Wednesday, April 9, 2014

More W8.1...?

I open up Rick's blog this morning and suddenly realize that he is updating Windows 8 yet again..... Say What?  I just downloaded W8.1 five days ago and it said it was all up to date.....   Well, not exactly...

Seems that yesterday they released the new updated version of W8.1  and its almost a gig long....  I would have been mad if I had paid for the 4 gig it took to update last week...  So I called up "Control Panel" and then "Windows Updater"..

On the left hand side of that screen up towards the top is a clickable blue line that says "check for updates"....  And low and behold I had six new ones on the Dell laptop....   They were all marked important...  So I put a check in each box to get them all....

In a mere hours time, it had been thru a couple of reboots and Yea.... It booted up and had the latest tile screen....   Complete with the on and off button at the top of the Tiled Start screen that most folks dislike.....

The other thing I liked, is the return of the stripe at the top of a program app that was started in W8 mode... It has the little red X over in the corner to close the app.... You have to hover your mouse on the top of the screen and swipe downward to make it show up..    In today's computers, we have so much RAM that we really don't need to close the program before starting something else....  But, old habits are hard to break.....

If you haven't read Rick's blog about this new version please go and read it...  I won't attempt to re write what he has done a good job of explaining....

Oh, you don't have to go do this update manually, as eventually they will install it for you, if you have 8.1 running already.... But some of us have to go play around early you know....

Retired Rod

7 comments:

  1. I still don't have 8.1. Guess I should get that done before I lose my medica com.

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  2. I think I'll wait on updating. I'm almost out of gigs for this month.

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  3. Thanks for the shout-out, Rod. The Windows 8.1 Update has quite a few nifty new features I like. I do like the fact that and Windows Store apps I have running show up on the taskbar at the bottom as it was always a pain to close those things. I'm sure this will create a whole new raft of problems for some though. Stay tuned.

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  4. After reading Ricks blog ,I went ahead and downloaded the 8.1 update, I had already been running 8.1. In my case Ilike how it goes directly to the desktop ;ike windows 7 on my wifes Dell. Hope all is well with you out KC way. Sam...

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  5. All these updates do is confuse me. A very easy task indeed.

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  6. I like Linux better every day.

    Please be careful on the road and especially around KC.
    Rex

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    1. I'm with you on the Linux.... The desktop that I have here in the house runs Mint and it works flawlessly.... But the newer laptops run Windows and I have to keep them up to date so what are you going to do....

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