the more i learn about hardware the more i think fuck nvidia

[always stevey]

that's a start menu

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Ever since the Vista days, Windows provided a “Windows Experience Index” score in your My Computer properties. The WEI score was supposed to be a numerical indicator of your PC’s brawn. Powerful PCs received higher scores, and so on.

Unfortunately, the WEI’s scoring criteria weren’t well known, and it placed odd, seemingly artificial caps on the highest possible scores. (Windows 7’s cap was 7.9, while Vista’s was 5.9.) Whether for these or other reasons, the WEI never seemed to catch on, and it’s nowhere to be found in Windows 8.1.

[always stevey]

my score would be 69 tho

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my score would be 69 tho

[always stevey]

On a tablet, one of Windows 8's biggest draws is its ability—unlike most Android and Apple tablets—to run multiple apps side-by-side. That ability helps out big-time on a PC, too, which is why Windows 8's original Snap capabilities were so disappointing: You could use no more than two apps at a time, and they were locked into a permanent 75/25 split onscreen.

Snap has grown up in Windows 8.1, greatly improving the OS's user-friendliness on desktops. Larger, pixel-packed displays can now snap three or more apps simultaneously depending on their resolution, and you can dynamically adjust how much of the screen each app occupies.

[always stevey]

Same app, different windows
Some Windows 8.1 apps now let you run multiple instances of that app simultaneously—so you could have Internet Explorer 11 or Mail open in two different snapped windows, doing two different things. It's a small change, but a supremely handy one.

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OMFG I KNOW WHAT WAS WRONG WTIH MY COMPUTER

Tutorials!
One of the biggest complaints about Windows 8 was how it dropped users into a new world of hot corners, Live Tiles, and charm bars without any guidance. Microsoft's lack of help was so glaring that third-party PC makers brewed in-house tutorial apps to install on new PCs.

No more! Shortly after you sign in to the OS for the first time, massive pop-ups will explain the basics of all the modern UI features that are crucial to the Windows 8.1 experience. And if you ever need to brush up on your navigation skills, there's...

[always stevey]

it was just windows 8.1's tutorial bullshit, splashtop switched it to think I had a touch screen moinitor! nothing was wrong it just had to finish doing that little tutorial crap when I would open something new OH FUCK GOD DAMN I LOVE MY COMPUTER THERE WASN'T EVEN A PROBLEM LOL

[always stevey]

it was just windows 8.1's tutorial bullshit, splashtop switched it to think I had a touch screen moinitor! nothing was wrong it just had to finish doing that little tutorial crap when I would open something new OH FUCK GOD DAMN I LOVE MY COMPUTER THERE WASN'T EVEN A PROBLEM LOL

I have been frantically googling all night trying to fix my stupid cpu problem. Jeez la weeze I never thought I could
possibly be so technologically incompetent.

[always stevey]

the little brown man who fixed my computer via remote access tried to force me to watch it, but I wandered off while he was talking and by the time I came back, the tutorial conveniently ended.