As in Windows 8, remove the initial screen. Who is such a sysadmin? What is on the initial screen

The greatest discontent of users of the previous Windows versions when switching to a new operating system was called two things:

  1. By default, a new initial screen with "tiles" was opened, so it was necessary to click on the appropriate tile to go to the "familiar" desktop. At the next entry into the system, everything was repeated again.
  2. To turn off / restart the computer with the mouse I had to "call the magic buttons, to enter the parameters, select the shutdown and select the desired action.
With the exit, it became obvious that the developers from went to certain concessions to the "anneamians", not wanting to "redeem". Here we briefly describe the most important (useful) "chips" of Windows 8.1, which are very lacked in Windows 8.

In the usual place, the "Start" button appeared. By pressing right The mouse button on this button appears a convenient menu with the ability to immediately select shutdown or restart PC.

However, at the start of the system, tiles are still open, not a desktop. To configure the opening of the desktop instead of "tiles", you must first go to the "desktop". Then you need to click right The mouse button on the "taskbar".

Next, in the pop-up menu, select the item "Properties". The window dedicated to all settings of the taskbar and "navigation" will open. It is the "Navigation" tab, it is necessary to configure the opening of the desktop instead of the "initial screen". On this tab we find the item "When you enter the system and closing all applications to open the desktop instead of the initial screen" and put a tick.

Do not forget to click the "Apply" button, otherwise the changes will not be taken into account. Now when you turn on a computer or laptop, an old good desk will always be opened instead of the initial screen (tiles).

Recall that the licensed Windows 8 owners can absolutely update the system to Windows 8.1 - to do it through " Windows Store"If you buy one of the versions windows products 8 or

Sysadmin (he is on english language sysadmin., system Administrator.) - Abbreviated name of the profession, the full name of which in Russian sounds like system Administrator. This profession B. lately It became very popular for most young, and not so, people, she is taught, they work on it, they receive good money for it. This is connected with the rapid development of various computer technology And their penetration into all spheres of human life. The word sysadmin is often used in spoken speech, in vacancies and resumes when looking for work, in one word - everywhere. Below will be discussed that the profession of the system administrator is.

In modern realities, the system administrator can be called actually any person who is engaged in servicing and maintaining a certain work computer network, including all its hardware and / or software components that may be included:

  • Personal computers such as workstations and servers;
  • Network equipment, such as switches, routers, firewalls and much more;
  • Web Servers, Mail Servers, Database Servers, and Other.

Also in certain cases, on the shoulders of the system administrator can lie the obligations to ensure proper information security.

Depending on its specialization, the system administrator can engage in the following activities:

  • The administrator of workstations and servers is most often maintained as hardware (failed motherboards, chanting power supplies) and software (Windows not loaded, the commas are not printed in Word "E ...).
  • Administrator corporate network Based on a domain Active Directory. Very popular occupation, given the prevalence of Windows operating systems, as well as the need for them to somehow control them. Such a specialist should be able to create, distribute in groups, edit users, give them the appropriate rights in the AD domain, as well as be able to manage group politicians For users, their computers and groups in which they are all consist.
  • Administration of networks and network equipment. Its responsibilities include knowledge topology of networks, the ability to work with both not customizable and with customizable network equipment, local planning computing network, as well as the possibility of combining into one network of several jobs distant from each other, by setting up NAT "OV and VPN" s. It is not necessary to forget the access and control of access within this network, and beyond the proxy setting.
  • The web server administrator, which should at least be able to install, customize and serve one of the following web servers - Apache, IIS, Nginx, follow the hosting (which can be located both within the organization's network and outside it). In addition, a good administrator should be able to customize the normal distribution of resources at high loads, clustering and many other specific things.
  • Administration mail Server The same is the common task for the sysadmin, its task includes working with such popular solutions such as Exim, Microsoft Exchange, PostFix, Sendmail, or corporate mail solutions from Google or, for example, Yandex. In addition to obvious control of accounts (creation, deletion, configuration), it is also necessary to be able to configure the antispam system and so on.
  • Site administrator. These duties can enter as simply some kind of content content, but once we are talking About the system administrator, then in theory he should be able to be able to configure hosting (including a web server, which has already been mentioned above), install and configure the desired website, such as any content management system (CMS).
  • The task of creating or maintaining a video surveillance system may become quite rarely for the obligations of the system administrator. In tasks, installing and configuring cameras, responding to various events, saving and playing records. Refers to system administration weakly, and often falls into its duties on part-time to any other duties.

Over the board of the system administrator class described above, such possible things are left as database administration ( Microsoft SQL., MySQL and its multiple branches, Oracle, etc.), administration 1C (not to be confused with "Programmer 1C"), PBX and much more.

After installing the operating room windows systems 8 on start screen There is a set of tiles, similar to the list of frequently used programs in the "Start" menu of the previous versions of the windows. A tiles set, which Microsoft or the computer manufacturer considered are revealed to the screen.

As a rule, these are not at all those applications that the user would like to see, but fortunately, this list can be configured to your taste and desire.

Removal tiles

First of all, it is necessary to remove unnecessary tiles from the initial screen Windows 8. To do this, select the tile of interest and click on the item item that appears: "Out from the initial screen."

In order to highlight one or more tiles immediately, you need to click on them right-click Mouse.

note: When allocating a group of tiles may not be available all actions.

Adding tiles

Add tiles to the initial screen may be several ways. The most common of them:

List "All applications". To begin with, you should get into the list of all installed applications. What to do is to make the right mouse click on the empty area on the screen and the Select All Applications item appears. The window that opens will display a list of all programs on the computer.

You can add tile with a program or application to the Windows 8 initial screen by highlighting it from the menu list and press the "Stop on the initial screen" button.

Search. If you need a specific program, but you do not know its location, it is enough to use the means windows search 8, which are available on the initial screen. On the search results page, highlight the necessary program And add it to the initial screen with the "Stop on the initial screen" button.

Desktop. You can also add desktop items to the starting screen tiles: basket, folders, files, etc. To do this, select the item of interest, click the right mouse button and select "Fix on the initial screen" in the drop-down menu.

Plate alignment

After drawing up an individual list of tiles, they can also be placed on their taste. In order to place the tiles on the initial screen, it is enough to drag into the desired location by holding the element with the left mouse button.

In this case, the remaining tiles will automatically be placed around the drag-free object. If necessary, you can highlight a specific group of tiles and arrange it separately from the rest.

IN previous versions Windows applications designated icons (icons) - simple graphic objectsnot having almost no dynamics and expressiveness. Instead, tiles are used for the first time Windows Phone. The tiles displays dynamic information from selected applications, even if they are not running. For those who are not familiar with mobile platform Microsoft, expressiveness of this element user interface May be rather unexpected.

Tiles - in Windows Phone they are called "live tiles" - located on the start windows screen 8 (Start Screen) and denote, desktop programs, web pages, Explorer folders (Explorer) and other objects, including information from some special Metro applications (about it, a little later).

In the standard tile format, simple opaque rectangles or squares are automatically distributed over the initial screen into several rows.

If you touch the tile (or allocate it in any other way), an application or an interface associated with this tile will start. For example, if you click on the Mail Tile (Mail), the mail application opens.

More interesting: Many tiles can display dynamically updated information in real time, even if the corresponding application is not started. To interact with this information in the tiles, various styles of text, images, including on all tiles, and status designations (for example, to indicate the number of unread letters, etc.).

Take, for example, the calendar application (Calendar). After synchronization with one or more accounts, it dynamically displays information about the upcoming events. Most often, it is precisely this user information that is interesting, so run the application and look for events in it manually turns out to be no longer necessary.

The mail tile works at almost the same way: in turn it shows to the five most recent letters, and in the lower right corner displays an icon indicating the number of unread messages.

There are tiles to which images are displayed. For example, the desktop tile shows the desktop background, and the tile of the "Photos" application is a slideshow from photos from hard disk and all kinds of network services.

Of course, the tiles can be scaled, making them less (square) or more (rectangular). Square tiles occupy less space on the screen and look not so expressive as larger rectangular. But this does not mean that they are not updated. As you can see, the tiles of the "Photos" and Weather applications (Weather) show useful updates even in a reduced form.

As an application responds to scaling, depends on the developer, so not all small tiles are so useful. For example, the tile "Mail" does not indicate in a reduced form no valuable information, and the "calendar" displays only current date. And of course, the tiles update can be simply turned off by returning them to the original static state.

Applications may be offered additional features Personalization at the expense of internal links. You can create a new tile directly from the application so that it opens up a specific state of this application. For example, the weather application allows you to create subsidiary tiles for individual cities, and the mail application is for individual folders:

Daughter tiles are created equally in all applications that support this function. It is enough to call the application panel (by right-clicking either by activating the top or bottom border of the screen) and select the "Secure on the Home screen" option (PIN TO START). In the pop-up window, you can assign a suitable name.

By the way, child tiles are displayed in the "All Apps" list along with the "real" applications, so that they can be found.

As soon as you start using Metro applications, the initial screen is an empty field with opaque tiles - will magically revive. And although this screenshot does not transmit an interesting effect of constant renewal of tiles in real time, it is still noticeable that the full-fledged start screen looks much more likely than the original untouched.

I immediately liked live tiles in Windows Phone, and enhancements implemented by Microsoft in Windows 8 look very interesting. In this operating systemDesigned for both computers and devices, Microsoft offers larger, more expressive tiles with advanced personalization capabilities. In addition, they are much brighter, because applications developers can use their own colors, and not limited to a specified color accent as in Windows Phone. (Remains true, the question is why users are not allowed to change colors on their own.) The only significant lack of tiles, of course, is that desktop computer They are not particularly useful, and since the initial screen cannot be viewed in parallel with the desktop, few people use it useful interface. But users of tablets and other similar devices Tiles will certainly come to the soul of no less than the owners of smartphones on windows database Phone.

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