Things I don't like about Windows 10

[Polaxis]

There's a number of things I don't like about Windows 10. Which I'll address.

For a start I don't like how there's no option to turn off automatic Windows Updates. There's only the option to allow new updates to download and install automatically. And the other option to choose when you want to install the updates. But no option to turn off Windows Update from downloading updates. If you wanted to download and check for new updates manually.

Why must Windows 10 security depend on Windows Defender to run occasional scans and to protect the computer, when you have your own security product such as example Norton. Which does regular frequent scans and has more regular definition updates than Windows Defender?

If you have a high performance computer. Store apps you can get and install. Most apps have lagging and crashing issues at odd times if your in a middle of a project, watching media or playing mobile app games.

Using third party themes that Microsoft provides. Particularly themes that has multiple wallpaper slideshows. Causes desktop to act up. If you adjust if you're a gamer. Adjusting the graphic settings from Window to Full Screen or vice versa constantly. It causes desktop screen to be chopped, leaving echo past activity screens that you have closed. Which then makes you having to come to the conclusion of restarting Windows to get it back to normal.

As for pc games. If you play some games that aren't Windows 10 supported. You experience issues trying to get the game to load, crashing back to desktop or even internet stability issues for games that uses internet. It amazes me how Microsoft promotes Windows 10 with full of pride of them saying in certain Outlook Microsoft newsletter promotions. That they say Windows 10 is perfect for gaming. When it clearly proves the opposite.

These are the main reasons why I don't like Windows 10.

 

[Demian Mioc]

There's a number of things I don't like about Windows 10. Which I'll address.

For a start I don't like how there's no option to turn off automatic Windows Updates. There's only the option to allow new updates to download and install automatically. And the other option to choose when you want to install the updates. But no option to turn off Windows Update from downloading updates. If you wanted to download and check for new updates manually.

Why must Windows 10 security depend on Windows Defender to run occasional scans and to protect the computer, when you have your own security product such as example Norton. Which does regular frequent scans and has more regular definition updates than Windows Defender?

If you have a high performance computer. Store apps you can get and install. Most apps have lagging and crashing issues at odd times if your in a middle of a project, watching media or playing mobile app games.

Using third party themes that Microsoft provides. Particularly themes that has multiple wallpaper slideshows. Causes desktop to act up. If you adjust if you're a gamer. Adjusting the graphic settings from Window to Full Screen or vice versa constantly. It causes desktop screen to be chopped, leaving echo past activity screens that you have closed. Which then makes you having to come to the conclusion of restarting Windows to get it back to normal.

As for pc games. If you play some games that aren't Windows 10 supported. You experience issues trying to get the game to load, crashing back to desktop or even internet stability issues for games that uses internet. It amazes me how Microsoft promotes Windows 10 with full of pride of them saying in certain Outlook Microsoft newsletter promotions. That they say Windows 10 is perfect for gaming. When it clearly proves the opposite.

These are the main reasons why I don't like Windows 10.

1) you can deter updates, tweak registry or download some Windows 10 tweaker to disable them completely.
2) In settings you can easily disable windows defender and install Antivirus software which suits you best. WD is pretty amazing AV that gets along with Malwarebytes and Adguard.
3) Something's wrong with your computer, I'm not claiming that mine's the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy but I've yet to see an appcrash and lag, since September 2015.
4) Something's wrong with your computer, seriously.
5) Windows has Compatibility mode for some time, you need to learn how to use it with older PC games and software, each needs something individually tweaked, updated or installed, or run in an emulator. My dad isn't happy because he can't play Chicken Invaders 1 and Solitaire on his Windows 10, but has accepted Chicken invaders 4 and is very happy with Microsoft Solitaire Collection.

Windows 10 has indeed some serious issues, to me it's the drivers incompatibility, and things you mentioned are somewhat easy to solve. In my family everyone has Windows 10 installed over Windows 7, except me, I did from 8.1. Windows 10 with November update runs smoothly on all PCs in my family, even 32bit build on old guinea pig Acer Travelmate 2410 with added ram.

 

[Pedro Cavaleiro]

As said by Demian Mioc
1) The reg tweak can disable the updates, but I agree there should be a option to disable them
2) Windows Defender can be turned off... I currently use ESET NOD32 it works just fine with Malwarebytes
5) I played some games of older age (Command and Conquer Generals: Zero Hour) if I'm not mistaken they are from 2003 just fine.. With games never had a problem

Yes Windows had some serious problems back when I was an Insider on the Slow Ring.... Now I can't point to one.
The other points u made... Check your computer my 3 devices are running 192 wallpapers with taskbar color related with the picture and no problems. Smooth transitioning.
Also to tested your problems with other apps I tested the Maps app and a couple of mobile games all ran smoothly on all of my devices.
So again, check your PC, there might be a problem in there (I suggest checking the graphics first)

 

[Polaxis]

Unfortunately I try to turn off Windows Defender via the setting. But it's not permanent to leave it off.

I don't want to rely on third party programs to disable Windows Update.

No I know it's not my pc as I've kept all my drivers up to date. Here's my specs to prove my performance. I didn't include all the DxDiag info as it's too long. I only posted the necessary information for the main things below.

I can't post my DxDiag here. As the forum claims there's a link in my DxDiag. So I will put the basic DxDiag info here.

System Information
Time of this report: 12/22/2015, 12:52:21
Machine name: N/A
Operating System: Windows 10 Home 64-bit (10.0, Build 10586) (10586.th2_release.151121-2308)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: TOSHIBA
System Model: Satellite P70-A
BIOS: 1.40
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4700MQ CPU (a) 2.40GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.4GHz
Memory: 16384MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 16308MB RAM
Page File: 3464MB used, 15275MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX Version: 12
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
User DPI Setting: Using System DPI
System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
Miracast: Available, with HDCP
Microsoft Graphics Hybrid: Supported
DxDiag Version: 10.00.10586.0000 64bit Unicode

Display Devices
Card name: Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600
Manufacturer: Intel Corporation
Chip type: Intel(R) HD Graphics Family
DAC type: Internal
Device Type: Full Device
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_0416&SUBSYS_FA791179&REV_06
Display Memory: 8266 MB
Dedicated Memory: 112 MB
Shared Memory: 8154 MB
Current Mode: 1920 x 1080 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Monitor Name: Generic PnP Monitor
Monitor Model: unknown
Monitor Id: AUO209D
Native Mode: 1920 x 1080(p) (60.496Hz)
Output Type: Internal
Driver Name: igdumdim64.dll,igd10iumd64.dll,igd10iumd64.dll,igd12umd64.dll,igdumdim32.dll,igd10iumd32,igd10iumd32,igd12umd32
Driver File Version: 10.18.0015.4256 (English)
Driver Version: 10.18.15.4256
DDI Version: 12
Feature Levels: 11.1,11.0,10.1,10.0,9.3,9.2,9.1
Driver Model: WDDM 2.0
Graphics Preemption: Primitive
Compute Preemption: Thread group
Miracast: Supported
Hybrid Graphics GPU: Integrated
Power P-states: Not Supported
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: 17/07/2015 12:00:00 AM, 37011376 bytes
WHQL Logo'd: Yes
WHQL Date Stamp:
Device Identifier: {D7B78E66-4756-11CF-6962-76DABBC2C735}
Vendor ID: 0x8086
Device ID: 0x0416
SubSys ID: 0xFA791179
Revision ID: 0x0006

Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: GeForce GT 740M
DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
Device Type: Render-Only Device
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_1292&SUBSYS_FA791179&REV_A1
Display Memory: 10150 MB
Dedicated Memory: 1996 MB
Shared Memory: 8154 MB
Current Mode: n/a
Driver Name: nvd3dumx,nvwgf2umx,nvwgf2umx,nvwgf2umx,nvd3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um
Driver File Version: 10.18.0013.5906 (English)
Driver Version: 10.18.13.5906
DDI Version: 12
Feature Levels: 11.0,10.1,10.0,9.3,9.2,9.1
Driver Model: WDDM 2.0
Graphics Preemption: DMA
Compute Preemption: DMA
Miracast: Not Supported by Graphics driver
Hybrid Graphics GPU: Discrete
Power P-states: Not Supported
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: 24/11/2015 12:00:00 AM, 15839392 bytes
WHQL Logo'd: Yes
WHQL Date Stamp:
Device Identifier: n/a
Vendor ID: 0x10DE
Device ID: 0x1292
SubSys ID: 0xFA791179
Revision ID: 0x00A1
Driver Strong Name: oem3.inf:0f066de3f9f54ece:Section015:10.18.13.5906ci\ven_10de&dev_1292&subsys_fa791179
Rank Of Driver: 00D10001
Video Accel: n/a
DXVA2 Modes: DXVA2_ModeMPEG2_IDCT DXVA2_ModeMPEG2_VLD DXVA2_ModeVC1_D2010 DXVA2_ModeVC1_VLD DXVA2_ModeVC1_IDCT DXVA2_ModeWMV9_IDCT DXVA2_ModeH264_VLD_Stereo_Progressive_NoFGT DXVA2_ModeH264_VLD_Stereo_NoFGT DXVA2_ModeH264_VLD_NoFGT DXVA2_ModeHEVC_VLD_Main DXVA2_ModeMPEG4pt2_VLD_Simple DXVA2_ModeMPEG4pt2_VLD_AdvSimple_NoGMC
Deinterlace Caps: n/a
D3D9 Overlay: n/a
DXVA-HD: n/a
DDraw Status: Enabled
D3D Status: Enabled
AGP Status: Enabled
MPO Caps: Not Supported
MPO Stretch: Not Supported
MPO Media Hints: Not Supported
MPO Formats: Not Supported

Sound Devices
Description: Speakers (Conexant SmartAudio HD)
Default Sound Playback: Yes
Default Voice Playback: Yes
Hardware ID: HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_14F1&DEV_510F&SUBSYS_1179FA73&REV_1001
Manufacturer ID: 1
Product ID: 100
Type: WDM
Driver Name: CHDRT64.sys
Driver Version: 8.66.0019.0000 (English)
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
WHQL Logo'd: Yes
Date and Size: 20/08/2015 12:00:00 AM, 1548376 bytes
Other Files:
Driver Provider: Conexant
HW Accel Level: Basic
Cap Flags: 0xF1F
Min/Max Sample Rate: 100, 200000
Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 1, 0
Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 0, 0
HW Memory: 0
Voice Management: No
EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: No, No
I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No
Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No

 

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