Windows 10

If that happens I will definitely be getting myself a fancy camera.

Currently works pretty okay on my 950. About 80% of the time it's quicker than typing in a pin, the other 20% it's about five times slower or just fails...

Also, much joy today, I finally have extended jump lists back!

To enable larger jump lists pull up regedit and go to:
HKCU>Software>Microsoft>Windows>Current Version>Explorer>Advanced
Create the following two dwords:
JumpListItems_Maximum
JumpListItems_Minimum

Maximum is obviously the max number of items you want on display, minimum seems to be just an on/off value however but it's important to stop long jump lists of nothing.

The result:

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I robbed the maximum from someone else who I can't remember so can't give credit. The minimum thing was a lucky guess.
 
Finally took the plunge at the weekend, building a new machine as part of a 2 machine setup and decided I might as well also re-install the previous machine with W10 as well (had W7 on it, never bothered with W8)... Considering I was super sceptical here were my initial thoughts:

The good: Overall it seems fairly snappy, and not actually that different to W7. I appreciate some of the updates to the little things (file browser, file transfer dialog, task manager) and finally having virtual desktops etc. All of my programs (so far) seem to still work okay

The bad: It's soooooooo unintuitive for anything even remotely non-simplistic.

Some of this is just a case of getting used to it I'm sure but for example after about 10 minutes of looking through all of the settings menus etc. I could see I finally had to give in and resort to Google to find out how to open the disk management utility so I could setup the partitions on my blank drive (and even once I'd looked up the answer it was still so unintuitive I'd forgotten how to do it again by the time I was onto the 2nd PC install)

I think they just need a "power/advanced user" checkbox somewhere which favours actually being able to easily see all settings and options rather than making it nice and non-threatening for Mrs. Jones and Granpa Frank

Some of the new things are great but don't quite seem to go far enough; like the multi-monitor taskbars. So happy we finally have this feature, but unless I'm just missing it there's no way to have full customisation of each taskbar. (So for instance if I have 3 monitors and I want the clock/calendar or notification area or start menu to appear only on one of those). In the end I've disabled Window's multi-monitor taskbars and re-installed DisplayFusion

Early days yet though, we'll see
 
Another casualty of Windows 10 rebooting itself today :S my dad left something up on his PC for my mum to check later - I came in to find her stressing as it was no longer on the screen (can only assume the system rebooted to install updates) and she couldn't get hold of him :S don't really want to leave their system with updates fully disabled but its such a pain without better control over it.
 
uncle_rufus said:
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I think they just need a "power/advanced user" checkbox somewhere which favours actually being able to easily see all settings and options rather than making it nice and non-threatening for Mrs. Jones and Granpa Frank
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God mode ;)

Create new folder and name it:
Code: 
GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
 
Nikumba said:
Windows Key > Type "User" > Enter

Why is that hard to do?
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Back on Windows 7 I could get to the same thing in like 3 mouse clicks... versus pressing 6 keys and scanning down a list then clicking an entry or digging in a menu and 4+ clicks on 10... progress for you.
 
Rroff said:
Back on Windows 7 I could get to the same thing in like 3 mouse clicks... versus pressing 6 keys and scanning down a list then clicking an entry or digging in a menu and 4+ clicks on 10... progress for you.
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Sounds like your using Windows wrong then, its the first option in my start menu, brings you back to the same screen in windows 7 and 8. Also for me I do not have my hand on the mouse all the time, so by the time I have moved my hand to the mouse, clicked start etc, I have already typed windows key, users, enter and creating the new users.
 
Nikumba said:
Sounds like your using Windows wrong then, its the first option in my start menu, brings you back to the same screen in windows 7 and 8. Also for me I do not have my hand on the mouse all the time, so by the time I have moved my hand to the mouse, clicked start etc, I have already typed windows key, users, enter and creating the new users.
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Which highlights the fact that everyone uses Windows in a different way so the OS should be about enabling users not trying to force them into one mode of operation, etc. :S

When I'm doing much on the desktop I always have one hand on the mouse so it is a lot quicker for me to do it that way - there is no such thing as "using Windows wrong" unless you are making things more awkward for yourself than necessary and I have Windows setup to be very quick and intuitive for how I use the OS.

EDIT: Not actually sure what you are doing as if I hit windows key and type user I get a massive list of stuff with what I'm looking for about half way down :S and if I hit enter it launches the Windows store to try and download some user management app.

EDIT2: A little less messy on my VM install (and I could turn off web results to stop it launching the app if hit enter):

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Still not very efficient with my approach to the OS.
 
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Rroff said:
Back on Windows 7 I could get to the same thing in like 3 mouse clicks... versus pressing 6 keys and scanning down a list then clicking an entry or digging in a menu and 4+ clicks on 10... progress for you.
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WinKey+X - > Computer management

Same for disk management too

Or right click the start menu
 

I like the Cortana, pen and bot stuff.
and the blind stuff, although not useful for most of us, is just amazing.
 
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