Win +X brings up the power user tasks menu, as in Windows 8. CMD can be launched from there
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Win +X brings up the power user tasks menu, as in Windows 8. CMD can be launched from there
pappilon
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- Oct 6, 2014
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Well, all you need to do is unpin all items on the right (Start Menu) then you'll have Windows 7 Menu. What I hate is the font on the start menu is so small when you have a high res monitor and it cannot be changed.
AceInfinity
Emeritus, Contributor
I noticed that you have more control over the positioning of apps within the start menu on Windows 10. You can position them halfway in between tiles now, and you can even move them out in an "open space" without existing tiles in a group being reordered, which is nice :).
Btw, anybody else having issues searching windows, period? I can't search from the start menu whatsoever, and probably because the search is replaced with Cortana, and it is not available in my region. Seems odd that I'm now left without any means of searching because of it though...
Btw, anybody else having issues searching windows, period? I can't search from the start menu whatsoever, and probably because the search is replaced with Cortana, and it is not available in my region. Seems odd that I'm now left without any means of searching because of it though...
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Interestingly, the new build now gives me a choice - to either continue to the Tech Preview, or to Rollback
And I'd just changed things so it would boot straight to the Desktop :0(
Ace - didn't you get a search box that's embedded in the Task Bar just to the right of the Start Button (for lack of a better word)?
I've also got a Search Tile in the Start Menu (What the?)
Finally, what happens when you try "Win" and "S"? (it opens up Cortana on my copy)
I wondered if it was a language issue, so I searched languages. The Language Setting window opened and had nothing in it!
BTW - the wuapp command has been deprecated in favor of the Update Settings tool.
It's a real pain to make desktop shortcuts to it - I'm not happy!
And I'd just changed things so it would boot straight to the Desktop :0(
Ace - didn't you get a search box that's embedded in the Task Bar just to the right of the Start Button (for lack of a better word)?
I've also got a Search Tile in the Start Menu (What the?)
Finally, what happens when you try "Win" and "S"? (it opens up Cortana on my copy)
I wondered if it was a language issue, so I searched languages. The Language Setting window opened and had nothing in it!
BTW - the wuapp command has been deprecated in favor of the Update Settings tool.
It's a real pain to make desktop shortcuts to it - I'm not happy!
Just switched my language to English - Canada and nothing changed
Then switched Region to Canada and I lost Cortana - but the search box still allows me to "Search my stuff" and to search the web.
It even told me that Cortana wasn't available in my region.
All from that box embedded in the task bar.
I still have the Search Tile and can still search using "Win" and "S"
Then switched Region to Canada and I lost Cortana - but the search box still allows me to "Search my stuff" and to search the web.
It even told me that Cortana wasn't available in my region.
All from that box embedded in the task bar.
I still have the Search Tile and can still search using "Win" and "S"
I really hope they've fixed the bugs that were in the Windows 8 version - we saw a number of error codes which only appeared in the metro version and the updates installed fine through the Desktop version!
AceInfinity
Emeritus, Contributor
No, I can't search at all, {Windows Key} + S doesn't do anything, and I don't have a search bar.. I'm not pleased with this.
I can hit the Windows button in the bottom left, and sometimes a search bar comes up, but it disappears within 1-2 seconds, and with no way to bring it back. When I hit the search taskbar icon, a white rectangle pops up then disappears within 1 or 2 seconds as well.
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I hope you're both providing feedback about the issues you're having and what you don't like.
AceInfinity
Emeritus, Contributor
I provided a bit of feedback, and some insights into the multiple desktops too. That multiple desktops is handy, but it's much less of a multiple 'desktops' and much more of a multiple 'workspaces' kind of feature, since all the desktops are the same desktop in different views. What I don't like is that if you have a program open in one workspace, it still shows the opened program in the taskbar in another virtual desktop view, but when I click that item on the taskbar, it takes me over to the initial virtual desktop in which that program was initially opened in. This would be very inconvenient if I have multiple programs open in one workspace, and I was thinking that a taskbar item belonged to that workspace, so for instance, I go to click it, and it takes me to a whole new workspace.
1. Now I have to go back to the previous workspace (but I have to find out which one it was first)
2. I may have not wanted to navigate to that original workspace (especially if I was thinking that the taskbar item "belonged" to the workspace I'm already working in)
The workings of this multiple desktops idea is sometimes like taking a few steps backwards when it comes to productivity, but a few steps forward on Microsoft's part for introducing this into the new up and coming Windows OS.
But I would MUCH rather have completely customizable, unique, multiple (real) desktops, rather than views to all of the same desktop for this reason. Preferably multiple desktops that can be saved so you can boot up to your last multiple desktops "configuration".
I guess this would be convenient if you set up your *workspaces* so that certain programs are meant to be grouped together, so when you click on a certain program, it moves you to a desktop view where that program is being used in combination with other open programs, but unless you make that a personal habit, it might not be the best scenario 100% of the time. Really, there are some good things about it. If the choice is there, I would like to have multiple desktops, and this multiple "workspaces" feature that is currently in the Technical preview; best of both worlds. Not that I'm greedy, but then you can effectively cover all bases for productivity, depending on habit, and workflow.
1. Now I have to go back to the previous workspace (but I have to find out which one it was first)
2. I may have not wanted to navigate to that original workspace (especially if I was thinking that the taskbar item "belonged" to the workspace I'm already working in)
The workings of this multiple desktops idea is sometimes like taking a few steps backwards when it comes to productivity, but a few steps forward on Microsoft's part for introducing this into the new up and coming Windows OS.
But I would MUCH rather have completely customizable, unique, multiple (real) desktops, rather than views to all of the same desktop for this reason. Preferably multiple desktops that can be saved so you can boot up to your last multiple desktops "configuration".
I guess this would be convenient if you set up your *workspaces* so that certain programs are meant to be grouped together, so when you click on a certain program, it moves you to a desktop view where that program is being used in combination with other open programs, but unless you make that a personal habit, it might not be the best scenario 100% of the time. Really, there are some good things about it. If the choice is there, I would like to have multiple desktops, and this multiple "workspaces" feature that is currently in the Technical preview; best of both worlds. Not that I'm greedy, but then you can effectively cover all bases for productivity, depending on habit, and workflow.
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Upgraded via Windows Update without a hitch :)
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