Useless Windows 10 Features

Re:Useless Windows 10 Features by baroffoos on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @03:40AM (#20807120)

Absolutely. Microsoft products are horrendous for this. Every time I have to start up my windows VM to test an IE bug I get assaulted by advertising and "news" in the start menu with bright moving blocks and then I open IE and get hit with it even worse. I don't know why people put up with it tbh.

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Re:Useless Windows 10 Features by grepballsoffire on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @05:30AM (#20807704)

I kept on wondering why I hadn't seen any of this, and then remembered that I'd installed Classic Shell start menu, which provides a Windows 7 style menu. It doesn't disable the Windows 10 menu, just hides it. Makes for a much more pleasant experience though. (No affiliation)

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Re:Useless Windows 10 Features by mice on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @04:36PM (#20814169)

Does it still work reliably? I used it on a Windows 10 machine a few years ago, but then it stopped being maintained:

http://www.classicshell.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=8147

... which is a huge shame, as that single app alone made Windows 10 a significantly less frustrating experience.

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Re:Useless Windows 10 Features by solstice on Friday August 30, 2019 @03:54AM (#20836658)

It's been replaced by Open Shell which works well: https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu

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Re:Useless Windows 10 Features by grepballsoffire on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @05:36PM (#20814633)

There was one windows update around two years ago that broke it, but I just reinstalled it and haven't had any problems since.

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Re:Useless Windows 10 Features by JohnFen on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @06:11PM (#20814949)

It's rock solid for me.

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Re:Useless Windows 10 Features by tuco86 on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @08:23AM (#20808797)

I followed some 2x reboot windows components uninstall magic some while ago to remove ie and some other "features" i don't remember.. then recently edge was auto installed and made default, Autologin stopped to work, start button got redesign and has an annoying delay. It's a total shitshow by now again until I sacrifice an evening to fix most of this.

I was venting to a friend. He told me he'd deactivated autoupdates some years ago. The foresight, i'm envious. But it's too late now and I think I can never have that.

I also remember some time there was an anti trust proceeding against Microsoft for shipping IE with windows as default. WTF happened to that and how is all this not a 1000x worse.

I definitely don't >want< to put up with this.

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Re:Useless Windows 10 Features by muddi900 on Monday September 02, 2019 @05:15AM (#20857812)

There was a ruling against MS, but the judge decided to give an interview that showed he may have been biased. MS got a mistrial, and settled the next one.

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Re:Useless Windows 10 Features by MaxBarraclough on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @05:48PM (#20814763)

> I don't know why people put up with it tbh.

They don't. [0] Ordinary people install Chrome, and FOSS-aware people install Firefox or one of its variants. Not many use IE/Edge.

I second the parent comment to yours: it's a pity Microsoft vandalise solid technology. Perhaps something could've become of Edge, had they done otherwise.

There's a certain irony in the way we avoid Edge to avoid its insufferable ads, given that they only make ad money if we decide to use it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Su...

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