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First steps with Windows 8...
Dec. 15th, 2012 06:03 pmThe new Asus is a pretty machine. The screen is significantly larger than the Acer I've been using for the past couple of years, and its other characteristics are suitably up-to-date.
Windows 8 started with no problem, and I found it relatively easy to uninstall the bloatware that normally comes with new computers. One thing that was not self-evident was a method to exit applications, but I am getting ahead of myself. I'll just say it was a technique that was in no way intuitive to the experienced Windows user, although it has been adequately documented on the Web.
As far as I can see, the Windows 8 Start screen consists of a number of tiles that mostyl link directly to apps, in the Apple sense of "apps." Indeed, one of the choices offered on the Start screen is to visit a Store, in much the same way one might visit the iTunes store or an Android store. Not all the tiles represent apps, however. One of the tiles opens up a Desktop, which returns the experienced Windows user to an environment a little more familiar from before. Further to the right are a couple of tiles that will open up a Windows terminal, enabling the use of a command line (what the difference between the tiles may be, I currently do not know; subjectively, I can say one of the icons looks a bit more "high power").
* * * The overlap of various municipal organizations around here is something that continues to mystify me. Our postal address is in Seabrook, but Pasadena provides us with fire protection, while Clear Lake supplies our water. Be that as it may, however, late this afternoon, a Pasadena fire truck came though the neighborhood, carrying Santa Claus, who apparently tossed wrapped candy to the kids—where the heck did they come from?—as he made his way down the street. I don't think I've ever seen that before.
* * * Something happened to my left shoulder and arm, leaving me with the feeling that I've pulled something. It's made translation particularly difficult, for not only do I have to wrap my mind around the author's rather abstruse (at times) wording, but I have to try to ignore the ache. It's not easy.
* * * I think I will try to get another couple of hundred words done, and then go downstairs and join Galina.
Cheers...
Windows 8 started with no problem, and I found it relatively easy to uninstall the bloatware that normally comes with new computers. One thing that was not self-evident was a method to exit applications, but I am getting ahead of myself. I'll just say it was a technique that was in no way intuitive to the experienced Windows user, although it has been adequately documented on the Web.
As far as I can see, the Windows 8 Start screen consists of a number of tiles that mostyl link directly to apps, in the Apple sense of "apps." Indeed, one of the choices offered on the Start screen is to visit a Store, in much the same way one might visit the iTunes store or an Android store. Not all the tiles represent apps, however. One of the tiles opens up a Desktop, which returns the experienced Windows user to an environment a little more familiar from before. Further to the right are a couple of tiles that will open up a Windows terminal, enabling the use of a command line (what the difference between the tiles may be, I currently do not know; subjectively, I can say one of the icons looks a bit more "high power").
Cheers...
