my windows 10 yesterday suddenly shown "we've made an awesome album for you" notification. but... where the heck is the album? O_O where's the setting to turn it off?
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Never done that, ever. Programs have made their own start menu folders since the dawn of time (well, Win95, so 1995), or don't you remember? Even downloaded Steam games make their own start menu folders, you just tick a single checkbox once and that's it.
Completely automatic process from beginning to end versus manually creating categorical columns, typing half a novel's worth on my keyboard, dragging scores of icons, juggling 100 or potentially more app names in my head... Lol. Where's the fucking comparison here?! Win8 start screen sucks, end of story.
And... Windows account? Come again?
ugh windows 10 is getting weirder. It have Microsoft.Windows.CloudExperienceHost that keeps eating 5-10% cpu. Killed the process (it named as WWAhost), and it didn't come back. nothing broken too.
weird.
weird.
Silent_Buddha
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Which is a fate worse than death, IMO. If you have, as you said, hundreds or thousands of programs, then you end up with an extremely long start menu list (either at the main level or at a sub menu level) that you have to scroll through interminably in order to find anything. Assuming you can find it in a huge unorganized list in the first place.
Thank you, no. I'd rather not spend half a day scrolling through a list that long trying to find an application that I want. Annoying if it isn't something that I frequently use, and even more annoying if it's something I frequently use and Windows decides to put it near the bottom of the list. Especially when the list won't always be alphabetized. Especially if it goes into an extremely long generic sub menu.
The start menu (just like any menu that is basically a list) is fine if you have very very few programs (or entries). Otherwise it's just about the worst method imaginable for finding and starting an application. And just becomes worse and worse as you install more programs.
But hey, more power to you if you actually find that desirable.
But it is certainly far worse than just hitting the win key or sliding in from the right edge on a touch device with Win8.1 and then one click or tap to start. And if it's not there, do it the Windows Vista and higher method and just type a few letters and click. Much better to just ignore the just plain bad and inefficient start menu and pretend it doesn't exist.
Regards,
SB
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was it awesome, as in inspired awe in you?
No controller?
my PS4 gamepad doesnt work
i guess i need inputmapper...man. i hope more games use the classic Directinput so i can just plug and play with DS4
hoom
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It probably brokelol i cant find the album!
Seriously though, I think you'll find it in the Windows 10 'Microsoft Photos' app.
ah! thanks! there's a bunch of album labeled as "new" on the photos app. But it only contains pictures by date. nothing awesome.It probably broke
Seriously though, I think you'll find it in the Windows 10 'Microsoft Photos' app.
i though at least it will make weird stuff like Photos on android.
I just upgraded windows 8.1 to Windows 10 today. Very very happy with Windows 10.
Windows 8.1, which I have being using since 3 weeks, was the worst (and slowest) OS I have ever experienced. Worse than 95, 98 and even 3.11.
Windows 10 is really fast (and better organized by default) comparatively to 8.1.
Windows 8.1, which I have being using since 3 weeks, was the worst (and slowest) OS I have ever experienced. Worse than 95, 98 and even 3.11.
Windows 10 is really fast (and better organized by default) comparatively to 8.1.
Okay, then you must have had the worst experience ever of win8... It wasn't awesome I'll give you that (and neither is 10), but hell, worse than fucking windows 3.11? Please, let's get real here. 3.11 you could hard-crash by poking it in the wrong place for chrissakes. It was largely a shell on top of DOS, and precious and little beyond that. It had no pre-emptive MT, no memory protection. It ran in 16-bit mode, even on a pentium CPU. It was, in short, fucking bullshit.
It wasn't awesome I'll give you that (and neither is 10), but hell, worse than fucking windows 3.11? Please, let's get real here. 3.11 you could hard-crash by poking it in the wrong place for chrissakes. It was largely a shell on top of DOS, and precious and little beyond that. It had no pre-emptive MT, no memory protection. It ran in 16-bit mode, even on a pentium CPU. It was, in short, fucking bullshit.
But at least I wasn't fighting against 3.11. We couldn't do much with 3.11 but what we could do (at least from memory) with it was straightforward and quickly done. Working with Windows 8.1 was a constant fight against the system in order to do simple things like open a type of file with another application than the one advised (and the type of file was not in the list of file types in the parameters...). Or where to find parameters and such. Or I could not even open some applications because the system assessed my resolution was too slow (for the calculator app ).
And so slow, I never seen such a sluggish OS (and my laptop is new). When you work with a slow HDD and not a SSD, you really see how optimized everything is. Like having to wait ~5 seconds each time you open the basic search function. And again several others seconds to just type in a few letters and again several seconds to display some basic results... Because how badly unoptimized the OS was, probably with HDD accesses and memory management.
).And so slow, I never seen such a sluggish OS (and my laptop is new). When you work with a slow HDD and not a SSD, you really see how optimized everything is. Like having to wait ~5 seconds each time you open the basic search function. And again several others seconds to just type in a few letters and again several seconds to display some basic results... Because how badly unoptimized the OS was, probably with HDD accesses and memory management.
weird. W 8.1 was fast from my experience with it on Atom, Core Y series, old pentium. It W8.0 thats bloody slow.
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btw W8.1 does have a horrible habit of doing secret stuff in the background that eat lots of CPU. You always can kill it using task manager though. Windows never complains
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btw W8.1 does have a horrible habit of doing secret stuff in the background that eat lots of CPU. You always can kill it using task manager though. Windows never complains
Right-click file, select "open with", like you've been able to do since...hell, I don't recall. Many years though. You get a window with choices windows believes can handle the file format in question, pick your program, tick "always use this program" checkbox or whatever the actual text for it is, if you want your choice to be made permanent.
HTH.
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