There's no question that Windows 10 has had its fair share of ups and downs. When it's good, it's really good. But when it's bad, WATCH OUT! We didn't put this together to focus on that, however, so let's get into it. Windows 10 is a rather attractive operating system that's loaded with pretty powerful features. We wouldn't say we're completely happy with it, as some things have been removed for the sake of further monetizing the platform, and some other things were needlessly changed in a way that makes them more difficult to do, inconsistent, or just plain broken. And before the uninitiated get angry and close the page, consider a few things. Many of us worked in tech support recently and already know these things but we understand that not everyone reading may have that background. While you read along, answer a few questions.
The overwhelming majority of users can't reliably accomplish a single one of those things without spending hours on Google trying to find answers, asking lots of questions, and even accidentally breaking a few things along the way. The first two seem pretty cut and dry, right? Wrong. If you go into your settings, you'll see what we're showing you below. One of our very own tech savvy teammates was having a really rough go of it after noticing he was still receiving automatic updates after he changed his settings. Then he noticed that the updates were only being deferred. That's terrifying after the recent outbreak of problems with Windows 10 updates. He couldn't find an answer after hours of searching. Then we showed him how to do it properly and he was gobsmacked. If a tech savvy user can't just figure it out, how is someone who isn't tech savvy supposed to? Consider that before you rip our heads off. It's not obvious. It's not obvious you need to go to the Group Policy Editor and what policies you need to change in there, what the drawbacks are, and when they'll take place. There are people who receive educations for stuff like that. It's not obvious that Home users don't have the functionality of the Group Policy Editor - even if they figure out how to enable the GUI, or that they'll have to edit the registry in order to make some of those changes. It's not obvious that their easiest workaround comes from only postponing those updates by setting up a metered connection on their Windows machines. It's not obvious that the new RDC doesn't work as well as the old one and that they can switch back, or how to switch back. It's not obvious they need to open the Xbox Game Bar and learn the keyboard shortcuts for native screen recording or to take screenshots of the window their mouse pointer is hovering over. It's not even obvious that leaving S Mode is necessary or how to accomplish that. We think we've built a rather solid defense with this, so let's get back on track. We appreciate the update. It appears as though Microsoft is making its move in terms of replacing live tiles. We couldn't be happier about their decision to do this, as live tiles just didn't hit the mark for us. They're pretty but they never really worked right. In Windows 8.x, there were resizing issues. In Windows 10, they still don't populate with content as they were intended to. It's just a waste of space. They also appear to be moving to a more modern icon set. Again, we love it. But there's something missing that we think all Windows users would appreciate. c This feature works extremely well and will soothe that OCD. It can easily boost productivity, makes resizing windows a lot easier, makes rearranging and positioning windows a ton easier, and will keep you from accidentally sliding a window too far off the screen to get back [which is infuriating]. It snaps seamlessly right to the edge, and if you have multiple displays running in extended display mode, the window will just pop over to the next screen and keep snapping. It's one of those things that you don't know you're missing until you have it, then you sorely miss it when it's gone.
For the multitasking gamer in us all, this is a much needed feature. Eliminate the overlap and messy desktop. Open your guide next to your stream chat and your muted PornHub playlist. Place them under your DAW for recording your mic in top quality with glorious straight lines. Fill your second screen with your favorite game and stomp some pubs! Help us make this a thing and leave your thoughts below. Don't forget to like and share! Thanks for reading. Coming as a surprise to virtually no one at this point, Microsoft is having more quality control issues as yet another imperfect update hits the masses. Seeing the forest for the trees, we were sure to upgrade to Windows 10 Pro and block all automatic updates for as long as possible. Many others weren't so fortunate.
Among the issues are loss of audio, slow booting, frequent crashes and blue screen of death, and boot failure. Reminds of stability issues with Windows 8 / 8.1. Some users are complaining that the update has killed their brand new PC's less than a week after purchase. All of this after a previous update that resulted in unrecoverable data loss for many users. Please bear in mind, however, that your experience may be different. Statistically speaking, most users don't have any issues at all. That being the case, beware. Just as you're not guaranteed to have a problem, you're also not guaranteed to not have a problem. Our recommendation until all of this is resolved is to head to SCDKey, upgrade to Windows 10 Pro, suspend all updates (remove them if possible), and just wait out the storm. As predicted by few in the tech industry, Microsoft's Windows 10 unique policy to mandate Home users receive automatic updates is a bad one. When someone is paying money for good hardware, they shouldn't also be beta testers for the software, also making them the sacrificial lamb whenever things go wrong, while the wealthy get to simply pay away the risk. The equipment belongs to the buyer, not the developer. Still, one would be hard pressed to convince the hype beasts to help in petitioning the tech giant to change this obviously wrongheaded policy, as these petitions commonly fail to get enough signatures to make a difference. We guess it's now permissible to delete a user's data and brick their workstations. Nice! We finally got things settled with Facebook and got our page set up properly! Rejoice! Our presence is growing and our influence is spreading! Please make sure to head over there to like, follow, and share. Also, don't forget to check us out on InstaGram. As of this posting, we've got 28 followers remaining before we can start our 12 week follow-for-follow campaign. We're trying to rapidly grow our community. Our hope is to double our number of following every week for that whole 12 weeks by permanently following back every applicable follower who joins us. Rules below:
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