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Frick · Sep 23, 2011

animal007uk said:
Internet explorer is fail on this windows 8, its lagy as hell and it defo aint my net because firefox is flying through things, Not that i care as i hate IE anyway lol.

Pre beta mate, pre beta.

Steve-007UK · Sep 23, 2011

DanTheBanjoman said:
Can't seem to pin it via search. Also, it opens in WMP, I want it to open in the metro interface like in the demos.

I've been trying to find it but still no luck yet but ill keep digging around to see if i can finaly work it out.

Frick said:
Pre beta mate, pre beta.

Yeah i know mate, I think i found the problem tho, Seems to be something to do with the way it underlines words when i type, I think its trying to correct my spelling.

micropage7 · Sep 23, 2011

animal007uk said:
Internet explorer is fail on this windows 8, its lagy as hell and it defo aint my net because firefox is flying through things, Not that i care as i hate IE anyway lol.

thats why most of us not using IE anymore

Steve-007UK · Sep 23, 2011

micropage7 said:
thats why most of us not using IE anymore

I don't use it but i needed to use it to download firefox lol, Once i have firefox downloaded IE gets uninstalled as nothing i look at on the net needs IE

Frick · Sep 23, 2011

micropage7 said:
thats why most of us not using IE anymore

animal007uk said:
I don't use it but i needed to use it to download firefox lol, Once i have firefox downloaded IE gets uninstalled as nothing i look at on the net needs IE

I'm just gonna assume that the last time you used IE was version 6.0. It's a very competent and fast browser nowadays, but people keep ignoring that. It's weird how MS's bad rep from 10 years ago still cling to them.

LiveOrDie · Sep 23, 2011

Its full of bugs i went back to windows 7, also hangs on my gfs laptop if you shut the lid.

Drone · Sep 23, 2011

Never had problems with IE (even with 5 or 5.5). I don't have problems with metro IE either. And if I'll ever change IE and Opera to something else, it won't be Firefox.

As for W8 itself I didn't encounter severe bugs, but glitches. Indexing service acted weird and it didn't want to eject thumbdrive from the system tray. Tho eject function from windows explorer works fine.

LifeOnMars · Sep 23, 2011

I'm back to windows 7 for now but I think the new interface shows alot of promise. I will try it again on a later build.

Derek12 · Sep 23, 2011

In my case I tried in the physical machine with a second hard disk and the CPU usage was very high don't matter if I was doing nothing nor if there was any app opened, I don't know why, though in the VM is fine :confused:

qubit · Sep 23, 2011

I have to confess that I still haven't had a chance to try it yet. :eek:

Impressions seem positive though.

Drone · Sep 23, 2011

Derek12 said:
In my case I tried in the physical machine with a second hard disk and the CPU usage was very high

I don't think it's because of 8 itself. Actually 8 eats less cpu and ram than any other windows system.

Derek12 · Sep 23, 2011

Drone said:
I don't think it's because of 8 itself. Actually 8 eats less cpu and ram than any other windows system.

Yeah, in the VM is totally fine, must be some driver for my hardware

Drone · Sep 23, 2011

Look in taskmanager processes to find the culprit.

micropage7 · Sep 23, 2011

Frick said:
I'm just gonna assume that the last time you used IE was version 6.0. It's a very competent and fast browser nowadays, but people keep ignoring that. It's weird how MS's bad rep from 10 years ago still cling to them.

actually theres no wrong with IE, but i dunno i prefer using other browser than IE
sometimes i use IE but compared to other browser i guess about 10% that i spend with IE

micropage7 · Sep 23, 2011

Derek12 said:
Actually 8 eats less cpu and ram than any other windows system.

thats what we need

fast and reliable OS but eat less resources :toast:

Derek12 · Sep 23, 2011

Drone said:
Look in taskmanager processes to find the culprit.

There is the strange part I forgotten to mention: none process show high CPU, but the graph is always 90-100% :confused:

Maybe I'll try disabling devices one by one and see if there is the culprit here

Drone · Sep 23, 2011

Derek12 said:
There is the strange part I forgotten to mention: none process show high CPU, but the graph is always 90-100%

Maybe it's just taskmanager glitch and actual use is not high

edit: you can run system explorer to see more details

http://systemexplorer.net/downloadv33.php

Derek12 · Sep 23, 2011

Drone said:
Maybe it's just taskmanager glitch and actual use is not high

edit: you can run system explorer to see more details

http://systemexplorer.net/downloadv33.php

Many thanks, I will try it and I will update :toast:

Steve-007UK · Sep 23, 2011

Frick said:
I'm just gonna assume that the last time you used IE was version 6.0. It's a very competent and fast browser nowadays, but people keep ignoring that. It's weird how MS's bad rep from 10 years ago still cling to them.

I just like firefox, IE has worked good when i have needed to use it but as i never seem to have any real problems with firefox i will stick with it. :toast:

digibucc · Sep 23, 2011

Frick said:
I'm just gonna assume that the last time you used IE was version 6.0. It's a very competent and fast browser nowadays, but people keep ignoring that. It's weird how MS's bad rep from 10 years ago still cling to them.

i don't think it's weird, i think they have earned it. It is competent and fast enough if all you do is open a window for facebook and one for yahoo.
but if you regularly use your computer for 10+ hours a day, with 20 or so tabs at a time (google searches, stock resources, tutorials, forums, etc) it fails.

A lot of the hate for IE comes from developers, not users. people who use ie like it. that's kinda the point. people who constantly have to design around ie's flaws are more prone to criticize it.
add on to that it's tremendous lack of standards support (or the extreme opposite of stricter than standard enforcement) , it's lack of any credible extension system, and the ms stigma you mentioned, and it's no wonder it gets a bad rep.

Drone · Sep 23, 2011

Derek12 said:
Many thanks, I will try it and I will update

Good luck.

digibucc said:
A lot of the hate for IE comes from developers, not users. people who use ie like it. that's kinda the point. people who constantly have to design around ie's flaws are more prone to criticize it.

I concur. Plus IE attracts all the bad guys who write some crap to infect it.

Derek12 · Sep 23, 2011

Drone said:
Good luck.

I would try it but now it wouldn't boot anymore (before installing System explorer), now after the Windows splash screen I get a black screen :banghead:

, but I am "lazy" to do a refresh because it takes long time here and I need the computer lol

I will install it again and see if this and the CPU issue solves. I think this and the blackout are related

Many thanks

newtekie1 · Sep 23, 2011

Well finally got a test system to try this on. I'm not too serious about it until we see proper RC, so I decided to go a little different with my testing.

I'm installing it on a PIII 1GHz w/ 512MB of RAM. Lets see how it goes...

Frick · Sep 23, 2011

digibucc said:
i don't think it's weird, i think they have earned it. It is competent and fast enough if all you do is open a window for facebook and one for yahoo.
but if you regularly use your computer for 10+ hours a day, with 20 or so tabs at a time (google searches, stock resources, tutorials, forums, etc) it fails.

A lot of the hate for IE comes from developers, not users. people who use ie like it. that's kinda the point. people who constantly have to design around ie's flaws are more prone to criticize it.
add on to that it's tremendous lack of standards support (or the extreme opposite of stricter than standard enforcement) , it's lack of any credible extension system, and the ms stigma you mentioned, and it's no wonder it gets a bad rep.

Most of this was fixed in IE9. I have no problems doing 20 or so tabs most of the day in IE9. There is still bickering about supporting standards, but the standards people bicker about is not fully set either. They did deserve bad rap, but nowadays I'm not sure if it's them or users/corporation still clinging to IE6/7 who deserve it.

Anyway.

@Newtekie: Nice, let us know how it goes! Downloading 32bit version atm to install on laptop in sig.

digibucc · Sep 23, 2011

Frick said:
nowadays I'm not sure if it's them or users/corporation still clinging to IE6/7 who deserve it.

very very good point.

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