Windows 10

50Twuncle

Just found another issue with Win 10
My Asus laptop battery was getting low on charge and on booting up to Win 10 - Win 10 obviously decided that it knew better and went in to Hibernation mode - no amount of charging would get it out of this mode - so eventually, I had to reset it, by removing the battery and refitting it !!

RumRat

esuhl wrote: »

So many choices... all badly thought out, impairing the usability of the OS. This is basic stuff. God knows what Microsoft are playing at.

Not exactly sure what the problem is with it? There is nothing that can't be found quickly, should you want to.
I guess this means that you won't be using it...:(:D.......May the force be with you and yours for Christmas....

esuhl

RumRat wrote: »

Not exactly sure what the problem is with it? There is nothing that can't be found quickly, should you want to.

I disagree. Nothing can be found quickly, unless it's one of the small number of programs you managed to fit on the menu by laboriously dragging it to a random position.

How do you create a hierarchical tree of grouped applications? How do you get 150 programs to be easily accessible from small groups without having to scroll through a huge list or having committed the name of every program you use to memory.

I don't get it. I suppose some people buy expensive computers and only ever use them to surf the web and play Solitaire so the shiny novelty of a new UI is more appealing than common-sense functionality.

RumRat wrote: »

I guess this means that you won't be using it...:(:D.......

Yep. Having recently had Windows 7 fail on me, I've been left with XP as my only usable Windows OS and I've realised how I don't even need Windows 7.

I only use three Windows applications. One requires a native (non-VM) Windows XP installation, one requires native Win XP or 7, and one can run in a Windows VM under Linux.

So, thankfully, I can avoid Windows completely for the most part. You should give Linux a go. It's like a breath of fresh air after the bloated monstrosity that is Windows. Don't the repeated manual updates just grind you down? No wonder you refer to Windows 10 as "the dark side"! It's almost designed to sap your productivity!

RumRat wrote: »

May the force be with you and yours for Christmas....

You too! May the light of Linux guide your way through these dark times! :cool:

RumRat

esuhl wrote: »

You too! May the light of Linux guide your way through these dark times! :cool:

Thanks.
Me using Linux as likely as you using Windows 10...;)

hans_2

Still working fine after installation of Windows 10 Cumulative Update KB3124200 available now.

ChiefGrasscutter

RumRat wrote: »

Not exactly sure what the problem is with it?

Well given that even MS are not daring to foist this upgrade by stealth process onto the corporate users of win 7 Enterprise edition I'd say MS know full well that there are lots of "issues" with Win 10.
The very last thing MS needs is the high spending big business to go bat-sheet mad with fury at having win 10 dumped on them.

That, and the fact that it is currently free should tell you all you need to know.

esuhl

RumRat wrote: »

Thanks.
Me using Linux as likely as you using Windows 10...;)

Ha ha! If only... I'll no doubt end up using W10 at some point, just not as my main OS. Hopefully not for a few years yet, though!

Still, the great thing is we can both choose a system we're happy with.

mart44

esuhl wrote: »

I don't get it. I suppose some people buy expensive computers and only ever use them to surf the web and play Solitaire so the shiny novelty of a new UI is more appealing than common-sense functionality.

I use Windows 10 for quite a bit more than that and find the way of locating programs and OS functions is good. Frequently used programs can be pinned to either the tiled area or Taskbar. Right-click on the Windows icon for system functions.

There are a good number of programs installed on my computer but no need to scroll the 'All apps' list to find them. Left-click on any alphabetical heading letter already showing (ABC) and the whole alphabet shows in a table. Click on the relevant alphabet letter to find a program or program group. To find 'Sandboxie' (for instance), click on 'S' and all programs beginning with that letter come into view. Sandboxie's program group is there. Expand the folder and pin anything inside it if desired.

Quicker and easier to use than the cascading menus of previous MS operating systems in my opinion.

kwikbreaks

ChiefGrasscutter wrote: »

Well given that even MS are not daring to foist this upgrade by stealth process onto the corporate users of win 7 Enterprise edition I'd say MS know full well that there are lots of "issues" with Win 10.

It's irrelevant whether there are issues or not ime corporate users always have been desperately slow to move on. I was a mainframe contractor so not concerned with the PCs and local networks but moved around and the story was pretty much the same everywhere. The last place I worked (several years back) were buying machines that had Win 7 logos but proceeded to flash them with the standard company desktop image which was Windows 2000 at that time and quite probably still is.

50Twuncle

kwikbreaks wrote: »

It's irrelevant whether there are issues or not ime corporate users always have been desperately slow to move on. I was a mainframe contractor so not concerned with the PCs and local networks but moved around and the story was pretty much the same everywhere. The last place I worked (several years back) were buying machines that had Win 7 logos but proceeded to flash them with the standard company desktop image which was Windows 2000 at that time and quite probably still is.

With me - WIndows 2000 was way too advanced
It was Windows NT4 - and that was just 5 years ago when I worked for a government department !!