[dba-Tech] Where is Control Panel in WIndows 8

My new 'free' laptop from the eMachines class action settlement is an Acer
Aspire V5-471.  4GB RAM, not super fast - 1.4GHz, but a CORE i3 processor (4
cores) so it's pretty snappy so far. 14" display, 4 pounds, 4 hours of
battery life. Looks like it will be my new travel machine.

Best of all, it has a pause/break key which many laptops do not have which
made it awkward to do access development.

Before I do any more configuring, Noah has proselytized me into allowing him
to create a dual boot so I can have Linux as well. He'll be loading his
favorite distro, whatever that is this week, So I'll have a chance to play
with that. 

But W8 is going to take a bit of learning as we've both found out.  After
the W8 upgrade, I found that I had no wireless drive.  But I found the right
package on the internets and got it installed, but that took an hour of
futzing around trying to figure out what was wrong, what the fix was, and
implementing the fix.

Rocky


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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 7:55 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Where is Control Panel in WIndows 8

Meanwhile I am totally loving this new laptop. My ancient desktop may be
able for resusitation, that remains to be seen, but even should it live on,
as soon as I rescue its most recent data, then the plan is to dedicate it to
Ubuntu and/or Mint. I'll keep the newish laptop on Windows8. I'm learning
how this OS works. I still have to figure out several things. But at least I
can get to the traditional desktop when necessary. And a big plus is how
quickly it boots and also responds from hibernation mode.

This day is Big Fun. Brand new laptop way more powerful than my desktop.
I'm in seventh heaven. 8GB makes everything almost instantaneous.

A.


On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Peter Brawley <peter.brawley at earthlink.net
> wrote:

> On 2013-07-31 6:17 AM, Arthur Fuller wrote:
>
>> I want to uninstall a few things, notably McAfee, but cannot find 
>> Control Panel as in Windows 7. Help!
>>
>
> Exactly. What were M$ engineers thiking?
>
> Hover mouse over top right corner, click on start, settings.
>
> PB
>
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