Windows 8 Clubhouse

[Crap Daddy]

mouse to bottom right corner, drag right. its under power in there somewhere.

clock, no idea.

Mouse bottom right. Shutdown is under settings. Also the clock highlights when you move the mouse over the right side options.

 

[Drone]

Some hot stuff:

Windows + , makes all windows transparent (desktop peek)

Windows + . snaps window to the right/left (toggling each time you press .)



Closing Metro apps:

Drag it with your mouse from the top of the screen all the way down to the bottom. As you drag, the app will miminize into a thumbnail, and when you reach the bottom, it will disappear from view.

Or you can just hit Alt+F4

Turn Live Tiles on/off

Right-click on the tiles. A settings bar on the bottom will pop up with an option to turn the Live Tile on or off. Simply select the preferred option, and you're all set.

You can find all the tricks there. Such as: Adjust SmartScreen settings, Create a picture password, Boot to the desktop without an app, Log in without a username or password, Find the Windows games folder, Activate Family Safety, Use Windows 8 apps and your desktop simultaneously and much more ...




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Windows Surface Phone concept

Microsoft thought to be testing a Surface Phone

 

[Dos101]

2 questions:
Where is the button to shutdown the system
Where is clock

On the right side move your mouse to the bottom right and wait for the charms bar to appear, click Settings, Power, Shutdown

The clock appears when the charms bar appears. Alternatively there is a Metro app called "The Time" that displays the time/date in a tile.

Windows Surface Phone concept

Microsoft thought to be testing a Surface Phone

http://www.geek.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/surface-windows-phone-concept.jpg

I think that belongs in the Windows Phone users Clubhouse http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=174046

 

[TRWOV]

Anyone else noticing Memory leaks with windows 8? I Googled it and the two areas I noticed were with AMD/ATI drivers (Which I am an nvidia user) and with Battlefield 3 (Possibly the problem but I haven't run it yet).

If others are getting the same symptoms has anyone else fixed it yet. If specs are needed they are up to date under my profile pic.

I got my first sad face today while playing Battlefield 3. The screen lagged for a second at intermittent intervals but after a few minutes it was a slideshow while the HDD LED lighted up like crazy. I've been having problems with SRT lately (I think it's the SSD, I have a Samsung mSATA SSD coming to see if that solves it) so I disabled it but I still got the sad face after a couple of rounds.

So it's a driver problem? Maybe 12.11beta would solve it? Using 12.10 ATM. It was working fine before, maybe a W8 update broke it? Last week I played for about 4 hours straight with no problems.

 

[Crap Daddy]

I got my first sad face today while playing Battlefield 3. The screen lagged for a second at intermittent intervals but after a few minutes it was a slideshow while the HDD LED lighted up like crazy. I've been having problems with SRT lately (I think it's the SSD, I have a Samsung mSATA SSD coming to see if that solves it) so I disabled it but I still got the sad face after a couple of rounds.

So it's a driver problem? Maybe 12.11beta would solve it? Using 12.10 ATM. It was working fine before, maybe a W8 update broke it? Last week I played for about 4 hours straight with no problems.

Maybe the memory leak that some have reported under win 8? Have you checked your memory usage while it was "slideshowing" ? Might try to run it in win 7 compatibility mode?

 

[Melvis]

I got a question...with Windows 8 i noticed you must have a email address, now does this mean your windows is locked to the email address? and do you HAVE to have an email address to use windows 8 or to install it?

Cheers

 

[Millennium]

I didn't link to my MS account so no, no email address required. Might be needed for some functions but worked fine without it.

 

[NinkobEi]

the email address is just to purchase apps and connect your email I think

 

[Techtu]

Anyone else tried running 3Dmark 11?

I get this error code no matter what I do and can't find a fix on Google (yet).

Workload Single init returned error message: DXGI call IDXGISwapChain::SetFullscreenState failed:

The requested functionality is not supported by the device or the driver.

DXGI_ERROR_NOT_CURRENTLY_AVAILABLE.

 

[Delta6326]

Hey guys I have W8 Pro, but haven't installed it yet. Do you think it will work ok with my computer system not for sure if I will have any drivers for W8...

This maybe help I just watched it.
[yt]-ijE3RSeTrU[/yt]

 

[Crap Daddy]

It will work. I installed almost five year old drivers for my wifi card. Click right on the exe and choose troubleshoot compatibility.

 

[Delta6326]

Ok if I have some free time today then i will be installing W8 Pro, I have the upgrade but i'm going to try and do full install.

 

[Drone]

Surface RT costs just $271 to make

Here's Surface teardown picture lol

 

[TheMailMan78]

Anyone else tried running 3Dmark 11?

I get this error code no matter what I do and can't find a fix on Google (yet).

Workload Single init returned error message: DXGI call IDXGISwapChain::SetFullscreenState failed:

The requested functionality is not supported by the device or the driver.

DXGI_ERROR_NOT_CURRENTLY_AVAILABLE.

Update your directx. Windows 8 doesn't do it automatically.

114 Errors and 98 warnings. Don't give a damn. Interesting thing is his particular warning appeared just today.

I had IE unexpectedly quit on me today on when I opened it on the desktop and it instantly recovered. Something about the Hash. I get a new SSD this week, a 256GB SATA 3 so Ill be doing a reinstall anyway. lol.

 

[Techtu]

Update your directx. Windows 8 doesn't do it automatically.

I tried but said was already up to date, I since switched my GPU fan profile back to auto rather than a custom profile which seems to be the problem for me.

 

[TheMailMan78]

I tried but said was already up to date, I since switched my GPU fan profile back to auto rather than a custom profile which seems to be the problem for me.

LoL! Welcome early adopters!

 

[Delta6326]

Got W8 Pro installed with Media Center, slowly finding out how things work and getting all my stuff back on.

My biggest problem I can't change my background...

 

[manofthem]

My biggest problem I can't change my background...

Desktop background?

 

[Delta6326]

Desktop background?

Yes, but after a restart it's working now. installing Newegg app.

 

[Dos101]

Surface RT costs just $271 to make

Here's Surface teardown picture lol

http://www.geek.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Microsoft-Surface-Teardown__3_1.jpg

Are they hitting Apple-level margins now?

 

[Delta6326]

Hey guys having some problems with my Music when i'm on the desktop like the pic below music sounds normal, but once I go to start menu it gets so quiet that I have to almost max out my speakers anyone know why this is?

 

[TheMailMan78]

Hey guys having some problems with my Music when i'm on the desktop like the pic below music sounds normal, but once I go to start menu it gets so quiet that I have to almost max out my speakers anyone know why this is?


http://img.techpowerup.org/121106/Capture1006.jpg

The start menu doesn't like techno?

 

[Frick]

Has anyone tried the Windows To Go thing? I hadn't heard about it until I read about it in an article this afternoon. I know it's only for enterprise, but still. Sounds pretty nice.

 

[Mussels]

Hey guys having some problems with my Music when i'm on the desktop like the pic below music sounds normal, but once I go to start menu it gets so quiet that I have to almost max out my speakers anyone know why this is?


http://img.techpowerup.org/121106/Capture1006.jpg

check control panel -> sound, win vista/7 had a feature that muted volume by 80% in apps were open that used a mic. 8 might do something similar with the start menu

 

[Delta6326]

check control panel -> sound, win vista/7 had a feature that muted volume by 80% in apps were open that used a mic. 8 might do something similar with the start menu

Thank You so much! This should be added to OP if anyone uses the music player that came with W8.

Fix for W8 Music player for lowering sound by 80%, when using background apps at the same time.

Settings > Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Sound > Communications > Do Nothing