I would like an option to see onedrive folders the same way as in 8.1.
Just manually pin the folders you want.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.
why would you install windows 10 if you don't want frustration.
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?
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.
Aaaand myself and a bazzilion other HP lappy users have been trying to get sleep on close lid TO work the last month lol....
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.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.
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.
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...?
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.
How and why did u can one drive? I don't know what that is.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.