i now believe the taskbar is being forced visible by hidden notifications. if i restart the computer the problwm is gone until the next invisible notification.

I am using Win10 Pro and Xbox is present and not removable. Why would a professional user need a proprietary game system as a must-keep item? This is the same nonsense we get on smartphones where...

Is there any way to Uninstall Xbox app & Live Gaming from Win10? When I try to install/run game 'Halo2' on Win10 its refuses saying there is already a Live Gaming account running (Halo2 uses Live...

I am still getting the black screen after boot. The only way I have reliably found to stop Win10 going black is to disable the Windows Fast Startup feature.

I have had the taskbar hiding correctly for weeks since the last time it refused to hide. Now this problem is back without any good reason. No updates or app installs that could have triggered it to...

Spreading Misinformation??? Did you really say that? (I think you are dissing my right to an opinion. Possibly you are a troll?)

Classic Shell is what is says in the title - 'Classic'. ...

Classic shell is free but it is very retro. If you want a look that is Windows 10 then Start 10 has this look. It also has the Windows 7 retro look if you prefer. As much as I love Windows 7 I don't...

I started using 'Windows Start 10' app to get around these frustrating start menu limitations. I would have prefered to use the stock Windows 10 start menu but it is pretty basic and doesn't even...

I changed the feedback to full but it makes no difference to the red message.

Well I am not an 'insider' but a normal Win10 user. Not sure why you put the word "spying" in full quotes as though...

I have the red message problem too. I think it happened after I used one of these W10 stop-spying programs, too. I set my W10 to ask me before getting updates but this also asks me before every...

There isn't a decent o/s out there. The Mac brigade comes across as a bunch of true-believer snobs (I know several personally and they have a Jehovah's Witness look in their eyes when they talk...

Well it doesn't work for me. Here is my settings bar showing Google search set as default but you can see it is still using Bing.
http://s21.postimg.org/hfxlf90ub/bing.jpg

I attempted to change my default search engine from Bing to another engine without success. Until Bing is easy to ditch I won't touch Edge. Staying with Firefox.

Nobody running Halo 2 on Win10 then??

Win10's 'Photos' app is just excellent. This is a big 'hit' for me, compared to using Win7.

It makes taking the pertinent segments out of videos so easy without re-encoding the video or changing...

Did Win8 ever have any users?

Windows 7 rocks and I am hoping Windows 10 will eventually get to rock too. There are already ways to stop the M$ people peeking into our private computer lives. ...

Don't want to be forced to use Bing search. Cannot get it to change to something else. I am sticking to firefox.

I had that thought when Windows 8 came out. I looked into Ubuntu but truthfully its pants. There is no real software for it, just a few 'limited features' open-source apps. So how do we continue...

I have been using W10 and W7 together but using the same hdd and different partitions. With no real issues except the black screen one that hasn't happened for a while.

Have you tried the Win7...

"Windows 7 has served me well over the years and I'm not aware of any need of benefits that Windows 10 may offer."

there is one big benefit with w10. the never-fixed USB problems w7 has are fixed...

Traijan

I could not agree more.

As someone who loved XP and Windows 7 I feel Windows 10 is going to be great! Especially after the awful Win8 mis-step.

But Microsoft simply must improve the...

SyMenu is horribly old school XP to my eyes. (And I loved XP and used it until 3 years ago). What we really need is a modern Start Menu customisation app. Hopefully, as W10 comes of age such an app...

I would have hoped that Microsoft would have learned the hard lesson that a desktop computer is not a touch-screen tablet but it seems not. This awful alphabetizing of apps should be something you...

This looks useful, especially disabling OneDrive. :)

Thank you

I fixed this (and the dual-boot GUI not showing on startup) by disabling Win10's fast startup. This uses hibernation to start W10 faster but with this disabled the problem went away for me. (Win10...