Recent content by Numan

I had that problem the other day playing the original Bioshock. The cable had some sort of issue (even the TV froze for a few seconds) and I was staring at the desktop. Only a reboot would even let Steam fix itself. Steam's offline mode isn't perfect sadly guys.

Find them a cheap something with Win7/8. It's just easier on you and P4s with 512 ram with XP SP3 is horrid.

Enterprise is it's own animal because by that logic Windows 7 must suck. I know my company is STILL rolling out Win 7 upgrades from old XP machines. They tend to only upgrade when they have to either because a) other programs they bought won't work with a newer OS (in in my case, IS told me...

Of course they can survive as they are selling lots of Xboxs and Halos. Derp!

To close a Metro app you can either ALT-F4 it or if you move the mouse to the upper left screen corner the current running programs appear. Right click and close'em. You can't do that with the app you're in but I bet ALT-F4 would do it.

Move mouse to bottom left, right click, pick either My Computer or Control Panel.

The Desktop mouse moves the same in 8 as it did in 7. Clicking tiles is the same as icons. Maybe you guys need to change the sensitivity on your mouse a little because it's identical to how it movied in 7

I tried it for the same 'what the heck' feelings most here have. Somebody already said it, it's not snake oil but if you have something even somewhat modern with ram and don't have tons of startup bloat it's not really needed.

You click a shortcut to launch something or the tile that says 'Desktop' and you go about your merry way like it was Win7. Instead of a graphic down in the lower left it pops up when you put your mouse down there. How the eff is that complicated? It's business as usual.

Win8 too complicated? You can't call it "Fisher Price" and "complicated". After almost a month I'm comfortable with it like I was with XP/Vista/7 and the Start screen is just a thing that holds my favorite shortcuts and every other shortcut. Whoopteedoo. If you're still struggling to...

If I've said it once I've said it a hundred times, "Never take your modified bath salts up your hoop" :confused: :eek: *barf*

I JUST got Win7 here at work a week ago and along with that came Office 2010. EOL was the reason too. So basically whenever 7's EOL comes up then places like this (not a small place, probably shy of 1000 workstations) will slowly get whatever the newest is at that time which probably will be 9...

I'll take Paul Thurrott's guess's and hunches over the, "I don't like the UI so that's why he's gone!" theories every day of the week. Sinofsky is probably more of an ass than Balmer is, so that must be one giant ass.

I have nothing useful to contribute to a fix but I RDP into another Win8Pro box and a Win7 Ult box without incident. I do it in the living room wirelessly. I'm doing it from my home network, no VPN. Maybe the issue is within the VPN somewhere?

I used to pass by their office building every day until I moved recently. If this would of happened sooner I could of personally returned my $8 Too human I bought one day for shits and giggles at some EBGames store :D