my grip with windows 10

hans_2

kwikbreaks wrote: »

I suspect you mean 17 seconds to the login. The OP says 20 seconds to the desktop which isn't the same thing.

IMO an SSD is currently the most cost effective upgrade you can make. On my desktop machines I've installed comparatively small SSDs as the main Windows drive and used the old mechanical drive for mass storage. On my laptop I've just made do with a smallish SSD.

I know what the desktop is and do not need to login.;)

londonTiger

jshm2 wrote: »

Hi LondonTiger

I don't think you've got the right W10 version if you think everything in it is "superficial" - it's quite a masterwork compared to the mess that was Windows 8

As for your issue. You are confused to the actual changes in W10 over other versions. You are probably using the inbuilt PDF reader app and this is locking your files as it reads the data in them to index.

This isn't very good compared to Foxit or Adobe PDF reader. You should install either program and set it as the default PDF app.

It may also be worth your while heading over to ninite.com and installing the essential apps there. This will help you get more out of your Windows 10.

Windows Explorer never was mean't to be a comprehensive tool like total commander. Suggest you try it instead

thanks for the condescending remark. You missed the bit where I said I closed down the pdf reader (adobe) and tried to delete and windows STILL says the file is being used by another process. Then I disable file previews and THEN it allows me to delete.

londonTiger

RumRat wrote: »

Few people are that worried about boot time unless they have really old machines. Mine takes around 30 - 35 seconds from cold to desktop with W10, no SSD.
If it took another 30 seconds it would be fast enough to be honest. I turn it on once a day from cold, sometimes less if I've left it on overnight doing something. Nothing could be that urgent that I would gain from it being faster.
That said, I do agree that SSD is a great upgrade, especially now the sizes are increasing and prices are beginning to hit sensible territory.

I have a really crap mobo which takes 15 seconds to POST. Reserached it to death and no solution available this is a feature of the motherboard. If I changed MOBO onto someone faster I'm sure I can cut that boot time down a lot more.

aardvaak

When I had it I found shut down hard to find and took much longer to shut down to Win 7

Fightsback

jshm2 wrote: »

Windows Explorer never was mean't to be a comprehensive tool like total commander. Suggest you try it instead

WE a laughable embarrassment, should have a lot more power features especially in Pro and up, Microsoft should look at KDE's Dolphin.

Kendall80

kwikbreaks wrote: »

I suspect you mean 17 seconds to the login. The OP says 20 seconds to the desktop which isn't the same thing.

IMO an SSD is currently the most cost effective upgrade you can make. On my desktop machines I've installed comparatively small SSDs as the main Windows drive and used the old mechanical drive for mass storage. On my laptop I've just made do with a smallish SSD.

SSDs are a great upgrade. I have a 128Gb one for windows and programs and 4TB of 7200 rpm Sata 3 storage. Benchmarking the 2 shows that my SSD is roughly 2x the speed of my storage drive. Therefore while admittedly there are other factors in play thats a halving of the boot time. High end games also run great from SSDs with very low loading times. I do wonder though just how many are still running them under IDE mode rather than AHCI. A small, easily overlooked detail which significantly affects SSD performance.

wongataa

Daz2009 wrote: »

3.When I awaken the pc after putting it to sleep I used to just press the space bar but now it brings up a sign in screen.

This is the secure option. It was there in in Windows 7 as well but you must have had it turned off.

Daz2009

wongataa wrote: »

This is the secure option. It was there in in Windows 7 as well but you must have had it turned off.

Where is the secure option in settings ? I haven't set a password btw as I'm the only one with access to the computer

hans_2

Daz2009 wrote: »

Where is the secure option in settings ? I haven't set a password btw as I'm the only one with access to the computer

System / Power and Sleep/ Advanced Power Settings/ Require a password on wakeup/ Don't require a password

stockton_2

Daz2009 wrote: »

Where is the secure option in settings ? I haven't set a password btw as I'm the only one with access to the computer

I never used to set passwords. Then last year a neighbour was hospitalized after slipping on ice and breaking her hip. Trusted friends looked after her house for her and made themselves at home with her PC. When the neighbour returned home her computer had crashed and she had a devil of a job sorting it out.

I always use a password now: