LT hogging my bandwidth
Still having a little trouble with the new Toshiba w/WDW8 ... Using bandwidth very fast - probably because the auto-load auto update features of the news, sprots, etc. SO, I shut off all the til...
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1775 wrote:I have been using Windows 8 on my new Asus Ultrabook for a few weeks now and love it. I will admit that I did and still do have to look up how to do some things i.e. change my default search engine to Google. Microsoft buried it down many levels.
Windows 8 is designed to work "in the Cloud" and therefore is going to pull data on an ongoing basis. Microsoft never figured on things like broadband hotspots that have a maximum data limit or cost you $$$ or drop your connection speed if you pass the max for data. They pushed this out with no true understanding of the market other than to appeal to teens with Iphones to draw them to Win 8 phones (lots of luck, MS). Businesses want nothing to do with Win 8 and most serious pc users are not fooled by MS's hype.
Simple solution - roll back to or install Windows 7 and you can then control what data the laptop accesses. The add ons to over-ride the Win 8 App tile screen may only mask it and the data will still be pulled by the app tiles under the add on.
You can go to the Desktop and use Explorer 10 that looks and acts like you are using it on Windows 7. Go to Start from the menu on the right, click the desktop icon, open Explorer 10 from the taskbar. You can add you favorite shortcut icons to the desktop and it look and act just like Windows 7.
I do not use the cloud.
Once you get used to it, I think that you will like it too.
Paul
