About episode 93 and your Win8 1 tips They left a bit to be desired

[G+_Robbie Harris]

About episode 93 and your Win8.1 tips.. They left a bit to be desired.

 

The tip about the printscreen was great, I have known it for a while and assumed, my mistake, it was well known enough to be common knowledge.

 

The tip about changing the default app for photos is indicative of those insisting on making things in win 8 difficult. You are making things more complicated than they are, or have to be. Right clicking on a file and telling the OS how you want it to handle them is the same as it has been since before winXP, the exact same, but you treat it like it is something new. Going to control panel to access default programs dialog is going about the process the long way.

 

If you want the control panel you can just start typing 'control panel' on the start screen or in search and you will have a link to it before you finish typing, likely before you get 3 letters into it. But you could just start typing 'default programs' and get directly to that dialog. In fact you can get to most of the settings in control panel this way. The way you give, like I said, is you making it more complicated than it is.

 

The desktop apps tip is kinda cool but it isn't really any better than simply using the start screen or, as many insist on fighting the start screen, the all apps page available there. The start screen becomes more efficient since you decide what is important and the importance on the rest. As far as creating shortcuts to desktop apps on the desktop right click the tile and one of the options will be open file location, use that and right click on the highlighted icon and use 'send to' to create a shortcut on the desktop.

 

The shutdown button? Well, what can I say. In win8.1 after update 1 there are 5 ways to shutdown a pc, and that isn't even counting the emergency or troubleshooting methods available, and you see the need to add another?

 

1: the way you are told most, power under the settings charm.

2: right click on the 'super menu' or press win x to open it and you get shutdown options.

3: update 1 adds a shortcut on the start screen by your picture.

4: just like win 7 you tell the system what to do when the power button is pressed, and one of the options is, surprise, shutdown.

5: just like in ALL versions of windows, if you are on the main interface and press alt-f4 you get the shutdown dialog. In win8, despite many's insistence otherwise the desktop is the primary interface. click on the desktop, press alt-f4, shutdown options.