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i am sad to say, microsoft can do all these things. they can, make a universal installer, they can, do initial checks, they can let the hi definition audio drivers talk to the audio hardware, and let u have audio during the first prompts, they really
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Agreed with you about the Narrator improvements, but I still say that, even if common audio drivers were included, Microsoft would screw it up somehow. It wouldn't work as accurately as it should. this is why I use a talking PE for my installatio
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THat's not necessarily true. Why can't they put drivers for the most common PC hardware like Realtech into the PE environment? Why can't they just support the standard USB audio driver? I know this works because I've installed Windows
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I wouldn't trust Narrator to get me through a talking install anyway. That's what the Windows PE is for, in my opinion.I get that some computers can be finicky, and that it's not always an easy thing to get yourself booted into a PE envir
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Probably not, to create a talking installer Microsoft would have to include a whole suite of audio drivers in the bootable installer. That's a problem when you have no way of knowing what audio hardware is going to be available.That's the advan
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Probably not, to create a talking installer Microsoft would have to include a whole suite of audio drivers in the bootable installer. That's a problem when you have no way of knowing what audio hardware is going to be available.That's the advan
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Does this new update to Windows 10 have a talking installer using Narrator? If not, I won't even bother wasting the time downloading the image to my Mac.
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So, for those of you who are wondering about the free upgrade offer for those using assistive technologies...http://www.howtogeek.com/265409/you-can … lity-site/This is beyond ridiculous. I'm a Windows 10 user myself, but it disgusts me that Microso
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My belief is that, except for companies that manufacture assistive technology, the only reason any company pays any attention at all to accessibility is to create a pointtheir marketing department can use to sell more products, and to avoid being ssued
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@Cris Yes, there are times where I wonder how committed Microsoft really is to accessibility. In fact, from a few demos of the fast ring insider builds, it seems that there may be some accessibility regressions rather than fixes.
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Try using your find next plain text command in your screen reader. That should land you on the start of the text. Doesn't Edge have a reader mode? Then again, Edge is really bad access wise from what I've heard. Will this be addressed in thi
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The one big problem there is that OS X only runs on a Mac. That doesn't help us PC users.
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The article is on that page. I just used Safari reader to strip all that crap away. We'll see just how this extended offer will work tomorrow. I personally don't care about Windows. I will spend the $120 to obtain a legal copy if, and only if
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The original offer to get Windows 10 for free remains in effect You can still upgrade for free until the end of tomorrow. I've heard about the offer being extended for users of assistive technology, but so far haven't heard how that will work
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http://www.ghacks.net/2016/07/28/micros … ws-10-pro/Well that's it, I'm off to Linux, bugs, heat issues and all. Seriously from the bottom of my heart, fuck you Microsoft.
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I had a chance and I didn't take it. I'm happier as the boat is currently. if I ever need to, well, I guess I'll save up and buy it.
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@Figment: in three or four years, tops; less if you're using Skylake. That's how long Windows desktops on 7 have to live. It's one of my primary reasons for using 8.1, which at least can be tamed down; that'll get me to 2023. Presumabl
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@Sebby, probably so, but that forced hardware upgrade isn't for another 3 to 4 years when support for Windows 7 ends.Apple is no better, instead of spying on you, which is easily avoided by not using Visual Studio, Apple actively restricts your choi
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It is discovered that Visual Studio 2015's C++ compiler inserts code to use Microsoft's telemetry services into any binary, whether test or release, that it compiles. The data may be sent to Microsoft, although it will be of limited use w
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It is discovered that Visual Studio 2015's C++ compiler inserts code to use Microsoft's telemetry services into any binary, whether test or release, that it compiles. The data may be sent to Microsoft, although it will be of limited use w
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@Figment: in that respect, exactly like Apple. Microsoft isn't shipping new hardware fast enough, so they're pushing Windows onto older hardware. They are also making arrangements to obsolete older OSs on newer hardware, so sooner or later you&
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I believe the attempts to force Windows 10 on users will cease after the free upgrade offer is over.But with Microsoft planning to extend the free upgrade offer for people using assistive technology, I wonder if they'll start trying to detec
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Hopefully by then as well Microsoft might have made their snooping a bit less, or an optional improvement component, with the amount of backlash they are getting, something's gotta give at some point. Not to mention this utterly crazy forced updates
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Just like Apple, right, Sebby?I was willing to upgrade to Windows 10 as long as I thought my computer could run it. But as soon as it became clear that I'd have to spend money on a newer computer to run it, I decided that I didn't want it. My f
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I haven't, am not going to, and will not until I have an ironclad reason to do so, but the new name, new interface and new shiny logos are not for me.
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To answer the first part of your question, because I think that's more objectively answered, at this stage MS are doing it for market share. They need people on Win10 because that's how MS plans to expose people (I don't know about for
Re: The Windows 10 New World Order
To answer the first part of your question, because I think that's more objectively answered, at this stage MS are doing it for market share. They need people on Win10 because that's how MS plans to expose people (I don't know about for
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To answer the first part of your question, because I think that's more objectively answered, at this MS are doing it for market share. They need people on Win10 because that's how MS plans to expose people (I don't know about force, yet) t
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ok, so here's something I don't understand.To my knowledge, windows 10 is still free until like July. Microsoft is getting absolutely no personal advantage in making customers update right now, because they won't have to pay anything.
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Good. Microsoft are supposed to be a business, not a world ruler who thinks they can get away with anything and own the world's computers. I think they need to get of their high horse and get consequences for what they've tried to do and in a b
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FYI, there is now a petition for the EFF to investigate MS for malicious practices concerning Win10. Most of the ire is reserved, somewhat predictably, for the upgrade foistware, but privacy is also mentioned.
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FYI, there is now a petition for the EFF to investigate MS for malicious practices aconcerning Win10. Most of the ire is reserved, somewhat predictably, for the upgrade foistware, but privacy is also mentioned.
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FYI, there is now a petition for the EFF to investigate MS for malicious practices around Win10. Most of the ire is reserved, somewhat predictably, for the upgrade foistware, but privacy is also mentioned.
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I'll get around to configuring it eventually. Unfortunately my Macbook charger broke for no apparent reason and there is no Apple store nearby, so looks like I'm going to have to order one at some expense.
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You can't close the window anymore. You've got to schedule for five days. And some people are seeing GWX marked as an "Important" update.Basically, Never10 is now your only realistic option. Microsoft just don't give a flying wot
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That was the problem I was referring to, I've never had issues with the settings list though.
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@WandererI just tried it today and the applications list is now visible, maybe I didn't know how to access it earlier. I noticed that you often had to activate an option to find out whether it was set or not.In the settings section there are either t
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@Figment, hmm never had that problem, I can see both tabs fine. Sometimes I'm not told by NVDA whether an item is on or off, but that can be fixed by simply toggling it after which its state is exposed.
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Well, I've disabled the windows 10 stuff, because if Microsoft are still doing the thing where you close the get windows 10 window and it updates, well, I'm done. Please keep us posted on the situation though.
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@WandererHere's an example:In the clean up section of CCleaner, there is a long list of things to clean that you can check to have cleaned or uncheck to have left alone. There are two tabs, the first, you could call system as those cleanup tasks
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@aaron, thanks for the link.
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[[wow]]. I haven't had anywhere near the amount of issues you're describing. I don't generally need to install a lot of new apps regularly so that might be part of it. NVDA does everything I need it to, and it loads very quickly. I've
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Maintenance for me meant everything from virus and malware scanning to registry cleaning and regular disc checkups, meticulous review of the event log, strategic oversight of the task manager for unwanted and undesirable services and processes that might
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@Figment, I'm honestly not sure what inaccessible parts you're referring to, I've never had a problem myself.
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At figment, i think it's a double-edged sword. On the one hand, i see exactly where you are comeing from. Important tasks like backups, and god for bid, you get a corrupted update or similar things happen, it can be a real pain. I'm not eve
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At figment, i think it's a double-edged sword. On the one hand, i see exactly where you are comeing from. Important tasks like backups, and god for bid, you get a corrupted update or similar things happen, it can be a real pain. I'm not eve
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Hi there,Get this small program called Never 10, when you run it, there's a disable button. Also, if you use NVDA flat review there are other buttons as well like delete windows 10 files. Don't let the small size fool you, this little program
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Ok, since I'm now currently running windows 8.1, I have a question: How to disable "get windows 10 notification"? This is very annoying. I want to get rid of it.
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@WandererHow do you deal with CCleaner's inaccessible parts? The last time I tried it, about 6 to 8 months ago, I found many parts of the user interface inaccessible. I knew those parts were there because CCleaner was one of those indispensable progr
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At ns, i guess it depends on how picky you are with updates and cleaning. I use c cleaner personally, just because i like to get rid of temp files and such. But as far as updates go, i really never had a problem
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I've actually thought a lot about it, though for now the windows xp VM works just fine, which probably has much to do with the specs on this machine. I'm in a blissful paradise of beauty so amazing I can, gasp of skepticism, almost see it! :d
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Makes sense, and it's good to have priorities. That being said I think you'll have a pretty nice experience if you ever consider installing Windows on your Mac, I know I did.
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@Figment,Post 120 is well phrased and carefully laid out; thumbs up.@Wanderer,Time is everything nowadays for me; I recently became a dad. I lost a wonderful masterpiece of a windows 7 machine that was loyal to me for the better part of 5 years and
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hi,I disagree with you on updating and cleaning arqmister. Windows 8 and above automaticly do most cleaning and updating tasks when the pc is idle. I practicly never perform any updates except those that I set to manual. Same goes for maintenence.
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Agree with wanderer. And this is comeing from a guy who is fine running mac, linux and windows. Windows is great for anything, but you have to be willing to take care of your own computer cleaning and updating. On mac, everything is more or less done for
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Let's face it, both Microsoft and Apple have their share of problems, and at the end of the day, neither one is any better than the other, it's just a personal choice.Let's just all agree to disagree and bury the argument. Each side is
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@wanderer,If your issue is webpages I don't have much to offer except my apologies. Honestly, the list of sites I visit nowadays is not a huge one, thus the reason I can probably get around this issue so effectively. Usually I navigate by headin
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It helps, but I'd already made all those changes on my own haha. If I try to use my up and down cursor keys to navigate in a web page Voiceover seems to get stuck. If I turn the verbosity down to "low" I don't hear important info, bu
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Alright folks, to add to my previous post and probably destroy my credibility as well, I've decided to go all-in and give OS X another try as I have nothing too important to do. I'll hopefully be sticking with it for a while if things don'
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@Nocturnus, do you have any tips as a recent switcher from Windows for making Voiceover more responsive and/or efficient? Sorry if I'm being vague, but I'm probably going to end up switching to OS X eventually (I don't currently have cl
Re: The Windows 10 New World Order
This topic has become an unnecessary and rather childish discussion, which I'm sure Sebby did not intend it to be. For my part, I'll simply say that it's thanks to this topic I finally got down and dirty with a mac and am glad I did.
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@Enes, Are you serious? iPhone is so good that it doesn't recognise your gestures on the screen? What kind of iPhone is that? 4?I have this iPhone 6 and it works amazingly everywhere I use it. Reading PDF documents for example, is something I really
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wanderer wrote:I'm just going to point out that consistently calling a company by a childish name with no irony over and over again does not make you come across as someone to be taken seriously.Everybody else does it, for example, M$ plus all the
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I don't use microsoft edge and metro apps. Additionally, windows can be reinstalled accessibly through privacy and recovery. Also, the crapple iphone's IOS software is so awsome that it randomly doesn't take some touchscreen gestur
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The point being that every company has its faults. If people want to bitch about them as I'm sure we all do now and then, what's the harm?
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hi,Believe me, apple has done worse. Purchasing an iphone was one of the worst choices I made. Now I have to deal with apple's retarded accessibility bugs that keep increasing with each update. For instance, the speech synthesizer's qualit
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I'm just going to point out that consistently calling a company by a childish name with no irony over and over again does not make you come across as someone to be taken seriously.
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Objective? Just reading any of your messages is proof enough of your bias. You gloss over Crapple's misdeeds as if they were nothing, but take Microsoft to task for even the smallest of perceived slights.I generally don't have any of Cr
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Mmm, I wonder if we wouldn't be better off with Balmer back in the driver's seat. He wouldn't let this happen to Windows users, would he?SatNad seemed like the right choice, but I think he's pressing just a little bit too hard to switc
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As long as there are indiscreet M$ apologists, I'll continue to write about Microsoft's continuing slide into mediocrity. And, being an indiscreet M$ apologist, you'll read it, making it all worthwhile. I have every interest in being object
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As long as there are indiscreet M$ apologists, I'll continue to write about Microsoft's continuing slide into mediocrity. And, being a indiscreet M$ apologist, you'll read it, making it all worthwhile. I have every interest in being object
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Don't you just love all these people bitching about Microsoft , of course we know why they do it, they're all mostly Crapple fan boys that think Microsoft is evil and that Crapple can do no wrong. The funny part is, we all know how so very wron
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Don't you just love all these people bitching about Microsoft If the Get Windows 10 app causes you some much pain because it isn't from Crapple, get rid of it! How? Go over to grc.com, go to their free software page, and download their prog
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Microsoft have sunk still further. I can't wait for the lawsuits, really.In previous versions of the GWX nag screen, you really only had one way to get rid of the notification without accepting the upgrade for now or for later: close the window.You
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Microsoft have sunk still further. I can't wait for the lawsuits, really.In previous versions of the GWX nag screen, you really only had one way to get rid of the notification without accepting the upgrade for now or for later: close the window.You
Re: The Windows 10 New World Order
Totally agree about the Mac firmware, I think any new computers I purchase will be Macs because I can accessibly set a firmware password, change nvram settings and such.
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Best option would be some sort of out-of-band management like Intel's AMT that can be reached across the network. But then you've got security concerns ...I am happy that, although a little weird, Intel Macs don't have Secure Boot, don
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@Sebby, cumulative updates are also pretty nice .
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Reading this topic, I remember something last week that just makes me mad. I hope this isn't coming out to late to save people trouble, but go over here, and do a search for Secure Boot. Then think about all the accessibility problems that this
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Steve Gibson of GRC wrote Never10. It merely insists that you have the required Windows update installed (for Windows Update), and then sets the two registry keys necessary to turn off this crap and sets the permissions so they can't be reverted. Yo
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At post 188, Amen.
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Lol. I have a mac. Trust me, I got it around november of 2014. I can tell you, I do, to some degree, wonder if you can set one up witout having an ITunes or an Appstore account. LOL. Basicly, I do wonder if one can be set up without setting up an apple
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Y'all are always welcome on the Mac side. Come to the light. Suffer the dark and cold no longer, I pray ye.
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From what I understand, it has been moved to recommended updates. They might had moved it higher than that without me knowing. While I was going to university, the university in question would not let me on to the net there unless I had the latest patches
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I've been hearing a rumour that some people are basicall being forced to upgrade now, it might actually be happening. People have gone away and come back to an isntall dialog, or is that just people not disabling updates?
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I know that MS tried to hit me with the whole windows 10 download. If you noticed, I said tried. I had my shields up already. Ok ok ok, I had GWX installed on my system and it notified me of a possible windows 10 problem just in time for me to deal with
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Yeah, I know. I surrender trying to bring MS back on side. It's a shame, but we've been through all that.Thank god for OS X. And yes, awareness of choices, and advocacy, is what we (blind people) desperately need now.
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... Or we could stop using Ms products and inform blind (and sighted) of possible alternatives.
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Play with our macs?
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The saga continues to continue.Microsoft recently released MS16-023 for Windows, which is a set of critical security fixes for Internet Explorer 11. And bugger me sideways if you've heard this before, but included in that patch is the Windo
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hi,The start menu is similar to the start menu found in win7. The tiles are still there but they are in a place where they can be easily ignored. Like in windows 7 you can press up arrow from the search box to get to all programs.
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They didn't remove the tiles, and no they won't learn. You can configure it IIRC, but I'm not going to install it to find out. Classic Shell does work, though--that is when MS aren't disabling it. I think M$ simply don't like
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Can anyone tell me why the start menu has the stupid tiles? I thought Microslop finally got the message that we don't want tiles on our laptops and desktops. Sheesh! What happened to "We're going to go back to the traditional desktop e
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Can anyone tell me why the start menu has the stupid tiles? I thought Microslop finally got the message that we don't want tiles on our laptops and desktops. Sheesh! What happened to "We're going to go back to the traditional desktop experi
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Can anyone tell me why the start menu has the stupid tiles? I thought Microslop finally got the message that we don't want tiles on your laptops and desktops? Sheesh!
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What about the new Start menu? Is that any less broken than it was? It used to be slow, too.
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Hi,Thanks for the info. I'll consider it as I think I'll have to update eventually.
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hi,The file explorer sluggishness was fixed in the latest nvda next snapshots. There is now no significant difference between windows 8.1 and 10 in terms of browsing speed.
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hi aaron, ok from a puerly performance point of view. here are my findings.in my humble opinion. windows10 is not yet ready for us.reasons is.1. slow browsing of files using normal windows explorer. for example. folders with lots of documents mite feel
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@aaron: you should be all right. When the dialog comes up, just press "Later" or close the window (which is permanent). You can always download the media creation tool yourself if you wish, and use your existing Win7/8/8.1 key to do a fresh i
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