Windows 8 Release Preview Discussion

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Anyone know how to edit the name of the programs pinned on the start screen. For example can I rename Adobe Photoshop CS5 (64bit) to just Photoshop so it looks a lot cleaner.

Right click on the tile, select "Open File Location". This will take you to the folder where your startscreen shortcuts are, rename the shortcut in the folder.

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There are already out of context ads, look at the MIB3 ad in this screenshot. Neither relevant nor something I expect to buy from the local video player.

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I wasn't bothered with ads on Xbox earlier but now that they've started doing unrelated ads, I don't like them much and as you said - not certainly on my OS.

Hopefully those ads are so few and far between that I don't ever see them, ever. I'd be royally ****ed if I saw an ad in any app that shipped with the OS that I used. I paid the license fee for the OS so I shouldn't be paying more by seeing ads... Unless the OS were free, but then I'd still pass on it as I really can't stand ads. I usually get red with anger when I see them in things I paid for.

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Hopefully those ads are so few and far between that I don't ever see them, ever. I'd be royally ****ed if I saw an ad in any app that shipped with the OS that I used. I paid the license fee for the OS so I shouldn't be paying more by seeing ads... Unless the OS were free, but then I'd still pass on it as I really can't stand ads. I usually get red with anger when I see them in things I paid for.

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The more I read websites, the more people are NOT running this in place of Windows 7 as their main OS right now.............

Considering that Windows 8 only comes out in October, I don't find that surprising.

Even 4 years after Windows 8 is released that won't be surprising at all...

Hopefully those ads are so few and far between that I don't ever see them, ever. I'd be royally ****ed if I saw an ad in any app that shipped with the OS that I used. I paid the license fee for the OS so I shouldn't be paying more by seeing ads... Unless the OS were free, but then I'd still pass on it as I really can't stand ads. I usually get red with anger when I see them in things I paid for.

+1. Can't stand ads.

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I'm a bit confused about the syncing. On my second PC, for example, I set up a solid color wallpaper and a static color window theme. These were then reflected onto my first PC via something called the "Synched Theme." But, if I make changes on that PC to the theme, it doesn't seem to carry over to my second PC.

I've also found my Start screen doesn't change. On my first PC, it's been customized: I have different groups, arrangements, etc. None of this is on my second PC, which instead just has the default setup. Is that supposed to be synced? Can it be synced?

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I dunno, it's an ad for a movie in the "video" app, sure you can't buy it on the app right now because it's in theaters still but it does fit, it's not an ad for a car or a house or something totally unrelated at least.

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jakem1

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I dunno, it's an ad for a movie in the "video" app, sure you can't buy it on the app right now because it's in theaters still but it does fit, it's not an ad for a car or a house or something totally unrelated at least.

Even if that was acceptable (and I don't think it is) where does it end? Ads for Canon cameras in the Photos app? Ads from Mattel in the Games app? Ads for Norton Antivirus in Defender? How about ads from Dell on the desktop?

As others have said, we pay for the OS and it shouldn't be used to advertise at us.

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Even if that was acceptable (and I don't think it is) where does it end? Ads for Canon cameras in the Photos app? Ads from Mattel in the Games app? Ads for Norton Antivirus in Defender? How about ads from Dell on the desktop?

As others have said, we pay for the OS and it shouldn't be used to advertise at us.

No, no need to make this more than what it is, it's pretty much a fact that both the music and video apps that you see now in the RP will turn into future Xbox Music and Xbox Video apps with support for the re-branded Zune services etc. To that extent, as a app that's connected to a service you'll see some ads for new content on it. All I'm saying is that as long as it's not all over the place and it's relevant to the app/service then it's fine. As I stated, I like that I see ads for newer games on my 360s dashboard letting me know of whats coming down the road. Many people just don't go looking for whats coming on many of the websites that are out there so for these types these ads are also helpful. I've found out about a number of XBLA games this way.

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There are already out of context ads, look at the MIB3 ad in this screenshot. Neither relevant nor something I expect to buy from the local video player.

To be honest, the screenshot is already ridiculous without the ad. Both in the video as well as the music app you get pushed into the store whether you want to or not. This is the amount of my own content that I see when I start up the app:

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Although my experience with RP of Win8 is pretty awesome, was very impressed with overall speed, and more polished looking version. I started getting randomly lockups... happened quite a few times, so i went back to Win7 unfortunately... i found in my experience, CP to be more stable. Became a real pain though when Diablo3 would lockup..... lost out on some awesome swag that was dropped!

Event viewer warned me of dual registry's that were running, and that some services should be stopped as they are not necessary, and a KB link was given that made references to Win 95 registry settings... ODD!!!!

I hope that it is down to the Nvidia Drivers, but when the new drivers are released, i will be having a go at it again....!

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I have to say, that I've been dual booting Windows 8 RC and Windows 7 on my desktop, which runs dual monitors. So far, the multi-monitor enhancements in Windows 8 are turning out to be quite a killer feature that I miss greatly when working in Windows 7. :/

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I have to say, that I've been dual booting Windows 8 RC and Windows 7 on my desktop, which runs dual monitors. So far, the multi-monitor enhancements in Windows 8 are turning out to be quite a killer feature that I miss greatly when working in Windows 7. :/

Agreed... i love the way Win8 manages wallapapers, especially on different sized monitors. my 3rd monitor is in portrait 1440x900 and the way windows picks wallpapers that are capable of displaying on each monitor is brilliant! Back to Win7 at the moment, and i miss the wallpaper feature alot as well .... now i have to put up with the top & bottom black bands on the 3rd monitor!

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Although my experience with RP of Win8 is pretty awesome, was very impressed with overall speed, and more polished looking version. I started getting randomly lockups... happened quite a few times, so i went back to Win7 unfortunately... i found in my experience, CP to be more stable. Became a real pain though when Diablo3 would lockup..... lost out on some awesome swag that was dropped!

Event viewer warned me of dual registry's that were running, and that some services should be stopped as they are not necessary, and a KB link was given that made references to Win 95 registry settings... ODD!!!!

I hope that it is down to the Nvidia Drivers, but when the new drivers are released, i will be having a go at it again....!

I have it dual booting with Win7 on my system. The lockups and IE not working at all were too much to have it as a primary OS, even though the CP was primary for more than a month. Also using an Nvidia card, and hope it is due to using Win7 drivers (301.42).

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Agreed... i love the way Win8 manages wallapapers, especially on different sized monitors. my 3rd monitor is in portrait 1440x900 and the way windows picks wallpapers that are capable of displaying on each monitor is brilliant! Back to Win7 at the moment, and i miss the wallpaper feature alot as well .... now i have to put up with the top & bottom black bands on the 3rd monitor!

I think when it comes down to it, unless Microsoft can improve the quality of the default Metro apps, Windows 8's biggest selling point will be the new multi-monitor enhancements. There's just no denying that when you boot back into Windows 7, it's these that you miss the most. These enhancements, have actually increased my productivity, I'm loving having a taskbar on all screens now. It's decreased mouse travel in some instances.

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Although my experience with RP of Win8 is pretty awesome, was very impressed with overall speed, and more polished looking version. I started getting randomly lockups... happened quite a few times, so i went back to Win7 unfortunately... i found in my experience, CP to be more stable. Became a real pain though when Diablo3 would lockup..... lost out on some awesome swag that was dropped!

Event viewer warned me of dual registry's that were running, and that some services should be stopped as they are not necessary, and a KB link was given that made references to Win 95 registry settings... ODD!!!!

I hope that it is down to the Nvidia Drivers, but when the new drivers are released, i will be having a go at it again....!

I don't think it is, I'm getting random lock ups and many people are too. It's not specific, it seems like it's a bug MS need to fix.

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I think when it comes down to it, unless Microsoft can improve the quality of the default Metro apps, Windows 8's biggest selling point will be the new multi-monitor enhancements. There's just no denying that when you boot back into Windows 7, it's these that you miss the most. These enhancements, have actually increased my productivity, I'm loving having a taskbar on all screens now. It's decreased mouse travel in some instances.

But you can already do this stuff with Ultramon and it's $39....

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theyarecomingforyou

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But you can already do this stuff with Ultramon and it's $39....
Of course but people aren't advocating buying Windows 8 exclusively for its multi-monitor support; it's just one of many features.
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I think when it comes down to it, unless Microsoft can improve the quality of the default Metro apps, Windows 8's biggest selling point will be the new multi-monitor enhancements. There's just no denying that when you boot back into Windows 7, it's these that you miss the most. These enhancements, have actually increased my productivity, I'm loving having a taskbar on all screens now. It's decreased mouse travel in some instances.

I've been doing this with ultramon since XP.

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Dot Matrix

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But you can already do this stuff with Ultramon and it's $39....

Right, but companies are not going to be installing third party utilities. And I am very weary of them myself, I install very little.

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