Lotta people have all kinds of fancy transitions and effects, I got a pretty clean setup with windows 8 I wanted to share.

I own both windows and mac and I think they both have their advantages, however the performance of my PC VS price of a mac is just too huge.

Few things I like:

the OSX lion wallpaper is gorgeous, very relaxing and looks great - I got the 1080p wallpaper. It's very rare that I find wallpaper I like.

I like having the taskbar on the top, it just feels better to me, also I lke the gray+lion wallpaper combination of macs. I also like having a calculator on the taskbar, and a notepad for reminders/notes, and a Mycomputer short cut on desktop helps a lot! And i love itunes for managing music. Not a huge fan of the docks.

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/Lercin/desktop_zps11f5e245.png

I keep a clean start menu with a weather app, and to access it I just hit the windows key.

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/Lercin/menu_zps3185f93a.png

If I want to open app, I just start typing the name, and it pops up.

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h276/Lercin/openningapps_zps507fe230.png

I also got a SSD which makes windows 8 great!


whats interesting THOUGH apple swears by their 999$ display, but my PC looks way better with HDMI + 1080p LED monitor...Though it is a powerful gaming rig but I don't it would make much difference just for desktop appearance.

Lotta people don't like windows 8, but I'm getting comfortable with it, also can't complain that I got it for 30$!

edit: i changed the color of windows borders from the gray to a black - right clicked desktop - personalize - color.

then clicked the one closest to black, and hit show additional options, and toned the brightness down to get a darker black but still have a transparent effect...looks nice i think!Some important changes to  Windows 8 are  coming very soon.
Just Google Windows 8 changes
OR
http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/25/5344066/windows-8-1-update-1-shutdown-start-screen-option-rumor
It is more than rumor. The start button has returned.
When are they coming ? ?
Quote from: patio on January 27, 2014, 01:00:00 PM

When are they coming ? ?

Microsoft Windows 8.1 Update 1 rumoured for March 11 Patch Tuesday rollout

ten min. ago they said:please stay turned... 
http://www.techienews.co.uk/975269/microsoft-windows-8-1-update-1-rumoured-march-11-patch-tuesday-rollout/

Geek misses details sometimes...but so do I.

windows 8.1
Чтобы загружаться сразу на рабочий стол в Windows 8.1, достаточно активировать эту опцию в настройках панели задач. Для этого на пустом месте панели задач необходимо кликнуть правой кнопкой мышки, вызвать свойства и переключиться на вкладку «Навигация». Во втором блоке ставим галочку напротив опции «При входе в систему и закрытии всех приложений открывать рабочий стол вместо начального экрана» и нажимаем ОК.

Im still rocking 8 (i got it when it came out for 30$) it says i can upgrade to 8.1 for free, is it worth going to 8.1 or  is 8 better?

ive gotten pretty comfortable with 8, it doesn't take long to shut down, but i can see how they may seem "hidden away"

After updating to 8.1 I can see almost no difference other than the start button reappearing which simply opens the start screen.  That said, it's a free upgrade so makes sense to do it as it will also tweak quite a bit of stuff behind the scenes.

i upgraded to 8.1

it deleted all my user accounts

all my pictures, music and some important work files are all gone.

After updating to 8.1 I can see almost no difference other than the start button reappearing which simply opens the start screen.

Lotta people have all kinds of fancy transitions and effects, I got a pretty clean setup with windows 8 I wanted to share.