So how are you liking Win10 so far?

[biostud]

I would like an option to see onedrive folders the same way as in 8.1.

 

[Ichinisan]

I can't remove a non-functioning shortcut from the "Quick access" list on the left side of file explorer. The shortcut simply will not go away when I right-click and choose "Unpin from Quick access" in the pop-up context menu.

I don't recall ever pinning the "forum_embed" folder in the first place (nor any other folder). I do use that folder frequently for images that I embed on Anandtech forums.

There are 2 possible paths to that folder and I don't know which one the Quick access shortcut is trying to use:

S:\Dropbox\Public\forum_embed\
\\x.x.x.x\NetDrv Home Personal\Dropbox\Public\forum_embed\

I had uninstalled Dropbox software (and practically everything else) before upgrading to Windows 10. Dropbox refuses to use any network location without some trickery, so I attempted to do that again and had some glitches with Dropbox. While trying to resolve those glitches, I very briefly renamed one of the folders in the path and changed it back a short while later:

Dropbox --> derpberks --> Dropbox

It was around this time I noticed the "forum_embed" folder in Quick access.

The "S:" drive is mapped to a shared network location. Since my Windows user account is not a local user account (it's a Microsoft account), the mapped drive uses alternate credentials to access that network location.

Anyway, I have no idea how it got there and I can't get rid of it.

 

[quikah]

I would like an option to see onedrive folders the same way as in 8.1.

You and everyone else... vote for it!

http://onedrive.uservoice.com/forum...stions/8888062--sync-online-only-for-onedrive

 

[Berryracer]

I can't remove a non-functioning shortcut from the "Quick access" list on the left side of file explorer. The shortcut simply will not go away when I right-click and choose "Unpin from Quick access" in the pop-up context menu.

I don't recall ever pinning the "forum_embed" folder in the first place (nor any other folder). I do use that folder frequently for images that I embed on Anandtech forums.

There are 2 possible paths to that folder and I don't know which one the Quick access shortcut is trying to use:

S:\Dropbox\Public\forum_embed\
\\x.x.x.x\NetDrv Home Personal\Dropbox\Public\forum_embed\

I had uninstalled Dropbox software (and practically everything else) before upgrading to Windows 10. Dropbox refuses to use any network location without some trickery, so I attempted to do that again and had some glitches with Dropbox. While trying to resolve those glitches, I very briefly renamed one of the folders in the path and changed it back a short while later:

Dropbox --> derpberks --> Dropbox

It was around this time I noticed the "forum_embed" folder in Quick access.

The "S:" drive is mapped to a shared network location. Since my Windows user account is not a local user account (it's a Microsoft account), the mapped drive uses alternate credentials to access that network location.

Anyway, I have no idea how it got there and I can't get rid of it.

Just manually pin the folders you want.

Change this setting in Folder Options to not automatically add stuff:

 

[Ichinisan]

Just manually pin the folders you want.

Change this setting in Folder Options to not automatically add stuff:

I'll look for that. Either way, it's a UI sin to have the "unpin" option when it's not pinned...

[edit]
...also a UI sin that the shortcut doesn't work at all and it added there anyway.

 

[us3rnotfound]

Accidentally enabled Tablet Mode. Man that was freakish. Why would I want that? Oh I don't know, to experience frustration on a moment's whim? G'jeez.

 

[PC_]

why would you install windows 10 if you don't want frustration.

 

[Ramses]

I would theorize that one would want tablet mode when using a tablet. But it's only a theory, all my tablets run android like the good lord intended.

 

[RampantAndroid]

why would you install windows 10 if you don't want frustration.

Because I've installed it and had no frustration? The same for many others?

 

[Mem]

why would you install windows 10 if you don't want frustration.

Frustration?..No offence but sounds like PEBCAK.

Win10 was a painless install, not had a single crash yet, yes all my software and games run fine, no driver issues, now does that sound like frustration to you?

 

[slag]

Because I've installed it and had no frustration? The same for many others?

Exactly. Love it. it just plain works and works well.

 

[crashtech]

I do have a minor irritation with Win10 on my T510, surely it is a simple setting change. I used to be able to command a shutdown, close the lid and walk away, and the laptop would shut down (in Win7). Now, if I don't wait for the thing before closing the lid, it will go to sleep in the middle of shutting down, since closing the lid tells it to go to sleep, after all (which I normally like). So now, somewhat comically, when I pull the lid open later, it will wake up just long enough to finish shutting down.

 

[CZroe]

I do have a minor irritation with Win10 on my T510, surely it is a simple setting change. I used to be able to command a shutdown, close the lid and walk away, and the laptop would shut down (in Win7). Now, if I don't wait for the thing before closing the lid, it will go to sleep in the middle of shutting down, since closing the lid tells it to go to sleep, after all (which I normally like). So now, somewhat comically, when I pull the lid open later, it will wake up just long enough to finish shutting down.

I've always HATED the "close the lid to sleep" default setting because I often close the lid to save battery power while it plays music or up/downloads something, or rips/encodes something (kinda like locking your phone doesn't stop it from whatever you left it doing). I always set the power button to "Sleep" and the lid switch to "do nothing," which is the way laptops used to work and default to before XP. It's not like I can't shut down using the Start menu or ALT+F4.

One of my pet peeves is when a notebook does not "do nothing" even when I have that setting selected. For example, the music will stutter horribly for no reason, a full-screen app will crash or leave full-screen or reformat because the video reinitialized or the resolution changed, video output to the TV will revert to the notebook when I close/open, etc. If I told it to "do nothing," I mean that I want it to "do nothing," dammit!

My M11x r1 would hard-lock if I pushed sleep and then closed the lid without waiting for the system to fully enter sleep (time to enter sleep varied randomly from a few seconds to 40+ seconds). I usually used sleep when I needed to close it and go RIGHT AWAY, so I was conditioned not to wait and it caused a ton of problems. My M11x r3 did not have this problem. When I need to pack the notebook up, I could hit the power button to sleep, close it right away, and be half-way through packing it up by the time it finishes entering sleep. If sleep isn't going to be instant, that's the way it should be.

With Windows 10 set to "do nothing" it does some stupid "Project" side bar with multiple output options for my display as soon as I open it. What does that have to do with me closing/opening the lid?! Why am I getting these completely unrelated options?! Anyway, when I click in my window to re-select it and make it go away, it goes away but the window strangely needs a second click to get focus. When something else in the window has focus, like a text box or an embedded video, I need to click AGAIN to navigate (Page Up, Page Down, etc). This is extremely frustrating. I always feel that I have clicked an excessive amount of times and find that I still can't navigate with the keyboard without taking my hands off and clicking again.

Just "DO NOTHING" like I ASKED, Windows 10! Jeeze. It's not that hard.

 

[TeknoBug]

I always turn off sleep on close lid, hate that feature and it works for me in Win 10.

 

[Ramses]

Aaaand myself and a bazzilion other HP lappy users have been trying to get sleep on close lid TO work the last month lol....

 

[Ramses]

Anyone deactivate an install to use it on a new board/lappy with 10 yet? With 7 or 8 I'd deactivate and it seemed happy to reactivate on the new hardware. I'm hoping one does not have to install 7/8, run the upgrade to get the new hardware ID onto the MS server, than install 10 like it was initially.

 

[Ketchup]

Aaaand myself and a bazzilion other HP lappy users have been trying to get sleep on close lid TO work the last month lol....

Odd that I haven't had an issue like this until today. For some reason, I am having to open and close the lid a few times to get the laptop to power on correctly. Even the power button doesn't work. I don't use the laptop much, but it almost seems like one of the recent updates did something.

 

[Ramses]

Odd that I haven't had an issue like this until today. For some reason, I am having to open and close the lid a few times to get the laptop to power on correctly. Even the power button doesn't work. I don't use the laptop much, but it almost seems like one of the recent updates did something.

Mine is still screwed up, freezes going to sleep or hibernate about 3/4 of the time. Bunch of yelling about it on hp forums. I'm probly going back to 8.1 on the lappy for now since they haven't fixed it in a month. Whoever "they" are in this case.

 

[Aikouka]

Hm, here's one warning to anyone that downgrades. If you had to upgrade any drivers (e.g. Intel's I218-V and I-217V Ethernet driver, which has a dud driver built in Windows 10), you must reinstall the Windows 7/8 driver once you downgrade. I got tired of dealing with Intel's horrible Wi-Fi hardware (performance degrades to <10Mbps randomly, and I've seen it on multiple cards), so I ran a cable and went back to Ethernet. I was rather dumbfounded as to why it wouldn't work, but then I realized that I needed to put the driver back.

Note, you also have to do this with the Nvidia driver. I wondered why I kept having weird issues in Windows 7 after downgrading my Gaming HTPC. It wasn't anything serious, but for example, in Plex, my taskbar kept showing over top of Plex's full-screen window. I went to look in the Nvidia Control Panel, and almost all menu options were gone. That's when I realized that it had a bad driver and I'd need to reinstall the Windows Vista/7/8.1 driver.

Accidentally enabled Tablet Mode. Man that was freakish. Why would I want that? Oh I don't know, to experience frustration on a moment's whim? G'jeez.

I use it on the PC that I have in my kitchen. The PC is a NUC that's stuck on the back of an Acer touchscreen monitor, so having touch is a must. The problem with Windows 10 is that without Tablet Mode, modern apps start up in a window. So, you pretty much have to turn it on, or manually full-screen every app.

 

[Chaosblade02]

How do I give my user account "super" admin privileges in Windows 10? The guides I've found on the internet only involved telling you how to add your user account to the "admin" group, but I'm still denied running some programs without having to click a "yes" box, or select "run as admin". And that annoys me.

In windows 7 I was able to use the hidden admin account to give my user account "full" privileges, meaning I never got interrupted when trying to open/run stuff/make changes. And that's all I'm trying to do here.

Here is why Windows 10 pisses me off - Overall this OS is completely dumbed down, even the pro version. Its clearly designed for novice users, with a hand holdy design that lacks features in other OSs, but more importantly they made it a pain in the ass for more proficient users to personalize their PC the way they want. If MS refuses to include these features, I really hope somebody will code some apps for Windows 10 that can. I'm having to manually modify the registry to do something like set my wired connection to "metered" because there is no UI in place to allow me to choose which updates I want, and when to DL them because MS designed a hand holdy OS for novices who should always download every update ASAP, and whoever doesn't like it can #dealwithit. Seriously, fuck MS.

Windows 10 isn't as bad as 8 was/is. But its its missing too many features to be as good of an OS as 7, and these are features that might be included at some point, but PCers are going to have to raise bloody hell before MS will do something about it. I'm talking about flooding their forums, and "what do you think about windows 10" with complaints about lacking features. The squeaky wheel gets oiled.

/end rant.

 

[Ichinisan]

How do I give my user account "super" admin privileges in Windows 10? The guides I've found on the internet only involved telling you how to add your user account to the "admin" group, but I'm still denied running some programs without having to click a "yes" box, or select "run as admin". And that annoys me.

In windows 7 I was able to use the hidden admin account to give my user account "full" privileges, meaning I never got interrupted when trying to open/run stuff/make changes. And that's all I'm trying to do here.

Here is why Windows 10 pisses me off - Overall this OS is completely dumbed down, even the pro version. Its clearly designed for novice users, with a hand holdy design that lacks features in other OSs, but more importantly they made it a pain in the ass for more proficient users to personalize their PC the way they want. If MS refuses to include these features, I really hope somebody will code some apps for Windows 10 that can. I'm having to manually modify the registry to do something like set my wired connection to "metered" because there is no UI in place to allow me to choose which updates I want, and when to DL them because MS designed a hand holdy OS for novices who should always download every update ASAP, and whoever doesn't like it can #dealwithit. Seriously, fuck MS.

I think you want to disable UAC (User Account Control) to get rid of those prompts and warnings.

Rant uncalled for...?

 

[Chaosblade02]

I think you want to disable UAC (User Account Control) to get rid of those prompts and warnings.

Rant uncalled for...?

The very first thing I did when I installed Windows 10 was set UAC to "never notify" - yet I still need to click "run as admin" for some things to function right even though my user account has been added to the admin group.

How do I completely eviscerate whatever features/settings/configurations is contradicting decisions I make on my PC? I need to do something more than the above 2 things. I want "elevated" administrator privileges for my user account.

 

[RampantAndroid]

The very first thing I did when I installed Windows 10 was set UAC to "never notify" - yet I still need to click "run as admin" for some things to function right even though my user account has been added to the admin group.

How do I completely eviscerate whatever features/settings/configurations is contradicting decisions I make on my PC? I need to do something more than the above 2 things. I want "elevated" administrator privileges for my user account.

You already have them. Processes by default do not get that however. It's a serious security bonus, not an annoyance. Turning UAC off (and running as an admin on Linux as well) is an incredibly silly thing to do.

 

[Chaosblade02]

You already have them. Processes by default do not get that however. It's a serious security bonus, not an annoyance. Turning UAC off (and running as an admin on Linux as well) is an incredibly silly thing to do.

I never had any problems doing that in Windows 7. And even in a worst case scenario (which never happened), I can just reinstall Windows. Its MY decision to choose not to use this. I don't want some blanket with no context "security" feature interrupting my PC usage. I know which types of programs are shady and shouldn't be installed and these are features to protect people who don't have enough sense to know better. I'm not one of those people. UAC is just another "security" feature designed to hold people's hands.

As it turns out, setting UAC to "never notify" doesn't disable it entirely.

Edit:

This is for anyone else who views UAC as nothing more than a minor annoyance to keep noobies from making their OS FUBAR.

So, just open regedit from Run and locate this key.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

In the right pane look for EnableLUA and modify its value to 0. Close regedit.



It looks like I'm going to have to embrace the registry as the only way to remove some of these bullshit windows 10 features. I already canned "one drive", and decapitating Cortana is next on my list of OS butchery =D.

 

[tvfreak]

I never had any problems doing that in Windows 7. And even in a worst case scenario (which never happened), I can just reinstall Windows. Its MY decision to choose not to use this. I don't want some blanket with no context "security" feature interrupting my PC usage. I know which types of programs are shady and shouldn't be installed and these are features to protect people who don't have enough sense to know better. I'm not one of those people. UAC is just another "security" feature designed to hold people's hands.

As it turns out, setting UAC to "never notify" doesn't disable it entirely.

Edit:

This is for anyone else who views UAC as nothing more than a minor annoyance to keep noobies from making their OS FUBAR.

So, just open regedit from Run and locate this key.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

In the right pane look for EnableLUA and modify its value to 0. Close regedit.



It looks like I'm going to have to embrace the registry as the only way to remove some of these bullshit windows 10 features. I already canned "one drive", and decapitating Cortana is next on my list of OS butchery =D.

How and why did u can one drive? I don't know what that is.