The "I like Windows 8 (and why)" Thread for people who like Windows 8

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So, since a lot of posts around here are complaining about Metro / the new Windows 8 style I figured that I'd make a thread for people who actually appreciate the new things with Windows 8 (and don't say that it's terrible because of metro).

One of the really great things about Windows 8 is the Refreshing ability. I like it because it reinstalls Windows but keeps your personal files. This is useful for non-tech-savvy people.

The thing I like with refresh is the RECIMG.exe command line (for power users). RECIMG makes a WIM file (Windows Image Format File) that has all of your current settings in Windows and programs, too. When you refresh Windows, it uses the WIM image and effectively restores Windows to the time of when you made the image. If you want to make the image for yourself, open up CMD as admin, type recimg /createimage and in quotation marks "The place where you want the image here". This will make the image (takes around 15 minutes), and it takes up about 5 Gigs of space (for me it did).

Share what you like about Windows 8. (And no, I didn't say make a reply saying how Windows 8 is a piece of "Insert Insult to Windows 8 Here")

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Destined to be the loneliest thread of all time. :-"

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

 

Share what you like about Windows 8. (And no, I didn't say make a reply saying how Windows 8 is a piece of "Insert Insult to Windows 8 Here")
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Now you do know there is no way to control how anyone replies, and just saying the above is inviting folks to do exactly what you didn't want. 

Myself, I'm way to good of a person to stoop to that level (well maybe I just don't want to be the first one).   

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

The file operations are friggin' sweet and the new task manager is a dream.

What I really love though is that the more people hate it, the more opportunity Stardock has to step in and make things better.  :)

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Precisely.

And to be honest? They could have done the same for W7 with a patch/update, but they didn't.

Quoting Zubaz, reply 3
What I really love though is that the more people hate it, the more opportunity Stardock has to step in and make things better.
End of Zubaz's quote

You stole my words.

I hate you.

;)

 

 

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting DrJBHL, reply 4
You stole my words.

I hate you.
End of DrJBHL's quote
So? You stole my karma.   <X3

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I have a lot of faith and confidence in the wonderful folks at Stardock. They are quite honestly geniuses. If it is at all possible to make Win8 more user friendly and comfortable for us, I predict that a sunami of new business will hit Stardock and sales and subscriptions will go through the roof. For those of us who love Stardock, that should bring a broad smile to our faces and possibly more installations of Win8 to our machines. :sun: :thumbsup:      -- Ace --

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I will quote what someone once said to me: "Normally I wouldn't deign to answer someone of such tiny karma..."

Quoting Zubaz, reply 5

Quoting DrJBHL, reply 4You stole my words.

I hate you.So? You stole my karma.   [e digicons]
End of Zubaz's quote

No... only your title. ;)

 

Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Zubaz, reply 3
The file operations are friggin' sweet
End of Zubaz's quote

More about this please? (I've never even seen it run...)

Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Uhmmmmmm,,,,, errrrrrr.... hmmmmmmmm.... sorry, I cannot think of anything at all to say.

Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top

What I like about Windows 8....

* That it boots much faster than previous editions

* That its file handling is much improved

* That it handles ISO files natively

* That my AMD FX8170 is better supported/quicker in Win 8 than 7.

Hopefully, Stardock makes it a more functional/usable OS than it is currently.

Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting starkers, reply 10
What I like about Windows 8....

* That it boots much faster than previous editions

* That its file handling is much improved

* That it handles ISO files natively

* That my AMD FX8170 is better supported/quicker in Win 8 than 7.

Hopefully, Stardock makes it a more functional/usable OS than it is currently.
End of starkers's quote

 

That all sounds pretty good starkers , so if Stardock does come through for us, I could possibly see myself giving it a go for all those added benefits you mentioned. It would have to be pretty good though cuz I just re-installed my Vista OS and even my try with Win7 wasn't as good as the performance of my Vista System.          -- Ace ---

Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting AceMatrix, reply 11
That all sounds pretty good starkers , so if Stardock does come through for us, I could possibly see myself giving it a go for all those added benefits you mentioned.
End of AceMatrix's quote

There's probably more benefits that I've not mentioned or discovered yet, but I must give Win 8 the thumbs up for its speed/performance increases over Win 7... and yes, over Vista as well.  The one thing that bugged me about Vista in the early day was file copy and move being quite slow/tardy, but that is not a concern for me in Win 8... file transfers literally fly along.

I really need to spend a bit more time in Win 8 and set it up to do a lot more that I have it doing at present... you know, really put it through its paces and see how more of my most used proggies perform in the new OS.  I've not spent a lot of time in Win 8 recently because I don't have a lot installed in there as yet and need to keep booting back into Win 7 to get stuff done, but I shall remedy that over the next day or so.

As for Stardock doing the right and proper thing by us and fixing the obvious issues, Metro, etc, I just hope it can happen and we can truly use 8 as a true desktop OS without the unnecessary bloat MS is trying to foist upon us... cos frankly, it would be a damned travesty if MS ignored what we want and insists that users WILL work with that abominable "don't call it Metro any more" UI.

Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I can appreciate the fact that MS is opening up more options for software developers because of the new style apps. That helps them make more money, right? (Similar to App store in iOS. (Angry Birds))

And I put the thing saying that this is a thread for why you like Windows 8 because talking about why you think Windows 8 is a fail would be off-topic.

Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting NR2001, reply 13
And I put the thing saying that this is a thread for why you like Windows 8 because talking about why you think Windows 8 is a fail would be off-topic.
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Well I said why I like it.... the bit after that just says that it needs fixing some... ie, would be better without Metro.

Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top

To get out of Metro, all you have to do is click the Windows button.  With Start8, you can start directly on the desktop.

You can avoid much of Metro, but it's the way Windows is going so I'm getting to know it. :)

Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I'm actually excited to start using a non-preview version and see what they settled on with everything.

Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Rosco_P, reply 16
I'm actually excited to start using a non-preview version and see what they settled on with everything.
End of Rosco_P's quote

Yes, I'll DL it too... wasn't thrilled with the early one though....;)

Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Island, reply 15
With Start8, you can start directly on the desktop.
End of Island's quote

Yes, I already do that, it's what makes Win 8 usable.

Quoting Island, reply 15
You can avoid much of Metro, but it's the way Windows is going so I'm getting to know it.
End of Island's quote

Sadly, yes, that is the ways it's going, but I really do not want to have to deal with it.  I do not find it smart, intuitive or time saving in any way.  In fact, the hidden hotspots make tasks more time consuming because they do not always appear as required and can be quite unresponsive.  More to the point, I have no need of anything Metro does, so I don't want it to be foisted upon me because others may? find it useful.  For people like me Metro should be made optional at installation, but Microsoft isn't going to allow that, is it?

Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I'd like to see Stardock make some Metro apps.

What do you think?

Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting NR2001, reply 19
I'd like to see Stardock make some Metro apps.

What do you think?
End of NR2001's quote

Sorry, NO!!!!   Metro does not belong on the desktop and that's what Stardock does.... create apps for Windows desktops.  Okay, Stardock apps also serve to pretty up laptops as well, but there's little or no difference in appearance or how they handle, so no beef there. 

No, Metro... er, "Don't call it Metro anymore" belongs on portable devices like pads and so-called smart phones, and Stardock does not cater to those, though it may want to consider doing so, given that seems to be the way things are going with OSes and communications devices.  Still, I don't see desktop PC's going away any time soon. 

I recently saw a chart forecasting sales for desktop PC's will be up by several million in 2013, and then there are companies like Nvidia, Intel and AMD/ATI investing huge resources and billions to develop bigger, better and faster components for desktop units, so they are going to be around for quite some time to come, despite what the manufacturers and advocates of the pad may say.

[f**king Apple has a lot to answer for] :-"

Thing is, if anyone wants a Metro-like app/appearance on their desktop [can't see why anyone would], Stardock does have 'Tiles', which performs a similar function.

Anyhow, BOT.... another thing I like about Win 8 is the UAC not being such a pain in the arse.  While it is still there, it doesn't seem so intrusive and isn't constantly asking for permissions to things you've opened/done before.  Well that's the way I found it... like UAC operates more in the background in Win 8.  I had a few instance where UAC would ask if this or that was okay, but it's definitely less annoying than in Vista/Win 7 before I used Stardock's TweakVista or Tweak7 to make it behave.

Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top

the new taskmanger is one big thing the overall speed of the OS...new interface prior called metro for checking apps mails news 

the new explorer - multi monitor support-
 

Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Win8 and free upgrade to Win8.1 was my only cheap chance to get for 19.99 EUR the opportunity to upgrade my Win7home32bit to a 64bit system. Of course I did detect only one advantage (faster booting) with Win8 but the rest are a lot of annoyances and bugs. The problems of color customization of Win8 high contrast themes with most browsers (IE, FF, ...) did turn me to a new happy WindowsBlinds customer. At least one big advantage for Stardock and me.

Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top

As I have just gotten a new laptop with win8 on it for Christmas, I am still undecided as per my full opinion. But I will say that in the short time I have had it I have become increasingly enjoying the stability of win8 over Vista, as well as it seems to run stuff a lot quicker than my vista machine * tho doubling the ram as compared to my old machine is prolly a contributing factor.

I will most likely stick with win8 rather than upgrade to 8.1 as I like being able to uninstall Sky drive and all its stuff, I dont need or want the cloud.. with win 8 I still have the choice..

 

* The start page sucked and with Start 8' ,DeskScapes and Windowblinds help I have gotten my regular desktop back..*

Reply #25 from WinCustomize Forums Top

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