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Freedom is the way to go !either way is OK with me. Just give me the options to turn it on and off if they do.
Bring back the Charms Bar!
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New #24
Rather than say I like the Charms bar or I don't like it, I decided to see how much of it is redundant.
To start, we have five areas; Search, Start, Share, Devices, and Settings.
What the Charms bar has going for it is that these five items are all in one place. That said, it's invasive because it pops out when you least expect it, are trying to activate something else, and in general, it's just annoying; if you want the silly thing, you have to fish for it.
Search: Just left click on the Start icon and start typing what you want to find. That's still intact from Windows 8.
Share: Again, left click on the Start icon and type Share. Up pop several Share actions; just choose which one you want to use.
Start: Unless you've added a Windows 7 type start app, left clicking the Start Button brings up a hybrid (between Win 7 & 8) menu. Right click the Start Button and you get a whole bunch of different actions you may want to take. This was very much a surprise to me in Windows 8.1 and has been carried forward to Windows 10. For me, this is a vast improvement over past OSes.
Devices: Once more, left click the Start icon and start typing Devices. Everything connected to or hanging off your computer will show up. As well, you can Add a device from here plus a few more things.
Settings: One more time; left click the Start icon and start to type settings. What you see is probably not the final UI, but is interesting all the same. Looks to me like everything Settings is there.
I might add that "auto-complete" is alive and well in Windows 10, as you don't really have to bother finishing most of the words, since auto-complete does it for you, giving choices along the way.
One more plus is that Search no longer seems to give you a few gazillion hits from the Internet.
For me, the Charms bar was never needed and in fact is a hindrance. Just my 2 cents worth.
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New #25
The Charms bar was different from the stuff you find in the start menu because the items in the Charms bar was contextual based on the activity you were currently doing.
For instance, if you opened settings and were in the start page, it gave you settings for the start page. If you opened devices it gave you only the devices you could use with the start page. So no, this was not "redundant".
I agree that it was annoying that it would pop up when you didn't want it, particularly when on the desktop and trying to close windows or minimize them. That could have been fixed, however.
The biggest problem with stuff in the start menu is that it more or less depends on having a keyboard...
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New #26
My sentiments exactly! It always seems to pop up when I don't want it, especially when using the scroll bar on the right side of the screen.For me, the Charms bar was never needed and in fact is a hindrance. Just my 2 cents worth.
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Even on smaller laptops! I had an old HP Envy x2, which is one of those hybrids (tablet/ lappy), that ran Windows 8.1 and the charms bar was quite convenient. Of course, it was a touch screen so it was easy to get to the charms bar as well.
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