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Anyone recently buy a notebook? that you like?
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28/03/2013 07:08:26
Walter Meester
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>I've spend 5 minutes to find how to start a RDP session in windows8. I could not find it. The windows startbutton emulator that came with the machine finaly gave me the possibility to type "MSTSC" in a run dialog box. If I can't figure it out quickly, what do I tell my clients I have to support?

Uh - type Remote Desktop on the start screen and there you are?

While that may not be obvious until you play with Win8 for a few minutes the Start Screen is just like the StartButton with a lot of icons. Type the name of any installed app or utility and it'll show as a filtered list on your start screen.

>IMO, this is the very same mistake as they made with UAC in Vista (being to intrusive). People expect a start button, so give the at least the possibility to use it as an option.

There are lots of things to like in Win8 and quite a few things that suck. But - I have UAC off on my Win8 box and I can't even run Metro apps (they won't work with UAC off), so nothing Metro shows up by default. Everything goes straight to the desktop which is a good thing...

I don't use Metro and beyond that Win8 is just a faster and generally more efficient version of Windows 7 without Aero :-) (which I do miss as Win8 looks a lot less nice than Win7 did).

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