Build 14328 hits Windows Insider Fast Ring...largest changelog to date

[Hugh Jass]

http://www.windowscentral.com/windo...=slider&utm_campaign=navigation&utm_source=wp

 

[VirtualLarry]

"Likewise, File Explorer will no longer be pinned to the taskbar by default."

Oh Lord, help me.

It's bad enough, helping someone over the phone, to get them to open Windows Explorer (File Explorer), when it's a big honking icon right at the bottom of the screen on the taskbar.

If it's buried in menus, non-computer-savvy people will likely NEVER find it.

 

[Magic Carpet]

If it's buried in menus, non-computer-savvy people will likely NEVER find it.

Microsoft is looking for feedback on this change so let them know what you think.

Likely won't make it to the next major build later this summer.

 

[Hugh Jass]

"Likewise, File Explorer will no longer be pinned to the taskbar by default."

Oh Lord, help me.

It's bad enough, helping someone over the phone, to get them to open Windows Explorer (File Explorer), when it's a big honking icon right at the bottom of the screen on the taskbar.

If it's buried in menus, non-computer-savvy people will likely NEVER find it.

Not buried at all.

Power, Settings, and File Explorer are all now in the left rail so that they are always visible

 

[balloonshark]

I normally don't like taskbar icons. The only ones I have on 8.1 is File Explorer and Firefox. I click the file explorer icon multiple times a day and it is by far my most used TB icon. I guess it's not a big deal to re-pin it back though.

 

[freeskier93]

"Likewise, File Explorer will no longer be pinned to the taskbar by default."

Oh Lord, help me.

It's bad enough, helping someone over the phone, to get them to open Windows Explorer (File Explorer), when it's a big honking icon right at the bottom of the screen on the taskbar.

If it's buried in menus, non-computer-savvy people will likely NEVER find it.

All you need to tell someone is press the Windows Key + e.

 

[Dahak]

All you need to tell someone is press the Windows Key + e.

Annnnd they ask whats the Windows key...

I have not looked at the new build yet, but if its just moved from the taskbar to the start menu it might work, but who knows

 

[SparkyJJO]

Oh come on you guys. Not that hard...

Windows icon on the far lower left corner. Click it. Hit File Explorer. Done. It has been there since the first release of Win10 last July. Hardly "buried."

It is almost easier to explain that than to explain which icon is the file explorer pinned on the taskbar.

What I want them to do is NOT preload Candy Crush on the computer. Or at least give the option to remove it for ALL users so it doesn't automatically load it (and Twitter, and Solitaire collection and..) when a new user logs into the computer for the first time on a domain. Why does it even load on a domain-connected PC in the first place? I can unprovision all the other stuff (sports, news, money, even the store itself), but not Candy Crush? Sigh.

 

[Hugh Jass]

Oh come on you guys. Not that hard...

Windows icon on the far lower left corner. Click it. Hit File Explorer. Done. It has been there since the first release of Win10 last July. Hardly "buried."

It is almost easier to explain that than to explain which icon is the file explorer pinned on the taskbar.

What I want them to do is NOT preload Candy Crush on the computer. Or at least give the option to remove it for ALL users so it doesn't automatically load it (and Twitter, and Solitaire collection and..) when a new user logs into the computer for the first time on a domain. Why does it even load on a domain-connected PC in the first place? I can unprovision all the other stuff (sports, news, money, even the store itself), but not Candy Crush? Sigh.

Candy Crush is life and you will conform!

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

 

[Rhonda the Sly]

Not sure if this helps in any way but usually Candy Crush, Twitter, Solitaire and some others aren't actually installed. They're special links to the Store, click them and The Windows Store will install then launch them. If you can control what's pinned you may be able to remove them.

 

[SparkyJJO]

That's the thing, they show up pinned (whatever) but then later on they show as installing and then "new" in the start menu installed, and you have to right click > Uninstall. They don't come back for that user when you uninstall but just the fact that it installs crap for you is a little annoying and you can't unprovision it like other programs because it installs afterward.

*edit*

Looks like I found the info I was looking for. It can be shut off via group policy. I was hoping MS wasn't going to be so stupid as to not let system admins disable time wasting crap like candy crush from being installed.

Computer Configuration –> Administrative Templates –> Windows Components –> Cloud Content, Turn off Microsoft consumer experiences

Going to have to implement that at work, more just because it is annoying to see than anything else. I have a deep-rooted hate for candy crush for whatever reason

 

[blankslate]

If it's buried in menus, non-computer-savvy people will likely NEVER find it.

Unless they change it. You can just have them click on the windows symbol (the four-squares icon on the far left of that bar-thingy at the bottom of the screen) then type windows explorer....

There's also a "File Explorer" name that is at the lower section of the start menu iirc.

*e2a*

When you type "Windows explorer" in the start menu search it becomes "File explorer" just noticed that.


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