Interesting; thanks for your reply. Does it need more training then? I ran Visual Studio for no more than 20 minutes yesterday for the first time in months and it is now #3 on the start menu.
I recall in Windows 7 and earlier that, after a while of opening various programs, the start menu would be populated with the most frequently used programs, as opposed to the most recently used ones. In Start8, it appears that recently used programs are used (e.g. when I open Skype just once, it appears on #4 of my start menu.) Could there be an option to have frequently used programs on the start menu instead of recently used? Thanks.
Hmmm...I'm not aware of any history-clearing software on my computer. I'll look into it and will post here with any updates.
Occasionally the list of recently used (more accurately most used) applications on the main start menu gets reset. This seems to occur once every few weeks. Does anyone else experience this?
I just updated to 1.0 and most of these bugs are fixed. Thanks for the hard work! Certainly $5 well spent. However, it seems the close button is still being blocked by disabled charms. I have two monitors, and the bug has been fixed for the secondary monitor, but my primary monitor still has the problem.
Just updated and I've noticed significant improvements in speed and prioritization; It's almost identical to W7 behavior now. Bravo!
Thanks for your reply. Is there any sort of changelog from BETA 3 to 1.0 we could look at?
Hi, I've been trying to update via the 'Check for update...' button in the About section, but it keeps saying 'No updates for Start8 have been found.' I'm using Windows 8 Pro RTM with Start8 0.98 BETA 3. Any help?
Yes, searching control panel settings consistently takes 5-6 seconds after typing stops. Documents are the same way. These results took the same for programs in Windows 7. What did they change for 8?
I have the same problem. Windows 7 search prioritized results very well. It knew when I wanted a document, setting, or program. Now when I type something like 'Vegas' in Start8, the Sony Vegas Pro ReadMe shows up before the actual program. I would really like a smarter prioritization in Start8 search results; this is something that made the W7 start menu so much more usable.
The search feature is very quick to return results in Programs; just like the Windows 7 start menu. However, entries from the Control Panel and Documents only appear about 6 seconds after typing stops. Why are program results so quick whereas settings and documents take so long?
Thanks very much! Another related bug occurs when all Windows 8 hot corners are disabled. When clicking the network notification icon in the taskbar, I can't close it by clicking anywhere else like I normally can. Whether or not the other options are disabled does not affect this; only checking 'Disable all Windows 8 hot corners' results in this bug. Edit: Found one more bug. If charms are disabled, the user can no longer close windows at the very top-right of the
Some curious behavior regarding the disabling/enabling of hot corners and the show desktop button: - When all hot corners are enabled and the charms bar is enabled, the Show Desktop button and Peek at Desktop feature (fade out windows and see desktop after mouse-over for a few seconds) work normally. - When all hot corners are enabled but the charms bar is disabled, the Show Desktop button works normally but Peek no longer works. - When all hot corners are disabled but