Windows 8.1

[DontSayBanana]

Yeah, my school went the Mac route.  We had probably about 30-35 LC 575 units when I was between 3rd and 6th grade, when they upgraded them all to Power Mac G3.

The state had basically forced the school to build an expansion to a dictated spec, complete with a gym/auditorium with modular connections to run a lighting panel, which I pretty much singlehandedly ran between 6th and 8th grade.  The board was awesome- about the size of a 61-key keyboard, had a floppy drive to run pre-programmed lighting sequences.  Unfortunately, the program to generate the lighting sequences only worked in Windows.

Got me out of so many assemblies/school concerts since I was the only one who knew how to use the board and could say "sorry, I've gotta run the lighting."

[Josephus]

Um...how do I shut down?

[Liep]

Alt-F4?

[Grey Fox]

You don't.

Right Click the start button.

[Josephus]

Just got a laptop with 8.1 on it. Haven't used Windows since Vista.

[Liep]

Just got a laptop with 8.1 on it. Haven't used Windows since Vista.

Alt-F4 always work.

[DontSayBanana]

All kinds of ways:

• Alt+F4 on the desktop.
  
• Right-click the Windows menu icon on the taskbar (again, in desktop mode).
  
• Click the Windows button, then click the shutdown icon in the top right-hand corner.
  
• From the charms menu (sidebar from moving the mouse to the top right corner), click settings, then shutdown.
  
• Ctrl+Alt+Del and then hit the shutdown icon in the bottom right corner.
  
• If you're feeling nostalgic for terminal commands, hit the Windows button+R and type in "shutdown."
  
  It really is an "all roads lead to Rome" kind of situation. 

[Josephus]

thanks.....seems to me like it was an afterthought.

[Grey Fox]

It was.

You are not suppose to shut down. Hell, Windows 8 barely evens shut downs.

[viper37]

Just got a laptop with 8.1 on it. Haven't used Windows since Vista.

Buy Start8, 5$.

[Josephus]

Fuck I hate Windows.

So after being a PC user for many years, after my last PC crashed a year and a half ago, I bought a MAC and have been happy. But over the weekend I bought I nice, spiffy, Windows ASUS laptop.
Yesterday as I went to shut off, it downloade some updates. Today I turn it on, it installed the updates. After that it's a black screen. Nothing.  This is a $2000 machine. 

I'm not especially PC literate, so I'm sort of panicking.

[Josephus]

Edit: After a blank screen for 15 minutes, I decided to do a reboot.
It started up and it went back to installing updates. Seems to have worked.

But I remembered now the years of clenching my buttocks and praying to all Gods everytime I used to turn my old PC on. This will be my last Windoze product.

[garbon]

Appleheads sure are tiresome. So tiresome in fact that they have to spread their Apple bobble headness to non apple threads.

[Grey Fox]

Edit: After a blank screen for 15 minutes, I decided to do a reboot.
It started up and it went back to installing updates. Seems to have worked.

But I remembered now the years of clenching my buttocks and praying to all Gods everytime I used to turn my old PC on. This will be my last Windoze product.

Why did you buy a 2k$ windows machine? Take it back & buy a mac book air.

[Josephus]

I wanted a gaming lap top. 

C'mon don't hate...I was venting....surely you can't blame me but this sort of stuff never happened to me with my other computer, the one named after a fruit.

Strange thing, I also have a cheap, tiny netbook, an Acer or something, probably spent $150 on it a few years ago...just wanted something portable to travel with...it runs on Vista and to be fair, it never crashed, or refused to start up on me.

this is what I got by the way:

http://www.asus.com/ca-en/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/ASUS_ROG_G750JZ/