Anybody using the Windows 8 Start screen?

My original question was: Can we place bundle icons on the Windows 8 Start screen, alongside those "Modern/Metro" Windows apps?
But then I figured I should back up and ask whether anyone with a large ZCM deployment is even presenting the new Windows 8 Start screen to their users.
If you've deployed Windows 8, I'd love to hear your feedback.

I have test units that I am working with. I have had none of my current Start Menu apps showing up. This has been a minor item on my list of things to work with so I haven't investigated possible causes or if this is even supported. Honestly in my environment I would love to be able to push the older start menu/Desktop style and skip Metro. My teachers are going to freak when they start to use this new style. I had a hard time with the Windows 7 changes with some of the staff. My staff has a real hard time with change so Windows 8 is going to be a hard sell.
What type of devices are you looking at for Windows 8? I have been looking at whether I need to be looking for touch based Laptops or move to a more Tablet with a keyboard type environment.
Richard

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I just got a new AIO with windows 8; not may favorite thing but I'm learning.
I use Firefox as my browser exclusively but Window 8 help, of course, won't explain how to pin sites through other browsers. I had to set up my desktop on my start screen so I can open Firefox from there and then I can start browsing with Firefox - but there has to be an easier way....I've tried to search through the Firefox support but I'm an accountant, not a techie and this is getting very frustrating. lol I hope someone can explain to me how to do this. And in very small words please - remember I'm bean-counter. :)
Thanks y'all.

jscher2000 - thanks for a really fast response!
Your links got me to get to clicking on other related links and I did find a site that was very easy to follow so I'm adding it here for you to give to others; has illustrations and''''' very''''' easy to follow instructions. Perfect to someone like me. I wouldn't have found it without you getting me started though.
Thanks!!!
[http://www.wikihow.com/Pin-Firefox-Web-Apps-to-Windows-8-Start-Screen]

Suggestion: Please make a Visual Studio Solution Explorer that is similar to Windows 8 Start Screen

We have monitors now that are enormous and it is now the norm to develop on three or more monitors. Yet we still try to crowd project navigation info that pleads to be fully visualized into a tiny window as if expanding it is somehow a waste of space.
I mention Windows 8 start screen in the title of this post. I have no particular love for the start screen except that it is a different spin on a strict hierarchical display of information. I like that it has the objective of using all available
screen space to present information that would otherwise be shown in a tiny corner of the screen. So my suggestion in its most general form is for you guys to find a way to use the entire screen to allow a developer to quickly and easily navigate a large
VS project.
For example, even if I fully expand the Solution Explorer to take up the space of an entire monitor the top level nodes of my project take up a tiny fraction of the available screen space - I have to drill down up to 12 levels to reach my files. And when
I get to the point where I think I see the file I want, the higher level folders have scrolled off the screen so I loose my place in the project.
A couple of suggestions for a new Solution Explorer:
Edit: Make the Solution Explorer more like the Windows 8 Start screen or a file directory browser in the sense that Start Screen is a full-screen navigation screen versus a control that is primarily desigend to be docked. If I maximize Solution Explorer
on my monitor the MOST screen space it will use is about 20% down the left edge of my screen. Even with 80% of my screen left EMPTY, I am clicking and clicking and scrolling and clicking and scrolling in order to navigate to where I need to be. /Edit
Show an always-visible breadcrumb across the top of the window so the user can navigate up quickly and also maintain a sense of location within the project.
Show folders and files horizontally and vertically. USE THE ENTIRE WINDOW! Allow different views just as we see in Windows file explorer.
Allow (large) user defined icons to be associated with projects, folders and files. Instead of showing the same icon for every project in a solution, default to a unique icon. Thats why we use icons, right?
Allow projects and folders to have foreground/background color properties.
"Scope to this" on the context menu is great... please add the root name on the tab.
It would also be very helpful to display the full directory and solution name on the VS title bar to avoid confusion when working with different versions of the same project. There are a couple add-ons that do this... why has it become necessary for add-ons.

Hi SWheaties,
Thanks for posting in the MSDN forum.
You could submit this feature request: http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio. The Visual Studio product
team is listening to user voice there. You can send your idea there and people can vote. If you submit this suggestion, I hope you could post that link here, so other community members who are interested in this issue will help you vote it. If
it gets more votes, the product team expert would think about adding it as a new feature in the future product. Thanks for your understanding.
Best Regards,
Jack
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Unable to Switch Users on Window 8 Start Screen

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<File>
<Root>
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<FileMask>appsFolder.itemdata-m*</FileMask>
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<File>
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<Path>Microsoft\Windows</Path>
<FileMask>appsFolderLayout.bin</FileMask>
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Error message: [The operation completed successfully.
Error code: [0]
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I don't believe the Start Screen is in scope yet in V1. Stay tuned.
Steve Thomas, Senior Consultant, Microsoft
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(Mountain Lion) suddenly the screen turns black, and I have to use the switch to turn it on. And, the screen turns to zoom, and the only way to turn to normal is to close the window and start all over again?

(Mountain Lion) suddenly the screen turns black, and I have to use the on/off switch to turn it on. And, the screen turns to zoom, and the only way to return to normal is to close the window and start all over again?

Does the screen go black while you are using the machine? ...or after it has sat idle for a bit?
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In either case, pressing any key on the keyboard should bring it out of sleep.
Re zooming -
If this happens while in Safari, and you are using an Apple Magic Mouse, a default setting applicable to it is that a soft double-tap on the mouse will zoom the Safari window. A second double-tap will bring it back.
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When I click on the Nightly Windows 8 Start Screen icon it opens the Firefox 18 on desktop, how do I open Nightly on Metro?

Nightly was working on metro at first when I haven't installed Firefox 18 yet but when I installed Firefox 18 and thought it would run on metro if I set it as a default program which did not, opening nightly both on the desktop and start screen would open the firefox in the desktop instead.
I uninstalled Nightly and downloaded and installed the version 20 for 32 bit. When I looked on the default programs to set Nightly all I could see is Nightly on the list but the icon has changed to that of Firefox's. I set it as default and still it doesn't open as metro.
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This is because the regular central Nightly channel builds is only the desktop version. The version on Nightly development channel is at 21.0a1 now actually.
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http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-elm/
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How do I use the commands to start and restart the jmqbroker normally?

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[28/Jun/2002:18:29:08 GMT+08:00] [B1039]: Broker "jmqbroker" ready.
The prompt is hanged until I press CTRL-C.
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[28/Jun/2002:18:32:07 GMT+08:00] [B1077]: Broadcast good-bye to all
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[28/Jun/2002:18:32:07 GMT+08:00] [B1056] Cleaning up persistent
store...
[28/Jun/2002:18:32:07 GMT+08:00] proceessing 0 messages and cleaning
up 0 files...
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When you CTRL-C the process, it has the same effect
as using jmqcmd to shutdown the broker. And so after that,
there's no jmq processes running since you have just
shutdown the broker.
Remember that the jmqcmd/jmqadmin 'restart' command is to
restart an already running broker. jmcmd/jmqadmin does
not support starting a new broker instance.
If you are using csh, end the jmqcmd command with an ampersand ("&")
to have the broker running in the background. An alternative is to
stop the process with Ctrl-Z then input the command "bg" to have that
process resumed in the background.
The problem with not being able to start a broker using the
administration console is a documented limitation of the product that
Yvonne also mentioned. Check the Administrator's Guide for that.

Adobe Applications disappeared from my Windows 8 start screen

Hi,
After a recent update to my creative cloud all my adobe apps have disappeared from my windows 8 start screen. And when I search from them from the start screen it can't find them.
If I use file explorer I can navigate to them, and the apps are still pinned to my task bar.
Any ideas?
Oh, and another issue I've just noticed, my creative cloud app won't log me in. Everytime I login it immediatly says "you have been signed out, please login in to continue.

Try this discussion link:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1444190?tstart=0#discussion-6273921
For Windows 7, in short, you need to delete a file in the local files folder - basically resets linkages or something to the creative cloud. Then restart the CC desktop app.
I hope this helps.
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0x8007000e (E_OUTOFMEMORY) while adding a firewall rule using the windows firewall COM API

Hello,
Configuration: Windows Embedded 8 64-bit.
I'm using the Windows Firewall with Advanced Security COM API. The program uses the INetFwRules interface. Basically, I'm using the following code (Form the code sample available here : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd339604%28v=vs.85%29.aspx.)
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HRESULT hr = S_OK;
INetFwPolicy2 *pNetFwPolicy2 = NULL;
INetFwRules *pFwRules = NULL;
INetFwRule *pFwRule = NULL;
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0,
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hr = CoCreateInstance(
__uuidof(NetFwRule),
NULL,
CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER,
__uuidof(INetFwRule),
(void**)&pFwRule);
if (FAILED(hr))
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pFwRule->put_Name(bstrRuleName);
pFwRule->put_Description(bstrRuleDescription);
pFwRule->put_ApplicationName(bstrRuleApplication);
pFwRule->put_ServiceName(bstrRuleService);
pFwRule->put_Protocol(NET_FW_IP_PROTOCOL_TCP);
pFwRule->put_LocalPorts(bstrRuleLPorts);
pFwRule->put_Grouping(bstrRuleGroup);
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pFwRule->put_Action(NET_FW_ACTION_ALLOW);
pFwRule->put_Enabled(VARIANT_TRUE);
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hr = pFwRules->Add(pFwRule);
if (FAILED(hr))
printf("Firewall Rule Add failed: 0x%08lx\n", hr);
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issue.
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I'm not convinced that we ran out of memory.
Has someone experienced such an issue? How to avoid this?
Thank you in advance.
Regards, -Ruben-

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