often ignored by users 1. Hybrid startup
A lot of test articles are claiming that Win8 startup speed is much higher than Win7, but why is Win8 booting in your computer is not strong? In fact, Win8 started Fast, all benefit from a feature called “Mixed Boot”, only when we check “Hybrid” in the Control Panel→All Control Panel Items→Power Options→Choose what closing the liddoes” panel Boot” checkbox to turn this technology on. Under the guidance of this technology, Win8 saves some kernel dialogs that should be closed to a disk file named hiberfil.sys, and writes the contents directly back to the memory at the next boot, thus improving the system startup speed. And this is the same as the "Hiber Shutdown" that was mixed with the current year.
2. Interesting split screens
In fact, since the Win7 era, Microsoft has been thinking about big screen users. At that time, a quick split screen function called Aero Snap has been familiar to many netizens. When we need to display two windows side by side, we only need to drag two windows to the leftmost and rightmost edges of the screen. After releasing the hand, each window will automatically occupy 50% of the screen space, thus achieving the effect of split screen viewing.
In Win8, the split screen function goes one step further. As long as your screen resolution is higher than 1366× 768 (low resolution users can also be forced to open via the registry), then you can directly experience it. Just hover your mouse over the left edge of the screen and find another window that has already been launched. Hold down the mouse and drag the window from left to right. You will see the thumbnail of the window grows from small to large and will eventually be new. The window is fixed to a certain position.
The reason why Win8 split screen is further improved, on the one hand, because the size of each split screen can be adjusted by the user drag and drop the mouse in real time, on the other hand, "desktop" is the first time as a disposable element. Participate in the division (that is, you can also open several sub-windows on the desktop, in fact, there are already some virtual machine flavors ~), which makes almost all desktop elements including video, games, animation, web pages, etc. can be re-screened by the system. Far more flexible and comprehensive than Win7.
3. Multi-process paste
“Copy”,“Paste” I am afraid that the two most qualified features in Windows have not changed for many years. In Win8, this feature was clearly given new ideas. The first is the long-awaited progress box integration. In the past, when we were performing multi-tasking replication, each task generated a progress box. Many progress boxes were stacked together, which was difficult to distinguish and not easy to manage. In Win8, no matter how many sets of copy tasks are executed at the same time, the system will automatically merge them together. In addition to the convenience of viewing and management, you can even over-occupy system resources (such as large file copy) when a task is excessively occupied. Manually pause it and continue copying after other tasks have finished executing, so as not to delay those more anxious operations.
The newly added speed graph is also very eye-catching. Some of the previous applications that must rely on professional software (such as U disk speed measurement) can now be done directly.
4. Visual Operation
In Win8, many operations have been visually modified, and the speed graph described in detail 1 can be seen as an example. In addition, when we delete an image in Win8, the system will also display a preview image of the image intimately for the user to confirm quickly (unfortunately, multi-image deletion does not have this feature). And when file copying conflicts, Win8 also provides an intuitive visual screening that tells the user what each picture looks like by the most primitive human eye.
5. Real-life hardware
Compared with Win7, Win8's driver library is more huge, including more popular new hardware. And one of the more interesting changes is that a lot of hardware has been added to the real-life photos, for example, you can now find the same photo icon in your Win 8 as your U disk, which looks more eye-catching and intuitive. Of course, the hardware must be in advance. Certified by Microsoft.
6. Follow-up Settings”
Win8 start menu I believe that everyone is very familiar, but you know? This start menu is actually different from Win7, it can automatically display the required settings according to the current program. Options, and no longer like the previous Win7, each time a pop-up "control panel".
Just take the dazzling weather forecast, many netizens actually have such a question, that is, how to change the system default Fahrenheit to Celsius? In fact, the solution is very simple, just enter the weather forecast interface. Bring up the bottom left corner of the Start menu, then click “Settings”→“Weather Preferences", and finally “Fahrenheit" to “Celsius” How? This time, “ On-demand display & rdquo; meaning understand it.
7. Process restart
The new version of the task manager has been introduced in many articles, the function is indeed powerful, but the author still found a small detail, that is, "Windows Explorer" has one more right-click menu “Restart” option. Simply put, the significance of this function is that when we complete a desktop modification and need to restart the viewing effect, we don't have to restart the computer cumbersomely. Instead, we enter the task manager and execute the command to restart the Explorer. After a few seconds, the shell loads. When it is finished, the result of the modification will actually be displayed.
8. Image unlocking
Users familiar with Android must be very familiar with the unlocking of the graphics, yes, when Android first launched this feature, it was a sensation. In Win8, a feature called "Picture password" is an upgraded version of it.
Picture password is actually a picture specified by the user, and then set three operations in the three positions of the picture according to the prompt, the action and the landing point of the mouse constitute the unlock condition. Since the position and the action are completely irregular, the encryption is theoretically much safer than the password, and the probability of being cracked is almost zero.
9. Upgrade the address bar
Maybe you will say that the Ribbon is the biggest point of view of the Win8 window, as for other functions, it is not much different from the Win7 system. In fact, while saying this, you have actually missed a very useful improvement of Win8 —— actionable address bar.
Generally, we will use drag and drop to copy files to the upper level or upper level folder, but in fact, in Win7, you can only select the target folder through the tree directory on the left, if the current directory is in a very good position. Deep, sorry, either you press the left button while the first level is activated, or you can directly use the copy and paste method to manually get it, anyway, it is not so happy. In Win8, the above operation can be simplified directly to dragging a file to a node on the address bar. Note that the address bar will automatically follow the prompts to pop up different prompts (Move or Copy). Don't think that this operation looks very simple, it really doesn't work in Win7, don't believe you try it!
10. Program hangs
Many first-time users of Win8 will have such questions, why under the Metro interface The program does not exit (close) button? In fact, this is a less well-known improvement in Win8 — — & ldquo; program hangs & rdquo;.
Unlike the program that we used to open and close, Win8 introduces a third program state ——“Suspended”(suspend). Simply put, when we open a group of programs in the Metro interface, press the Win button again to return to the Metro main menu, these programs will automatically enter the Suspended state (visible to the task manager) to save system resources.
Compared to the traditional shutdown state, the suspended program does not take up CPU, hard disk, network and other general system resources, which is a bit like Windows' previous "system sleep". It is because the suspended program does not really exit, so when we click on these programs again, not only the startup speed is very fast, but also the system will automatically restore the look of the original hang, such as the opened web page, browsing Weather forecast, chess game just played, ……, and this is exactly the same as Android's memory management.
Of course, due to the need to save some information, memory usage is inevitable, but Win8 can automatically coordinate and clear programs that hang up for a long time and use a lot of memory, so there is no need to worry about the stability of the system.
11. Slower graphics card
If you look closely, you will find that even if the same driver is installed on the same computer, Win7 and Win8 will not score the same. Take the author's computer, Win3 scores 3.5 points, but Win8 has only 2.6 points. In fact, the reason why the graphics card scores decline does not mean that this graphics card can not work well under Win8, but Win8 has higher requirements for graphics cards.
It is well known that from the era of Vista, Microsoft has allocated a part of the system load to the graphics card. What are the frosted glass effects, window 3D effects, Aero Snap, Flip 3D, etc., all of which are credit cards. In the era of Win8, with more high-performance graphics cards available, Microsoft began to prepare it for a larger range of work, so this has led to a disparity in the scores of previous graphics cards. In other words, the score of the graphics card under Win8 becomes lower. In fact, it is Microsoft's “intentional” that the purpose is to allow users to add higher graphics cards to the system to meet the increasing graphics processing needs.
The final summary
The above is actually the same as everyone sees, compared to Metro is still the biggest point of view of Windows8 system, maybe the new system has also made a lot of changes in many details. However, as a normal tester, the author is only occasionally accumulating during the trial process. It is difficult to say how many secrets are not known to us in the Windows 8 system. If you have similar findings during the trial process, you may want to talk to the system home to let more people experience the charm of the Win8 system!