Yup.
I'm working on a set of If you really must have windows 10, do-this lists for the users I support. It includes: Add 'UK to the location list, set UK as the default, remove US from the list - and regain the date currency and number formatting you had in your UK install of Win 7. Don't accept installing Edge - you'll only find you need to revert to your prior browser to do things like save pages, cut&paste links, find entries in favourites If you were a win7 user Create a toolbar for the programs folder Set Windows Defender to exclude the OS drive - or the continual drive usage will flatten your battery Do not have your system connected to the outside world at power-on or you may be able to enjoy the black screen of system has died while the PC downloads and then applies fixes. Do not turn off power at the wall when the screen goes black - windows 10 may have 2, or even more minutes processing to do before the system actually stops Every day check if the system has some updates to do, and if so tell it to wait a week before applying them - then immediately call support about them - We will probably say - OK - when you have a couple of hours to spare, do a system backup and then set the system to install the updates without delay. The pain goes on - but basically seems to be addressing situations where MS has deemed the users to be too stupid to be trusted with the facilities they used regularly on their windows 7 systems. As in there seems to have been MS decisions along the lines of: We'll cripple the browser - that will ensure users get a third-party one We'll cripple the system maintenance control panel - that'll convince them to buy from Apple, or go Linux We'll thrash the hard drive all day and night whenever they are not actually running their work - that'll keep their 'green' hard drives warm, using lots of power We'll hide lots of their programs from them - only let them see 500 of the items that used to be shown in All Programs, and - to heighten the user experience, chop the ends of the files names What else can we do to annoy them - Stop showing the MB/GB of files being selected, moved, copied, or deleted Delay updating file explorer lists - so they can't see that files have been added or deleted to/from the displayed folder. And - while we are doing that - lets report folders as empty when they have lots of files in them - And when a folder seems to contain a restricted type of files - such as mp3's lets not show file sizes or creation dates We can also automatically use large icons for picture files rather than list the file entries And - how about a larger font and fold details into 2 lines to restrict how many entries the user can see on their nice wide aspect screens. The annoyances go on - why , why, dear sweet Microsoft not actually improve the working facilities that made earlier versions of windows fairly easy to use - rather than actually removing the better - helpful features - or using the half-completed efforts of this year's trainee intake (summer holiday work experience people) as a replacement for products that may have been poorly maintained, but had at least been the subject of many years usage considerations. The whinge will continue - for months, if not for years unless all those I support are moved to Linux, or Apple JimB From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of J- P Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2015 6:52 PM To: NT Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] I need your vote: +1 Jean-Paul Natola > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] I need your vote: > Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 09:22:48 -0800 > To: [email protected] > > Happy to oblige. > > - Sean > > > On Aug 25, 2015, at 9:19 AM, Susan Bradley <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > No, I'm not running for President, I need your vote to help Microsoft understand that lack of communication in Windows 10 patching KBs is hurting/not helping. > > > > We need coherent Knowledge base articles for Windows 10 update releases - Feature Suggestions for Windows: > > https://windows.uservoice.com/forums/265757-windows-feature-suggestions/suggesti ons/9483897-we-need-coherent-knowledge-base-articles-for-windo > > > > -- > > > > > > > > > >
