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Could you elaborate on how your workflow is jacked?

by jorts 14y ago

xradionut 14y ago
There's this big useless Window Phone interface on my desktop. (Yes, I have a Windows 7.5 phone and do like the interface... on a phone...)
- dangrossman 14y ago
  I'm consistently surprised how little I knew everyone's workflow revolved around the appearance of the start menu (which has now become full-screen instead of a vertical popup, a drastic change to be sure). Here I thought most people interacted with the applications and the task bar most of the time. How did anyone get any work done for months after the start menu grew from one column to two in Windows Vista/7?
  - debacle 14y ago
    The search in Windows 7 is actually quite useful. Vista, not so much, but no one I know preferred the two-column layout of the start menu in XP.
    - xradionut 14y ago
      Search in Windows 8 couldn't find PowerShell. I had to jump through a few (unnecessary) hoops to get the Admin tools to appear in Metro-land desktop. (Sigh...)
      - debacle 14y ago
        I haven't used Windows 8 besides the release candidates. Is it really that bad?
        dangrossman 14y ago
        No, it's not. It's Windows 7, with a more efficient kernel, and a full-screen start menu. Some people just can't handle change... until they use it for a few months, then they'll hate the next version. I did nothing to make this work: http://i.imgur.com/AGShX.png http://i.imgur.com/AGShX.png
        adventured 14y ago
        Windows 8 is a great operating system at its core. Very fast, very stable, and a lot more secure by default. It's just ridiculous to have to switch visual interfaces from desktop to start screen to gain access to a programs list. There's no good reason to have to do it (ie it wasn't done that way due to superior design choice); and the reason it is that way, stems from mistakes that Microsoft made in the past, that left them drastically behind Android and iOS in mobile. It's an extremely simple thing made unnecessarily more complex and visually annoying for anybody doing work. For example, if I have an Excel spreadsheet open, why on earth should I have to dive into the start screen just to pull up a list of programs? It's bad design.
  - ConceptJunkie 14y ago
    I can't speak for anyone else, but after seeing the trainwreck that is the Start Menu in Windows 7, I immediately looked for a third-party solution to fix it and found Classic Shell. Just like iTunes, the Windows 7 Start Menu seems only useful for people who don't organize their program menu. I organize mine similar to how KDE does it (but I was doing it long before I ever saw KDE) and I can find any app in about 3 clicks.
  - marshray 14y ago
    There were three things I liked about the start menu: 1. The ability to pin my frequently-used items manually. 2. Showing the recently-used apps that I haven't gotten around to pinning. 3. The way it arranged hundreds of app icons in a halfway-memorable heirarchy. (Yes, I know that makes me a small minority "power user", but Windows had always catered to us PUs.) I never, ever, used search and don't like having to use it in Win8. The background search service had such a bad habit (at least through Vista) of churning my disk drive at the worst possible moment that I disabled it wherever possible.
    - adventured 14y ago
      Here: http://windows8startbutton.com/ http://windows8startbutton.com/ It's a little customizable bundle of joy, and it'll optionally boot you directly to the desktop. And just out of curiosity in response to a comment below, I typed "powershell" into this menu's search and it instantly found powershell.exe and powershell_ise.exe
- randallsquared 14y ago
  Windows 8 is my first Windows in a while, and I find it to be pretty easy to use. Most of my time is spent in the desktop view instead of the start screen where you appear to be stuck.
- brudgers 14y ago
  It's gone at a [Windows] keystroke. After about two weeks, I find Windows 8 more productive. What is a bit disorienting is that the mouse is being deprecated, somewhat. I believe that Microsoft has determined that the interfaces of the future are keyboard and touch. Windows 8 does a lot of things from the keyboard...like switching between modes. The more I use it, the more impressed I am with the way in which the two modes, Metro and Desktop, integrate.

Could you elaborate on how your workflow is jacked?

by jorts 14y ago

Could you elaborate on how your workflow is jacked?

There's this big useless Window Phone interface on my desktop. (Yes, I have a Windows 7.5 phone and do like the interface... on a phone...)

dangrossman 14y ago
I'm consistently surprised how little I knew everyone's workflow revolved around the appearance of the start menu (which has now become full-screen instead of a vertical popup, a drastic change to be sure). Here I thought most people interacted with the applications and the task bar most of the time. How did anyone get any work done for months after the start menu grew from one column to two in Windows Vista/7?
- debacle 14y ago
  The search in Windows 7 is actually quite useful. Vista, not so much, but no one I know preferred the two-column layout of the start menu in XP.
  - xradionut 14y ago
    Search in Windows 8 couldn't find PowerShell. I had to jump through a few (unnecessary) hoops to get the Admin tools to appear in Metro-land desktop. (Sigh...)
    - debacle 14y ago
      I haven't used Windows 8 besides the release candidates. Is it really that bad?
      - dangrossman 14y ago
        No, it's not. It's Windows 7, with a more efficient kernel, and a full-screen start menu. Some people just can't handle change... until they use it for a few months, then they'll hate the next version. I did nothing to make this work: http://i.imgur.com/AGShX.png http://i.imgur.com/AGShX.png
      - adventured 14y ago
        Windows 8 is a great operating system at its core. Very fast, very stable, and a lot more secure by default. It's just ridiculous to have to switch visual interfaces from desktop to start screen to gain access to a programs list. There's no good reason to have to do it (ie it wasn't done that way due to superior design choice); and the reason it is that way, stems from mistakes that Microsoft made in the past, that left them drastically behind Android and iOS in mobile. It's an extremely simple thing made unnecessarily more complex and visually annoying for anybody doing work. For example, if I have an Excel spreadsheet open, why on earth should I have to dive into the start screen just to pull up a list of programs? It's bad design.
- ConceptJunkie 14y ago
  I can't speak for anyone else, but after seeing the trainwreck that is the Start Menu in Windows 7, I immediately looked for a third-party solution to fix it and found Classic Shell. Just like iTunes, the Windows 7 Start Menu seems only useful for people who don't organize their program menu. I organize mine similar to how KDE does it (but I was doing it long before I ever saw KDE) and I can find any app in about 3 clicks.
- marshray 14y ago
  There were three things I liked about the start menu: 1. The ability to pin my frequently-used items manually. 2. Showing the recently-used apps that I haven't gotten around to pinning. 3. The way it arranged hundreds of app icons in a halfway-memorable heirarchy. (Yes, I know that makes me a small minority "power user", but Windows had always catered to us PUs.) I never, ever, used search and don't like having to use it in Win8. The background search service had such a bad habit (at least through Vista) of churning my disk drive at the worst possible moment that I disabled it wherever possible.
  - adventured 14y ago
    Here: http://windows8startbutton.com/ http://windows8startbutton.com/ It's a little customizable bundle of joy, and it'll optionally boot you directly to the desktop. And just out of curiosity in response to a comment below, I typed "powershell" into this menu's search and it instantly found powershell.exe and powershell_ise.exe
randallsquared 14y ago
Windows 8 is my first Windows in a while, and I find it to be pretty easy to use. Most of my time is spent in the desktop view instead of the start screen where you appear to be stuck.
brudgers 14y ago
It's gone at a [Windows] keystroke. After about two weeks, I find Windows 8 more productive. What is a bit disorienting is that the mouse is being deprecated, somewhat. I believe that Microsoft has determined that the interfaces of the future are keyboard and touch. Windows 8 does a lot of things from the keyboard...like switching between modes. The more I use it, the more impressed I am with the way in which the two modes, Metro and Desktop, integrate.