Windows 8. Oh...oh dear.

[MinisterofDOOM]

It's funny you say that Win2k doesn't count though, that and WinNT 4 are the only OS's that I claim as valid OS's from Microsoft. At home, I dont really care, whatever is out there is whatever I will use, I'm very low tech at home. At work, when things actually matter, I want an operating system designed with the network in mind, 2K/NT were excellent at this.

I don't have the luxury of choosing my OS at work, and my job is merely facilitated by computers, not based around them. I use the OS that works with the software I need. But at home, I get picky. I want an OS that does what I tell it to, how I tell it to, when I tell it to. Which means I want Linux. But I mostly use Windows and complain vocally about it instead.

I just came here to say that I read the title in Jeremy Clarkson's voice.

Pretty much what I was going for. So huzzah.

[davidoliva]

I absolutely LOVE windows 8, it looks great on my 52' samsung led. No idea why so much hate for w8, i can use my logitech wireless mouse and keyboard just fine. Glad they revamped windows in a good way i really thought they were gonna screw it up like windows me

[MinisterofDOOM]

There are some neat new additions to Win8. The transfer rate graph is one of them:

[Jesda]

AIDS

[MinisterofDOOM]

So, I'm sitting here browsing the web, reading NICO, trying to decide whether I should plunk down $30 for Prison Architect Alpha access, when I realize my hard disks are completely spun up and making enough noise to drown out a rock concert. I hit Ctrl+Shift+Esc (since Vista, Ctrl+Alt+Del brings up an intermediate dialog instead of directly launching Task Manager) to bring up the task manager so I can figure out WTF is utilizing the hard drive...and nothing happens. The mouse changes to the little blue "thinking" donut and stays there. I hit Ctrl+Alt+Del and get a fun popup window telling me Windows has stopped responding! YAY! It continues to not respond for a while.

So I cut power, reboot, and go back to browsing. Sure enough, after a couple minutes, my hard drives are spinning like a bad set of rimz on an Escalade. This time the task manager appears when summoned. The culprit? DISK DEFRAGMENTER IS RUNNING. UNINVITED. It's not 3am. The machine's not idle. It's in active use (and downloading things!) and just decided it might as well perform an intensive maintenance task in the middle of the evening. So I end the task and start looking for a way to make sure it doesn't happen again.

A little poking around with the new search tool (which IS pretty nice--very quick, a nice progression from the search bar in Win7 even if it is ugly and pointy) brings me to the Optimize and Defragment Drives setting dialog, where I find the "Run on a schedule" box checked. Uncheck box. Curse loudly.

I'm all for scheduled disk maintenace. But not when the machine is actively in use and during peak hours! Stupid.

This OS is a mess.

EDIT:
THE @#$%ING THING IS RUNNING AGAIN! STUPID @#$%ING WINDOWS.

[Ace2cool]

So it's running without you asking it to? Neat. It really must want to rewrite partitions.