hi there, jcap here. for the past several months i have said a lot in irc about how much i care about windows 8 but nobody else was caring so i post it here but also still in irc for som reason
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hi there, jcap here. for the past several months i have said a lot in irc about how much i care about windows 8 but nobody else was caring so i post it here but also still in irc for som reason
some1 pls give a car
So I'm assuming W8 is getting worse?
I fixed this in the release preview by setting the other OS as default and it takes me directly to the windows vista/7 bootloader.Quote:
Originally Posted by jcap
WTF? Well in that case OpenSauce isn't supported on Win8.Quote:
● The Windows Error Reporting dialog for reporting/debugging crashes does not save the state of "View details"
The only reason this OS will succeed is because it will be on every single new computer and customer choice will be either restricted or eliminated.
Whooo, Applesoft.
Well, at least I know I'll never use this damn OS!
Maybe W9 will be better.
Can you explain this further? What do you mean by default?Quote:
Originally Posted by arbiter901
As I understand it, the Windows 8 boot menu is essentially an operating system itself. It has a boot screen and all, which takes a good chunk of time to load. God forbid you even have to enter safe mode repeatedly.
When you're at the at the Windows 8 bootloader select "Change defaults or choose other options".
http://s11.postimage.org/a8wqz7b1d/0...ootloader1.png
(old screenshot I randomly googled)
Then click on "change default operating system"
Then end result should look like the classic 7 loader with Windows 8 under the 7 option.
http://cdn-static.zdnet.com/i/story/...in7_vhd_06.png
It will probably not work as I had XP installed on this drive before and never wiped the old boot sector.
Not 100% sure if this is true, but I'm fairly confident it is...
User on SA in yospos posted:
http://forums.somethingawful.com/sho...#post406224837Quote:
we got a laptop from intel with windows 8 this week. It has a trackpad and a touchscreen. When the new windows 8 new user interface experience is up the tracks doesn't work and you have to use the touchscreen
http://i.somethingawful.com/forumsys...t-shepface.gif
(Disclaimer: He also said a few posts later that he only had a minute with it and he will double check next week to be sure)
Though, if this really is true, then
:cwazy: