I want to install a specific Windows Update file (.msu) on a device which is running on Windows 7 embedded. The msu file is available and the automated installation is running the right commands, but I have a problem: On the device, the Windows update service is disabled. This is a requirement from the device image, this service should not be activated (not even for the time of the installation). If I try to install the msu file without this service, an error occurs 'The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or.' My question is: Does anyone know a possibility to install a msu file without having the Windows Update Service enabled?

Microsoft may be around the corner, but the company is still issuing Windows 8.1 updates on a fairly regular basis. If you’re already using Windows 8.1, and aren’t sure you’re running the latest system update, the easiest way to check and download it is to visit PC Settings (the new Control Panel, available from the right-hand menu bar) and click “Update and recovery.” There is also the option to download the latest Windows 8.1 Update as standalone files, if you want to archive them or perform an offline or enterprise installation. If you haven’t already installed the latest system updates, you should do so — Microsoft has said that users won’t get any security updates if they stick with older versions of Windows 8.1. To continue receiving security updates, you need to make sure you’re running the latest version of the OS. How do you do that, for free? Just follow these simple instructions. How to download and install the latest Windows 8.1 Update As we previously mentioned, the quickest way to get the latest update is to use the PC Settings control panel.

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If you do that, skip ahead to the section at the end of the story with tips on how to make the most of it. If you want to download the standalone files, though, read on. As always, we have to preface this with the usual disclaimer: Downloading Windows updates using unconventional methods is risky. At the very least, you should ensure that the SHA hash of the downloaded file matches by using the (a free tool). If you have any important documents on your computer, you should back them up, too (this should be an unnecessary precaution, though; updates are just a bunch of patches, rather than a complete reinstallation). Windows 8.1 Update Desktop.

Note how Metro apps can now be minimized to the Taskbar. Life after updating Windows 8.1 If you’re a mouse-and-keyboard person, you will find that the latest version of Windows 8.1 makes the Metro interface more palatable. Whether this will move you to actually use the new Start screen is a different question.

Unless there’s a Metro-style app that you really want to use, you will probably still find yourself on the Desktop, using. On the rare occasion that you find yourself thrust into the new Metro interface, at least the latest version of Windows 8.1 makes the whole experience feel a little less you’re being brutally plucked out of one operating system and unceremoniously dumped in another. So that’s good. On the Desktop side of things, the latest update doesn’t change much.

Recent tweaks have included, and that audio and video files now open in Photo Viewer and Media Player, respectively, rather than bouncing you into Metro. For Windows 8.1 tablet owners, you now get a Search button on the Start screen, and some of the stock Metro apps have been updated/improved. Really, though, if you’re a power user and have some free time to play around, check out how to install. Soon, things will get much, much better. The more and more people complain about “why didn’t Microsoft do this with metro” the less I understand, Unless I’m misunderstanding you.

You can boot to desktop. In Update 1, when you close a metro app, it goes to the desktop. How much more can Microsoft move Metro out the way for people. Isiplot 1 3 Keygen Crack on this page. At some point it sounds like just like complaining for the sake of complaining, but maybe I’m not quite understanding what you’re wanting.

Now I do like the aspect of hiding desktop icons. I think that Microsoft should have make it where desktop icons are hidden when you launch a desktop application from Metro, so people who mostly use Metro don’t feel like they’re leaving Metro to say only open office •. I still don’t see where that makes sense. That’s like saying give me a version of Windows without command prompt. Give me a version of Windows without system restore because no one really uses it.

Why remove a feature that people already don’t have to be effected by if they want to? And what I think is laughable is that they even have to create an update, and it has to be characterized that way. All 8.1 and update 1 did was simplify Windows 8 and give people more options on how to do something.

The one touch device I’ve ever used Windows 8.x on before is a Surface. I went to a Dell corporate office once and played around with a Venue, but for the most part I’ve been on desktops and laptops. I’ve never had a problem using after I figured out a couple features. As a matter of fact, I don’t know anyone who uses it on a desktop or laptop who hasn’t figured it out.

I like both updates not because I thought it made it easier for me to use my keyboard and mouse but because it just made it easier in general •. What I’m saying is that Microsoft’s original vision of how great this would be is absurd. You can’t compare Metro to things like System Restore or the Command Prompt. Those are already things that were a part of Window’s to begin with. You know, just like the Start Menu / Start Button. But instead of leaving something that was perfectly fine to begin with, Microsoft decides “Hey, let’s take out the stuff people love about Windows and force it to be more Tablet-Friendly even if Desktop users hate it!” — and that’s exactly what they did.

In fact, Microsoft did exactly what you claimed “doesn’t make sense.” They took a feature of their OS, completely removed it, and added something else instead, because they claimed “Nobody used it.” I don’t know of a single Windows user who “never used the start menu” unless it happened to be a confused elderly couple somewhere who never touched it and setup shortcuts on the Desktop their grandson created so they could check their email or play online BINGO. Granted, there are numerous workarounds and ways to restore Windows 8 to look similar to what you loved about previous versions of Windows But the point is, a new OS should be IMPROVED upon an old one Not completely redesigned. That’s like making a sequel to a movie that’s completely different from the original. You’re not forced. You can boot to desktop. And are you honestly telling me that you think that most Windows 7 users actually use the start menu heavily, just from experience with people you know, students you’ve come in contact with in college environments, and your clients; you honestly think most people you see use the start menu to launch games and applications? How many years in IT have we been trying to stop people from trying to put everything on the desktop and use libraries and the links to libraries on the start menu?

They made mistakes. It didn’t have the features it was supposed to have from day 1. They’re playing catch up. All that is a given, but how many other products out there came out perfect in version 1.0? So, for every product that had problems in version 1.0 or some software that was replaced by something else, are we going to say “I’m done with them because of something they did X years ago or because they should never done or even considered X, even if it was a few years ago? They’re making changes and improvements now, so why should any of us complain about that used to be? And who really is the customer base?

A lot of politicians constantly speak “the people speaking out” but a lot of time the “people” are just a handful of activist and people they were able to get riled up. That’s the Internet age we live in. A handful of bloggers and people on the Internet can make enough of a fuss to change every company’s plans for a product. But where does that stop? Microsoft is one of the few companies that can withstand overly negatives perception. But how does a smaller company or a new company get anyone to give their products a chance, when they can be basically trashed before they’re even out.

I hate the idea of Windows 8 when I first heard about it because I was doing was reading tech blogs and all the negative press about. It wasn’t until I actually used the final preview and took about an hour to play around with it that I realized it was probably never as bad as I thought or I had made it out to be to people without using it.

How many companies out there have market dominance in their respective field? A functional monopoly?

More over, how many out there have the ability to force other companies to discontinue fully functional products being used by those masses and attempt to coerce them into the purchase of a different product (windows 7 to windows 8)? You want to down play the numbers of people refusing to buy into windows 8 and who are vociferously against it? You want to burry your head in the sand and pretend a whole lot of people didn’t find their voice through the anonymity of the internet? That’s entirely your choice to live in that off color world.

What you can not ignore, though, is the fact that windows 8 sales are abysmally low. Why is that do you think? I can guarantee its not due to lack of access. You can barely find a system that doesn’t come pre-installed with windows 8 believe me I’ve tried. More over, they’re giving it away free. They’re giving it away because they cant get people to purchase it.

They recognize that if they don’t give it away, they risk their status as the top OS. Its that simple. I’m glad it works for you.

And for anyone else who enjoys windows 8. Its not for me, and scores of others. I think there’s more of us than there are of you. I totally agree with you man. Windows 8 has its flaws, like any new iterations of Windows. XP was never a perfect OS in the beginning but turned out to be great. Microsoft is now trying to win back the closed minded fools that wanna stick with the old interface by trying to make metro and desktop marry up nicely.

I really dont know what all the fuss and whinging is all about, and tbh, sometimes they just seem mostly petty. People, if you want something more stable and controlled, buy a bloody Mac (and even THAT has issues). No, not what I meant at all. What I meant was that it seems more logical that they would have made it so that Metro used the same background as the desktop in the first place. The special backgrounds that Metro uses could have just been an active wallpaper for the desktop and the tiles could have just slid out from the left as the desktop icons and currently open programs faded out. I actually like Metro a lot and feel that it is extremely usable with a keyboard and mouse already (do these people not have middle scroll buttons?), I just think they could have implemented it a lot better.

You are the idiot complaining about something you don’t even have to see. You don’t have ever see metro if you don’t want to. That’s like someone in Windows 7 or XP who always changed their theme to “Classic” saying they should get rid of all the other themes.

And if companies always gave people what they wanted do you know how many products we would NOT have today. Just imagine what products we wouldn’t have if companies said “well, everyone seems to like it exactly how it is.” Some of the people running XP don’t see a reason Microsoft created Windows 7, should they have stopped at XP. That’s like someone telling car companies they should remove all but the basic features from cars just because they don’t use them, and the people who want them should pay for them as add-ons. Windows 8 is nothing but Windows 7 with the start menu remove and Metro add, which you can complete ignore if you want.

Some of you are making it out to be a much more drastic change than it really is. It’s a lot more layers of metro than just the start screen. Even settings are hard to get to. Wef is not talking about stopping innovation. But if u wanna come up with something new, you’d want to make something people want. 10 years ago, nobody thought about touch screens, now everybody wants a tablet w/touch. But it has to work well.

And then there are always failures like twisting display laptops back in the day. The demand was so low that it utterly failed. Cuz ppl didn’t want it.

And companies that made them (toshiba, fujitsu, sony etc.) lost a lot of money for it. You’re thinking just like how Ford used to think. “i’m gonna innovate, but i’m gonna do it my way. Forget what users have to say”.

And then toyota prevailed. So actually, creating is nice, but it’s gonna fit the needs/desires of the ppl that will pay good money for it. Have you used Windows 8.1 with a touch screen? It’s a disaster either way — I have a touch screen and bluetooth keyboard as backup. I go to IE press on the address bar — the OSK doesn’t show up — I have to go into the damn settings menu to bring it up — this is about as intuitive as no start menu for non-touch screen users.

On Android — it’d dead simple — switch preferred keyboard ONE TIME to touch screen keyboard. On windows 8.1 — EVERY TIME. I open Microsoft Globe — a TOUCH SCREEN PROGRAM!!! Select the address to type in, NO OSK, — I have swipe from the right, select the keyboard, move it somewhere on the screen, where it won’t cover half the App. I can keep going how MS bungled touch interaction. SO Please don’t tell people to buy a touch screen monitor to use with this disaster of a product!

It’s not that the users are not willing to adapt, but the new Metro UI is just unintuitive and unproductive. I own couple of Android devices and could try different Apple products as well and both have very good UI concepts to which users are happily adapt. However, there is a reason that Microsoft Tablets aka Surface and Windows Phones terrible fail in sales. They have great performance and small memory footprint but the UI is horrible! The majority of users just doesn’t like it and then Microsoft in their endless wisdom decided to >force.

I have been in IT for over 20 years and Windows 8.1 Works just fine for me but the “how long i have been in IT” is not an argument. Will you say i’m stupid because i have got a good improvements in my workflow efficients with Windows 8.1 or should i call you stupid because you couldnt manage what i did? I dont think any of my statements are correct, you are not stupid just because you dont like the new UI, but i’m not stupid either for manage to adapt my workflow to Windows 8.1 I’m working both as an IT specialist and as a photographer and in both areas Windows 8.1 suite my workflow very good, there are still som e areas that could been better, but my workflow efficients and speed has been improved vs. So I really want to know what I’m doing wrong, since it should bee impossible to get improvements in efficients in Windows 8.1 •. It boils down to the end users requirements, and that is all. That is the one thing software engineers do not consider.

Instead, they focus on deprecating things. If they looked at things through the eyes of the end user, they would have a different perspective. I do video conversions, administrative stuff, listen to music, read the net, and do a slew of other things on a 7 machine. Having used 8 since early beta testing, I did not care for it. When it went gold, it repeatedly crashed on my computer. I eventually got it running thanks to an Nvidia driver update, but I should not have to finagle it in order to get it installed.

I then used 8.1 and the 8.1 update 1. I am not convinced that doing away with the BIOS and using a modified sleep mode is an improvement.

I do not care for the software store. I do not care for the flat ui or the live tiles, and it is not worth it for me to update to a questionablly “faster” os just to do what I am already doing. In my profession, the end users complain if something breaks. Now put something in front of them that would be a foreign animal, and you get my point. It has nothing to do with intelligence or stupidity.

If the end users cannot do what they need to, that is downtime. Downtime costs money. You do not torch that which you know to go after a sub-segment of the population. If it works for you great. I am not convinced.

Stupidity for not listening to early testers who told them it was bad to try to use a touch interface everywhere. Just like it was stupid to try and use a mouse/keyboard interface on smartphones (Windows Mobile/Windows CE/Pocket PC). They went from one extreme to the other extreme. They can’t seem to grasp that people don’t need EVERYTHING to have the same interface as much as for each device to have the BEST interface for it’s form factor. It was a good idea to allow Windows to run these touch based apps, but instead of one-interface-to-rule-them-all (which they failed at, twice!), they should have created a couple interfaces that could be changed depending on whether you were in mouse/keyboard mode or touch mode. Really the primary failures on Microsoft’s part were: not allowing the touch apps to run in separate “windows” with standard window frame controls, and then not having (and maybe forcing) all new Windows Store apps to contain dual interfaces for mouse/keyboard and touch modes.

In order for Metro apps to really succeed and thrive we need to have apps like Photoshop (proper), downloadable from the Windows Store, and able to switch between a mouse/keyboard interface and a simplified — and maybe stripped down — touch interface. Windows and all apps should automatically change when you plugin a keyboard dock or when manually enabling the touch or mouse “switch”.

All 8.1 and Update 1 bring are minor tweaks. There was never stupidity on Microsoft’s because the actual idea of Metro is a sound idea. The problem was their implantation and not understanding their user base.

Obviously, Microsoft doesn’t have anyone working there who has recently supported customers directly. If they had, they would know that the average PC user is incapable of adjusting to even the smallest change. There are people who went into an absolute panic when they were forced to remove the IE icon from the desktop. You could show the average person 12 different ways to do something, and if for whatever reason they can’t do it the one way they’re used to, they don’t want to do it or can’t get it. So, for these type of people Metro as it was originally was just a change that could not be overcome.

These people give up on something they can figure out in the first 5 to 15 minutes. They’re not even going to spend the time to try and figure out. That’s why you need the power button. That’s why you need the search box.

That’s why you need the X to close an app. The average user is scared of having to stumble on solutions. We all work in IT. We see how people panic about simple things we’ve tried to explain to them multiple times. They think they removed a program and their data if they accidentally delete a short cut. Microsoft failed to account for the lowest common denominator.

8.1 and Update 1 fix that. Plus, there is nothing wrong with any company borrowing ideas from one of their old products. They saw so many people using tablets, so they thought the transition would be easier. But again if they had dealt with people directly recently, they would know that most of the people buying these tablets are just using them the play with or really don’t know all the ins and outs of the product they have.

Question: After doing the update on a tablet, the “two-finger” swipe gesture to have the Desktop toolbar reappear doesn’t work. Anyone else seen this or know what the alternate is? Separately, my WIndows Store things that a bunch of apps need updating, but they all show as pending. I _suspect_ this has to do with having used multiple accounts on the machine, but thought I’d pass it along just in case. Even if it is multiple accounts, these are all free apps, and should update no matter what — and if they are not going to, a real error message should be provided. So far I am not particularly impressed. Windows 8.1 is stable and easy, and just because you want start menu and same look as 7, does not make this a problem.

People say its the UI. Well, I say its the people that can’t handle change, even if the change is slight one at that. Must be new users to the PC, and just complaining to just complain.

There is just so many people now a days, that love to complain, instead of just doing. Do you need to handed a platter of food, and hand fed when you eat? You sure act like the computers have to do everything for you, and not lift a finger by clicking a mouse or using the keyboard to type or expect voice commands to it and it just responds. Come on lazy people learn. That is what your brains are for. The word “LAZY” covers for all the complaints about Windows 8/8.1. I have tried both Mac and Linux, and my first impression of the use of them, were bugs, and not user friendly as people say they are.

Nothing the same as Windows. I have spend hours on both Mac and Linux, just to get drivers for the computer to actually work right. Only reason Apple charges so much for their computers is they have to be tested before selling to consumers, because the difficulty of getting the software and drivers working right. Linux is open source and free, and that tells you beta still, and should be left alone in the first place.

Chromebooks, Google OS, is just cheap, and can’t do nearly what the other OSes can do. These articles that complain about something new, and they don’t like, just starts a list of complaining comments of people that don’t like to move a muscle, when they want to use their own brains or hands.

I don’t even work for Microsoft, and I laugh at all the complaints. How about this complaint: They should have made a FULLY FEATURED metro replacement of the Control Panel and the File Explorer. These are the two functions of the OS tat require the most jumping back and forth between modern UI and the desktop. The built in Mail and Calendar apps where crippled to a laughable degree and are only now somewaht fully featured. In my view, they still haven’t finished Windows 8.

This glacial pace is inexcusable for a company with thousands of developers and Billions of profit. I have to be honest, I actually like Windows 8 now. But I use StartIsBack, which basically makes it into Windows 7 with the upgrades. If you use an SSD and have a laptop, the quick resume is nice. I open my laptop and it’s on within a couple of seconds. The up arrow in explorer is useful too, as is the new task manager. Apart from that, it’s pretty much the same as 7.

Really these upgrades are so minor that it’s not worth bothering with, but I had to upgrade as I bought a new laptop. They all come with Windows pre installed, which is annoying to say the least. If you already have Windows 7 installed there is no reason to switch to 8.x. Windows 7 even does touch and can run virtual machines. Moreover, you lose all the nice aero games in Windows 8.x I do want to say. Windows 8.1 at the out-of-the-box settings is a monster, true. But Windows 8.x is tweakable, and you can pretty much tweak the metro out.

Right to oblivion. Create a Local Account, install Start8 (or similar) and go from there. Once tweaked, it’s a nice system. If Windows 9 is done right, Windows 8.x is dead the moment Windows 9 RTMs. 8.x is a Windows Me or Vista, the only reason it still runs and updates is because it doesn’t know it’s dead yet. But if for those currently using it, just tweak it.

It’s nice once you’ve uninstalled (or unpinned if there’s no uninstall) all the metro apps. Make sure not to uninstall similarly named desktop apps (e.g. There’s a metro Calculator and a desktop Calculator. Only uninstall the metro Calculator and so on). And install Start8 or similar.

Bam, it’s suddenly workable. As a NT 5.2 user, I still waiting Windows NT 7.0. Why am I still use Windows 2003 (NT 5.2)? It’s very simple: Win2003 more lightweight and speed than Longhorn builds (NT 6.x). Besides, it’s contain real-classic GUI. My computer not old).

NT 6.x cores using too much CPU & RAM & Disk (WinSxS!) against contain many and very useful features. Simple a test: Windows PE editions contain only the main core of Windows NT. Please compare WinPE 1.x and 2.x or next versions. Definitely WinPE 1.x (in other words NT 5.x) is more speed and slight than next version (NT 6.x).

That is why many people are still using XP. NT5.x editions’ setup bulk size: 500-600 MB (after setup takes up in disk 1-3 GB) NT6.x editions’ setup bulk size: 2-3 GB (after setup takes up in disk 10-15 GB) (What about Android and iOS?) What is the core build of Windows 9? Most probably it will be built over NT 6.x (Longhorn), like it’s predecessor. When is abandoned time of NT6? Windows9: NT 6.4, Windows10: NT 6.5, Windows11: NT 6.6, Windows20: NT 6.992 And again I’m still will be using Windows 2003.:) Actually I can understand to Microsoft; brand new the main core is very hard and risk (Vista example!).

But Mobile OSs incredibly fast spreading. In this case, how much longer survive Windows while built over heavy the cores (NT6.x)? First thing to do minimalize-lightweight to NT core. Shouldn’t still re-developing to NT 6.x.

Windows OSs shouldn’t become more clumsy, more over bulky, more RAM-CPU-Disk usage. Therefore, “MinWin” implementing very important. If it’s completely implemented to NT 7.0, everyone would be satisfied. Is it impossible? The example: “ReActOS”.

If Microsoft inability to creating a new Windows NT core, at least NT 5.x core can be re-updated, re-modernized. Can be releasing like a “Retro Edition”. In fact, XP users can be approved to a releasing modernized of NT 5.x.

Thus, many XP users exultingly upgrade it. I’m really sorry my bad English. I hope, main idea clearly unterstood. I can confirm that I did download the update. It’s 6 files.

At some point Microsoft or someone else took down the main file, but the zip file still downloaded. I installed it on 2 systems with no problem. The only annoyance is it automatically activated boot to desktop and go to desktop when closing metro apps. The power and search buttons are a welcome addition along with the familiar X to close an app. Personally, I think people have allowed others to convenience them that Windows 8.x is a lot harder and more different than it really is, but Microsoft is finally doing what I said they should have done form the beginning. They’re bringing back obviousness.

Moving from XP to 7, the way I got to things was different such as restarting and going to control panel, but the new way was obvious. People are able to trick others into thinking Windows 8.x is so hard because basic functions are not obvious. When I first used it, I didn’t know how to shut down or log off. Power options are obvious now, though I still don’t think the average using coming from XP will think to click their username to log off or switch, but at least with the power button there, it makes it more likely that they’ll try it. You can just type and search on Windows 8.x, but a lot of people might not think to do that.

The button makes it obvious, plus it makes it more likely that someone will start typing without thinking about it, and just stumble on how to search the original way. I didn’t know how to close or minimize an app at first. The old X makes it obvious. Microsoft could have made it a lot easier for people not to be duped by saying ” how can we make clicks from Windows 7 as obvious and as few clicks in Windows 8 as possible.

They added the all apps button in 8.1. That should have been there from the beginning.

What they probably need to do in Windows 9 or if there is another update to Windows 8.x is make buttons or tiles of a couple more features. The problem before 8.1 and Update 1 is stuff that was there was soon as you went to the start menu was hidden behind charms and settings.

I still think all apps should have been a tile from the beginning. I think PC settings/Control Panel should have been a tile. Windows Phone has a settings button. 80% of what you see when you first click the start button in Windows 7, should have been a tile/button in Windows 8.x. The only other thing I can think of for Windows 9 is look at the POF and LinkedIn apps on iPad.

They stack Windows within apps somewhat similar to versions of Windows before XP that didn’t have navigation bars and buttons. I think you could do something like this in 7 with aero affects •. So glad I got a Dreamspark account. I will be getting the next Operating System free again. Nice to be a student, and a graduate to have access to free stuff. Another thing is funny though, there are other sites saying this is not really the final of the update, and when it is officially released via updates in April, it won’t give you that final one, and you will have to reinstall Windows 8/8.1 again to get it.

I uninstalled the KB2919355, which is the main one for the update. KB2919442 is no option to uninstall, and the other 3 are not viewable in installed updates. So either those are the final and KB2919355 and KB2939087 aren’t final. I wouldn’t be surprised if Microsoft played us all, and it isn’t even like what has been posted all over the internet. One of these days Microsoft will do that due to all the complaints. I downloaded it when it popped up a few weeks ago, and it works great. I was kind of annoyed that it went to the desktop rather than whatever I was in previously when I closed an app, but that is easily changed.

It’s just a shame some of the things from 8.1 and Update 1 weren’t there from the beginning: X to close, power button(still think log off should have been including with it from day 1 as well), all apps button, pinning PC settings to start, or basically a tile/button for anything you would see when you first start up Windows 7 or go to start menu. I still think they need to come up with a way to make libraries more efficient in Win8.x.

Maybe they could allow you to add libraries to the task bar with a jump list, or maybe they could extend the context menus feature. For instance You pin a tile that represents your user folder to the start menu, and when you right click, a menu pops up with the various libraries. Or maybe even have tile folders or group that appear like a tiles within a tile. That’s the only thing I actually miss from Windows 8, my libraries and recently opened displaying as a menu. Who cares, I think the whole Windows 8.1 is an abomination, 8 is tolerable, when I upgraded I had at least 6 programs crash, my Netgear AC adapter simply would not function. IE11 crashes constantly, it is a total mess in my opinion.

The whole system ended up crashing, it took me the next 3 days to get it re-installed back to version 8, that was after contacting support. I have come to hate Windows 8, if you don’t have a touch screen, don’t bother. Even if you have a touch screen, there are no real worth while apps.

They have removed so many functions from it. Version 8 is just okay, 8.1 is worse, 8.1.1 is simply silly. Ohh God this is bad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! First Microsoft comes out with windows 8, it was alright.

Then they releases 8.1, it had a lot of improvements and it was overall a cleaner experience. Now with the 8.1 Service Pack 1 everything is a ****ing mess, if you hover the mouse over the top of the screen a bar will appear with “X” and “_” in the top right corner for closing and minimizing metro apps!!! If that wasn’t enough, if you hover the mouse over the bottom of the screen the ****ing taskbar comes out on top of the metro app, taking important space of the screen; It covers the whole Chrome-metro-app-taskbar.

If your taskbar was disorganized before, it will raise rat armies now, because all the metro apps open in your computer will show there. I will probably uninstall the updates in a few days, but meanwhile Microsoft please stop confusing me. Fast Break Pro Basketball Serial Killers. I was barely getting used to Windows 8.1.

Hmm disappointed all this update did in terms of changing the taskbar is to put the metro apps on the taskbar, which you could just as easily access from the left of the screen anyway Instead of showing the metro apps in the taskbar (redundantly) and cluttering it up, they would have been better off showing individual programs running in the desktop as separate thumbnails on the running apps dock on the left. That way you could swipe left and select the program instead of having to switch to the desktop and then to the program. Also, why doesn’t the taskbar show when you are within a metro app or the start screen? It’s so counter-intuitive to have the taskbar stay with you after you click the metro app, but then no way to get back to it all you get is the start menu.

If you want to switch to another app, you’re back to swiping from left. Ugh I really wish Microsoft would stop listening to the whingers They’re slowly taking what was a smooth, interesting UI (even if it was a little mysterious at the start) and making it into this Goulash). UPDATE.1:P nope not synergy just fished out my little usb mouse and attached it to the machine directly. No bottom taskbar on metro apps. Still, either way, bit pointless.

I really wish they would treat desktop applications as a separate app and show them in the thumbnails (like alt-tab or F7 does). I only ask because the F7 can’t be mapped on synergy’s shared keyboard. While we’re at it, why not just have the bottom left toggle between start / desktop? Why must you have to actually start the desktop to be able to switch to it?

That’s just daft. This way, one click bottom left takes you to the start/desktop. One click to the top-left cycles through apps, or slide down to change to the specific app you want. I liked the OS just the way it was, perhaps with a little minor tweaking (like the stuff I’m on about). Perhaps they should concentrate on the small issues to round out the original Win8 and not get sidetracked by the whining majority (that claim they would switch to OSX; given they haven’t in the last 20 years, what chance now?) @alexanderreddicks:disqus – nope, tried it even with just the USB mouse, still no taskbar, so not a synergy problem. Maybe my update is not complete (I’m missing one of those KB#s that’s broken). Anyway, not worth wasting time on at least the update hasn’t broken anything.:) •.

Heres what I don’t like( not sure if this will be the official way ). When I’m done being in the a Live Tile regardless if I swap down with the cursor or hit the the newly place above virtual bezel with an X.It auto kicks me to the desktop!! I find this very aggravating when I work and play in the live tile environment and I am constantly now because of this backwards catering to the Xp/Vista/Win 7 retard crowd – having to press the Win Key or Start button to get me back!! This is not acceptable to me!!! “On the Desktop side of things, Update 1 doesn’t do a whole lot. I’m sure there will be some small, useful tweaks, but the main changes appear” No, the update does a lot more than that.

No mention of the ability to use the taskbar for app switching in Metro apps now? No mention that Metro apps can be pinned to the taskbar? No mention that Metro apps can now be closed with the ‘x’ in the same as desktop apps? No mention of the easier to access power options?

You’ve updated this article how many times and yet you haphazardly mentioned there might be “some small, useful tweaks,” while making no effort to actually research what they are. That’s either just lazy/bad journalism or blatant MS hating (further proved by your snarky comment that only 23 people use Win 8.1 on tablets). I’ll go with a combination of both. I don’t think people complain about something unless there is a good reason. Microsoft got alot of criticism with Windows 8 and 8.1 did not change much as far as I can tell.

But using a third party start menu program is such a great option. I installed one that ended up being more powerful than any start menu microsoft ever had. It incorporates metro just as one of the previous posts requested.

It can be docked to the start menu or not, as well as many other powerful features. If a new version of Windows is lacking, a 3rd party app will eventually find it’s way to us. And usually the better 3rd party developers give us better options with programs that are well thought out and tend to address many specific complaints that are sonsistent among users who post complaints in popular forums. Bottom line is, if Microsoft does not hear us, someone else usually does. I complained and criticized Microsoft for this new version of Windows but recently, I installed it. I am running multi-boot with Windows 7 Ultimate still primed and ready at a moments notice. But, to my surprise, and even though I did have to sort a few minor issues, I ended up liking Windows 8.1.

Speed cannot be argued. It’s just fast. If anyone has issues with important software that does not integrate well in Windows 8.1, it’s totally understandable if you don’t make the change. But those who are able to function well in a Windows 8.1 environment are certainly doing better by using it.

(of course, this is, respectfully, IMHO) •. “Really, though, if you’re a power user and have some free time to play around, check out how to install Windows 10 Technical Preview in a virtual machine.

Soon, things will get much, much better.” Promises Promises I think I will wait a few days on this 8.1 update. If peoples machines dont start blowing up people in the middle of the day, and then laughing at those same people, I might install it. But I have been bitten by too many microsoft updates over the years. Now I wait awhile and let others be the guinea pigs.