What does "UAC" stand for?
Ya, at first I thought it was weird enough that it kept resetting brightness and volume with every off-&-on, but at least that could be managed fairly simply by adjusting them again when I turn it on. But now it won't even take the adjustment on brightness. It starts at level Incinerate-My-Retinas, and now there's no response when I hit the "dimmer" button, not even the little corner icon popping up to show me what level it's at. So I dig up the settings/control/whatevertheycallitnow thing with the on-screen slider to change brightness without the keyboard's brightness button... and it shows that I'm supposedly already at a dim setting! And then moving the slider doesn't snap it out of it; it has no effect at all. The only thing that DOES help is plugging in the recharger, which brings it down to the minimum, the last setting I was able to put it on back when it actually accepted brightness adjustments. Fortunately, unplugging it then doesn't make it jump back up to IMR, so I can work unplugged after doing this, but this method of dealing with the screen brightness problem means I can't turn it back up later if I want for videos, either slightly or all the way.
Other than that... let's see...
Stupid pop-up and even a loud noisy little jingle when I plug in headphones, to "inform" me that I just plugged in headphones!?! (Then the same thing when unplugging)
The new version of RealPlayer now wants to pester me to sign up for some stupid cloud account not just when I start that program, but even when I start the OS. I'd kill that program if I didn't need it just to convert downloaded FLVs to a format I can play without RealPlayer (and even that use is rare).
No more Minesweeper, Spider Solitaire, or FreeCell, apparently. I thought I found them in a group as a single program with "solitaire" in its name, but now it's gone. The "games" thing is fully of cellphonish stuff I have no interest in.
No more decent image viewer; now it's something with a bunch of other junk crammed in at the top & bottom of the screen so whatever image it's supposed to show me is tiny and partially darkened by something shadowy overlapping it.
No more NotePad. I guess I can start doing my quick short notes in the my processor; sometimes I would end up copying them over anyway. But it's a good thing that I just recently switched one large project file from HTML to word processor for other reasons anyway, because this cuts me off from writing & editing my own HTML myself. I actually still don't know right now how I'm going to edit my personal local home page from now on.
Then there's the Start Menu... gewd gawd, the Start Menu. It insists on putting my programs as big picture boxes instead of a single-column list of names, and putting
those all off to the right so the first column can be wasted on crap I don't want to see. And not only does that take away the option of jumping to the program I want by typing a letter, but it also doesn't do that anymore even in the "all programs" list, which IS still text in a single column at the left just like my pinned programs were before, so there's no reason why it wouldn't work there!
And that's not to mention the annoyances that are really about the hardware it came in, which I know aren't Windows's fault.
I want my last computer back.
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