Really understand Win8? 11 details of Win8 you ignored

Since the first developer preview of Win8 on September 14th, it has been a full month, and many netizens have also taken a look at the new system in their own computers. However, in this huge system, there are actually many little secrets that are not well known. Some may be just accidentally skipped by us, while others represent a new direction of development of the operating system. Then, for a long time, what details have not been noticed by us? I will give you a few of them today to see if you also belong to that "most".

Details 1. Multi-Process Paste

“Copy”,“Paste” I'm afraid the two most qualified features in Windows haven't changed for 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.
Fig. 1 Multi-process paste (default)
Figure 2 Multi-process paste (detail)

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, now you can also get it directly.
Fig. 3 U disk speed measurement
Fig. 4 Suspend operation is also automatically integrated together

Details 2. Visualization operation

In Win8, many operations have been visually modified The velocity profile referred to in detail 1 can be regarded 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.
Fig. 5 Display preview when deleting
Figure 6 Visualization screening
Details 3. Realization hardware

Compared with Win7, Win8's driver library is more large, including more popular nowadays 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.
Fig. 7 Real-life hardware

Details 4. 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, and the action and the drop 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.
Fig. 8 Create picture password

Details 5. Upgrade address bar

Maybe you will say that Ribbon is the biggest point of Win8 window, as other functions are different from Win7 system. Big. In fact, while saying this, you have actually missed a very useful improvement of Win8 —— actionable address bar.

Generally speaking, 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 destination folder through the tree directory on the left, if the current directory The location is very deep, I am sorry, either you press the left button while the first level is activated, or directly by copy and paste method, it is not so happy anyway. 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 won't work in Win7, don't believe you try!
Fig. 9 Operational address bar

Details 6. Mixed startup

Many test articles claim that Win8 starts much faster than Win7, but why is it in your computer? Win8 startup is not a force? In fact, the reason why Win8 started fast, all benefited from a function called “mixed boot”, only when we are in the “Control Panel→All Control Panel Items→Power Options→Choose what closing the liddoes” panel This technique can only be enabled by checking the “Hybrid Boot” checkbox. 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.
Fig. 10 Hybrid boot option

Details 7. Interesting split screen

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.
Fig. 11 Win8 split screen effect

The reason why Win8 split screen is further improved is that the size of each split screen can be adjusted by the user in real time by dragging the mouse. “Desktop” is the first time to participate in the division as a disposable element (that is, you can also open several sub-windows on the desktop, in fact, there are already some virtual machine flavors ~), which makes it include videos, games, animations, web pages, etc. Almost all desktop elements can be re-screened by the system, far more flexible and comprehensive than Win7.
Fig. 12 After adjusting the split screen position (Win8 smart narrows the left element)
Details 8. Program hangs

Many users who get started with Win8 will have such a question, why Metro interface Didn't the program under exit (close) button? In fact, this is a less well-known improvement in Win8 ——“program hangs”.

Unlike the programs that we used to open and close, Win8 introduced 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.
Fig. 13 Resource occupation of suspended program

Compared with the traditional shutdown state, the suspended program does not occupy conventional system resources such as CPU, hard disk, network, etc., which is a bit like Windows' previous. System sleep & rdquo;. 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 take a long time and take up a lot of memory, so there is no need to worry about the stability of the system.
Fig. 14 Suspend program will remain as it is after recovery

Details 9. Slower graphics card

If you look closely, you will find that even if the same computer is installed The same driver, its Win7 and Win8 scores will not be 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.
Figure 15 Win7 and Win8 system score comparison

It is well known that from the era of Vista, Microsoft has allocated a part of the system load to the graphics card, what is the frosted glass effect, window 3D effect, Aero Snap, Flip 3D, etc. All of them 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.

























This start menu is actually very different from Win7. It can automatically display the required setting options according to the current program, instead of popping up a uniform "control panel" every time like Win7.

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 start menu in the lower left corner, and then click “Settings”→“Weather Preferences", and finally ""Fahrenheit" to “Celsius” Just fine. how about it? This time “ on-demand display & rdquo; meaning understand it.
Figure 16 Don't look simple! In fact, many people do not know

Details 11. Process restart

Many articles have been introduced in the new task manager, the function is indeed powerful, but the author still found a small detail, that is “Windows Explorer” has a more “Restart” option in the context menu. 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.
Fig. 17 New one-click restart (only for "Windows Explorer"; 哟~)

Written at the end

Actually as we have seen, although Metro is still Win8 The biggest point of view, but the new system has also made a lot of changes in many details. Of course, as a normal tester, the author is only occasionally accumulating during the trial process. It is hard to say how many secrets are not known to us in Windows 8. If you have similar findings during the trial process, you may wish to talk to us and let more people experience the charm of Win8!