[justin66]

I found the jump to macbook from a Windows laptop to be quite easy and friendly. That sorry of thing never bothers me.

>As for metro, what are you doing that causes Metro to show up?

There are various gestures (in my case, quite literally always made by mistake) a person can make on the trackpad that cause random metro behavior. Swiping from the side or top and so on, very easy to do with a large trackpad by mistake.

Your comments about lenovo are off base in this instance. The problem with the trackpad is that it's working as Microsoft intended.

[teamonkey]

Type "swiping" on the start screen. The first option listed is "Choose to allow swiping from touchpad edges"

[justin66]

> Type "swiping" on the start screen. The first option listed is "Choose to allow swiping from touchpad edges"

Doesn't bring anything up at all on my Lenovo with 8.1. The option doesn't seem to be in PC settings either. Tried searching on "touchpad" as well. Let's see...

Your mentioning that this now exists did inspire me to dig a little more... the setting I needed was buried in the Lenovo-specific "thinkpad" tab under mouse properties: "enable gestures" on the OLD control panel.

Searching on "swiping" instead in the manner you described wouldn't actually help anyone. This setting lives in old-control-panel land and the metro screen's search only searches new-control-panel land, apparently. It's hard to know who to blame for such a thing: lenovo for using the old-school panel for its custom trackpad settings and messing with the default behavior, or MSFT for splitting settings across two completely different paradigms.

Thanks!

edit: just to be clear, I double checked Settings -> Change PC Settings -> PC and Devices -> Mouse and Touchpad settings and there is absolutely not a "Choose to allow swiping from touchpad edges" option there.

[teamonkey]

Those settings exist as I described on my Surface Pro 2 and my Dell Inspiron. The former uses a factory install of 8.1, the latter using a raw install from disc. I would say that the issue lies with your Lenovo's setup.

However the search should definitely include old style control panel options as well as the new. Again, it does for both my Surface and my Dell (it's a lot slower on the Dell since it doesn't have a SSD, but instantaneous on the Surface).

[justin66]

> However the search should definitely include old style control panel options as well as the new.

What can I say? Possibly this search was broken by whoever decided pdf and txt file searching should stop working properly for no apparent reason.

It's not all completely grim with this Lenovo laptop, though. You can replace the CD-ROM drive with a second SSD, so I'm also running Linux. :)

[bztzt]

The search charm (which typing on Start is a shortcut to) does search settings from throughout the system, including Control Panel in the desktop, but I'm not sure if third-party extensions are included in the search.

[nitrogen]

A perfect example of why search is less useful than hierarchical organization for a new user: I would've searched for "gesture" or "start page".

[teamonkey]

It's also the first result for "gesture".

But you can also find it the long way:

Settings -> Change PC Settings -> PC and Devices -> Mouse and Touchpad settings

Which is a deep but logical hierarchy, IMO.