Re: VS 2012

LOL, clever -- thanks!

I remember during Vista or Win7, a lot of effort went into preserving a
keyboard-friendly way to shutdown or suspend.  [Win,Left,Right,Enter] or
[Win,Left,Right,S] respectively.  (I vaguely recall an internal build which
regressed that part of the start menu design, at some point, and there was
a large internal uproar...   so that's why it's so surprising to me.)

But maybe now that [Win+D] is so ingrained in everyone, [Win+D][Alt+F4]
became obvious...

-S


On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Ryan Heath <[email protected]> wrote:

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> This key chain works too:
> Win+D, Alt+F4
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> // Ryan
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> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 8:32 PM, Richard Howells <Richard-yP/[email protected]>wrote:
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>> Shutdown is WAY easier than that.****
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>> Mouse into the bottom RH corner.  This should bring up (I think it's
>> called) the 'charms bar'.  Click on the Settings Charm (will I **ever**
>> get used to that name?), now click on power, choose from Sleep, shutdown
>> etc.****
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>> Best wishes,****
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>> Richard Howells****
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>> richard-yP/[email protected]****
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>> www.dynamisys.co.uk****
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>> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:
>> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Shawn A. Van Ness
>> *Sent:* 26 September 2012 15:24
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>> *To:* [email protected]
>> *Subject:* Re: [OT] VS 2012****
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>> I'm late to this thread -- having just gotten around to installing Win8
>> this past weekend.****
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>>  ****
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>> Most of the big changes to the shell happened after I left MS...  exactly
>> 2 years ago this week.   (Either that, or they kept many of these changes a
>> highly compartmentalized secret...  which, I'm sure they must have done, at
>> some point.)****
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>> I'm running dual 1600x1200 monitors in portrait-mode, and it seems to
>> handle that fine.   I like the way they've equated the mouse-wheel with
>> sideways-swiping, in the Metro UI.****
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>>  ****
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>> The mousing-into-the-corners thing is very weird (and somewhat unusable
>> in a multi-mon arrangement).****
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>> But [Win+C] to bring up the clock + search/share/device bar seems to
>> solve that complaint, for the rhs corners.****
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>>  ****
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>> [Win+Tab] or [Alt+Tab] still work, for the lhs corners.****
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>> Also, there's a crufty little [Win+X] popup menu, for quick access to
>> some power-user items.   (Used to bring up Mobility Center, on laptops, so
>> not sure what replaces that...)****
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>>  ****
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>> The most surprising thing to me is how difficult they've made it to shut
>> down (or sleep/hibernate).   I can't even count the clicks, or maybe I just
>> don't know the shortcut?   I find myself doing [Win+R] rundll32.exe
>> powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState Suspend.   (My pc doesn't have an easily
>> accessible sleep button.)****
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>>  ****
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>> Scratch that -- the biggest surprise is that my CLR v2 and v3 apps don't
>> run, out of the box.  Wtf.  :-(****
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>>  ****
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>> So, if Win7 SP2 comes out with the same updated driver coverage, device
>> discovery, integrated virus scanning, etc, I will probably go back.****
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>> -S****
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