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16 useful windows 10 tips.

I think it shows how tech-savvy the person who wrote that article was that they tell you to launch the task manager by presing Ctrl, Alt & Delete and selecting it from a menu, rather than pressing Ctrl, Shift & Escape to launch it directly.
 
No 7 doesn't work

Now, here is a really useful tip

If you use Win10, you might have noticed that certain types of shortcuts cannot be pinned to the taskbar. While shortcuts for apps, program exes and internet urls can be pinned, shortcuts to folders won't pin. If you try to drag them there, you get the little red circle with a red line through it, and the shortcut won't pin. Well, there is a workaround for this;

1. Create your folder shortcut.

2. Right click the shortcut and choose Properties.

3. In the target box, left click at the left end of the target text (i.e. so that you place the cursor in front of the target text)

4. Type "explorer.exe " (without quotes, and include the space after exe)

Example, if you are trying to create a shortcut to D:\photos\house your target will be

explorer.exe D:\photos\house

5. Click Apply (you may notice that the target text changes to "C:\windows\explorer.exe". This is fine

6. Click OK, then drag your shortcut to the taskbar.
 
The Windows 10 start menu is a travesty of design. Instead of Tip #1, install Classic Shell.
 
Squeegee Beckenheim said:
I think it shows how tech-savvy the person who wrote that article was that they tell you to launch the task manager by presing Ctrl, Alt & Delete and selecting it from a menu, rather than pressing Ctrl, Shift & Escape to launch it directly.
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Or right clicking the taskbar, and clicking "start task manager". That one works on both 7 and 10.
 
Dr.Sid said:
Windows 10 ? What was wrong with 9, ha !?
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My theory is that even numbered versions of Windows suck and odd numbered versions are good (this applies if we consider XP as 5 and Vista as 6). Skipping the odd number 9 was an acknowledgement by microsoft that the next version (10) was going to suck.
 
Scorpion said:
A really useful link to 16 tips about how to fix windows 10

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/01/28/16-windows-10-tricks-youll-wish-knew-sooner.html
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None of those tips actually "fix" Windows 10. They're just protips for how to use some of its advanced UI features. Or in some cases, how to use some of its lesser-known basic features.

Not that Windows 10 is particularly "broken", in my view. It's got some problems, like any other OS. But fixing those problems isn't the same thing as making better use of the existing UI.
 
CORed said:
My theory is that even numbered versions of Windows suck and odd numbered versions are good (this applies if we consider XP as 5 and Vista as 6). Skipping the odd number 9 was an acknowledgement by microsoft that the next version (10) was going to suck.
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Except Win10 doesn't suck. It's different from but about as good as Win7, and way better than Win8.1 or whatever that was.

Also, Win98 was just fine. It was succeeded by WinME (an "odd-numbered" edition, if we assume Win98 is even-numbered), which was pretty bad. And WinME was succeeded by WinXP (an "even-numbered") edition, which was great.

WinXP was succeded by Vista ("odd-numbered"), which was crap. And Vista was succeeded by Win7 ("even-numbered"? "odd-numbered"?), which was a non-crap version of Vista.

The whole even/odd thing really depends on how you count, and where you start counting. The way I see it, Microsoft periodically releases a truly horrible OS, and then spend the next few iterations building back up from that to something actually really good before they hit the big red "reset" button again. I assume this is because as technology changes over time, their design paradigm becomes obsolete, and so they periodically have to do a major rework of the OS to incorporate new technologies, more available resources, and changing user habits and preferences. It's not surprising that the first version of the reworked OS is always a little shaky.
 
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theprestige said:
Except Win10 doesn't suck. It's different from but about as good as Win7, and way better than Win8.1 or whatever that was.

Also, Win98 was just fine. It was succeeded by WinME (an "odd-numbered" edition, if we assume Win98 is even-numbered), which was pretty bad. And WinME was succeeded by WinXP (an "even-numbered") edition, which was great.

WinXP was succeded by Vista ("odd-numbered"), which was crap. And Vista was succeeded by Win7 ("even-numbered"? "odd-numbered"?), which was a non-crap version of Vista.

The whole even/odd thing really depends on how you count, and where you start counting. The way I see it, Microsoft periodically releases a truly horrible OS, and then spend the next few iterations building back up from that to something actually really good before they hit the big red "reset" button again. I assume this is because as technology changes over time, their design paradigm becomes obsolete, and so they periodically have to do a major rework of the OS to incorporate new technologies, more available resources, and changing user habits and preferences. It's not surprising that the first version of the reworked OS is always a little shaky.
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I was mostly joking. I recently got a Windows 10 work computer, after using 7 for quite awhile, and I really haven't found the transition to be difficult at al (Maybe a tiny bit harder than the transition from XP to 7, which was hardly a transition at all). Aesthetically speaking, I don't really like the 2D look of window decorations, taskbar etc., which almost seems like a throwback to Windows 3.1 (somewhat. 3.1 had no taskbar) but that's a very minor point, and there are probably themes that would fix that if I really cared that much. It's functionally pretty equivalent to Windows 7, with different ways of doing some things. I like it better than Server 2012, which I think is more like Windows 8 than Windows 10.
 
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Skeptical Greg said:
The main thing I hate about 10, is that it keeps doing crap without asking you ...
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This! Very much this.

One day I looked at the Windows 10 system that I run (rarely) and noticed it had installed Candy Crush Soda Saga. What the hell?? I didn't ask for that crap to be installed and I sure as hell didn't want it, yet Microsoft rammed it on to my system without asking permission.

Earlier updates had the annoying habit of resetting app preferences. You used Firefox as your browser? Hey, it's now Edge! You had Sumatra as your PDF reader? Hey, it's now Edge as well!

Then there the whole "you don't own your computer and you don't have any say over what updates we'll decide to send you." That's scary! It's almost inevitable that one day Microsoft will screw something up and wipe out hundreds of thousands of PCs. That will affect a lot of people and businesses.

Even today people about to give a presentation have to postpone or even cancel it because the idiot computer they intended to use for the presentation up and decided to install an update. And I hate it when I'm doing a minor fix on a customer's computer, restart it, and then it goes "Installing updates, please wait." Wait for how long, though? Will it be a simple two minute update or a 45 minute upgrade? The blasted computer won't tell me! That's another thing I hate about the latest versions of Windows: its totally reluctance to give me any useful information on its activities.

I lost all trust in Microsoft when they tried to force Windows 10 on all their users, even going so far as to hide the update in a patch marked as "security" related. If Microsoft is doing that crap right in your face, who know what the hell they're doing in the background.

I'm sticking with Linux, because I don't have to put up with the all the BS that a private unaccountable corporation wants to shove on to my computer.
 
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Many of these have been around since Windows 7, maybe even earlier, but I can't remember.

Remember winkey + tab for a 3-D at which windows are open, or alt-tab for a 2-D view?
 
The good Microsoft operating systems have been as follows:

Windows for Workgroups 3.11 running over DOS 6.4
Windows 98 SE
Windows XP
Windows 7

Windows 10 Enterprise edition (whatever they call it) is pretty good, in my opinion, though I've heard that the home version isn't as good.
 
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