[AccessD] Windows 8

I use more key combos now than ever when working on a non-touch device. With
a tablet or phone you pull an open app  to the bottom and it closes them.

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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rusty Hammond
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2014 1:13 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Windows 8

John,

No problem shutting down those apps when you're done with them.  Just press
Alt+F4 - they haven't changed that keystroke combination yet.  Don't ask why
I remembered that one.
Hadn't used it since I don't know when, but then I got Windows 8 installed
...  oh wait, are those keys available on a surface tablet or Windows phone?

Rusty
 

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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John W Colby
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2014 12:22 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Windows 8

Cool!!!

Now get rid of the panes and give me back sizable Windows and I am there.
And of course a REAL start button with the start menu interface.
AND make sure that nothing I do ever yanks me back to the "modern"
interface without my actually hitting a NEW hotkey (not something mapped
over a hotkey used in the past for something else) or click a specific
button.

Oh yea, an easy and understandable way to shut apps down when I am done with
them.  Like maybe a bar at the top with a little X, which closes the window
when clicked.  "Keep everything open that you ever used since you rebooted
last" is just a nonsensical thing to do on a desktop.

Hmmmm sounds like Windows 7?  OK, so give me Windows 7 in "Desktop mode".

And... I need to ensure that those "live tiles" are not constantly pulling
data over my cell phone, since I use my cell phone as my WiFi.
Constant crap being pulled into "Live Tiles" sounds like a constantly
escalating phone data bill to me.  Verizon will love it, I will not.  So
Live tiles ONLY LIVE when I am actually looking at them.  And maybe not even
then.


    cur*mud*geon

/noun/\(?)k?r-?m?-j?n\

: a person (especially an old man) who is easily annoyed or angered and who
often complains


Hmmmm... OK.

And here I thought I was just a Windows 7 Fanboi.

John W. Colby
Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 3/4/2014 12:47 PM, John Bartow wrote:
> Here's a very brief explanation of how to use Windows 8 for the stuck 
> in the mud curmudgeons among us:
>   http://watchmojo.com/video/id/11365/
>
>



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