Windows 10 annoyances so far
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Have you gotten Cortona to work? I have yet to get an install to have it work properly. No sound, can't hear me etc. Also it does not dock proper to a large screen. Maybe windows was always this way but try this out and be annoyed. Hook up mobile device to larger monitor. Notice the resolution is wonky and restart. BAM! Now you have the full resolution and things are grand... Or are they. Unhook from larger monitor... BAM looks like crap on mobile.
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet. The interesting thing about software is it can not reproduce, until it can.
Cortana isn't available in Canada. It's available in the US and UK, but not Canada. This is par for the course - so much so that I no longer get angry - just sad. Resolution? No issues my end.
cheers Chris Maunder
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I'd like to add a few annoyance regarding the new start menu: 0) The left pane is not wide enough and can't be resized. Both my SQL Server 2008r2 and 2014 simply show up as 'Microsoft SQL Server 20..'. I've now pinned them to the right-side 'tile' start menu and to the taskbar to get around it, still I have other programs like multiple VS where I can't see which is which. 1) Pinning to the start menu is confusing and only seemed to take effect after a reboot. 2) Removing an item from the list of 'Recently added' doesn't remove the item immediately and sometimes not at all. I still like it better than 8, but not as much as 7. :(
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
I installed Start10 immediately. Tiled start menu? What tiled start menu? ;)
cheers Chris Maunder
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Cortana isn't available in Canada. It's available in the US and UK, but not Canada. This is par for the course - so much so that I no longer get angry - just sad. Resolution? No issues my end.
cheers Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote:
Cortana isn't available in Canada. It's available in the US and UK, but not Canada.
Well you're not missing anything. I live in the US and apparently it is availability is limited to special installs :)
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet. The interesting thing about software is it can not reproduce, until it can.
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Have you gotten Cortona to work? I have yet to get an install to have it work properly. No sound, can't hear me etc. Also it does not dock proper to a large screen. Maybe windows was always this way but try this out and be annoyed. Hook up mobile device to larger monitor. Notice the resolution is wonky and restart. BAM! Now you have the full resolution and things are grand... Or are they. Unhook from larger monitor... BAM looks like crap on mobile.
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet. The interesting thing about software is it can not reproduce, until it can.
I've had some weird resolution issues, but I guess that's what I get for having a 4K monitor... :sigh:
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1. You can't drag an address from Edge onto the desktop to create a shortcut. Dumb omission. 2. Connecting to a VPN now requires 4 clicks (including having the "Settings" dialog open) instead of two clicks almost in-place) 3. No areaAero. I know it's in there, buried, but so far I've not had any luck enabling it. ...and if that's all I can find to complain about then something went right somewhere.
cheers Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote:
No area. I know it's in there, buried, but so far I've not had any luck enabling it.
What's an area?
Regards, Nish
Website: www.voidnish.com Blog: voidnish.wordpress.com
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Cortana isn't available in Canada. It's available in the US and UK, but not Canada. This is par for the course - so much so that I no longer get angry - just sad. Resolution? No issues my end.
cheers Chris Maunder
What did you Canucks do to deserve such mistreatment? Oh yeah, you gave us Alanis Morissette. She is enough to cancel out all that Rush and BTO gave to us.
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1. You can't drag an address from Edge onto the desktop to create a shortcut. Dumb omission. 2. Connecting to a VPN now requires 4 clicks (including having the "Settings" dialog open) instead of two clicks almost in-place) 3. No areaAero. I know it's in there, buried, but so far I've not had any luck enabling it. ...and if that's all I can find to complain about then something went right somewhere.
cheers Chris Maunder
Hey Chris although this might not necessarily be a Windows 10 (Microsoft-related) problem but I've had a dickens of a time getting drivers for my HP laptop. Other than that once the initial batch of Microsoft updates came through, performance has been good so far... Thanks for the post! Cheers! :)
"... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet." - Henry Minute "Let's face it, after Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF!" - gavindon Programming is a race between programmers trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots, so far... the universe is winning. - gavindon
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Chris Maunder wrote:
No area. I know it's in there, buried, but so far I've not had any luck enabling it.
What's an area?
Regards, Nish
Website: www.voidnish.com Blog: voidnish.wordpress.com
Ugh, I meant Aero.
cheers Chris Maunder
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Hey Chris although this might not necessarily be a Windows 10 (Microsoft-related) problem but I've had a dickens of a time getting drivers for my HP laptop. Other than that once the initial batch of Microsoft updates came through, performance has been good so far... Thanks for the post! Cheers! :)
"... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet." - Henry Minute "Let's face it, after Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF!" - gavindon Programming is a race between programmers trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots, so far... the universe is winning. - gavindon
Have you tried re-installing drivers in compatibility mode?
cheers Chris Maunder
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- Can you not just rename the shortcuts to 'MS SQL etc.' or am I missing something? 1) No it isn't and no it doesn't ... on my desktop at least! 2) Dunno. Haven't felt the need to do it.
No, you cannot rename them. In fact, right-click has no effect at all, there's not context menu. The whole All Apps list is built on a database rather than the file system like in the past (what's even worse is the fact that this database is limited to 512 entries, so if you got a lot of programs installed, with links and subfolders, some of them might not show up at all). This start menu is a joke.
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1. You can't drag an address from Edge onto the desktop to create a shortcut. Dumb omission. 2. Connecting to a VPN now requires 4 clicks (including having the "Settings" dialog open) instead of two clicks almost in-place) 3. No areaAero. I know it's in there, buried, but so far I've not had any luck enabling it. ...and if that's all I can find to complain about then something went right somewhere.
cheers Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote:
- No areaAero. I know it's in there, buried, but so far I've not had any luck enabling it.
It's not buried, it's not in there. The only way to get it back for now is a third-party tool called "glass8" that brings back the glass effect using DLL injection into the DWM process. Only the license agreement and donation policy of this guy/developer is a little fishy (at least it has been in the past; for example, he kind of promised to grant access to the full/unlocked version if people donated a certain amount of money but never named a limit, so it was more like betting than donating).
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Chris Maunder wrote:
- No areaAero. I know it's in there, buried, but so far I've not had any luck enabling it.
It's not buried, it's not in there. The only way to get it back for now is a third-party tool called "glass8" that brings back the glass effect using DLL injection into the DWM process. Only the license agreement and donation policy of this guy/developer is a little fishy (at least it has been in the past; for example, he kind of promised to grant access to the full/unlocked version if people donated a certain amount of money but never named a limit, so it was more like betting than donating).
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Cortana isn't available in Canada. It's available in the US and UK, but not Canada. This is par for the course - so much so that I no longer get angry - just sad. Resolution? No issues my end.
cheers Chris Maunder
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Ugh, I meant Aero.
cheers Chris Maunder
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1. You can't drag an address from Edge onto the desktop to create a shortcut. Dumb omission. 2. Connecting to a VPN now requires 4 clicks (including having the "Settings" dialog open) instead of two clicks almost in-place) 3. No areaAero. I know it's in there, buried, but so far I've not had any luck enabling it. ...and if that's all I can find to complain about then something went right somewhere.
cheers Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
Cortana isn't available in Canada. It's available in the US and UK, but not Canada.
Well you're not missing anything. I live in the US and apparently it is availability is limited to special installs :)
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet. The interesting thing about software is it can not reproduce, until it can.
Check you have the correct speech and language packs installed for your region. That's the usual issue if you can get Cortana in your country.
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Cortana isn't available in Canada. It's available in the US and UK, but not Canada. This is par for the course - so much so that I no longer get angry - just sad. Resolution? No issues my end.
cheers Chris Maunder
I wonder why Canada (i.e. Canadian people) has so much limitations (Quebec overall)... I was twice there (BC) and I felt in love for that country... US are envy, maybe?
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Have you gotten Cortona to work? I have yet to get an install to have it work properly. No sound, can't hear me etc. Also it does not dock proper to a large screen. Maybe windows was always this way but try this out and be annoyed. Hook up mobile device to larger monitor. Notice the resolution is wonky and restart. BAM! Now you have the full resolution and things are grand... Or are they. Unhook from larger monitor... BAM looks like crap on mobile.
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet. The interesting thing about software is it can not reproduce, until it can.
Doesn't seem to work with multiple monitors: I have 5 on a 6 monitor display card, working fine on Win 8.1 After upgrade can only see/enable two of them. Had to revert to 8.1. On tablet/laptop hybrid: works well, but annoying that selection of WiFi networks has become more difficult (more clicks, not all settings in one place), also that number of recently used items takes more space for far fewer. Likewise, icons in system tray take more room, and often disappear entirely, only coming back after resizing tray. Quite difficult to switch to desktop mode (no tile!) when in tablet mode and you want to keep hybrid in tablet shape but work on desktop (hybrid is a Yoga so can be used with KVM in tent shape - win 10 doesn't allow for this despite such configs being possible with the Surface!) Seems impossible to organise tiles properly on new start menu, so I'm going to revert to classic shell. Only serious problem so far: breaks Google Sync for Outlook, which has to be reinstalled.
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I wonder why Canada (i.e. Canadian people) has so much limitations (Quebec overall)... I was twice there (BC) and I felt in love for that country... US are envy, maybe?
What's even more laughable is that BC is a short ferry ride away from the Microsoft HQ.
The difficult may take time, the impossible a little longer.
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I'd like to add a few annoyance regarding the new start menu: 0) The left pane is not wide enough and can't be resized. Both my SQL Server 2008r2 and 2014 simply show up as 'Microsoft SQL Server 20..'. I've now pinned them to the right-side 'tile' start menu and to the taskbar to get around it, still I have other programs like multiple VS where I can't see which is which. 1) Pinning to the start menu is confusing and only seemed to take effect after a reboot. 2) Removing an item from the list of 'Recently added' doesn't remove the item immediately and sometimes not at all. I still like it better than 8, but not as much as 7. :(
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
Add to the list periodic failures of the indexed search for desktop apps and having to left click "open in new tab" after right clicking a link while in Edge to pull up the options list. The old IE used to accept a right click in the options list.
The difficult may take time, the impossible a little longer.