Hating Windows 8 full screen apps? Maybe ModernMix, from the makers of Start8, will make life easier.
Hating Windows 8 full screen apps? Maybe ModernMix, from the makers of Start8, will make life easier.
Personally, I haven't used it yet, but for only $4.99 it's on my list. Does anyone here use it? It would be great to read some opinions on it from the Delphi community.
http://www.stardock.com/products/modernmix/
http://www.stardock.com/products/modernmix/
Personally, I haven't used it yet, but for only $4.99 it's on my list. Does anyone here use it? It would be great to read some opinions on it from the Delphi community.
http://www.stardock.com/products/modernmix/
http://www.stardock.com/products/modernmix/
Wow. The only Windows 8 machine I have is used as an HTPC for audio primarily. I haven't had any problems. Not one BSOD.
ReplyDeleteLinux is the way to go, delphi charges to much for there crap anyway atleast with the fpc you can fix whatever is broken.
ReplyDeleteI have windows 8 and its been solid for me. I like the new task manager. I like how it can natively mount and ISO as a drive. VMWare plays nice.
ReplyDeleteI hate, like most, turning my desktop into a phone, so I use Start8.
No BSODs yet. It's been solid on a Dell computer I use for work that came out when 7 was just starting to come out.
On this machine, it was a 7 to 8 upgrade. But I have a couple other dev boxes that I did a clean install of Windows 8.
I just did a bootcamp on my newer MacBook Pro and then pointed fusion at it, so I have best of both world access.
My son has Windoz 8 and I have to fix it every time he screws it up. only makes me hate it more.
ReplyDeleteSeems that eyery new Feature of Wndows 8 is deconstructed by users :) Metro Startscreen, Fullscreen Apps ...
ReplyDeleteApart from the stupid search split, I actually like the W8 start view. Don't use many "RT" apps, though.
ReplyDeleteSimon Stuart Wow! 98 SE was an abomination which burned me so badly, I reformatted. And Win8 is worse? Really?
ReplyDeleteAmazing. I have not installed Win8 yet, though I do plan to, as a second boot option. Perhaps I should wait until it's had a major update. ;)
ReplyDeleteSimon Stuart It must be a feature! ;)
ReplyDeleteSimon Stuart Aren't most BSODs related to drivers? Are you sure you have latest Win8 drivers from all your hardware vendors? Or, if running in a VM, the latest version of the VM to support Win8. It was less than a week ago I received another Parallels update for better Win8 support.
ReplyDeleteKevin Powick Because most users have no idea what the BSOD means, nor how to gain any useful knowledge from a BSOD, I suspect that "most" BSODs would remain undiagnosed. As to causes, last week, I tried switching my RAM from the automagically set values assigned by the BIOS to the XMP values. Net result: a significant performance boost, accompanied, however, but a number of BSODs. Note that no drivers were changed. Also note that the BSODs were infrequent, and it was only after a few days that I concluded that the XMP timings were marginal for this system.
ReplyDeleteBill Meyer Funny you should mention RAM. I guess most people don't think about it these days, but I'm sure some will remember the days of flakey PC RAM, usually from Korea in those days. However, even with "good" RAM that would run DOS and Windows just fine, we could see problems when running more "sensitive" operating systems, requiring the RAM to be top-notch.
ReplyDeleteThough Simon Stuart isn't seeing any useful information on his BSOD screen, you would think that MS must be writing a log or crash dump somewhere. My Win8 experience is barely above zero, so I'm just throwing out some ideas.
Kevin Powick Not that funny, as I am originally a hardware guy. ;) However, my recent experience suggests that it might be worthwhile changing the BIOS settings to a slower, gentler level, and running for a time that way, just to eliminate the hardware as an issue. MS has been making extensive changes in low level OS design, and so even though our apps haven't changed, what goes on in the OS may be pushing things hard which are marginal. At any rate, apart from minor inconvenience, the worst result of such a test would be to confirm that the hardware is not the trouble point.
ReplyDeleteSimon Stuart Then disable the audio driver, just to test the theory?
ReplyDeleteSimon Stuart Then I would rip them out by the roots. Uninstall, then use a registry cleaner, and proceed from there. Nothing is worth suffering BSODs on a regular basis. And the time spent to isolate the cause will be more than repaid by the time otherwise wasted in rebooting.
ReplyDeleteThis was brought to my attention this morning: http://techbeat.com/2013/04/windows-8-may-cut-off-gmail-users/
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