Karlston Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 A reader pointed me to this insightful post, from Koroush Ghazi on TweakGuides. Koroush hits so many nails straight on the head, that I’m still tickled after reading it several times. What do you think? Let’s talk about Windows 10, my least favorite subject right now. At the end of last year I announced that for personal and professional reasons, I would not be doing a TweakGuides Tweaking Companion for Windows 10, but that I would try to compile a brief Windows 10 tweak guide. Well I’ve tried, and I’m just not finding it possible to write a decent but brief guide. Windows 10 is an ever-changing, non-transparent, disjointed mess of an OS. Many of its annoyances can’t be successfully tweaked away, and those that can require pages and pages of explanation. Furthermore, any such guide would require constant editing over time as Microsoft alters Windows 10 on almost a monthly basis now. But perhaps the single biggest reason I’m not motivated to write a Windows 10 guide is that I’ve rapidly lost all respect for Microsoft, and consequently have lost a great deal of interest in anything to do with their products. Microsoft’s clumsy, desperate, visionless push to get PC users to adopt dumbed-down mobile-oriented apps purely for their own commercial benefit; the unrelentingly persistent, unethical, and highly deceptive way they’re trying to trick less tech-savvy Windows 7 and 8.1 users into “upgrading” to Windows 10; and their insistence on reducing user choice and control over Windows have all left a very bad taste in my mouth. This is an inept company struggling for relevance in the mobile era by shamelessly abusing its monopoly on desktop operating systems, and I don’t want to play any part in helping them do that. Source: Let’s talk about Windows 10, my least favorite subject right now (AskWoody.com) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eurobyn Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 i would say , if you do not like it , do not use it. the biggest problem is, if you do not follow you would get lost. xp no support vista (hmmmm no support ) windows 7 - nice os but shortly after (no support) so what can whe do (tweak the best out of windows 10 and get support?) so whatever you lilke , windows 10 is there. tweak it as you want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gipsy Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 4 minutes ago, eurobyn said: windows 7 - nice os but shortly after (no support) not so shortly actually.dunno what tricks microsoft will do to force us (mean all of us) "to luv" win 10 but if somebody don't wont to-win 7 still is great solution. anyway everybody should decide by himself. i did not follow & seems lose nothin' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heyyahblah Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 Just wait until SHITSTONE (opps I mean REDSTONE) comes out. That will be a dosey. They are planning to remove file explorer with the ribbon how it is in 7/8.1 and make it a stupid METRO APP style with tabs (bullshit) which will be hard to navigate and dumbing it back down to XP days (even worse) less features then XP because it will be METRO STYLE without the ribbon, which I hope if anyone that has to use W10, Classic Shell will write a Classic Explorer Window for it. The migration and removal of Control Panel into SETTINGS. SETTINGS MENU is the worst piece of shit I have ever had to navigate in my entire life. I get lost constantly and whenever I do try to make changes they are so f**king dumbed down that I end up going into control panel and doing it from there. Tell me how they plan to get all the features of control panel, like NETWORK MANAGEMENT and DEVICE MANAGER and a proper BATTERY/POWER MANAGEMENT and SECURITY & MAINTENANCE MENU into settings? Am I going to have to navigate through 50 tabs just to reach the destination? When I can just open up CP, click SETTINGS or SECURITY or NETWORK or WHATEVER I want and have access to advanced menus via context or 1 click? Tell me who the F**K are they catering too? A stupid tablet? What MICROSHIT doesn't realize is that WINDOWS PHONE = DEAD. SURFACE SUCKS and SOON will be DEAD, why? Because Android tablet and iPAD for iSHEEPLE dominate the market and that won't change. No one wants a surface or a windows phone. Everyone either wants a SAMSUNG or iPHONE. Simple as that. So why Windows is making everything all stupid touch based with stupid little ON-OFF SLIDE SWITCHES is beyond me. Cater to your desktops and IT professionals and businesses that rely on Widnows. let the hipsters keep using iMAC and the servers will always run on LINUX, and pro IT guys will always use Linux and UBUNTU. So F-OFF. Microshit really messed up with W10 and thats the truth. Making everything all "TOUCH INTERFACE". More then 90% of the people that will use W10 will not have a touch screen. Only a surface or some chinese knock-off W10 tablet, thats it. To ruin the entire interface is beyond my comprehension, and the forced BS updates just puts the icing on the cake. Just leave file explorer and CP how it is, and DELETE SETTINGS crap. And don't get me started on a rant about the stupid Windows store. Like I'm stupid enough to buy junk from there. All these "INNOVATIONS" are like 8 years too late. Should have started same time with PLAY STORE and iTUNES, Microsoft MORONS. Satya and Gabe Apu have no idea what people want, no f**king clue. No idea what the point of W10 FEEDBACK was if they didn't bother to listen to anyone normal, just the stupid hipster junkies. /end Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigcid10 Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 46 minutes ago, heyyahblah said: Just wait until SHITSTONE (opps I mean REDSTONE) comes out. That will be a dosey. They are planning to remove file explorer with the ribbon how it is in 7/8.1 and make it a stupid METRO APP style with tabs (bullshit) which will be hard to navigate and dumbing it back down to XP days (even worse) less features then XP because it will be METRO STYLE without the ribbon, which I hope if anyone that has to use W10, Classic Shell will write a Classic Explorer Window for it. The migration and removal of Control Panel into SETTINGS. SETTINGS MENU is the worst piece of shit I have ever had to navigate in my entire life. I get lost constantly and whenever I do try to make changes they are so f**king dumbed down that I end up going into control panel and doing it from there. Tell me how they plan to get all the features of control panel, like NETWORK MANAGEMENT and DEVICE MANAGER and a proper BATTERY/POWER MANAGEMENT and SECURITY & MAINTENANCE MENU into settings? Am I going to have to navigate through 50 tabs just to reach the destination? When I can just open up CP, click SETTINGS or SECURITY or NETWORK or WHATEVER I want and have access to advanced menus via context or 1 click? Tell me who the F**K are they catering too? A stupid tablet? What MICROSHIT doesn't realize is that WINDOWS PHONE = DEAD. SURFACE SUCKS and SOON will be DEAD, why? Because Android tablet and iPAD for iSHEEPLE dominate the market and that won't change. No one wants a surface or a windows phone. Everyone either wants a SAMSUNG or iPHONE. Simple as that. So why Windows is making everything all stupid touch based with stupid little ON-OFF SLIDE SWITCHES is beyond me. Cater to your desktops and IT professionals and businesses that rely on Widnows. let the hipsters keep using iMAC and the servers will always run on LINUX, and pro IT guys will always use Linux and UBUNTU. So F-OFF. Microshit really messed up with W10 and thats the truth. Making everything all "TOUCH INTERFACE". More then 90% of the people that will use W10 will not have a touch screen. Only a surface or some chinese knock-off W10 tablet, thats it. To ruin the entire interface is beyond my comprehension, and the forced BS updates just puts the icing on the cake. Just leave file explorer and CP how it is, and DELETE SETTINGS crap. And don't get me started on a rant about the stupid Windows store. Like I'm stupid enough to buy junk from there. All these "INNOVATIONS" are like 8 years too late. Should have started same time with PLAY STORE and iTUNES, Microsoft MORONS. Satya and Gabe Apu have no idea what people want, no f**king clue. No idea what the point of W10 FEEDBACK was if they didn't bother to listen to anyone normal, just the stupid hipster junkies. /end between you and the OP ,you all need to calm down before your blood pressure goes through the roof there's not a thing you can do about it. you ever heard the term "pissing into the wind",well there ya go just be quiet and work around it.If you stay quiet they will think they did something wrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shorty6100 Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 I am interested to see once Redstone comes out how useful StartisBack+ will be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karlston Posted March 30, 2016 Author Share Posted March 30, 2016 1 hour ago, bigcid10 said: between you and the OP ,you all need to calm down before your blood pressure goes through the roof Thanks for your concern, but I'm perfectly calm and my blood pressure is under control. Microsoft's unethical Windows 10 upgrade strategy is slowly unravelling, their W10 update methodology is broken, Windows 10 Mobile is all bar stillborn, the Windows 10 store is gathering cobwebs from lack of interest, and more of the media is starting to notice all those. MS will soon have to eat crow and make the changes users are demanding, so all is good with the world. 2 hours ago, heyyahblah said: Just wait until SHITSTONE (opps I mean REDSTONE) comes out. That will be a dosey. For most/all Windows 10 apps, there are good 3rd party applications out there that are designed for keyboard/mouse interfaces, and work far better than the MS supplied touch UI rubbish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heyyahblah Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 I'm more worried with the explorer window and control panel part of the operating system. Already had to tweak the shit out of it to get rid of the bloatware crap, MS garbage forced apps, whoretana disabled via group policy since she likes to spy so much and all that telemetry gathering crap. If you got rid of that stupid start window/menu in 8.1 and left it Start8 then it would be a worthy successor to W7. Otherwise 10 is just a hunk of shit, that I constantly have to update (VM) and when this supposedly superior REDSTONE hits the market all will be well. Why didn't they listen to any of the user feed back? Even destroying something as simple as playing around with desktop settings, removing default sound schemes and so forth. Why not ditch the f**ken 16.7million color scheme and go back to 256 colors. Would be much more favorable. Or even monochrome. Since everything has to be black or white, depending on light or dark theme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Sylence Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 1 hour ago, heyyahblah said: I'm more worried with the explorer window and control panel part of the operating system. Already had to tweak the shit out of it to get rid of the bloatware crap, MS garbage forced apps, whoretana disabled via group policy since she likes to spy so much and all that telemetry gathering crap. If you got rid of that stupid start window/menu in 8.1 and left it Start8 then it would be a worthy successor to W7. Otherwise 10 is just a hunk of shit, that I constantly have to update (VM) and when this supposedly superior REDSTONE hits the market all will be well. Why didn't they listen to any of the user feed back? Even destroying something as simple as playing around with desktop settings, removing default sound schemes and so forth. Why not ditch the f**ken 16.7million color scheme and go back to 256 colors. Would be much more favorable. Or even monochrome. Since everything has to be black or white, depending on light or dark theme. all the tweaks you did could be automatically done by something like destroy windows 10 spying tool, defender, cortana, telemetry services, windows updates etc. don't make things complicated;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karlston Posted March 30, 2016 Author Share Posted March 30, 2016 1 hour ago, heyyahblah said: I'm more worried with the explorer window and control panel part of the operating system. I use XYPlorer instead of Windows Explorer. And there are a few more alternatives. I agree about the Control Panel/Settings dog's breakfast. Just goes to show how immature W10 really is. Even 8 months after its release, it's nowhere near as complete as previous Microsoft OS's were when they were first released. Perhaps because it's free MS think they can get away with this work-in-progress OS. 1 hour ago, heyyahblah said: Why didn't they listen to any of the user feed back? They do listen, but selectively. If they listened to it all, it would be a better and more popular OS. Microsoft have been digging their heels in about many unpopular features, but then again so have W7 and W8.1 users in rejecting W10. My money's on MS to blink first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
straycat19 Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 There is a lot of hidden stuff in Windows 10, but the biggest hide is the invisible part of the name, Windows 10 BETA. It is always going to be in beta and the user base is really the beta testers, who spend way too much time redoing previous settings and tweaks every time Microsoft decides to throw out an update (which they aren't even honest about explaining what they do). In the meantime, those of us running 7 and 8.1 are merrily computing away. Who cares if Microsoft supports them or not, we are better off if they aren't supporting them because then they don't try to foist more crap on us. Windows XP and 98SE have never been so good as they have since Microsoft quit supporting them, so 7 and 8.1 will only get better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 25 minutes ago, Karlston said: They do listen, but selectively. If they listened to it all, it would be a better and more popular OS. If its not about UMP to make XBOX , phones and Desktop to all be come a one windows order, were you have the same apps and games on all 3, they dont want to hear it . Or something to help developers use Windows 10 to do work on there cloud platform . Only reason there going to bash Ubuntu Linux on Windows 10 is for developers . Microsoft is not going add nothing to Windows 10 that don't benefit them . If they dont think they can make billions off it they ignore you're idea and even if you give them good idea they are the one that gets paid not you . I dont even share my ideas with warez community any more so i'm sure not going to share with them billionaires unless they want to make me rich . And that's not happening they got there costumers testing for free and its one big mess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eurobyn Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 On 29/03/2016 at 0:41 AM, gipsy said: not so shortly actually.dunno what tricks microsoft will do to force us (mean all of us) "to luv" win 10 but if somebody don't wont to-win 7 still is great solution. anyway everybody should decide by himself. i did not follow & seems lose nothin' there are tools to disable gwx. so , if you want to stay with windows 7- 8 - 8.1 , use it. gwx controlpanel http://ultimateoutsider.com/downloads/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gipsy Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 1 hour ago, eurobyn said: there are tools to disable gwx. so , if you want to stay with windows 7- 8 - 8.1 , use it. gwx controlpanel http://ultimateoutsider.com/downloads/ appreciated u care but i even dunno what gwx is coz i'm usin' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eurobyn Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 4 minutes ago, gipsy said: appreciated u care but i even dunno what gwx is coz i'm usin' in that case you did not need this tool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VileTouch Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 On 30/3/2016 at 0:40 AM, Karlston said: If they listened to it all, it would be a better and more popular OS. or a Macindowx™ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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