Useless Windows 10 Features

Re:Useless Windows 10 Features by naikrovek on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @06:15AM (#20818368)

If you've used Edge for more than a few minutes, it won't prompt you to "try Edge" or whatever it says.

They changed how default programs are set in Windows 10 so that malware can't change default file associations by itself anymore. That required moving away from using the Win32 API for that, and that is kind of the whole purpose of UWP-style apps and The New Settings pages within Windows 10.

MOST of Windows 10 has been thought out.

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Re:Useless Windows 10 Features by olyjohn on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @12:21PM (#20821227)

You're goddamn right it's well thought out. But it's not thought out in the user's favor at all.

Because how many fucking times is it going to ask me "ARE YOU SURE YOU DONT WANT TO TRY EDGE?" "EDGE IS SAFEST" "EDGE IS MADE FOR WINDOWS 10, ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO SWITCH?" You literally have to click no 3 times just to get your default to something else.

None of the other "default apps" do the same thing. And still nothing stopping the file extensions from getting remapped. So that's kinda not thought out.

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Re:Useless Windows 10 Features by dmix on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @02:23PM (#20822515)

Nothing worse than being condescending to users.

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