Poll: Are you happy with Windows 10?

[El Greco]

I've added programs to the All Apps menu using this method, via the howtoGeek link, though possibly if I recall they didn't always appear instantly but after a reboot.
What specific program are you trying to add to the menu?

Various, the last one being CrystalDiskInfo. None works.

But since it works for some others, I'll classify it as some sort of bug and not UI inefficiency by design.

 

[Skeptical Greg]

It's not a bug in 10 if everyone running 10 is not having the same problem..

It would seem to be a configuration problem.

I understand that 10 has a lot of gotchas if one does not do a lot of self configuration..

I tried to turn off as much of the automatic stuff as i could...

 

[Rrose Selavy]

Various, the last one being CrystalDiskInfo. None works.

But since it works for some others, I'll classify it as some sort of bug and not UI inefficiency by design.

Crystal Disk info just happens to be one of the programs I added using that method.
Are your required shortcuts still showing in the folder C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs?

Are you ensuring you are running as administrator when in file explorer , even if you are the only user?

 

[El Greco]

As evidenced by the link I posted previously (and other ones), there are a lot of people who have the same problem. I have it in two machines with pretty fresh installations, so it's definitely not a configuration issue. The vast majority of bugs are not experienced by everyone.

 

[Rrose Selavy]

this might be worth trying?

start menu and reindexing. Control panel > Indexing Options > StartMenu > Advanced > Rebuild

 

[alfaniner]

Well, if you haven't upgraded by now you may want to consider it. Microsoft is ending support for Windows 8 after only 3 years.

 

[ohms]

Well, if you haven't upgraded by now you may want to consider it. Microsoft is ending support for Windows 8 after only 3 years.

Yes and no, Windows 8 mainstream support runs until Jan 2018 but you will need to patch to 8.1.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/search/default.aspx?alpha=Windows 8

 

[The Don]

Generally happy with Windows 10 but Groove Music is a piece of ****.

I seems to take *forever* to synch the library and I can no longer send music (and playlists) to my MP3 player. Of course all the music is on the Cloud but that's no use to me where I have no Wi-fi or mobile reception

Whereas Media Player was a (not great but at least functional) way of playing music on various devices, Groove Music seems to be more like iPlayer - a sales platform.

 

[El Greco]

Meanwhile, MS is getting more and more aggressive in its upgrade policy. Their upgrade prompts are now alarmingly reminiscent of malware.

 

[GlennB]

Meanwhile, MS is getting more and more aggressive in its upgrade policy. Their upgrade prompts are now alarmingly reminiscent of malware.

I'm expecting the day when it says "Click here OR we'll upgrade you within 24 hours"

 

[CelticRose]

Generally happy with Windows 10 but Groove Music is a piece of ****.

Agreed. I couldn't get the thing to acknowledge that there was any music on my computer. If I clicked on an mp3 file it would play it, but none of my music would show up in the libraries no matter how many times I told it where to look.

I just gave up on it and used Windows Media Player which is adequate for my needs.

 

[Delvo]

I just had a crash a few minutes ago. It seemed to be handling itself as well as can be expected for a sudden crash: YouTube misbehaved, I got a message on the screen saying something about encountering a problem and needing to restart, and it told me how long to expect it to take and got it done quickly enough. But there's just one oddity since then...

(For the following part, keep in mind the fact that this is the first real restart in days to maybe a couple of weeks, because a certain setting's refusal to stay the way I set it through a reboot has caused me to start just putting the thing to sleep instead, just so I can keep my settings. But the issue there is HP's stupid mouse driver, not Microsoft's stupid OS, so the details wouldn't belong in this thread.)

Those little "tiles" that Microsoft insists on using in the Star Menu now to try to make it look like a cellphone... now about half of them don't even have their icons anymore. They're just blue boxes with programs' names in the lower left corners in white text. Why would a company that just LOVES its little icons, so much that it redesigns interfaces around the absolute necessity of having icons instead of text, would also make those icons so fragile that they don't survive the first unplanned reboot?

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I've found it useful to take a picture of the BSOD with my cell phone for future reference. A couple of tech people say they're stealing that idea, which certainly wasn't original with me.

 

[funk de fino]

I had the "start menu - cortana" issue again but this time without the error message. managed to finally rid myelf of it again but it took a litle longer this time and still not 100% sure what cleared it. Seemed to be related to an update.

 

[Delvo]

And I'm sick of the folder clutter in Windows 10. My "personal" folder keeps spontaneously creating folders that are just in the way called "Favorites", "Links", "Saved Games", and "Searches". And then the "Documents" folder keeps creating a "YouCam" folder, which sounds like it must be specific to a program I haven't even seen, nevermind used or told where I would want its files even IF I were to ever see it and use it. (And the default that it doesn't give me any choice about doesn't even make sense; there's a "Videos" folder right there in the same folder with the "Documents" folder!) I delete them, and then, some time later, for no reason at all, they're back again, regardless of the fact that they're never used for anything and nothing happens with them but deletion, and regardless of how many times they just get deleted on sight.

Then there's Microsoft's obsession with pushing me not to use keyboard commands in Windows. The menu I get by right-clicking on something doesn't underline the command letters anymore; I can still use the ones I know from before (until they shut that down), but I can't see the ones I don't have memorized. And folder navigation by using Alt & arrows seems to get turned off as soon as I do something to any of the files in the folder I'm looking at, and won't come back on until I click in the folder with the mouse, which was never required before.

Somewhere in that company, there's somebody who was assigned to deliberately hunt down these basic functions and kill them. Why?

 

[El Greco]

Yeah, the number of bugs in this thing is unbelievable. I thought it would be quite mature by now and was contemplating switching to it as my main environment but between the bugs and the horrible updates that destroy settings and introduce new bugs, it just isn't a serious OS. So I'm back to XP and I boot into 10 once a week or so just for the laughs.

The other day I was thinking about getting a USB PC and was reading the reviews. It's astonishing how many people couldn't even upgrade 8.1 to 10 or couldn't operate it normally after they upgraded and ended up returning the hardware. It's not even beta.

 

[CelticRose]

I've found it useful to take a picture of the BSOD with my cell phone for future reference. A couple of tech people say they're stealing that idea, which certainly wasn't original with me.

That is an excellect idea for any problem/error message. *makes mental note*

 

[CelticRose]

And I'm sick of the folder clutter in Windows 10. My "personal" folder keeps spontaneously creating folders that are just in the way called "Favorites", "Links", "Saved Games", and "Searches".

Yes, system folders will regenerate if you delete them. Just learn to live with it.

And then the "Documents" folder keeps creating a "YouCam" folder, which sounds like it must be specific to a program I haven't even seen, nevermind used or told where I would want its files even IF I were to ever see it and use it.

That's CyberLink YouCam, a webcam program that has nothing to do with Windows 10. You can uninstall it if it's bothering you. Even if you don't uninstall it, you might want to go into Task Manager and delete the task that makes it start automatically when you login or switch users. It came pre-installed on my HP laptop and had me thinking I had a virus because I kept getting warning messages that YouCam couldn't access my webcam (because I've disabled it in Windows 10's settings) whenever I switched users. Then I found this thread at Bleeping Computer and deleted the offending task in Task Manager. No more warning messages. But just to be safe there's now a purple flower sticker covering my webcam.

 

[Trebuchet]

Once again, when BillG says "MyComputer" he doesn't mean it's yours. He means it's his.

 

[Sceptic-PK]

Then there's Microsoft's obsession with pushing me not to use keyboard commands in Windows. The menu I get by right-clicking on something doesn't underline the command letters anymore; I can still use the ones I know from before (until they shut that down), but I can't see the ones I don't have memorized.

There is an option to turn these back on. Can't tell you where though sorry, am at work on Win 7.