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RE[2]: Comment by MOS6510
by MOS6510 on Thu 11th Oct 2012 05:40
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Yes, that would explain it. I was pre-4.2 the first time.
It was so slow that I couldn't figure out how to get back to the Metro stuff from classic, although I always did manage it after a while I never knew how I did it. Now it turns out any corner is "hot", but it was so slow that this wasn't clear to me.
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Windows 8 ran very slow in Virtual Box on my computer, but I downloaded it again while updating Virtual Box yesterday and now it runs fine.
I still can't like it though. These "Live Tiles" seem like a good idea, in theory, but not in practice. The whole screen is filled with these tiles, but really it's just a small portion of what normally would be found within the Start Menu, while a few provide information that you can easily do without, let alone be staring at all day.
A number of things I tried just switched to the classic desktop, minus the Start button. If you want to do a different GUI do a different GUI, but don't keep using the old one too. It gives a very messy feeling.
I don't know if it's possible, but if I had the choice I would turn Metro off and only use the classic mode.
Windows 7 was a great step in the right direction, I can't imagine why they'd mess it up with Metro just so their tablets would have kind of the same GUI.