How bad is Win 10? |
How bad is Win 10? |
pandy |
Sep 22 2017, 03:42 PM
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🌟Computer says no🌟 Group: WDG Moderators Posts: 20,759 Joined: 9-August 06 Member No.: 6 |
My computer has broken down. Yeah, again. I just bought a very slightly used one with a lot better components that I would otherwise afford.
It comes with Win 10 (Pro), I think. The guy hated it himself and recommended me to install 7 or 8 instead. 7 seems the least annoying, but support ends in less than 3 years. 8 seems pretty horrid too. So maybe I should just go with 10? I've read about the murder of the start menu, that updates are forced and that you have no control of what and when. Is it as bad as I've heard? |
CharlesEF |
Oct 4 2017, 01:56 PM
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Programming Fanatic Group: Members Posts: 1,990 Joined: 27-April 13 From: Edinburg, Texas Member No.: 19,088 |
I came across this https://www.tenforums.com/customization/435...ist-header.html. Seems you can define a new theme (instead of messing with the original). Hope this might help.
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pandy |
Oct 4 2017, 04:54 PM
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🌟Computer says no🌟 Group: WDG Moderators Posts: 20,759 Joined: 9-August 06 Member No.: 6 |
Ah! Wonderful! I'm prepared to do some work once I've got things running. BTW, I had my finger on the ban button before I saw you were the poster. My eyes is always drawn to any link first. I misread and thought it said "teenforums".
I'll continue to pick your brains, if I may. I've already found that the Program Files (x86) folder isn't an entirely bad idea. I have, of course, installed programs in a folder named - taa-taa! - Programs as I've done since many years. And I've also heard that's a good idea to get around some annoyances with newer versions of Windows. I have this really old menu program called AppBar. I've dragged it from computer to computer and everything has worked straight off - until now. It's tiny bar with text based menus. I have everything I use often on it. Programs, folders, documents. I use to have it at the bottom. It autohides behind the taskbar. That didn't work. So I put it at the top of the screen instead. Everything worked, or so I thought. The paths that happened to be the same worked fine, but it turned out I couldn't edit the entries or add new one, got strange error messages. When I moved it to the x86 folder everything worked, even having it coexist with the taskbar. I'm so happy! It's rather cool actually. I think that little program is from before Win 95 even. To the point. I'm trying to get rid of the annoying prompts. I realize not allowing any program to run as administrator is actually a good idea. But how do I set the programs I trust to do it? Some have it in there own Options, but that doesn't seem to take. I find this little tutorial duplicated all over the web. https://www.cnet.com/how-to/always-run-a-pr...-in-windows-10/ Problem is I don't get a Shortcut tab when I rightclick an exe. I only have the ones in the screen cap and none of them have the setting I'm looking for. So is there another way to do this? |
pandy |
Oct 4 2017, 05:17 PM
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🌟Computer says no🌟 Group: WDG Moderators Posts: 20,759 Joined: 9-August 06 Member No.: 6 |
Oh, I think they are talking about rightclicking a shortcut, not an exe... And I found this. The setting is also on the compatibility tab (when rightclicking an exe). Doesn't seem to work though, but maybe a reboot is needed.
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3436-ru...a.html#option10 I also have problems with file associations not sticking. That seems to be common. The advice is to use Settings... Default Apps and to use the Set defaults by apps option. Problem with that, apart from sounding tedious, is that hardly any of the programs I've installed so far shows up there. Basically only FF and Adobe's programs do. |
pandy |
Oct 4 2017, 05:27 PM
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🌟Computer says no🌟 Group: WDG Moderators Posts: 20,759 Joined: 9-August 06 Member No.: 6 |
OK, I've set the options both on the shortcut properties and on the exe properties. It doesn't work. Neither does rightclicking a shortcut and choosing Run as Aministrator. I have rebooted.
The stupid OS also made one of the two extra hard drives I put in Read Only. Why one and not the other? It has also made som files I moved from those HDs to C protected somehow, don't remember what it was called. The latter was easy to get rid of, but I hope I don't have to do that every time I move a file. So far my experirience isn't great. |
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