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[Muhammad Farrukh]

beanboy89, on 04 March 2012 - 17:36, said:

Here's a quick page I made with more info: http://billy.mozfaq....clock/index.htm

Everything that VS11 outputted when I went to package the app is included in the zip. You should be able to run Add-AppxDevPackage.bat to install.

Well, I ran Add-AppxDevPackage.bat, command port promted me to Press any key to continue, and then nothing happened.

I know I did something wrong

[MASTER260]

Kushan, on 01 March 2012 - 13:07, said:

I think this one screenshot sums up how I'm feeling about the Beta:



I dunno, it just feels like something's...."missing".

Just because the Start Menu's gone doesn't mean Windows Update is... if you really don't know how to get there for some reason, I bent the webpage you're showing will change to accommodate Win 8 by the time it hits RTM... Or you could just Google search it. (Or Dogpile search it, but that's just my personal preference.)

[beanboy89]

Muhammad Farrukh, on 04 March 2012 - 17:45, said:

Well, I ran Add-AppxDevPackage.bat, command port promted me to Press any key to continue, and then nothing happened.

I know I did something wrong

I'm not around my Windows 8 system at the moment, but looking at the actual .bat, it looks like you have to run it from PowerShell.

REM #######################################################################
REM # Add-AppxDevPackage.bat
REM #
REM # <summary>
REM #    Add-AppxDevPackage.bat is a PowerShell script designed to install
REM #    Appx developer packages created by Visual Studio.  The Visual
REM #    Studio "Prepare Package" creates a signed Appx to a local target
REM #    folder.  The target folder will contain the .appx application file,
REM #    the signing certificate .cer file, the Add-AppxDevPackage.bat
REM #    script, plus a .\Dependencies\ folder containing all the
REM #    framework packages used by the application.
REM #
REM #    When executed from a local directory, the Add-AppxDevPackage script
REM #    simplifies installing a VS developer package on a new computer by
REM #    automating the following functions.
REM #
REM #	  1. Installs all the framework packages contained in
REM #		 .\Dependencies
REM #
REM #	  2. Installs the signing certificate .cer file into the
REM #		 local machine Trusted Root Certification Authorities store.
REM #
REM #	  3. Installs the application package .appx file.
REM #
REM #######################################################################

[ozgeek]

Here is what my start screen looked as of last night:

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[GP007]

I was sure there was going to be an option to minimize the desktop app tiles from what I remember seeing once but it seems the CP doesn't have that in there. Dunno how much things would change visually for people but at least they'd take up less space in the end.

[Zedox]

GP007, you may be mistaken for the "Computer Admin" apps or something. They can come up but you can hide them from the start screen.

[GP007]

Zedox, on 06 March 2012 - 03:08, said:

GP007, you may be mistaken for the "Computer Admin" apps or something. They can come up but you can hide them from the start screen.

No no, I mean I remember some screen shots a while back that showed the tiles for desktop apps being made smaller etc.

[notuptome2004]

GP007, on 06 March 2012 - 08:10, said:

No no, I mean I remember some screen shots a while back that showed the tiles for desktop apps being made smaller etc.

down at the bottom right ther is an icon to zoom out or you can do clt scroll wheel to do the same thing and then from ther ya can select a group of tiles and Name them

[GP007]

notuptome2004, on 06 March 2012 - 08:18, said:

down at the bottom right ther is an icon to zoom out or you can do clt scroll wheel to do the same thing and then from ther ya can select a group of tiles and Name them

Yeah, I know about that but i'm talking about something different that I remember seeing. Maybe I'll try and hunt down a screenshot of what I'm talking about.

[Eins.MY]

My Windows 8 Consumer Preview desktop

Quite happy with the performance, and now I can remove the watermark and enable Windows 7 start orb button already.

[TheDisneyMagic]

ozgeek, on 05 March 2012 - 10:17, said:

Here is what my start screen looked as of last night:

How do you create the category names on the start screen?

[andy_rose]

Eins.MY, on 06 March 2012 - 12:03, said:

My Windows 8 Consumer Preview desktop

Quite happy with the performance, and now I can remove the watermark and enable Windows 7 start orb button already.

Nice wall, care to share?

[bogas04]

TheDisneyMagic, on 06 March 2012 - 12:19, said:

How do you create the category names on the start screen?

HOW TO RENAME GROUPS ON WINDOWS 8

[TheDisneyMagic]

Thank you very much for that video

[~Johnny]

Quite like the retro XP start button.





On my laptop though, I hide the taskbar entirely, and do all my window switching thanks to this lovely little thing that comes with Microsoft Intellimouse software



They should really make it a part of Windows sometime.

And my laptop start screen for good measure. Not a fan of the DPI scaling - same res as my desktop, but shows one less line of metro apps