Just come home from the library with 2 books on windows 8.Dummies windows 8 for seniors & windows 8 straight to the point I hope these will help me
I just figured it out,place your fingers diagonally opposite & drag them towards the centre .You can see that I don't have any of those latest phones or tablets or I would have known instantly what to do.No instructions for windows came in booklet form either
I believe the windows 8 environment uses gesturing like in the tablets. I will be getting windows 8 on a new laptop next wk- and I believe 8.1 will be out later in august that will fix a lot of the crazy stuff on windows 8
I dont plan to put any of my stuff over on the new laptop till I figure out this whole new way of interacting.
Good luck for you and me too
I am sorry, I should have been more specific. I think you should spend some time watching the YouTube videos on Windows 8. They really can help you learn and navigate your new computer. Pause the video often -- rewind if you get "lost" and re-watch as many times as you need. I am glad you were able to figure it out.
On the other pc which has frozen because it needs a new hard drive I found it was hard to watch videos .I put this down to our internet speed,maybe it will be different on this pc.
Hi Killiecrankie,
I've got a touch screen HP computer too, but I've got Windows 7. I'm not sure if this will help,but if you have a roller ball mouse, hold the control button down whilst moving the roller ball backwards and forwards until you get the desired size. Love and blessings Chris
Thank you I still have to get the machine embroidery on here ,just hope it will be a lot easier than it was last time ,had to spend hours up at the dealers shop , the computer was being difficult.
I have Windows 8 and no touch screen. Use mouse like you used to.
SQ
I use the mouse as well as touching but the whole thing is extremely sensitve & things get touched unintentionally.I suppose practice will help.
Pinch the screen -- OK not really but pinch it in a two dimensional way.
What do you mean by pinch the screen ? I tried dragging the mouse pointer in from the sides from all directions but it ,didn't help