Is there still a part of you that wants to live?

[venta]

For anyone who - like me - is forced to use Windows 8/8.1, but hates lots of the non-negotiable features, I commend to you Winaero. From them, you can download two lightweight programs which:

1. Allow you to turn off the bottom-right hot corner, meaning the stupid Charms menu doesn't pop up all the time (Charms Bar Killer runs in your systray, and allows you to turn various hot corners on and off).

2. Allow you to fine-tune, and indeed turn off, the taskbar thumbnail previews meaning the the silly little windows don't pop over the thing you're trying to look at (Taskbar Thumbnail Tuner is a run-when-you-need-it selection of extra settings, including the mighty "disable thumbnails" tickybox).

(There are various registry hacks proposed on t'internet to solve both of these. I haven't tried them.)

If the above are features you like and use, then hurrah! However, in my case they were nothing but a source of irritation.

I think nearly 12 months of locating settings, finding obscure menus, and downloading extra bits means that I'm now willing to declare a sort of armed truce with Windows 8 (or, actually, 8.1 now). It has agreed to keep all its spurious Mac-esque eye-candy and ridiculous Metro nonsense out of my way, and I've conceded that a very small amount of the new functionality is useful.

Comments

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Killer. V good. It's replaced the last earworm (did you know that washing machines last longer with Calgon?) and at the moment is less annoying than that or the one that preceded it (The Animals Went In Two By Two, Hoorah! Hoorah!).

[(Anonymous)]

Actually, I didn't know that about washing machines, no :)

One kudo to you.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Bah!

[emarkienna.livejournal.com]

Useful to have tweaks! Note the taskbar previews are a Windows 7 (or possibly Windows Vista) introduction. I found quite a lot of difference upgrading from XP to 7 (e.g., locating all the settings in the control panel).

I'm not a fan of Mac-style-candy. Though I think 8 is a bit more minimalist than 7 in that they've dropped the see-through appearance for windows.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I switched from XP to 7 quite late in the day (skipping Vista), then changed jobs and had to switch to 8 fairly soon after. Now you mention it yes, the little preview windows were an annoyance that came in with 7.

I thought 8 came with all that see-through nonsense too - just that 7 had taught me how to turn it all off! My windows are all satisfactorily opaque, now, and nothing animates when it could just snap. It's very restful :)

[digooduu.livejournal.com]

oh ，that's terrible
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