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Windows 11

arthwollipot said:
Not being able to move the taskbar is a little disappointing to me. I like having it up the left side - vertical real estate is for me more valuable than horizontal, since my monitors are invariably oriented in landscape.

Teams is better than Skype in every way. I think if Skype had been allowed to continue being supported and developed, it eventually would have ended up much like Teams is now.
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Does Teams have the ability to set a custom background in video conferences? That is a feature of Skype I use a lot so that I'm not projecting an image of my real house behind me.

Don't get me wrong, it seems like Skype is trying to abandon this feature themselves--it's available in Skype for Windows, a desktop program, which keeps uninstalling itself and trying to steer me to a different version.
 
gnome said:
Does Teams have the ability to set a custom background in video conferences? That is a feature of Skype I use a lot so that I'm not projecting an image of my real house behind me.

Don't get me wrong, it seems like Skype is trying to abandon this feature themselves--it's available in Skype for Windows, a desktop program, which keeps uninstalling itself and trying to steer me to a different version.
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It does. As far as my colleagues are concerned, I'm joining them from the St Lawrence ground in Canterbury.
 
Squeegee Beckenheim said:
I never see my desktop, so it would be useless to me.
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Yes; I used to marvel at those websites that share desktop themes, and wonder who were these people that used their computers without opening any windows, that they were able to have widgets all over their backdrop.
 
zooterkin said:
Yes; I used to marvel at those websites that share desktop themes, and wonder who were these people that used their computers without opening any windows, that they were able to have widgets all over their backdrop.
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Desktop themes can theme your windows' accoutrements like the title bars so I can see people liking themes for that.
 
Darat said:
Desktop themes can theme your windows' accoutrements like the title bars so I can see people liking themes for that.
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Yes, I used a few for that, but the idea that you'd spend any time looking at your desktop with all the windows iconised (or none open at all) is completely alien to the way I've used computers all my life (at least since they had screens, anyway).
 
zooterkin said:
Yes, I used a few for that, but the idea that you'd spend any time looking at your desktop with all the windows iconised (or none open at all) is completely alien to the way I've used computers all my life (at least since they had screens, anyway).
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I do use my desktop to access things via Windows Key + D. I'll often have a set of documents (of different types) I am working on and keeping them on the desktop can be quicker for me than using "open" dialogue boxes in apps.
 
arthwollipot said:
Not being able to move the taskbar is a little disappointing to me. I like having it up the left side - vertical real estate is for me more valuable than horizontal, since my monitors are invariably oriented in landscape.

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I have my taskbar set to auto-hide, so the only time I see it is when I want it or I inadvertently run my cursor all the way to the bottom of the screen.

I've tried setting it to the sides, but just don't like it that way. I can't articulate any reasons for that, but it just doesn't work for me.
 
quadraginta said:
I have my taskbar set to auto-hide, so the only time I see it is when I want it or I inadvertently run my cursor all the way to the bottom of the screen.
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Yes, me too. Why would you want to waste pixels on something you don't need to see all the time, when you could have useful information there?
I've tried setting it to the sides, but just don't like it that way. I can't articulate any reasons for that, but it just doesn't work for me.
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Ditto.
 
zooterkin said:
Yes, me too. Why would you want to waste pixels on something you don't need to see all the time, when you could have useful information there?
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The only time it's a problem for me is when I need to do something on the bottom of a window and move my cursor too far down. That can be annoying, but otherwise I agree totally - there is no purpose whatsoever for taking up real estate with something that conveys little or no information.

And, yeah, I don't see my desktop, either. If I'm using files I'll have explorer open, if I need to switch apps I either use the taskbar, or alt-tab. If I need to find something I search with Everything. All the programmes I use often are either pinned to the taskbar or the start menu. Literally the only time I ever use my desktop is when I empty the trash bin.
 
Updated workhorse to Windows 11 - quite a giveaway how minor an upgrade it is as it took less than 10 minutes. Not sure exactly how long as I went to make a cuppa thinking it would be a while and when I got back it was at the login screen.

Centre taskbar hasn't been thought through, click on the Start button and the start menu appears centred so you must move your pointer across the screen and up to access it. This would be fine if using Windows on a tablet. Change it back to left justified and it appears in its usual place.

Lots of small cosmetic changes but not followed all the way through. For example windows, menus and dialogues are now rounded but if I hover my mouse over say the browser icon the thumbnail preview image is still a harsh rectangle. ETA - if you let windows snap to an edge of the screen the windows become squared off.
 
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Because of the staggered rollout of W10 updates I'm not sure that any of my W10 boxes are up to date yet, let alone on the list for W11.
 
Darat said:
Updated workhorse to Windows 11 - quite a giveaway how minor an upgrade it is as it took less than 10 minutes. Not sure exactly how long as I went to make a cuppa thinking it would be a while and when I got back it was at the login screen.

Centre taskbar hasn't been thought through, click on the Start button and the start menu appears centred so you must move your pointer across the screen and up to access it. This would be fine if using Windows on a tablet. Change it back to left justified and it appears in its usual place.

Lots of small cosmetic changes but not followed all the way through. For example windows, menus and dialogues are now rounded but if I hover my mouse over say the browser icon the thumbnail preview image is still a harsh rectangle. ETA - if you let windows snap to an edge of the screen the windows become squared off.
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Perhaps those things will be fixed once its out of beta? I mean the details, not the centring thing, which they'll probably be stubborn about for a while and then regress.
 
Squeegee Beckenheim said:
Perhaps those things will be fixed once its out of beta? I mean the details, not the centring thing, which they'll probably be stubborn about for a while and then regress.
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It's always difficult to tell when a software company reaches beta these days! If it is considered beta then there shouldn't be any changes bar bug fixes so it would depend on whether they look at bugs as bugs or "as designed".
 
Looking forward to the newest version of Classic Shell that will surely be necessary to make whatever new UI windows cooks up useable.
 
Darat said:
It's always difficult to tell when a software company reaches beta these days! If it is considered beta then there shouldn't be any changes bar bug fixes so it would depend on whether they look at bugs as bugs or "as designed".
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Yeah, I think "beta" covers a multitude of sins nowadays.
 
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