Pray and press is right lol
Thanks for the tips .
I really only use my laptop for listening to sermons and for my electronic Bible , surfing the net etc (have other computers for serious stuff as laptops are not really reliable )so it’s not so bad but I would not recommend anyone install it at all .
To me this os is not ready to go by any means.
It needs much tweaking to make things comfortable .
I don’t think it is worth upgrading to especially if you do any kind of serious work on the computer.Even as a cheap upgrade from Windows XP - it is worth to spend the extra and pick up a copy of Windows 7 for any kind of serious work.
Oh I almost forgot ... have you actually tried hitting alt F4 since you installed Windows 8 ?
It brings up a screen to switch/add a new monitor .
I would opine that there is no real functional need for 90% of Windows users to upgrade from XP, unless they do gaming, most of which is a poor use of time, but with support running out (no more security updates) then it would leave it more vulnerable, but again, pray and press and seek to be good and wise.
As for hitting alt and F4 since you installed Windows 8, yes, and for me it just closes whatever window is before me. You did them together right? Perhaps it is because you are using a laptop.
Try using Windows key and D so that you are on your desktop, then click on Alt+F4 to bring up the shutdown dialog box. But the Right click extender can add a dialog to do this, while the old slawdog shutdown will run in your system tray and give you the same options. http://www.snapfiles.com/get/smartshutdown.html
Also, to shutdown the metro apps, i read you can click on and and drag the top of the app to the bottom of the screen.