 20 technicians at Dell before FINALLY one of them figured it out..but yeah warranty’s are always for hardware related issues, otherwise they will just tell you to reformat the hard drive
This should be required viewing. It’s comical.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57617615-71/jimmy-fallon-tries-to-hide-his-mac-from-bill-gates/
I looked as much as I could for many years and never found what is evidently a rarity.
I guess you know that you can pin and unpin whatever you want to the start page and then clear your desktop of icons, and just boot straight to a great looking desktop, just brush the windows corner to view the chosen tiles on the start page.
Here is how to skip signing in.
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows-8/fl/auto-logon-windows-8.htm
All that money and Bill Gates can’t find a decent barber?
Win8 people want to go back to Win7. My work laptop is Win7 and I got it looking like XP.
And then there is the new Office suite with 8,000 tabs, dropdowns, and buttons.
I wanted to insert a row in excel, so I click the thing that said 'insert' It chuckled because it knew that insert was not in insert.
Microsoft designers sound like power hungry lib freaks. They have a picture of what is cool/good and want to force everyone to agree, even if everyone disagrees. They remind me of barack, michelle, the EPA, the dem Senate, the gay lobby, al and jesse, the MSM, etc.
Bfl
You Mac people are a cult. Seriously.
The inspiration for the beach ball of death was the Mac hockey puck mouse.
“You Mac people are a cult. Seriously.”
Pot, meet kettle. :^)
Or clothes that fit properly....or coordinated.
:^D
Good one.
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