Show us your Windows 8.1 Start Screen

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How do you create all those custom Steam game tiles?

http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-gb/app/steam-tile/f17f134c-c72d-470b-9d97-9c9d6d4aae85

 

Just use that app :) it's great. I will post mine when I get home.

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Where can I grab that background? Referring to the 1st post...

 

 

Can you send me or post the background? nice!

 

http://onlyhdwallpapers.com/wallpaper/3d_view_abstract_blocks_cubes_desktop_1920x1080_hd-wallpaper-1097885.jpg

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I can't use the Windows 8 tiles/start screen because I'm an administrator user with UAC turned off :(  (farking stupid if you ask me...)

 

Hello Neowinian?, fellow Torontonian!

Erm...I'm an administrator, and I have UAC turned off as well. No problems using the Start Screen. If you're at work, then no problem, post a screenshot whenever you get home.  :)

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Erm...I'm an administrator, and I have UAC turned off as well. No problems using the Start Screen. If you're at work, then no problem, post a screenshot whenever you get home.  :)

 

No, it's a home computer, and I doubt you have UAC turned as far off as I do:

 

http://www.eightforums.com/system-security/5160-tutorial-how-make-windows-8-understand-you-administrator.html

 

When I was in Windows 7, I never had to click "run as administrator".  Now, all of the sudden in Windows 8, even though my user is the administrator, even with the UAC slider turned to "never notify", I suddenly need to "elevate" all the programs I run to administrator levels.  It was pissing me off so much that I followed that above guide.  I never used the Start Screen anyway.

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No, it's a home computer, and I doubt you have UAC turned as far off as I do:

 

http://www.eightforums.com/system-security/5160-tutorial-how-make-windows-8-understand-you-administrator.html

 

When I was in Windows 7, I never had to click "run as administrator".  Now, all of the sudden in Windows 8, even though my user is the administrator, even with the UAC slider turned to "never notify", I suddenly need to "elevate" all the programs I run to administrator levels.  It was ****ing me off so much that I followed that above guide.  I never used the Start Screen anyway.

ctrl+shift+enter is your friend.  That's the KB shortcut to start a command elevated.

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No, it's a home computer, and I doubt you have UAC turned as far off as I do:

 

http://www.eightforums.com/system-security/5160-tutorial-how-make-windows-8-understand-you-administrator.html

 

When I was in Windows 7, I never had to click "run as administrator".  Now, all of the sudden in Windows 8, even though my user is the administrator, even with the UAC slider turned to "never notify", I suddenly need to "elevate" all the programs I run to administrator levels.  It was ****ing me off so much that I followed that above guide.  I never used the Start Screen anyway.

 

Not sure what you did, but even in Win7 a user has to elevate user rights when the application is trying to write to OS protected folders, e.g. program Files. You cannot be a full admin as a user, unless you're hacking into the OS.

Normally, when a installer/program is written properly, all this is transparant to the user.

I still don't know why people complain about this, Linux has it, OSX has this.Wiindows has it, a bit too late but still has it.

 

I agree it's a bit more obtrusive in Windows, but apparently people still install every effing thing they see without thinking.

Getting those popups hopefully do help some people to THINk about their actions. All others, I don't care if you have virusses or a slow pc ;-)

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