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New to Windows 8 - getting suicidal!!!
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OK, day 1 has been an absolute disaster. I thought by downloading the Windows 7 "shell' as advised for those not fancying W8, I'd be OK, but no way!
1. Why do I have to log in with a password everytime I turn the PC on? Its a family PC, and in XP or Win7 we just used the PC no problem.
We dont want passwords or separate accounts!!!! Kids came home from school, now cant use the PC because my password is set on it & I dont fancy giving it out to them"
2. I downloaded Skype. I cant get a Skype icon on the desktop!
3. Why does virtually every action require me sign in with a Microsoft email account?
Thats just for starters!!
Fast losing hope!!
1. Why do I have to log in with a password everytime I turn the PC on? Its a family PC, and in XP or Win7 we just used the PC no problem.
We dont want passwords or separate accounts!!!! Kids came home from school, now cant use the PC because my password is set on it & I dont fancy giving it out to them"
2. I downloaded Skype. I cant get a Skype icon on the desktop!
3. Why does virtually every action require me sign in with a Microsoft email account?
Thats just for starters!!
Fast losing hope!!
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Got round the Skype issue!
I know how to do it on XP or Win7 but not for the life of me can I figure it out on Win8!
So basically, you have to create an email account for them 1st, rather than just a username & create a password - how the hell will kids (or those that have limited capabilities) be expected to do all this:(
Leave your kids alone with it for a couple of hours and they will probably have it sussed and set up, even if they need to use a bit of google help.
This is the sort of dumbness that makes me question the sanity of the current Microsoft Management. Why do you need to install the same piece of software twice in different ways on supposedly the same operating system
And this is a Microsoft application(Skype I am sad to say has steadily become more unstable and buggy since Microsoft took it over)
Thsnks Stig. How do I get the 'admin' account that I created to
work without a password? Thanks
From the Start screen, type netplwiz.
The command for netplwiz, aka the User Accounts Control Panel, appears in the search results in the left pane. Click that command.
In the User Accounts Control Panel, select the account you wish to use to log in automatically.
Click off the check-box above the account that says "Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer." Click OK.
Enter your password once and then a second time to confirm it. Click OK.
Restart Windows.
Windows now bypasses the lock screen and the log-in screen to automatically take you to the Start screen.
Change your mind? To re-enable the log-in screen, simply return to the User Accounts Control Panel using the steps above and click on the check-box for the "Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer" option.
Hope that helps..
Yep it is strange, bvut then MS don't want you to install the desktop version in windows 8.
By all accounts you don't need to install the desktop version, the Metro one will work even if you are in the desktop.
That is what I have read.
Thought I was the only one to notice.
The Cricketer, I hope yo get it sorted soon, windows 8 can get confusing sometimes, with it too different accounts, but easy enough once you worked it out. i got a Local account and no password.
Its a bit daunting but slowly getting there - basically, I really needed Win 7 on my new PC, but alas I am stuck with it for now!
As long as I keep away from the 'apps' I'm OK!
It really is time you changed the record. There's no need to keep posting the same thing, day after day.
Why? just use the apps that are useful. There is nothing that says you have to use them all.
You don't need to install it twice at all. Both are perfectly usable on their own.
MS want you to use metro-mode skype but for people who want to live in the desktop, the desktop Skype is still supported (unless you suggest they start banning Win32 applications for which there is a WinRT equivalent).
All applications can be pinned to the start screen but only desktop apps can be pinned in the desktop.
It's just that currently, we have a lot of people who don't understand Windows 8 (and remember it is a transitional OS) and so on the one hand they want to do everything on the desktop instead of metro but then they are trying to download and use metro apps there because they don't know the difference between the two.
One could easily start metro skype and have the call run in the background whilst using the desktop or snap Skype to one side whilst using the desktop and there would be no need to use desktop Skype at all. But people often don't know about features like Snap View.
I still can't get my head around why their are 2 separate programs that run in different modes on the same operating system that are still the same program and do the same job and also have totally different installation methods.
Windows 8 is effectively two operating systems tacked together though. You can pick and choose which one you use for each application, or use a combination of the two. Freedom of choice.
Personally I think they could have integrated the two a lot better, and they might yet, if Microsoft takes it's cue from third party apps like Stardock's ModernMix for example.
But it's perfectly usable as is. Doubt if anyone thinks it's a 'classic' OS like Windows 7, but it's OK as a transition.
The question is, what is it a transtion to?...
It certainly does appear to have caused endless trouble for many users who were quite capable of going about their business with Windows 7.
Therein lies the problem.
The worry is that MS will get rid of the desktop completely in the future and force everyone on to a Metro type UI.
I don't have W8 so admit I don't know but from the comments on here and elsewhere it seems that displaying multiple screens of different sizes on single and multiple monitors is a problem for Metro?
The bottom line is Metro is a tablet environment.
Welcome to the future.....:cool: