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[kjstech]

I constantly simply try to drag the mouse anywhere to scroll anything in the metro UI left and right (like the start screen). However this action does not work. I have to move the mouse all the way to the bottom of the screen and grab the little scroller.

I guess my natural instinct is how I would interface with the UI as if it were a tablet. Like on my ipad for example to page between screens in the springboard you just drag your finger anywhere on the screen. Your not regulated to a scroll bar.

[HawkMan]

I would like the start screen to be click draggable, so you could just click and hold and drag sideways for scroll it. Hopefully they add that, but since my mouse wheel works fine for scrolling I don't have a problem with it.

[Dot Matrix]

kjstech, on 26 April 2012 - 14:00, said:

I constantly simply try to drag the mouse anywhere to scroll anything in the metro UI left and right (like the start screen). However this action does not work. I have to move the mouse all the way to the bottom of the screen and grab the little scroller.

I guess my natural instinct is how I would interface with the UI as if it were a tablet. Like on my ipad for example to page between screens in the springboard you just drag your finger anywhere on the screen. Your not regulated to a scroll bar.

The mouse can be used to 'push' the start screen from side to side, however this functionality was not added until the beta and was not in the developer's preview.

Also, the scroll wheel can be used on the start screen as well.

[cropcircles]

Evidently MS thought it might be a nice feature. CP was a smoke screen

[PGHammer]

cropcircles, on 04 May 2012 - 16:34, said:

Evidently MS thought it might be a nice feature. CP was a smoke screen

cropcircles, on 04 May 2012 - 16:34, said:

Evidently MS thought it might be a nice feature. CP was a smoke screen

canouna was, in fact, dead-on about the Consumer Preview's stability - not even the detractors are complaining about that.

The stability and backward-compatibility are, in fact, the two biggest wins for the Consumer Preview, in my experience so far.

The comparative coddling that production environments get is not supposed to be possible - let alone necessary - with an OS being tested.

We're supposed to flog a test OS like Parris Island DIs flog raw recruits.

This is the first public beta of Windows since that of Windows 98 (the original - not SE) where I could flog it to my heart's content without worrying about OS-related stability issues.

And not even the Windows 98 Public Preview was this stable.

[HawkMan]

cropcircles, on 04 May 2012 - 16:34, said:

Evidently MS thought it might be a nice feature. CP was a smoke screen

If you read what he's saying, he's not saying that put the start button back. He said there's a new start button in the corner, i.e. the to corner button that was simply a simplified start screen imitation, it's most likely been replaced with the new metro windows flag.