Re: Win8 Tiles, Shortcuts and multi-program applications.

2012-08-23 Thread Scott Barnes
I've been in a bad mood all day. I blame Win8 .. i find myself swearing at the screen more... with unfinished questions like ...how do i...what the fu...oh..there...well thats stupid..oh crap what did i just do... I'm not going to write a poem about Win8 and i'm not going to declare a Jihad on

Re: Win8 Tiles, Shortcuts and multi-program applications.

2012-08-23 Thread Stephen Price
My only wish so far is that you can disable the mouseover stuff in the bottom left corner (ie the bit that makes your start screen preview). Mainly because when I'm playing League of Legends and I mouse too close to the bottom left the thing mimises the game and shows me the desktop (so it can

RE: Win8 Tiles, Shortcuts and multi-program applications.

2012-08-23 Thread Stephen Price
wrote: Are you running League of Legends full screen? Are you on RTM? -- *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com on behalf of Stephen Price *Sent:* Thursday, August 23, 2012 2:23 AM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: Win8 Tiles, Shortcuts and multi-program applications

RE: Win8 Tiles, Shortcuts and multi-program applications.

2012-08-23 Thread David Kean
8:22 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: Win8 Tiles, Shortcuts and multi-program applications. Yes to both. Actually, you know what? I don't think I've seen the issue since installing RTM. Its only been on there less than a week. Will have to try to make it do it. Would be happy if its something fixed

Re: Win8 Tiles, Shortcuts and multi-program applications.

2012-08-22 Thread Glen Harvy
Hi, Thanks Ian. Things are certainly hotting up in the new/updated MS program world. So far two people have explained how Win8 Application navigation works and now this so it is becoming clear that I wasn't clear in the first place. Probably

Re: Win8 Tiles, Shortcuts and multi-program applications.

2012-08-21 Thread Glen Harvy
Hi Damon, Thanks for your response but I think you missed the point of my post. On a blank first time install of Win8 Pro there are 50 Microsoft Apps tiles displayed on the All Apps window. I have only installed Total Commander which has added

Re: Win8 Tiles, Shortcuts and multi-program applications.

2012-08-21 Thread Stephen Price
What's your actual issue? Too many tiles? Can't find the one you want? My old windows experience was that you'd end up with dozens of icons on your desktop. You couldn't find them and they were never where you left them. This is much better in that if you start typing the list of apps will filter.

RE: Win8 Tiles, Shortcuts and multi-program applications.

2012-08-21 Thread Ian Thomas
Of Stephen Price Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 5:13 PM To: g...@aquarius.com.au; ozDotNet Subject: Re: Win8 Tiles, Shortcuts and multi-program applications. What's your actual issue? Too many tiles? Can't find the one you want? My old windows experience was that you'd end up with dozens of icons

Win8 Tiles, Shortcuts and multi-program applications.

2012-08-20 Thread Glen Harvy
Hi Shielas and Fellas, Installing an application in Win8 results in my desktop applications 3 "sub - programs" being included as tiles/links on the Win8 Start Screen whilst the main programs tile/link doesn't get included on the Start Screen at all.

Re: Win8 Tiles, Shortcuts and multi-program applications.

2012-08-20 Thread Damon Pollard
Start Right Click All Apps Click the button [-] in the bottom right corner. This will bring up a 'Directory' listing of all the installed Apps Click the category (your program) you want and it will jump to the set of programs you want. As for the creating icons etc. I have no idea ;) Damon