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> Who needs a shortcut to Ease of Access settings, or to the narrator? Seriously? Those are probably the most important shortcuts on there. Having a way to imm

> Who needs a shortcut to Ease of Access settings, or to the narrator? Seriously? Those are probably the most important shortcuts on there. Having a way to immediately jump to accessibility settings is critical for all of the people who need those tools when they sit down at an unfamiliar computer, or even their own computer. As for all of the others, yes, they should all be there. If you use it, dictation is something that's done frequently, as is use of the Game Bar (how else would you call it up during a full screen game?) and virtual desktops. > Microsoft, please start removing shortcuts that no one needs, you surely must have all the telemetry data to support my point by now. The fact that they haven't removed them should be enough evidence that they are, in fact, used.

WorldMaker 8y ago
Echoing the part that if you use Game Bar, you probably use it frequently. It's the easiest way to pull up a clock in a fullscreen game without losing focus from the game. There's also useful things there like screenshot capture, multi-window volume control, and game mode control (prioritize the game's threads over background work on the PC; sometimes you do want to enable/disable it based on if you need a compile to happen in the background sometime soon or if you want to focus on the best gaming experience you can get). (Furthermore, the updates to the Game Bar currently in Xbox Insider Preview right now add a ton of new useful widgets including things like direct access to your Xbox Friends list without needing to jump to the Xbox App. It's becoming an even better PC-world equivalent to the Xbox Guide blades on an Xbox One. Bringing things closer to what you can do with the Discord or Steam overlays, but universal across all your games rather than developer or launcher specific. [Hopefully the widgets will be extensible in the future and maybe help us move to a world where it can eat those other two overlays; one overlay to rule them all.])

WorldMaker 8y ago

Echoing the part that if you use Game Bar, you probably use it frequently. It's the easiest way to pull up a clock in a fullscreen game without losing focus from the game. There's also useful things there like screenshot capture, multi-window volume control, and game mode control (prioritize the game's threads over background work on the PC; sometimes you do want to enable/disable it based on if you need a compile to happen in the background sometime soon or if you want to focus on the best gaming experience you can get). (Furthermore, the updates to the Game Bar currently in Xbox Insider Preview right now add a ton of new useful widgets including things like direct access to your Xbox Friends list without needing to jump to the Xbox App. It's becoming an even better PC-world equivalent to the Xbox Guide blades on an Xbox One. Bringing things closer to what you can do with the Discord or Steam overlays, but universal across all your games rather than developer or launcher specific. [Hopefully the widgets will be extensible in the future and maybe help us move to a world where it can eat those other two overlays; one overlay to rule them all.])