OS and Software > Microsoft Help > [WIN8] Some Observations about Windows 8

I enabled the built-in administrator account as that is where I install all my applications.

• None of the "Metro Apps" (Weather, Bing, Store, etc) work when you are logged in as the local administrator account. When you try to launch them, you get a nice dialog box telling you that they don't work. You either have to use a different local account, or a Microsoft live account.

• It appears you can only open one instance of the Control Panel at a time. In Windows 7, if I clicked the icon for Control Panel from the start menu, and then clicked on "System and Security", I could go back and click the icon again for Control Panel, and get a new instance. With that instance, I could then click on "Hardware and Sound", and have both open at the same time. If I try to do that in Windows 8, it just takes me to the current window. Does anyone know why it works this way?

• If you create a shortcut to Internet Explorer (target of the shortcut being C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe), and place it on your desktop, it will of course launch IE as one would expect. However, if you place that shortcut into "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs", and then try to launch it from inside of Metro, it will launch IE inside of Metro (not take you back out of Metro, and run it from there). As another test, I created a sub-directory called "Internet Items" at "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs", and put two things in it. A shortcut to Waterfox, and the IE shortcut. Upon launching Metro, the IE shortcut was "removed", leaving just Waterfox under the "Internet Items" heading. However, if I went and looked at the actual directory, the IE shortcut was still there. It appears to me that Windows 8 is converting the IE shortcut to an "App", as it does place a tile for "Internet Explorer" on the left-hand side of the "All Apps" screen in the same place that other Metro Apps would be listed. As with other Apps, you cannot run this from the local administrator account.

Just a force of habit I guess. I've always used the local administrator account to do the initial setup (install drivers, service packs, the first set of applications, modify global settings like power options, and so on.)

Once everything was done, I would then use another local account for my day to day work. While I should probably be running that account as a non-admin, I have not made the switch yet. Nothing stopping me from doing so, just have not done it.

--Brian

Of course, Metro apps are sandboxed apps, they should not be run as Administrator. It is as intended for much better security reason.

Strange, it opens a new control panel after I chose System and Security. How do you load the Control Panel? From Start screen? The way I go to Control Panel is RIGHT click the start corner and choose Control Panel when the menu shows up

Go to Internet Option then click on Program Tab and you should see the option there

I wonder if there is a way to fix that, or if that was by design?

By design. »blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsappdev/a···uot.aspx

Its just interesting that Metro is not able to tell the difference between a metro application, and a non-metro application when it comes to how they are launched.

--Brian

Hold down shift key and click.

You're in an app, and you go back to the start screen to open the app a second time? This is faster than using New in the app?

Metro behavior is to reuse the app even if its a desktop app by default.

To get the behavior you want, right click the icon in Metro, and select "Open new Window"

Well, Metro (don't call it Metro!) is not Start. If you want desktop behavior, put an icon on your desktop, or pin it to the taskbar.