Windows 10

General Discussions
#1

So I just updated to windows 10 and I am loving it so far. Here are some things that I have noticed so far:

  1. Microsoft Edge
  • I’ve been using Microsoft Edge for about a half hour and I already know that it will be my default browser from now on. Not only is it faster than chrome, it is much more fluid and consumes less resources. The only downside to Edge is no extensions but that will be coming later so it’s not that big of a deal. To get an idea on the speed and lightweightness of edge, on chrome ive had this problem with playing 4k video on youtube. Whenever I tried to play videos at 4k the video would stutter (despite have the content loaded) and my whole computer would lag. I thought it was just a sign that I need a new cpu (which I do but that is beside the point) but when I play 4K video in Edge, it is smooth and doesn’t bog down my computer.
  1. The Xbox App
  • The new Xbox app is much better. Whenever I download a game from the windows store, a little windows will pop up telling me that I can press the windows key+G to open the xbox game bar. On this game bar there, you can take a screen shot or record the game being played. The thing is, you can open that bar in any program and record that program. The only drawback is that it seems to be locked to that window but the program seems great for capturing game footage.
  1. The Windows Store and other new Windows apps
  • The windows store is vastly improved. Not much to say about it other than I have experience 2 crashes so far which is not ideal. I have had a similar experience with other new windows apps but since (I think) they are still in beta, I can forgive.

So that’s about all I have noticed other than the general stuff like Cortana, Smoothness, and the Start Menu (which are all great). Anybody else have Windows 10 and if so what do you think about it?

#2

I am considering upgrading from Windows 7 to 10 (albeit a bit later when it’s a bit more stable).

I want to ask how’s the start menu compared to Windows 7. Is it familiar enough that it’ll be easy to get used to or is it too Windows 8-esque? That’s really all I have to ask for now, Windows 10 looks so much better than Windows 8 so my interest has been piqued.

#3

The start menu is kind of combination between the two. It feels like windows 7 and 8 at the same time but never too much of either one.

I believe Microsoft is releasing a Day 1 patch some time soon so I’ll say if that fixes any of the crashes.

#4

Personally don’t like the new start menu in Windows 10, seems to try to do too much, cluttered, not easily customisable and still partially uses the horrid metro UI. Installed Classic Shell which works great and restores the simple straight forward start menu.

#5

Just a friendly remainder for everyone: please read the privacy statements and fully undestand what you’re actually installing when making the desicion to use Windows 10.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement/default.aspx

There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch. :slight_smile:

#6

meh.

I still have my windows 7 disk if I ever want to go back to the good times.

#7

I gave it a go after backing up files on my Linux partition (Apparently windows is greedy with partitioning) and I really like how they made the metro view on the desktop and made multitasking more efficient. The start menu is alright, but I dislike how “Search Windows” is always there when I could easily hit the home key and start typing. This adds more clutter to the task bar. I prefer the windows 8 window borders. Apparently their white windows with thin borders with your theme color. Their automatic color theme (when enabled) was pretty clever as it changed the theme based off the background colors. The privacy statements that mcela linked were a bit of a turn down for me. I don’t care much for it :expressionless:

#8

I install win10 today and just change all the effects, visuals, configs to my win7 setup.

Waiting for the DirectX12 now.

#9

DirectX 12 is out and you should be able to download the NVidia driver for it.

An unexpected plus from windows 10 is that most of my games run just a bit smoother. For example, on windows 8, Watchdogs would have 6 minute loading times and when it did finally load, it would stutter (until I died once and it reset which is weird) but now I have about a 2-3 minute loading time with no stutter and lag in the beginning. I would imagine this is because of the lightweight nature of windows 10 since Watchdogs doesn’t use DirectX 12.

#10

I too like Edge a lot, but there’s a problem. Video playback, such as Youtube or even ads, is completely messed up. The sound is corrupted and the video kind of lurches and skips forwards and backwards. I don’t have this issue in Chrome.

I’ve updated my audio and video drivers to the latest Windows 10 specific ones, no improvement. Any suggestions?

Other than that, I’m liking Windows 10. I’m particularly impressed by how fast a cold boot is. I used to never shut down my laptop and just put it to sleep instead with Windows 7, but now a proper shutdown is almost as fast.

#11

Hi

In my humble opinion, it looks like an unfinished and very buggy operating system like the previous versions. When I resize the file explorer, there is still a black area at the top right corner, this bug was already in Vista and even XP. The performance of WebGL is still noticeably worse with Edge than with Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, it’s a bit less catastrophic than with Internet Explorer. Some design choices are completely counter-intuitive to me, I don’t understand why some build-in “apps” have a colorized bar at the top and others just have a white bar. When you have to mimic the behaviour of this OS in a Java software, you might spend some time in looking for the expected “natural” appearance to provide a comfortable integration. The very thin border around the windows is almost invisible, is it really useful? Now the resize cursor appears only when you move the cursor close to the border inside of the window, not outside, I find it just weird. Microsoft’s transparency seems to be less bad than Google’s one but some sentences of the 23 pages in the privacy statement are enough to confirm that this operating system will never get installed on my computers at home. “Freedom only wears out when it is not used”. The secure boot is a nightmare when you want to switch to GNU Linux.

I’m still under Mageia Linux ;D Ghostery and uBlock are enabled :wink:

#12

Windows 10 forced me to append “_optout” to my wifi SSID.
That’s all I know so far. >:(

How approachable is Win10’s UI for those of us who use Win7 and skin it to work as much like WinXP as possible?

Have they finally sorted out the Explorer UI?
By sorted out, I mean have they got rid of the cluttered, wasteful, redundant (and worst of all compulsory!) Explorer navigation, status, tool & ribbon bars?

That would be the 1 thing that might make me upgrade from Win 7, that and a restored Windows search that is capable of doing exhaustive searches.

Basically I want the best bits of Win7 + best bits of WinXP, and none of the shiz that’s in Win 8.
Is Win 10 configurable enough to satisfy these desires?

#13

Windows 10 has the same Windows menu as Windows 7 but with the “metro look” of Windows 8 like this :

http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/998172Capture.png

Well do you mean by explorer the file explorer or internet explorer. In the first case nothing changed but the icons. And i’d say that Internet Explorer is deprecated haha. Windows 10 use Microsoft edge which is a lot faster than Internet Explorer and if you look at some benchmarks it’s almost as fast at Firefox or Chrome and even faster for JavaScript. Also Microsoft Edge doesn’t allow any extension and but it has a really clear UI ( just the necessary : favorites, read mode, options and even a write on the page mode ).

For the exhaustive search in Windows, in fact you have in your task bar a direct access search field wich enables you to search though your files ( the list is very exhaustive : 1 item if one is found ) or to click on a link to access bing search page for that page on your default browser.

You also have Cortana your kind of personal assistant which i think is some service to face against the siri and ok Google tool, but seriously it is almost useless as it only manages your calendar and shows you in a condensed view some articles about what you’re interested in ( that you configurated). After enabling Cortana she is enabled in the search bar in your task bar but that doesn’t change anything, she doesn’t understand any input ( which would be actually simpler than handling voice input ) like : what is the weather today ? or Is it going to rain ?

#14

For people who use Windows 8.1 still and get lost with the so-called start menu: try right clicking on it rather than left click which brings up that annoying tiles view.

I actually love the Windows 8.1 interface, all I need in one tiny context menu and the rest just gets pinned to the task bar like usual.

#15

I mean the file explorer (“Explorateur de fichiers” in French), it’s crystal clear.

#16

I actually got worse game performance on Windows 10, either due to the OS itself or the newest Nvidia display driver. On games that I normally got a solid 60+ fps turned into 30-50 fps. I searched on the internet (other people have this same issue) and found a temporary solution provided by Nvidia which included turning off Vsync and a few other settings in the Nvidia control panel. This is of course not desirable, so I am hoping that a driver update is coming soon to remedy this solution.

Just a word of caution to those who haven’t upgraded already.

#17

“upgrading”

#18

At first I was a fan, but now I just don’t like it. The new search menu (i.e. Cortana) is cluttered and huge and doesn’t activate when I hit the Windows key. All the metro animations seem to suffer from “lag spikes” which make them look… just bad. The top window bar seems bigger, making everything on my laptop that much smaller (on my desktop it is fine). Performance seems to have taken a huge hit, on 7 I could have a TON of programs open, and if I opened another it would open in a blink of an eye. On 10 if I open more than maybe four programs then I have to say bye to my performance.

I do like the four way snap now, where you can drag a window into a corner of the display and it will snap there. That, however, is the only feature I actually like. If they would completely get rid of the metro design with their strange animations that don’t fit with the rest of the OS then I would be fine with 10. Just yet again they tried far too hard to push two design languages together and they just couldn’t get it right.

#19

Still on Xp 8) and don’t want change it XD

Imho: The Trend of last years fears me:
from year to year we have more buggy and laggy software’s each year

  • and now even big corporations create so low quality products.

What be next.
in 50 years we will have 100 core cpu that run new tetris with lags 10- FPS
because you don’t have top pc with 378 cores ? :persecutioncomplex:

#20

[quote=“Opiop,post:18,topic:55189”]
Sounds like the same problem I was having, which I fixed by disabling the Superfetch service. You can verify it by the memory usage of the System process in the Task Manager. It was many hundred megabytes before, now it is 0.1 MB. You may have to restart after disabling the service for the memory to be released.