[Athen] Is Windows 10 driving anyone else crazy?

[Howard Kramer]

Thank you all for sharing that - I feel less alone. Misery loves company.

:-)


-Howard

On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 8:04 AM, Susan Kelmer <Susan.Kelmer at colorado.edu>
wrote:


> I have been using Windows 10 against my will for the last year on my

> personal laptop.  After a year, I still hate it with the passion of a

> thousand burning suns.  Maybe more than a thousand.

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> They broke what worked.  The start menu is a freaking joke, it puts

> whatever it wants there instead of what I am actually using all the time.

> The only way for me to open programs now is to windows-button then type in

> the program I’m looking for.  I used to be able to click the most used ones

> or at least select them with windows key and my up or down arrow keys, but

> no more.  The preview feature that works so well on Windows 7, on Windows

> 10 is combined with the little “show all/hide all” spot in the lower left

> corner, and of course my mouse ends up down there all the time, hiding all

> my windows even if I’m actively typing.  So I had to turn off the preview

> of the taskbar in order to fix that but now I don’t have the previews I

> used to count on to figure out which task bar button to open (I usually

> have the task bar pretty full of open programs.  The personalized settings

> for screen savers is totally borked…they work randomly and seldom.  I also

> can no longer schedule updates at my convenience, even with workarounds,

> and I will walk away from my laptop for a few hours and come back and find

> it either updating, or it just finished an update and rebooted. This

> despite telling it not to do updates except in the middle of the night. I

> spend twenty minutes trying to get everything back open again and of course

> it didn’t save anything it should have saved, so I’ve got all these random

> documents that now need to be saved, but can’t be saved over their original

> file name, but need a NEW file name.  I have tried to once a week do an

> “install updates and reboot” or “install updates and shut down”  with the

> start menu but it doesn’t actually install updates…when you boot it back

> up, THEN it does updates.  I had one last week like that, told it to

> “install and shut down” as I left my house, came back many hours later to

> grab the laptop for a meeting, and turned it on, and it spent 90 minutes

> installing updates.  I had to take paper notes for my meeting.-

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> Krista gave some good tips, these are most things I’ve already done.  Edge

> is awful and Microsoft just needs to get out of the browser business now.

> Didn’t they learn anything by watching Netscape’s demise??

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> It amazes me how much Microsoft doesn’t listen to its main clients,

> BUSINESSES AND SCHOOLS.  None of their “improvements” are improvements at

> all, they are just more obstacles, more things to learn (sometimes a huge

> learning curve).  So annoying!

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> *Susan Kelmer*

>

> *Alternate Format Production Program Manager*

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> *Disability Services*

>

> *University of Colorado Boulder*

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> *303-735-4836 <(303)%20735-4836>*

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> *From:* athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu] *On

> Behalf Of *Howard Kramer

> *Sent:* Monday, December 04, 2017 11:02 AM

> *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network <

> athen-list at u.washington.edu>

> *Subject:* [Athen] Is Windows 10 driving anyone else crazy?

>

>

>

> Just wondering if anyone else is experiencing this. I also wonder if it's

> a combination of the age of my HP laptop or just Windows 10. Settings are

> continuously overwritten every time there's  an update which can take up to

> a half-hour. Mouse driver for my touchpad works like crap with the newest

> driver version. I roll it back to a previous version which works better and

> then the Windows update reverses this at the next update and I have to

> start all over again.

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> Edge is repeatedly set as the default PDF viewing. I've tried editing the

> registry so this doesn't happen but with no luck. I have never been so

> frustrated with Windows and never considered changing to a different O/S

> until now. I feel like my productively (i.e. time) is undermined by about

> 5%. Ok, that's my rant for Monday.

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> -Howard

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