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Sprawl-zero1eye-  4 stars
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Registered: 2002-6-28 03:39:29
 Date Posted: 9/12/11 1:27pm Subject: MS //BUILD conference (previously known as PDC)
Ravynmagi posted:
I had to kill that Metro Start screen on my laptop. Just way to awkward to use with a touchpad.

And good news, don't need to use regedit to kill the Start menu anymore if you don't like doing that. There is an tool to modify the Metro UI.
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/metro-ui-tweaker-windows-8-released


Can you kill Metro as the start screen but still access it if you want? Or is it one or the other?

 

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 Date Posted: 9/12/11 1:27pm Subject: MS //BUILD conference (previously known as PDC)
I know I might be wrong and in any case it's too early to tell, but everything I have seen/read about Win8 with its new Metro UI screams at me "Vista 2!".

How are all these "add hardware", "mouse properties", ..."Folder Options"... various windows you open from Control Panel - are they all resizeable yet? Not being able to resize them, seeing 3-4 truncated lines of information make some of them very cramped an awkward to use. Old Win 95 stuff design remnants need to finally go.

 

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Sprawl-zero1eye-  4 stars
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Registered: 2002-6-28 03:39:29
 Date Posted: 9/12/11 1:27pm Subject: MS //BUILD conference (previously known as PDC)
The control panel itself is the same as Windows 7, so far.

There is a new Metro UI control panel that doesn't really have many options yet, and a few are clearly mobile based.

 

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Sprawl-zero1eye-  4 stars
Title: IGN Vault Staff
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Registered: 2002-6-28 03:39:29
 Date Posted: 9/12/11 1:27pm Subject: MS //BUILD conference (previously known as PDC)
Sprawl-zero1eye- posted:
Ravynmagi posted:
I had to kill that Metro Start screen on my laptop. Just way to awkward to use with a touchpad.

And good news, don't need to use regedit to kill the Start menu anymore if you don't like doing that. There is an tool to modify the Metro UI.
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/metro-ui-tweaker-windows-8-released


Can you kill Metro as the start screen but still access it if you want? Or is it one or the other?



To answer my own question, the Metro UI is an all or nothing deal it appears.

 

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