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Yeah, I've come back to my win10 box having rebooted itself when I have had documents open. Win7 never did that. Also, win10 can't be skinned (colours yes, des

by vacri 10y ago

Yeah, I've come back to my win10 box having rebooted itself when I have had documents open. Win7 never did that. Also, win10 can't be skinned (colours yes, design no) - I actually liked the old 'glass plate' look and tried to find themes online. Nope, sucks to be me. Stupid flat design has to be preserved. Then there's all the phone-home stuff spread around that you need to disable. I miss my old Win7 box - it Just Worked™.

ntauthority 10y ago
Invasive update rebooting has been a thing by default since XP SP2, it however used to be the case the override switch to disable it was less well-hidden. Similarly, by the way, no Windows version had supported custom theming since XP - if you wanted the XP themes back on Vista/7, you were SOL too. Also, telemetry has been a thing since at least Vista, and any version since (including 10) let you disable most or all of it as a choice during installation.
- vacri 10y ago
  The update reboot thing in win7 could at least be continuously postponed for 4 hours at a time, instead of 'now or in 15 minutes, that's it'. I'd also never come back to a update-force-rebooted PC on six years of win7, whereas I have several times in the 11 months I have had win10. Win10 is qualitatively worse in this area, even if the same tickbox exists on both versions. Fair point on the theming, but the telemetry thing is much more pervasive in 10 than in 7.
GrinningFool 10y ago
I miss my Win NT 4 box the entire OS ran in under 100mb iirc and it performed very well on a range of hardware. But most of all I miss Windows 2000 where the Win9x UI met the Win NT kernel. It had some annoyances (Find tool used to be fast and not require indexing to find by name - that went away in 2000 and never came back) but it was relatively lightweight. It supported the graphics card, USB devices,and applications that I used. Most importantly it didn't do a bunch of shit without telling me.

by vacri 10y ago

ntauthority 10y ago

Invasive update rebooting has been a thing by default since XP SP2, it however used to be the case the override switch to disable it was less well-hidden. Similarly, by the way, no Windows version had supported custom theming since XP - if you wanted the XP themes back on Vista/7, you were SOL too. Also, telemetry has been a thing since at least Vista, and any version since (including 10) let you disable most or all of it as a choice during installation.

vacri 10y ago
The update reboot thing in win7 could at least be continuously postponed for 4 hours at a time, instead of 'now or in 15 minutes, that's it'. I'd also never come back to a update-force-rebooted PC on six years of win7, whereas I have several times in the 11 months I have had win10. Win10 is qualitatively worse in this area, even if the same tickbox exists on both versions. Fair point on the theming, but the telemetry thing is much more pervasive in 10 than in 7.

GrinningFool 10y ago

I miss my Win NT 4 box the entire OS ran in under 100mb iirc and it performed very well on a range of hardware. But most of all I miss Windows 2000 where the Win9x UI met the Win NT kernel. It had some annoyances (Find tool used to be fast and not require indexing to find by name - that went away in 2000 and never came back) but it was relatively lightweight. It supported the graphics card, USB devices,and applications that I used. Most importantly it didn't do a bunch of shit without telling me.