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I must say I am rather disappointed with most changes discussed here. They all seem very superficial changes and I wish they would solve/improve other things. S
by roesel 9y ago
I must say I am rather disappointed with most changes discussed here. They all seem very superficial changes and I wish they would solve/improve other things. Some examples include:
1. Bring the "power plan" (balanced/presentation/high performance) switching into the tray battery icon next to "Battery saver", which is independent of the "battery saver" power plan. This seems (!) like an easy change which many users would adore.
2. Finally unifying settings into one and only one place instead of having a "Settings" app only to find that every other thing you want to change eventually leads to the old setting window which hasn't changed since at least Windows XP.
3. Fix the occassionally horrific Start search, which will do things like find "Word 2016" as "Best match" when having pressed "wo", but once another "r" is pressed to make the search string "wor", the "Best match" changes to "Wordpad". Way too often does it happen, that you notice the best match as you're typing and then hit Enter only to find that by the time another letter was pressed (still the right one considering the current "Best match"!!), the "Best match" changed to something else.
That's in the cases where the Search only finds programs installed to a specific date and is not able to find anything newer, which has already happened on two computers I've seen. Not even mentioning that the "best match" gets updated with time even when no new keys are pressed. So the same can happen just due to the "Best match" changing between you start and finish the movement to hit "Enter".
4. Finish improving the horrific thing that is looking up a network drive/device using explorer.exe, leading to freezes and delayed error popups that feel very Windows 95ish.
5. Maybe change that a window of Explorer becomes unresponsive if waiting for a HDD to spin up. This happens regularly if your system is on an SSD and you have a second disk (HDD) mounted on another letter (D:\). When you haven't clicked that disk for a while, everything freezes between you clicking on it and it spinning up to start reading.
But hey, let's add another presumably more sexy and unifying look to the uppermost layers of the system.
Edit: Maybe they did other under-the-hood changes that are just not being discussed. If so, where would one find them?
- WorldMaker 9y ago> Maybe they did other under-the-hood changes that are just not being discussed. If so, where would one find them? Yeah the article here is explicitly "10 Best New Features" and so doesn't explicitly include improvements to old features, and clearly doesn't represent the breadth of changes in the Windows release. The easiest way to find hints about just about every change made in the update is probably to browse through the Windows Insider blogs. They are quite detailed and rather intimate looks into the changelog of Windows over time. I don't know if anyone is building a good summary of everything that changes. Some of the area-specific blogs will do summary posts just before the release of everything going into the release; in particular I'm thinking about summary posts I've seen from the Windows Subsystem for Linux team (biggest tl;dr: multiple distro support, side-by-side distro-support, no need for Developer Mode anymore, just download distro(s) of your choice from Windows Store) and Windows CLI/CMD.exe team. As with each previous update, more Settings have incrementally moved to the modern Settings app, per your point 2. That likely will remain a slower process than everyone would like (there are a lot of Windows settings), but they continue to work on it. I can't speak to most of your other points as they've not been personal pain points for me; I don't do most of them often enough to notice.
- roesel 9y agoThank you for the nice reply. I will try to look into the changelogs/blogposts and keep hoping that someone someday will address my pain points.
- chrisper 9y agoMaybe this changelog is better? https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/76t8r4/windows_10_fall_creators_update1709_megathread/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/76t8r4/windows_1...