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Login/Logout - Metro. Install and launch an application - Gotta go through metro Hit close on a fullscreen window - Metro sidebar shows up. Doubleclick a vid

Login/Logout - Metro. Install and launch an application - Gotta go through metro Hit close on a fullscreen window - Metro sidebar shows up. Doubleclick a video file, where does it take you? Metro Need to look at pdf or image real quick, where are you going? Metro Wanna use a one off app like Notepad or Calculator? You have to go through Metro, then right-click to pull up the bottom bar, hit All Apps and then finally find your app. Dear God.

freehunter 14y ago
Try this: Windows key + (application name) Is that any different than Windows Vista or 7? For media, you don't have to use Metro. When I open a video it opens MPC. When I open a picture it opens Windows Photo Viewer (not the Photos app). When I open a PDF, it opens Chrome or Foxit. Hell, I want to use Metro but my workflow keeps me in in the desktop 95% of the time. The other 5% is just to open a program I don't have pinned. In that case, just type the application name.
nigelsampson 14y ago
Installing Metro apps from the Store then sure it's metro. Installing a desktop app doesn't go through metro at all. You can change the default apps, just like you always have to not use Metro apps. The Start Screen works just like the Start Menu did in terms of searching. Just start typing "notepad" rather than browsing for it.
- seanalltogether 14y ago
  "Installing Metro apps from the Store then sure it's metro. Installing a desktop app doesn't go through metro at all." I just downloaded and installed a program from the web, the shortcut to launch that program only exists in the Metro UI unless I either pin that to the desktop launchbar, or I add a shortcut to my desktop
  - freehunter 14y ago
    Just like on Windows 7, where a shortcut only exists on the start menu by default.
    - RexRollman 14y ago
      At least the Start Menu looks like the rest of Windows and doesn't steal the entire screen. To me, Metro replacing the Start Menu is as jarring as it would have been if they had replaced it with a DOS based application launcher.
      - freehunter 14y ago
        What's the difference between "stealing the screen" and clicking All Programs which then fills up a major part of the screen while you hunt down which folder you're looking for, then try to find the application that exists in that folder? Either way, you're going to lose focus of whatever was on the screen to begin with.

freehunter 14y ago

Try this: Windows key + (application name) Is that any different than Windows Vista or 7? For media, you don't have to use Metro. When I open a video it opens MPC. When I open a picture it opens Windows Photo Viewer (not the Photos app). When I open a PDF, it opens Chrome or Foxit. Hell, I want to use Metro but my workflow keeps me in in the desktop 95% of the time. The other 5% is just to open a program I don't have pinned. In that case, just type the application name.

nigelsampson 14y ago

Installing Metro apps from the Store then sure it's metro. Installing a desktop app doesn't go through metro at all. You can change the default apps, just like you always have to not use Metro apps. The Start Screen works just like the Start Menu did in terms of searching. Just start typing "notepad" rather than browsing for it.

seanalltogether 14y ago
"Installing Metro apps from the Store then sure it's metro. Installing a desktop app doesn't go through metro at all." I just downloaded and installed a program from the web, the shortcut to launch that program only exists in the Metro UI unless I either pin that to the desktop launchbar, or I add a shortcut to my desktop
- freehunter 14y ago
  Just like on Windows 7, where a shortcut only exists on the start menu by default.
  - RexRollman 14y ago
    At least the Start Menu looks like the rest of Windows and doesn't steal the entire screen. To me, Metro replacing the Start Menu is as jarring as it would have been if they had replaced it with a DOS based application launcher.
    - freehunter 14y ago
      What's the difference between "stealing the screen" and clicking All Programs which then fills up a major part of the screen while you hunt down which folder you're looking for, then try to find the application that exists in that folder? Either way, you're going to lose focus of whatever was on the screen to begin with.