Recent content by iamtim

Windows 8 was great. I used it on my Surface RT, my non-touch laptop, and my work desktop. Windows 8.1 was great. I used it on my Surface RT, my non-touch laptop, my 2-in-1 touch laptop, and my work desktop. Windows 10 is great. I use it on my ASUS tablet, my 2-in-1 touch laptop, and my...

When you have one person saying "this doesn't work for me" and another saying "this works perfectly for me" it's ALL personal preference. It's NOTHING BUT personal preference. Dude, come on. "Uncomfortable" implies personal preference, because what is uncomfortable to one person is...

I'll take a picture at some point, but left hand cradles lower left corner, right hand cradles lower right corner. Left thumb taps lower-left corner for Start Menu and to swipe in from left for app switching. Right thumb swipes in from right to get Action Center. If I need to tap something in...

I've installed 10 PCs and 1 tablet, and have not seen anything other than what I described. As long as you're logged in with a valid Microsoft account, OneNote is free.

That's a personal preference. I find the buttons to be of entirely adequate size and I find no difference between the address bar on the top or the bottom. Again, personal preference. I like it better in the lower-left corner; that's where I'm used to it, and where I hold the tablet so it's...

In tablet mode, the top bar disappears and the back button gets placed in the lower-left corner by the Start button. User error. :)

Re: can i upgrade my pc to w 10 (it s not genuine ) I don't think that's right, I think you can do the same upgrade from an ISO as you can from the MCT. To the OP, you can install Windows 10 even on non-genuine Windows, it just won't activate. When it doesn't activate, you can't personalize...

When Cortana asked me what name she should call me, I said, "Heisenberg". People thought I was nutz as they walked by my cube and heard me yelling, "SAY MY NAME!" into my headset. :)

Please. Windows 10 works great for me... on five machines of my own. Out of all the installations of Windows 10 and all the rave reviews its getting, you people with all your "problems" (which I'm not convinced aren't related to your specific hardware or installations) are so far in the...

I don't know if I can roll my eyes any harder than I just did.

Really, when hasn't a clean install been recommended for every new version of Windows? The way Windows works, with its registry and shared libraries and the general bloat every version goes through as its used, inherently causes problems with upgrades. Sure, Microsoft may not officially say...

Re: Reset "Most Used Apps" Yeah, me too. It seems like there should be some way - even if it's a manual registry edit - to reset that list. That "do not show in this list" data has to be stored SOMEWHERE. Thanks for looking, though!

For what it's worth? I hated that, the whole swiping in and then pulling back to see a column of your running apps. Personally I think it failed with desktop app support, given that Windows 8.1 saw the desktop as it's own app so everything you had running on the desktop didn't show up in that...

The Windows 10 activation key is machine and account based. If that machine had a valid Windows 10 activation key (which is usually obtained via upgrading a legitimate, activated copy of Windows 7 or 8.1; I'm not sure how that happens for Insiders) then doing a clean install and skipping the...

I've heard it said that in those situations, if you call in to Microsoft for activation, they'll activate it for you.