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I can't provide any specifics other than to say I've used all these version of Windows over my lifetime: Windows 3.x Windows for Work Groups Window

by jussij 11y ago

I can't provide any specifics other than to say I've used all these version of Windows over my lifetime: Windows 3.x Windows for Work Groups Windows 95 Windows Me Windows XP Windows Vista Windows 7 Windows 10 Of all those systems, Windows 10 is by far the worst system I have had to use. Everything has changed, nothing works like it once did, things that should would just don't work! But wait, not everything is bad. It does boot really fast!!! I purchased all new hardware and took Windows 10 as the $AUD 250.00 OS option. I could have got Windows 7 as a cheaper option and should have done so......

UK-AL 11y ago
Still no specifics
- jussij 11y ago
  OK, here is an example. I ran into the all too common Start Button not working issue: https://www.techmesto.com/fix-start-menu-broken-windows-10-technical-preview/ https://www.techmesto.com/fix-start-menu-broken-windows-10-t... After about three days I found out this was cause by me changing the location of the users Document and Setting folder, using the Location option as provided by Windows 10 itself. To cut a long story short, DON'T TOUCH the location of that folder as it will break lots of things in Windows 10. Also Windows 10 puts a new GUI layer over everything, so of course all your years of Windows knowledge is lost. And here's another example of why that is just stupid. There is a new GUI to create new user accounts and it is very easy to create new accounts, that is until the button stops working. You click on the button but nothing happens. No message, no nothing. So when that happens what do you do? You spend another two days searching, only to find the solution is to bypass the Windows 10 GUI and hit the old Windows layer using this bit of magic: Open command prompt in Admin mode control userpassword2 Running that command gives you the old Windows 7 user management dialog. Finally, Windows 10 seems to have an annoying intermittent habit of not understanding focus and z-order. You click on a button and nothing happens. You click on the button again and nothing happens. You click on the button a third time and this time you notice the task bar flicker, only to find you have three new instances all hiding behind the current application. That seems to happen a lot in the Settings panels.
  - jussij 11y ago
    And here is another example of stupid change for the sake of change. In all previous Windows you could select and application using the start menu, right click and use the send to option to create a desktop shortcut. Windows 10 has no such option. To create a shortcut in Windows 10 you have to use the option to open the folder in explorer and from there you can then create the desktop short-cut.
    - jussij 11y ago
      And here is another issue that has just started to occur on a rather annoying, regular basis. Right click on the task bar, hoping to bring up a menu so you can select the task manager to kill an errant application. Instead you get a pop up menu that display, each menu item but without any text. So you get a popup menu a few millimetres in width. Needless to say it is a useless, unusable popup menu, but luckily a reboot does fix the issue.
alkonaut 11y ago
Who charges more for Win10 when 7/8 gives you 10 for free? Doesn't the free upgrade apply if you buy 7 today? Also: I have seen zero things I like less in Win10 than Win8.1 (save maybe for the privacy things). Can't imagine what they would be? Win7 was great, Win10 is (almost) what Win8 should have been if they had finished it before shipping.
soylentcola 11y ago
Not discounting your experiences but I've upgraded several computers from 7/8x to 10 and had few to no issues. On my one laptop I think it originally tried to install the wrong touchpad driver through Windows Update but I solved this by disabling that update, reinstalling the correct driver, and then a week later, Windows Update sent me a newer version of the correct driver so it looks like that was fixed. The only real annoyance I had was that for each upgrade (I think I upgraded 5 PCs) I initially had to adjust a few settings where I had preferences other than the default (disable search bar, disable web results in search, make Explorer open on "This PC" instead of recent/frequent apps, disable OneDrive since I don't use it). Pretty annoying but takes 5 minutes and only needed to do it upon initial upgrade. Not saying these are positive things at all but I'm a realist and I've never installed an OS or major upgrade where I didn't have to spend 5-10 minutes setting things up "my way" on first boot. Otherwise, no BSODs, no broken applications, and a bit quicker and up to date than 7/8x. If anything, I was pleasantly surprised that an in-place Windows upgrade actually worked on all of my machines. In the past I always did clean installs but figured the free upgrade was enough incentive to give it a shot. If it didn't work, I could always clean install afterward but haven't had to.

by jussij 11y ago

UK-AL 11y ago

Still no specifics

jussij 11y ago
OK, here is an example. I ran into the all too common Start Button not working issue: https://www.techmesto.com/fix-start-menu-broken-windows-10-technical-preview/ https://www.techmesto.com/fix-start-menu-broken-windows-10-t... After about three days I found out this was cause by me changing the location of the users Document and Setting folder, using the Location option as provided by Windows 10 itself. To cut a long story short, DON'T TOUCH the location of that folder as it will break lots of things in Windows 10. Also Windows 10 puts a new GUI layer over everything, so of course all your years of Windows knowledge is lost. And here's another example of why that is just stupid. There is a new GUI to create new user accounts and it is very easy to create new accounts, that is until the button stops working. You click on the button but nothing happens. No message, no nothing. So when that happens what do you do? You spend another two days searching, only to find the solution is to bypass the Windows 10 GUI and hit the old Windows layer using this bit of magic: Open command prompt in Admin mode control userpassword2 Running that command gives you the old Windows 7 user management dialog. Finally, Windows 10 seems to have an annoying intermittent habit of not understanding focus and z-order. You click on a button and nothing happens. You click on the button again and nothing happens. You click on the button a third time and this time you notice the task bar flicker, only to find you have three new instances all hiding behind the current application. That seems to happen a lot in the Settings panels.
- jussij 11y ago
  And here is another example of stupid change for the sake of change. In all previous Windows you could select and application using the start menu, right click and use the send to option to create a desktop shortcut. Windows 10 has no such option. To create a shortcut in Windows 10 you have to use the option to open the folder in explorer and from there you can then create the desktop short-cut.
  - jussij 11y ago
    And here is another issue that has just started to occur on a rather annoying, regular basis. Right click on the task bar, hoping to bring up a menu so you can select the task manager to kill an errant application. Instead you get a pop up menu that display, each menu item but without any text. So you get a popup menu a few millimetres in width. Needless to say it is a useless, unusable popup menu, but luckily a reboot does fix the issue.

alkonaut 11y ago

Who charges more for Win10 when 7/8 gives you 10 for free? Doesn't the free upgrade apply if you buy 7 today? Also: I have seen zero things I like less in Win10 than Win8.1 (save maybe for the privacy things). Can't imagine what they would be? Win7 was great, Win10 is (almost) what Win8 should have been if they had finished it before shipping.

soylentcola 11y ago

Not discounting your experiences but I've upgraded several computers from 7/8x to 10 and had few to no issues. On my one laptop I think it originally tried to install the wrong touchpad driver through Windows Update but I solved this by disabling that update, reinstalling the correct driver, and then a week later, Windows Update sent me a newer version of the correct driver so it looks like that was fixed. The only real annoyance I had was that for each upgrade (I think I upgraded 5 PCs) I initially had to adjust a few settings where I had preferences other than the default (disable search bar, disable web results in search, make Explorer open on "This PC" instead of recent/frequent apps, disable OneDrive since I don't use it). Pretty annoying but takes 5 minutes and only needed to do it upon initial upgrade. Not saying these are positive things at all but I'm a realist and I've never installed an OS or major upgrade where I didn't have to spend 5-10 minutes setting things up "my way" on first boot. Otherwise, no BSODs, no broken applications, and a bit quicker and up to date than 7/8x. If anything, I was pleasantly surprised that an in-place Windows upgrade actually worked on all of my machines. In the past I always did clean installs but figured the free upgrade was enough incentive to give it a shot. If it didn't work, I could always clean install afterward but haven't had to.