So how are you liking Win10 so far?

[TeknoBug]

Is that a 3 dimensional image. Where did that come from, a different firm? Looks like ceiling duct. 🙂 LOL. Yes, I do dislike the new windows.

That's the Hero wallpaper, you see it on the login screen, I disabled login background and use my own wallpaper, I don't really care for that Hero wallpaper.

 

[JeffMD]

So I ended up nixing windows 10 on my laptop for now. I had 2 main issues unresolved. One was sound quality, even after using the latest realtek drivers the quality seemed lower then it was in windows 8, and each time I heard that all new windows tone I felt it was getting clipped to hell and back. Second was the laptop was randomly waking itself from hibernation. I also am not happy with the flatter looking UI, so maybe when ui tools have been created for windows 10 to look better (get rid of that silly search bar at the bottom too) and I know drivers are more mature, I'll try it again. I'll come back in a year. 🙂

Meanwhile though I updated my mom's laptop from windows 7, needed to make sure I updated drivers but its been working like a peach so far. She does not ask much of it though. I do think she will appreciate windows 10 doing more updates without reboots since she is always delaying it until windows eventually forces it and then I don't hear the end of it.

 

[Eug]

Can you tell me where this other setting is? My menus have always seemed too large (this is going back several preview builds), even though the main Display page says that I am at 100%.

Settings --> System --> Display --> Advanced display settings --> Advanced sizing of text and other items --> Change size of items - custom scaling level.

Yes, it's buried quite deep.

Reminds me of Win98SE and the gradient title bars. A fresh install would show one setting and the display properties would show a default theme with a different setting. Applying the already-applied "default" would actually change it!

That sounds vaguely familiar... Oooh, the memories...

Is that a 3 dimensional image. Where did that come from, a different firm? Looks like ceiling duct. 🙂 LOL. Yes, I do dislike the new windows.

Comes with Windows 10. I kind of like it, but it's there mainly because I have not had the time to peruse through DeviantART. I forgot to save my previous Windows 7 backgrounds before doing a fresh install of Windows 7 (before updating to Win 10).

 

[Ketchup]

Settings --> System --> Display --> Advanced display settings --> Advanced sizing of text and other items --> Change size of items - custom scaling level.

Yes, it's buried quite deep.

Thanks. Wish you could go under 100. I tried, but it just goes back to 100.

 

[Ramses]

So I ended up nixing windows 10 on my laptop for now. I had 2 main issues unresolved. One was sound quality, even after using the latest realtek drivers the quality seemed lower then it was in windows 8, and each time I heard that all new windows tone I felt it was getting clipped to hell and back. Second was the laptop was randomly waking itself from hibernation. I also am not happy with the flatter looking UI, so maybe when ui tools have been created for windows 10 to look better (get rid of that silly search bar at the bottom too) and I know drivers are more mature, I'll try it again. I'll come back in a year. 🙂

Meanwhile though I updated my mom's laptop from windows 7, needed to make sure I updated drivers but its been working like a peach so far. She does not ask much of it though. I do think she will appreciate windows 10 doing more updates without reboots since she is always delaying it until windows eventually forces it and then I don't hear the end of it.

Beats audio by chance on the crappy sounding one? I have that on an HP and it blows, 10 reinstalled it by default and I removed it in favor of the non-beats stuff and it helped. Just curious, there has been much complaining about beats stuff on the HP support forums for ages.

 

[Ichinisan]

Edge locks up every time I try to click Run from within Edge for a downloaded .exe file. For example, the last time was the IrfanView installer, from c|net, which is the official download site linked by IrfanView.

Same deal here. Lots of craziness. I figured, in my case, it's because my Downloads pointer is pointed to a network location with a mapped drive letter (S:\Downloads) and that uses alternate credentials to authenticate with the network drive. I get lots of strange security warnings when messing with folders on that drive.

I helped someone today that didn't have such a strange setup. Just a Toshiba laptop, recently updated from 8.1 to 10. Downloaded files didn't appear in the Downloads list initially. Then, later, they finally appeared there (after we re-downloaded again).

The program launches, and I get the sound indicating Windows 10 wants user intervention to confirm I want to run the file, but the User Account Control dialogue box doesn't actually show up. And Edge then is totally dead. It's still on screen but accepts no user input, and cannot be moved or closed either.

If I go to the Task Manager it shows that Edge is still active (and does not indicate that it is not responding), but it does allow me to kill the Edge process. However, I also will see the process running for the Consent for that UAC dialogue box, even though it isn't visible on screen. So I kill that too, and relaunch the application from the Windows browser instead of from Edge.

So, this isn't really a purely Windows 10 bug I guess since it only happens when I try to launch a downloaded application from within Edge. However, it seems there is a significant Windows 10 bug component as well, since the UAC dialogue box never shows up even though the UAC user consent request process (or whatever it's called) actually runs.

I think I was experiencing something similar with the same person I referenced above. Strangely, something eventually triggered the UAC control panel options (with the vertical slider) to appear. No idea why, because we didn't want to change or disable anything there.

 

[Ichinisan]

How do I just the font size for the Settings Menu? For some reason it's defaulted to a size that is bigger than normal, so a lot of the settings are off screen, and I have to scroll down. I can't figure out how to change it. The weird part is that if I switch to a different user account on the same computer, the font size is normal, and if I use a different computer, the font size is also normal.

Here are two different computers, with virtually the same size screen. One is 1366x768. The other is 1360x768. The text size setting is set at 100%, as it is in the other accounts and on the other computer.


How I expect to see the settings (on my net top):

The font for these settings is big so, menus are partially off screen (on my laptop):

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EDIT: I have the answer.

Even though the Setting menu said 100%, it was actually 125%, buried in a custom setting in the advanced menu.

I think I had set it there in the Windows 7 days, but Windows 10 didn't see it as 125%. IOW, it just chose to accept 125% as the new baseline for this account's "100%".

Now when I use the Settings menu and choose 125%, it looks like how it was before at 100%.

I consider this a bug. They have different ways to set 125%, but they don't communicate with one another, so you get different results.

Actually overall, I prefer 125% on this small screen, but I don't want 125% for the Settings menu because the font size is big to begin with. However, it seems you can't adjust the font size of the Settings independently.

One of the first things I did after the update, I went to the "Personalize" option (from the desktop context menu) and set the default theme. I vaguely recall there was another choice there that was confusing.

 

[Ichinisan]

How so? I forget what the setting is but I adjust it to open any photo in a maximized window and not scale the image unless it's larger than the screen, and I navigate with the arrow keys. It's pretty dated for sure but it's worked well for ages for me. Everything else seems fluffy. 🙂

Rolling the mouse wheel results in it trying to display all the other files in the folder, even non-image files like text files. You usually get a pop-up error message about reaching the end of the files in the directory, and you can't simply roll the mouse-wheel back (you have to click/dismiss the error).

I would never set that as the standard image viewer. I should probably figure out how to disable the feature where the mouse wheel switches to another file (it has caused me to lose work). I don't bother to reconfigure because I usually re-install the latest version of IrfanView and plugins whenever I need to use it.

 

[Ichinisan]

(get rid of that silly search bar at the bottom too)

Wow. Super easy to hide that. Just right-click.

 

[JeffMD]

Beats audio by chance on the crappy sounding one? I have that on an HP and it blows, 10 reinstalled it by default and I removed it in favor of the non-beats stuff and it helped. Just curious, there has been much complaining about beats stuff on the HP support forums for ages.

It is an asus with Bang & Olufsen, but afaik nothing extra is installed for it. It is just the realtek hd drivers. It handles the sub output in hardware.

Wow. Super easy to hide that. Just right-click.

I knew that would something easy like that, I didn't hear too many complaints about it so people must have been hiding it easily.

 

[Ramses]

Rolling the mouse wheel results in it trying to display all the other files in the folder, even non-image files like text files. You usually get a pop-up error message about reaching the end of the files in the directory, and you can't simply roll the mouse-wheel back (you have to click/dismiss the error).

I would never set that as the standard image viewer. I should probably figure out how to disable the feature where the mouse wheel switches to another file (it has caused me to lose work). I don't bother to reconfigure because I usually re-install the latest version of IrfanView and plugins whenever I need to use it.

Yeah it does do that, I almost never scroll through photos though, giant previews in explorer or online with Google Photos. I haven't found a photo viewer that didn't annoy me yet lol..

 

[Kadarin]

I'm kinda meh about it. It seems less stable than Win7, and there's a notification sound I get occasionally that I haven't tracked down and disabled yet. Unfortunately, Windows 10 isn't telling me exactly WHY it's playing the sound. Go figure...

 

[Puffnstuff]

Pop up message windows generate a sound and that might be what you're hearing.

 

[escrow4]

Rolling the mouse wheel results in it trying to display all the other files in the folder, even non-image files like text files. You usually get a pop-up error message about reaching the end of the files in the directory, and you can't simply roll the mouse-wheel back (you have to click/dismiss the error).

I would never set that as the standard image viewer. I should probably figure out how to disable the feature where the mouse wheel switches to another file (it has caused me to lose work). I don't bother to reconfigure because I usually re-install the latest version of IrfanView and plugins whenever I need to use it.

In the Options of Irfanview, tick the box to jump to next image when scrolling. That will popup the browse dialog once it runs out of picture to scroll through (by default).

 

[CZroe]

In the Options of Irfanview, tick the box to jump to next image when scrolling. That will popup the browse dialog once it runs out of picture to scroll through (by default).

I'd prefer an option that only disables it if I began modifying the image or at least pop up a save dialog when I attempt to do it.

 

[finbarqs]

what's the point of the "settings" of the printers menu? You can't do anything there but add and remove. You still have to go to the original Devices and Printers to do any meaningful configuration... And are there any methods to show the "run" command on the menu? Or do I need to create a tile for it?

 

[SparkyJJO]

Just Windows key + R for Run. You're going to be typing anyway. I haven't used the Run entry in the start menu in years on Windows 7.

 

[Ichinisan]

Yeah it does do that, I almost never scroll through photos though, giant previews in explorer or online with Google Photos. I haven't found a photo viewer that didn't annoy me yet lol..

The problem is, I'm not really trying to scroll through photos when that "feature" gets me. I'm zoomed-in and I expect the scroll wheel to let me scroll vertically as it does in any other application (including MSPAINT). It's unexpected, undesired behavior.

 

[Ichinisan]

what's the point of the "settings" of the printers menu? You can't do anything there but add and remove. You still have to go to the original Devices and Printers to do any meaningful configuration... And are there any methods to show the "run" command on the menu? Or do I need to create a tile for it?

Though I use the Win+R shortcut primarily, I also have Run pinned to the taskbar because I use it 100+ times per day.

 

[finbarqs]

yeah same here.. Edge is buggy as hell. Probably the worst browser i've used so far. Going back to IE11 + Chrome.

 

[Ramses]

The problem is, I'm not really trying to scroll through photos when that "feature" gets me. I'm zoomed-in and I expect the scroll wheel to let me scroll vertically as it does in any other application (including MSPAINT). It's unexpected, undesired behavior.

Gotcha, I haven't had a scroll wheel mouse in forever, probly why I never came across it.

 

[Ketchup]

I can see people not liking 10, and wanting to use the roll back to an earlier OS. My rating of the last 3:

1. Windows 7
2. Windows 8(.1)
3. Windows 10

Yes, Windows 8 has the Start Screen. But a few minutes tells a person that the configuration of the new Start Menu is the SAME as the start screen (alphabetical items until you get to things Windows decided to put in a different folder), just a different look. Honestly, I can pin things I want on the Start Screen and be just as happy, if not more so, since there is more flexibility on where to place things. And in 8 I don't have to go between the new Settings page and the traditional Control Panel to find what I want. And I can do a regular Windows search without having to go through Cortana's plethora of online results, by default.

 

[Ramses]

anyone else notice 10 not handling programs popping up in the foreground or background correctly?

 

[Eug]

anyone else notice 10 not handling programs popping up in the foreground or background correctly?

Yes. This includes UAC dialogue boxes, at least in very specific situations.

 

[crashtech]

I can see people not liking 10, and wanting to use the roll back to an earlier OS. My rating of the last 3:

1. Windows 7
2. Windows 8(.1)
3. Windows 10

Yes, Windows 8 has the Start Screen. But a few minutes tells a person that the configuration of the new Start Menu is the SAME as the start screen (alphabetical items until you get to things Windows decided to put in a different folder), just a different look. Honestly, I can pin things I want on the Start Screen and be just as happy, if not more so, since there is more flexibility on where to place things. And in 8 I don't have to go between the new Settings page and the traditional Control Panel to find what I want. And I can do a regular Windows search without having to go through Cortana's plethora of online results, by default.

Yes, but DX12. So Win10 will shortly be the default for lots of power users.