So Very Disappointed With Win 10

MaximRecoil said:

From my perspective, Windows 10 is a downgrade from 7, but 7 was a downgrade from XP. The main thing that irritated me about 7 was the loss of direct access to the fundamental tabbed settings boxes. Starting in 7 (or did it start with Vista?) they often put "wizard"-type pages between you and the settings boxes, and it is worse than ever in Windows 10. One example is the should-be-simple act of manually synch'ing your clock with an internet time server. In XP, you double-clicked the clock display in your system tray, which directly brought up the tabbed settings box:



Then you clicked the "Internet Time" tab and the "Update Now" button:

As for Windows 10:

1. Double-click the clock display in your system tray.
2. Click the "Date and time settings" link.
3. Click the "Additional date, time, and regional settings" link.
4. Click the "Set the time and date" link.

After step 4 we are finally at the actual tabbed settings box which XP (and 2000, and so on) brought up after step 1.

Or, just type "date and time" (you don't even have to type the whole thing) in the search box and hit enter. Then click Internet time tab which looks similar to the dialog you listed above.

Cliff S said:

There is a 30 day limit... http://www.ghacks.net/2015/07/02/com...de-windows-10/

Hi there

You obviously don't understand how an IMAGE RESTORE works --the computer is RESTORED to EXACTLY the state it was BEFORE you did the upgrade -- could be 5,000 YEARS EARLIER --assuming the hardware lasted that long.

The BACKUP IMAGE doesn't even know that you've attempted an upgrade and no activation of your existing (i.e previous OS - be it W7 / W8 or W8.1) is lost or even changed.

Also provided you use the SAME computer you can attempt as many upgrade attempts as you like for up to ONE YEAR from Jul 26 2015.

Cheers
jimbo

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Mystere said:

Or, just type "date and time" (you don't even have to type the whole thing) in the search box and hit enter. Then click Internet time tab which looks similar to the dialog you listed above.

That's still more steps than just double-clicking on the clock to bring it up, plus there is an additional step within the Windows 10 version of that settings box to get to the "Update Now" button. And the concept of a search function is supposed to be for something which is hard to find or hard to get to. So they made this hard to find / get to so that resorting to a search becomes the easier method ... brilliant.

CountMike said:

Apps is not just a hip word, they are defacto standard on all other devices and once they get unified thru all windows devices and same ones work on all of them, they will come handy.

It is just a program, which has also always been known as an application. Any distinction made between a program and an "app" is arbitrary.

Apps work in their own space

As do programs, if they are programmed to do so.

Michaelvas17 said:

If your PC works correctly, I don't think that tabbed settings boxes were important then.

It has nothing to do with "working correctly". Settings are for configuration. If something is actually broken, settings won't help.

7 was one of the best releases of Windows in a long time, considering how much of a mess Vista was, and how insecure and slow XP was.

XP was not even remotely "slow", especially if you disabled the Themes service and the "visual effects". I first ran XP on a 733 Mhz Celeron machine with 256 MB of RAM in 2002, and it had good responsiveness. By eliminating a lot of unnecessary services, I've had it running reasonably well on a machine with 64 MB of RAM, ironically better than Windows 2000 on the exact same machine. As for security; I ran XP for 13 years with no security problems. Security is mainly between your ears.

I think what many people don't like is change. The more there is change, the more people will dislike it.

I love change, when it's for the better. For example, I was thrilled with the change when I went from WinMe to XP.

To me, I take functionality and security over something as small as color personalization and the way settings are presented.

Except, functionality has been reduced. I've given examples, which are not an exhaustive list, and the added steps in the paths to settings boxes do not constitute an exhaustive list of complaints (which I made clear when I said, "I could go on ..."). In other words, your summary isn't accurate, because I didn't provide enough information to summarize (I don't want to write a novel).