Windows8 - 8.1 - Windows Threshold Tips Questions and Solutions

[bob3160]

Windows 8 Keyboard Shortcuts


· Windows key – Brings up the Metro start screen. You can start typing to search for an app, just like the Win7 start menu.
· Win + B – Switch to the (classic) Windows desktop and select the tray notification area.
· Win + C – Brings up the Charms menu, where you can search, share, and change settings.
· Win + D – Brings up the old Windows desktop.
· Win + E – Launch Windows Explorer with Computer view displayed.
· Win + F – Brings up the Metro File search screen.
· Win + H – Opens the Metro Share panel.
· Win + I – Opens the Settings panel, where you can change settings for the current app, change volume, wireless networks, shut down, or adjust the brightness.
· Win + J – Switches focus between snapped Metro applications.
· Win + K – Opens the Devices panel (for connecting to a projector or some other device)
· Win + L – Lock PC and return to Lock screen.
· Win + M – Minimize all Windows on the desktop
· Win + O – Locks device orientation.
· Win + P – Choose between available displays.
· Win + Q – Brings up the Metro App Search screen.
· Win + R – Switch to the (classic) Windows desktop and display the Run box.
· Win + U – Switch to the (classic) Windows desktop and launch the Ease of Access Center.
· Win + V – Cycles through toasts.
· Win + W – Brings up the Metro Settings search screen.
· Win + X – Launch Start Menu.
· Win + Y – Temporarily peek at the desktop.
· Win + Z – Opens the App Bar for the current Metro application.
· Win + Page Up / Down – Moves tiles to the left / right.
· Win + Tab – Opens the Metro application switcher menu, switches between applications.
· Win + , (comma) – Aero Peek at the desktop.
· Win + . (period) – Snaps the current Metro application to one side of the screen. (Right side)
· Win + Shift + . (period) – Snaps the current Metro application to the other side of the screen. (Left side)
· Win + Space – Switch input language and keyboard layout.
· Win + Shift + V – Cycles through toasts in reverse order.
· Win + Enter – Launches Narrator
· Win + Arrow Keys – Switch to the (classic) Windows desktop and enable Aero Snap

[Marc57]

To the people that is using windows 8 dev preview..  What do you think of it... do you think it will be a fail like windows vista was? (just wondering on opininos ) 

I said I would give Win 8 a fair shot, and I did. It's now off my system as I couldn't find anything I liked about it. I'm planning to buy several copies of Windows 7 to keep on hand so that if I have to get a new system after 8 comes out, I can format and install Windows 7.

[bob3160]

So you want to try Windows 8 but don't like the new Start Button.

Now you can use Windows 8 and still have the old familiar Start Button Functions:



   


   


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To try the Windows 8 Consumer beta Review release, use the following links:
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Use the following link to download the Classic Start button Windows 8:
Download Classic Shell
 

[ClassyJakey]

Is there a version of avast! that can be run on the current Developer Build of Windows 8

It works perfectly on my consumer preview

[bob3160]

@ClassyJakey


That post was made last year. At that time avast! was still version 6 and that version was not compatible with the then available
Windows 8 Developers Preview.

Currently, Windows 8 is the Consumers beta version and avast!7 is compatible with that version.

Please Don't Misquote.
Thanks

[DavidR]

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Is there a version of avast! that can be run on the current Developer Build of Windows 8

It works perfectly on my consumer preview

Given the date of the post you quoted, 20 September 2011, that was the win8 developer build and also avast6. As mentioned later in the topic it wouldn't be compatible as MS were blocking AVs other than MSE in the developer preview.

That changed on the consumer preview, and later build versions of avast7

avast7 1407 isn't fully compatible with CP right now (behav shield & sandbox-based features don't wok there)
new avast7 build (expected maybe tomorrow) should be work with CP (old DevPreview build isn't supported anymore)

[Asyn]

Announcing the Windows 8 Editions
http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive/2012/04/16/announcing-the-windows-8-editions.aspx

[bob3160]

Free cheat sheet of 100 Windows 8 keyboard shortcuts
(Thanks to Greg Shultz for compiling this list.)

[bob3160]

http://youtu.be/llb2gKKoFiI

[bob3160]

How to Skip Metro Start Screen and Boot Directly into Desktop in Windows 8?

[DavidR]

Very handy no doubt, hopefully this tool will still work when win8 goes Gold. Why the hell MS haven't included this as a regular option in win8 (skip/disable Metro) is beyond me as by far this is the least well liked part of win8 in the reviews I have read.

[bob3160]

Very handy no doubt, hopefully this tool will still work when win8 goes Gold. Why the hell MS haven't included this as a regular option in win8 (skip/disable Metro) is beyond me as by far this is the least well liked part of win8 in the reviews I have read.

Simple answer:
It's also the windows phone interface.
Will be the Microsoft Surface interface when it's released.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/major-microsoft-announcement-16595160

[DavidR]

I know that, but why p*** off their core users to sell a few phones, the windows phones are flying of the shelves like lead balloons.

I don't see a problem with the MS Surface using what is essentially a touch screen OS (a.k.a. Metro) as that is intuitive with the device. In fact I quite like the Surface with its incorporated keyboard in its cover, so can be used for more keyboard intensive tasks.

But working on a  large screen monitor (a.k.a. desktop) with the same interface is crazy even if it were a touch screen, who works with their arms at shoulder level.

The big clincher on the MS Surface will be exactly what incarnation of win8 it will run, the applications it can run and where it can get them. If MS are going to try the walled garden approach of Apple where you can only get apps from the MS store, who is going to buy a new system that requires you replace all of your existing software. Then it becomes a very expensive and different proposition.

[Coolmario88]

This might be bad to say with me being a microsoft windows fanboy But I believe some of windows users will stay with windows 7 or switch to linux or mac..

[YoKenny]

Very handy no doubt, hopefully this tool will still work when win8 goes Gold. Why the hell MS haven't included this as a regular option in win8 (skip/disable Metro) is beyond me as by far this is the least well liked part of win8 in the reviews I have read.

Simple answer:
It's also the windows phone interface.
Will be the Microsoft Surface interface when it's released.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/major-microsoft-announcement-16595160

Not everyone has the luxury of being able to run Windows 8!