My start screen changes quite a lot as I try different things out. At the moment the way I have it set up I can use most of the things I use and need without going to the desktop to do it.
I made most of the Microsoft start screen tiles smaller and moved them all to the other side of the screen
P.S. I really like how when if you hold the Windows key down when you press the print screen button it automagically saves a full screen mode shot in a folder called Screenshots in your pictures library
Your attached thumbnail does't get 'quoted' here, but I'm referring to it. What are the color limitations of the tiles? Can you access the color picker to change their colors, or are they limited to the standard 4 to 5 bland colors on highschool textbook covers I saw in the 1970s?
The colour of my tiles (I say 'my tiles' to differentiate between them and metro ones on the start screen) picks up from the background colour which I can choose in the 'personalize' area of the pc settings.
There are backgrounds as well but I haven't done much changing of that for as long as I can see the screen I'm not too bothered what the colour is as I'm not on that screen long enough... I'm usually here!!
Okay Corona decided to look into the start screen colour options a bit more as you asked about them.
Screenshot 1 shows you the options I can choose from at the moment for the start screen (note at top you can change the account and log in area from here as well)
Screenshot 2 shows you how I ended up (may not be keeping this setting )
Screenshot 1 shows you the options I can choose from at the moment for the start screen (note at top you can change the account and log in area from here as well)
I noticed that you have no picture set for your user account.
Is it me, or has anyone else thought of the possibility of newbie PC users posting screenshots of their computer (complete with user account picture) & some program or website (http://face.com/ has been acquired by facebook) using it to identify users?
Think of the future. Cop stops you & takes picture with his cellphone. Cell checks photo online. Yessir! Positive identification of who this is!!!
I kinda like the way 7 hides the user account pic till you logout. At any rate, what do you think about this?
Thanks for your posts Hazelnut. If I were a 12 year old girl I'd think Windows 8 was made just for me! What you have as your desktop image...I've seen that artists' work before at Jay Is Games (Casual Gameplay). The big font in the PC Settings column. The whole theme looks like it was geared toward kids in 7th grade. (You know, the Occupy Wall Street crowd, twiddle fingers and chanting and all.)
just upgraded to win8 pro x64. so far so good, very painless migration.
one question, what is the swapfile.sys on the root folder of C:\ drive?
actually, not that I really care, my main concern is the C:\ is a SSD and if needed, I'd like to move the file to another drive. or if not needed, can it be deleted?
any win8 users been there, done that?
(wow, just notice the forum spell checker is finally working for me - go w8 )
A little thing you can do which will allow you to access things from the desktop without having to install a 3rd party add-on is this.
Right-click in the very left hand corner of your taskbar (I don't mean on the start screen popup)
Hover over where it says 'toolbars' and tick Desktop.
Over at the other side of the taskbar you will now see two arrows >> beside the word desktop. Click on arrows and this is what you get. (Easily unticked if you don't want it)
So this means most areas of your pc are accessible via those 2 little arrows, even your program files
Noticed that about newer Windows OSs. They keep certain info out of the publics' knowledge so their nerdier fanbois can 'find Easter Eggs' with keyboard shortcuts. (This is not a dis. It's an old marketing ploy.)
What windows 8 needs more than anything is a tutorial. My friend got a new win8 laptop and he was complaining about a few things, and decided he likes it a lot more once I showed him how to do the things in the way you're meant to (for him, it was specially showing him the shutdown procedure from the charms menu, and how to search in the start screen)
