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Microsoft Releases Windows 10 Build 18290 With Start Menu Improvements (betanews.com)
DarkRookie2 shares a report a report about Windows 10 Build 18290 for Insiders, which comes with a number of improvements and additions. BetaNews reports: The most noticeable change is to the Start menu which gets a touch of Fluent design, making it look more attractive. Icons have also been added to the power and user menus. The Search and Cortana areas have been given a bit of a cleanup as well. Also new in this build is an option in the Date & Time Settings that will let you manually synchronize your clock with the time server. If you suspect your PC clock might be showing the wrong time, this will let you check and correct the problem if you're right. You can now also check to see which app is using your microphone (just hover over the microphone icon to see), and when your PC has an update that requires a reboot, you'll now be informed via an orange Windows Update indicator in the system tray.
Exactly. Worst thing ever for productivity is having the UI change on someone else's terms. Bet they make it even harder to remove shitware like the XBOX app and Tripadvisor from the start menu, because those are necessary apps for a work computer.
Don't even get me started on those annoying as hell tiles that dont belong anywhere on a PC.
it was great. it was predictable, reliable, and just fucking worked. vista had one too. it was like that as well, and so was xp's. me and 98 and 95 and 2000 and nt all had them. and they all. were wonderful.
8 did not have one. 10 **DOES NOT** have one
10's "start menu" is the "start screen" from windows 8 shrunk down somewhat. tiles on one side and the 'app list' (from the downarrow on 8's start screen) on the other.
classicshell, now known as, open shell is a god damn start menu. 10's is not. it's an abomination, as is the 'metro' or whatever the fuck they call it today 'settings' vs the former 'control panel'. it's all fucking bullshit.
shitty ui changes. shitty updates. shitty user tracking. shitty ads. shitty forced installs. shitty nudges to 'the cloud'. shitty privacy policy and update policies. shitty everything. welcome to your new pc experience.
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windows 7 users have just over one year to decide what the fuck they're gonna do. suffer needlessly forevermore or switch. ubuntu downloads are >> thataway >> https://www.ubuntu.com/
Besides having a weird time delay (experienced on many systems) where the OS doesn't pick up the first couple of letters in the password field, start menu, etc. So you have to 'wait' for it to catch up after pressing alt-ctrl-del when logging in, pressing start to search, and all number of actions that should be quick and thoughtless...
It also has a search that doesn't work as good as windows 7s. Someone it has gone backwards. Want to quickly get Notepad++?
Press start button (on keyboard) and type note... wait it didnt pick up the n, so its got 'ote'.. it worked out you wanted "Notepad" and every file indexed on the system with 'ote' in it, but no other application on the system with the string 'ote'. NotePad++ is picked up with 'ote', and Windows 7 doesnt have a stupid delay after pressing hotkeys.
Call me when they include a classic shell option. I absolutely hate the new Windows 10 start menu. Yes, there is a third party utility that can provide such a menu, but the author has complained about how each new version of Windows makes it increasingly difficult to keep the utility functional.
As someone who actually organizes and extensively uses keyboard shortcuts with the Start Menu, this writeup hits home : http://www.classicshell.net/wh...
My experience of Windows 10 has mostly been blighted my the forced restarts, until I found out how to turn them off.
For reference go to %windir%\System32\Tasks\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator, rename the "Restart" file and create a folder called "Restart" so that Windows can't re-create it.
Other than that it's okay. Multiple desktops are nice, although it resets the order of items on the task bar whenever you switch. It's janky crap like that which never gets fixed that erodes what little faith I had in Microsoft after Windows 7 was actually kinda good.
The start menu is still a crap way to organize apps.
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