They are not all bad, but the Modern UI is crap, stupid animations blocking the user from doing things. If i wanted eyecandy i 'd buy a mac or use a wobbly linux WM. MS please go back to making boring things that work.

1. Bing web search results for "system"

2. System Information, a program that shows a report about hardware and software in your computer

3. Settings, the modern control panel app, which has a panel called System

4. The old "System" control panel

5. "Change Your System Sleep Settings", or some other randomly-chosen specific setting from inside the modern System control panel.

(if some distro could manage to provide a consistent UI ...)

It might work, it might fool me once. But you and me computer, we are working together all day! It gets old.

There's a tool called Everything that somehow does a search across all files instantaneously and I haven't touched start since then

I wonder if this is a way to boost bing usage.

Create a Folder with the Name:

GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

The Windows Master Control Panel shortcut, labeled All Tasks and also called Windows God Mode by bloggers and All Tasks folder by at least one Microsoft developer, is a shortcut to access various control settings in Windows Vista and later operating systems, including Windows 10. By creating a folder with a certain name, users have access to all of the operating system's control panels from within a single folder.

The shortcut is implemented by creating a folder with the extension .{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}. GodMode was the original folder name used when the feature was publicised, but any name can be used.

I definitely realize that by writing this comment I am both identifying myself as not a gamer and reverse-dating myself. :)

It's terrible.

At least they finally put a screen brightness slider on the notification center.

P.S. Linux user

Is that something people at huge companies have to think about often?

Good money vs working on a product you believe in.

There is no way you seriously think this...

Skype is atrocious, and offensive as a product.

Let me put it this way: Since chatting with Teams, I no longer think quite as badly of Skype.

UI is old, but is the fastest.

-- State of software, 2020

Start Button > Settings Icon > Devices, which is in the top-middle, and has the subtitle "Bluetooth, printers, mouse"

But why bother? Without having any idea where it is I can still find it even faster than that.

Start Button > "bluetooth" > Enter

And with search autocomplete I only needed to get as far as "bl" before it suggests the right thing. And my desktop doesn't have wifi, but I only need to get as far as typing "wi" for the start menu to suggest the wireless settings anyway. The Control Panel always sucked, and the settings menu sucks on iOS or Android too. Typing in the start menu to search has been around since roughly Vista.

And their apps aren't great, but I haven't experienced anything like the problems you describe. They're barebones but fine.

The path is: Network & Internet -> Status -> Network&Sharing center -> <Connection name> -> Wireless properties -> Security -> show characters.

The fastest way to get to that is via a google search: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/find-your-wi-fi-...

I still don't know how you can see the password for a network without being connected to it.

It was that way for years, but at some point recently they finally seem to have fixed it - I can now enter the start, end, or just part of anything I want to find, and it finds it! You know, the bare minimum you'd expect from a search function!

I'm actually a big fan of Windows 10, but it boggles the mind how long they left such a key part of the Windows experience in such a sorry state.

It's absurd that Apple came up with Spotlight in 10.4 (15 years ago) and Microsoft still hasn't caught up with such a fundamental game changer.

It's kind of crazy to think back to those conversations with Microsoft about their long-range plans. Some they have delivered well, like the transition to a subscription model for client applications. Some they have not, like native peer-to-peer social networking in the OS.

https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys

There's an issue open here about this:

https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/3347

I'll die on this hill.

http://blog.livedoor.jp/blackwingcat/archives/1299806.html

There's a person in Japan that is actively (edit: maybe not active) working on modernizing windows 2000

Gaming on Windows is almost more confusing than it's been due to all the things and settings you have to make sure are set up right.

Got so bad, that I now have MS Paint as default image viewer.

I kinda like the image viewer's ability to view other pictures in the same directory, but the performance and waiting time to view anything was just way too terrible.

Another example is Time Machine compared to the backup which comes with Windows. Microsoft have constantly mucked about with backup but have never managed to get it right. I can't imagine anybody relying on it. Time Machine is fantastic in comparison.

Definitely drives me nuts though - how hard is it to show a JPEG?!

Also I have things like ,,Candy Crash Friends'' icon that's very bright, takes my focus away on what I want to do, and I don't know how to turn it off, as I don't find it in the settings (to tell you the truth, I haven't even played it, but I'm waiting for Cyberpunk 2077, so I don't want to try other games right now).

I created a quick ppt or xls file yesterday, not sure how I named it. I hit the Windows key, type Excel (usually you don't need to type the whole word, specially if it's a frequent search) and it immediately shows the Excel shortcut and a list of the last few files I've opened.

The other case is I wanted to modify the action when closing the laptop lid. I know that setting is somewhere in the power configuration, but can't remember exactly where. So I just hit the Windows key, type lid and voila! there's the setting

Better explanation of problem is for example here (none of the proposed workarounds work for me): https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/4qlgqp/taskbar_i...

I didn't have this problem in Win7.

I typically don't restart my MBP for months at a time. With Windows 10, it'll tell me I need to restart after updates. I can ignore it to a point, but eventually it just reboots without asking, and whatever was opened at the time is lost.

What % of the improvement in computer technology has come on this slow crawl of OS, vs all the hardware, browser apps, etc?

Use the Control Panel instead of settings, Everything for search, IrfanView for an image viewer... the list goes on. Just remove all UWP bloat and telemetry. You'll find many scripts on the internet to automate that.

The search function also still basically sucks.

I upgraded my Core 2 Duo machine from Windows 7 to Windows 10 and it definitely struggled.

But my Core i7 machine has no trouble with Windows 10.

It's a beast when it comes to mathematical computations on a laptop, that's why it's so frustrating that simple things are so laggy.

But the rest, I don't have any of the problems you describe. And I run Windows 10 on a ThinkPad P50, which is 5 years old.

Also, the start menu is reasonable, although I prefer the simplicity of XP.

There is Azure, Office 365, Xbox, Bing, servers any many others properties that are money makers.