Windows 8

[◄Chuck►]

(2012-11-12 23:34)Elmo Wrote:  ...
This only applies to WinRT/ARM. You can install what you like to the desktop of x86/64 PCs and tablets the same as before. Noone's going to provide software on a CD/DVD for an ARM tablet - they don't have drives.

You may install everything in the "desktop-part", thats correct, but you must not install Windows-Store Apps, which all belong to the "Modern" thingy, but that applies to all versions, not just the ARM one.

Look here: "Sideloading" is the keyword
http://blogs.technet.com/b/scd-odtsp/arc...ments.aspx




As for the statusbar:
Maybe we're talking about 2 different thing:


This is from Windows 7. As you can see, the cumulated filesize is calculated correctly, regardless how many files I select. Windows 8 does that only for up to 100.
Furthermore, when selecting no files at all, W7 showed the total size of the folder, W8 shows nothing.

Regarding the zone, they're not that important most of the time but sometimes precious. It reveals when Windows failed yet again to detect LAN resources correctly. I.e. if you want to run a program from a LAN device and Windows falsely assigned the "Internet" zone to that location, programs do suddenly run weird as they don't have the privileges they should have. Happened to me just a few days ago, I connected a USB drive to my new internet router and Windows failed once again it was in the LAN, not the Internet. Especially .net programs react allergic to right restrictions.