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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-pre
by 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 agoAnd 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 agoAnd 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.