Windows 10 annoyances so far
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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
Cortana isn't available 'cause they can't get the accent down right. It keeps saying abowt instead of aboot.
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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:
Aero
How to Enable Aero Glass Transparency with Blur in Windows 10?[^]
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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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
My biggest problem is using a MS account for my computer login; Not going to happen ever. Transmitting the login password across the internet is a Darwinian security flaw. The Man-in-the-Middle sees everything plain text (private key required). Running under a local account breaks everything I was excited about: Cortana, the App Store, Groove, Xbox. They get Kudos for IE11 still being there, demanding IE to be part of the OS was one of Microsoft's greatest mistakes in the browser war. Edge is not ready (meant?) for the desktop. It's strictly a touch based browser for people with really fat fingers (check out that right click menu). Edge security settings are non-existent compared to IE11. I now know why Win10 was free. The only perk I get coming from Win7 is being able to compile Windows Phone apps, but after looking at C++/CX I don't see that happening either. I'm not willing to put a lot of effort into supporting a sandboxed architecture (COM sucks). The rollback to Win7 countdown has started.
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Cortana isn't available 'cause they can't get the accent down right. It keeps saying abowt instead of aboot.
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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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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
How about * Edge is weirdly unstable. Can't quite figure out what's broken, because I switched back to Firefox on the first day, simply because I needed to be productive. * Network subsystem is unstable. For several days after installation, my wired network connection would stop being able to hear the internet after about 30 minutes. I know my connection was live because I could see the local net and also beause I could connect wirelessly and get the internet, for another 30 minutes. A subsequent patch partially fixed the problem, so that now it only *occasionally* can't find the internet. This was on a six-month-old Surface Pro 3, so you'd think they would have tested on this device. Win 8.1 and other apps have been rock-solid, so I don't suspect a hardware problem. I like the look of Windows 10. I want to like it. But I very nearly reverted. Way too buggy. If Microsoft's strategy is to shortchange testing on O/S releases, people better sell their stock. Oy!
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Hmm did not think of that. I will check into it. Thank you :)
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.
You are most welcome.
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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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It doesn't give the cascading perspectives of the windows with {windowkey]-Tab; you just get a tiled effect of min-windows, similar to the line of mini-windows with Alt-Tab. (Just checked - the same happens with the default aero.theme as well). I liked the cascade as it gave you something meaningless to do which waiting.
You're referring to "Aero Flip" here. Well, unfortunately that's gone since Windows 8 as far as I remember. TBH, I completely forgot about that, every time people complain about "missing Aero" it's only about the window transparency.
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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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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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The lack of respect for users' privacy and the data-mining model has already put me off. Ditto for Google. Looks like I will be switching to Mac.
Because Apple is better?
cheers Chris Maunder
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Because Apple is better?
cheers Chris Maunder
By all accounts Apple gathers less data. They also have an official stance of not following the data-mining / targeted adds model of their rivals. If I discover otherwise then I will simply avoid Apple too. It really is that simple. Microsoft are out of order and their behavior is totally unacceptable. Ditto for Google.
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By all accounts Apple gathers less data. They also have an official stance of not following the data-mining / targeted adds model of their rivals. If I discover otherwise then I will simply avoid Apple too. It really is that simple. Microsoft are out of order and their behavior is totally unacceptable. Ditto for Google.
Just for curiosity's sake: do you have a credit card and/or are you a member of a rewards program (eg Air Miles, credit card reward program etc)?
cheers Chris Maunder
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Just for curiosity's sake: do you have a credit card and/or are you a member of a rewards program (eg Air Miles, credit card reward program etc)?
cheers Chris Maunder
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Have you tried re-installing drivers in compatibility mode?
cheers Chris Maunder
Ahhhh... :doh: No, indeed I haven't; but sure will now... Guess that's why you make the big bucks, Chris! Thanks and Cheers Friend
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