I'm starting to hate Metro apps as well...
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...why don't they "play nice" with the desktop in Win10? Try this: open Windows explorer, and browse to an image file. Right click the file, and you get a context menu. Click on "Send To" and select "Mail recipient" What happens? Well, it depends. If you use Outlook, as I do - Office 2010 - then a new mail message appears with teh image set as an attachment, ready to go. If you use the MS Mail app that comes with Windows 10...you get an error message that no mail program is installed, and explains what to do to fix it. Try and follow the instructions and you find that you have got a mail app installed and registered: "Mail". :sigh: Why is this a problem? Because I'm upgrading a friend's mother's lappie to Win 10, and guess how she used to do it on XP? :laugh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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...why don't they "play nice" with the desktop in Win10? Try this: open Windows explorer, and browse to an image file. Right click the file, and you get a context menu. Click on "Send To" and select "Mail recipient" What happens? Well, it depends. If you use Outlook, as I do - Office 2010 - then a new mail message appears with teh image set as an attachment, ready to go. If you use the MS Mail app that comes with Windows 10...you get an error message that no mail program is installed, and explains what to do to fix it. Try and follow the instructions and you find that you have got a mail app installed and registered: "Mail". :sigh: Why is this a problem? Because I'm upgrading a friend's mother's lappie to Win 10, and guess how she used to do it on XP? :laugh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
I tried to uninstall an app from the new Win10 Settings/System/Apps & Features page. The app just would not install, no messages, no popups, no nothing. Switch to the real page in the control panel and 1st attempt gone......Spent ages as well looking up why this app wouldn't install or looking for any uninstall executable in its install folder etc. etc. Should have just gone to the control panel in the first place would save me some effort, and its better looking than all this crappy new dull forms.
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I tried to uninstall an app from the new Win10 Settings/System/Apps & Features page. The app just would not install, no messages, no popups, no nothing. Switch to the real page in the control panel and 1st attempt gone......Spent ages as well looking up why this app wouldn't install or looking for any uninstall executable in its install folder etc. etc. Should have just gone to the control panel in the first place would save me some effort, and its better looking than all this crappy new dull forms.
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I also hate the fact that you cannot uninstall most of the built-in apps by just clicking "Uninstall" (it's grayed out). You have to go and use PowerShell to remove them. And some system apps (like Edge or Cortana) cannot be removed at all unless tempering with the installation image (which might lead to problems since these are so deeply integrated into the OS now). That's why I use my own custom windows image with all the crap I don't need removed (which is all of the apps except for Edge and the Calculator).
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I also hate the fact that you cannot uninstall most of the built-in apps by just clicking "Uninstall" (it's grayed out). You have to go and use PowerShell to remove them. And some system apps (like Edge or Cortana) cannot be removed at all unless tempering with the installation image (which might lead to problems since these are so deeply integrated into the OS now). That's why I use my own custom windows image with all the crap I don't need removed (which is all of the apps except for Edge and the Calculator).
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...why don't they "play nice" with the desktop in Win10? Try this: open Windows explorer, and browse to an image file. Right click the file, and you get a context menu. Click on "Send To" and select "Mail recipient" What happens? Well, it depends. If you use Outlook, as I do - Office 2010 - then a new mail message appears with teh image set as an attachment, ready to go. If you use the MS Mail app that comes with Windows 10...you get an error message that no mail program is installed, and explains what to do to fix it. Try and follow the instructions and you find that you have got a mail app installed and registered: "Mail". :sigh: Why is this a problem? Because I'm upgrading a friend's mother's lappie to Win 10, and guess how she used to do it on XP? :laugh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
OriginalGriff wrote:
upgrading a friend's mother's lappie to Win 10
Or you are not true to your friend, or your friend has some open issues with his mother...
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Hi there! Windows 10 has a "god mode" like its more recent predecessors. Do those settings behave differently after "god mode" is enabled? Regards.
I don't think so. AFAIK the new "god mode" is just the result of searching the Settings app using a wildcard ("*") which will simply present you with a list of all the settings that are available in there. But the old god mode is still there, although some of the stuff is less useful and has been removed in favor of the app.
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...why don't they "play nice" with the desktop in Win10? Try this: open Windows explorer, and browse to an image file. Right click the file, and you get a context menu. Click on "Send To" and select "Mail recipient" What happens? Well, it depends. If you use Outlook, as I do - Office 2010 - then a new mail message appears with teh image set as an attachment, ready to go. If you use the MS Mail app that comes with Windows 10...you get an error message that no mail program is installed, and explains what to do to fix it. Try and follow the instructions and you find that you have got a mail app installed and registered: "Mail". :sigh: Why is this a problem? Because I'm upgrading a friend's mother's lappie to Win 10, and guess how she used to do it on XP? :laugh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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...why don't they "play nice" with the desktop in Win10? Try this: open Windows explorer, and browse to an image file. Right click the file, and you get a context menu. Click on "Send To" and select "Mail recipient" What happens? Well, it depends. If you use Outlook, as I do - Office 2010 - then a new mail message appears with teh image set as an attachment, ready to go. If you use the MS Mail app that comes with Windows 10...you get an error message that no mail program is installed, and explains what to do to fix it. Try and follow the instructions and you find that you have got a mail app installed and registered: "Mail". :sigh: Why is this a problem? Because I'm upgrading a friend's mother's lappie to Win 10, and guess how she used to do it on XP? :laugh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
Been there, seen it. Sometimes the image files do not go well with the Metro Image Viewer, and under some conditions even the calculator does not run ("This app is not trusted").
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