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  1. I guess this is how to get to become worth 2 trillion dollars - greedily rake in money off of everyone else. Apple is such a crock of a company.
    10 points
  2. As opposed to just using the tools Microsoft gives uses? Why? (Microsoft provides several tools to customize Windows installations, maybe check them out first.) Scripts like this to 'clean' and 'shrink' Windows 10 are the bane of the IT industry, they break more than they help or fix, and ironically, most of these that offer 'optimization' introduce problems that cause Windows to run slower, sometimes significantly if a driver or application aggressively keeps tying to start or use a key OS feature that is now missing. Understand what you are doing when working with scripts like this. Understand that when you rip out a feature of the operating system, software and other things can slow and break in ways you might not associate with the things you removed. Understand that often things that logically would seem like 'less' or a performance improvement, might have a reason they are in Windows the way they are for good reasons. Example: Remember in Windows 7 when 'power users' would turn off Aero and Theming? This was around 10-25% slower for application display drawing calls. It wasn't just pretty, it was much faster and there is a reason Microsoft LOCKED it on in WIndows 8 so people would stop slowing down their computer and then bitching at Microsoft for the slow down. There are so many 'tiny' settings that Microsoft lets you change, but understand what the possible ramifications you might have down the road. When something doesn't work like it used to, think back to WHAT YOU DID, before you hit Reddit and start yelling about Windows being a piece of ######. I get tired of people pissing about Windows, only to find out the crashes and bugs and performance crap they are having is because they disabled secure components, performance services, and features that they didn't understand and most people on earth do not understand. For the love of IT/Support's sanity, be careful and mindful that stuff like this introduces more problems most of the time.
    9 points
  3. App devs should give Apple the finger and pull their apps for native web sites that run in a browser. That's all most apps are anyways, just browser hosts with with data collection. Only a small subset need device functionality.
    7 points
  4. huh. This seems absolutely rubbish. It is a shame that Wordpress relented.
    7 points
  5. 8 apps we'd like to see come to Windows 10

    Number one: Functional Windows Store.
    6 points
  6. 8 apps we'd like to see come to Windows 10

    iMessage. That would make my day much more productive. Never gonna happen, but one can dream.
    6 points
  7. I mean they are so large that they can get away with it.
    6 points
  8. Google tells Android developers to get ready for a 5G world

    5G is a bunch of marketing hype, if you're already using a 4G+ network on the move and WiFi when you're at home/work, you will notice just about zero difference, since 5G is basically exactly that.
    6 points
  9. Apple blocks WordPress iOS app updates until in-app purchases added [Update]

    Alright people who are on Apple's side in Epic vs Apple. What is your defense of Apple here??
    5 points
  10. You're not wrong. It would be funny too because when the iPhone first came out, they were pushing people to make browser-based web apps.
    5 points
  11. 8 apps we'd like to see come to Windows 10

    The Windows Store is perfectly functional ... for apps ... No its not... lol... Yes it is.
    4 points
  12. Windows 10 build 20197 is now available with a new disk manager

    That was the worst UI I ever saw. Does Microsoft even have designers, a Graphical team or whatever is it colled in software development or they just let it made whoever wants it?
    4 points
  13. Without seeing what's below the fold in that image it looks like they've greatly reduced functionality.
    4 points
  14. We need Apple because we don't want Google as the sole player. However, Apple crossed the line. We did once have another major company that treated customers really well, along with bringing a ton of new features to the Phone/Device market. Remember those days? Remember the ranting of how horrible Windows Phone and Microsoft was? Looking back, they were stable, fast, secure and had more features than Android or iOS. Hmm... It if funny watching Google and Apple 'dribble' out Windows Phone features a few each year, and not have to move any faster now that Windows Phone is dead. Weird how BOTH Google and Apple stopping having a lot of new features every year. It is almost like they collude instead of compete. Almost to the day of WP being officially killed off, you can track the iOS and Android and hardware plateau of innovations. Weird uh?
    3 points
  15. 8 apps we'd like to see come to Windows 10

    The Microsoft Store works fine. If it is not working for you, it is down to a problem with your Windows installation. The number one reason people have problems with the Store is from running scripts or hacks to block Windows updates. The Store uses the same update mechanism, and so these invasive changes usually break it as well.
    3 points
  16. 8 apps we'd like to see come to Windows 10

    The Windows Store is perfectly functional ... for apps ... No its not... lol...
    3 points
  17. 8 apps we'd like to see come to Windows 10

    The Windows Store is perfectly functional ... for apps ...
    3 points
  18. I don’t believe the guy. This story has as many holes in it as Wordpress has exploits. Let’s see the rejection message. Did he appeal it? The reviewers are human and having gone through the rejection process myself, some are idiots.
    3 points
  19. Windows 10 build 20197 is now available with a new disk manager

    Worse, it looks like something out of DOS. There is nothing at all graphical about this, it's entirely text.
    3 points
  20. Blame mobile devices and touch screens. That's even a bad excuse. You can have a fantastic UI while supporting mobile devices, this is plain bad UX and UI.
    3 points
  21. Windows 10 build 20197 is now available with a new disk manager

    The new disk manager looks awful. The current one looks 100 times better than that horrible flat piece of paper design. Ugh.
    3 points
  22. Windows 10 build 20197 is now available with a new disk manager

    that just looks..... horrible...... this text layout stuff is crap show it like it is... graphical partitions....
    3 points
  23. microsoft can't do UI just hire a dedicated company for the UI, you are clearly incompetent this was made by someone who gives 0 ###### about his work he got paid to do the minimum possible
    3 points
  24. Windows 10 build 20197 is now available with a new disk manager

    Just when you thought MS couldn’t design more worse UI.
    3 points
  25. Windows 10 build 20197 is now available with a new disk manager

    I know it's pre-release, but that is a terrible layout. I have 4 fixed disks & 2 externals plugged in right now, and in the MMC snap-in, I can see details about them all in the space it takes to show 1 disk of the new design. Accessibility is one thing, but with this layout you'll be scrolling up & down forever to look at details of multiple disks. What's wrong with the current table layout, just revised with a newer UI toolkit. - the File Explorer list view is more capable than the legacy one used in snap-ins, why not just revise to take advantage of that?
    3 points
  26. time for a rebellion from developers. if they continue sucking up to apple, apple will continue to exploit them+consumers. This is exactly why Big-brother like ecosystems are a bad idea.
    2 points
  27. 8 apps we'd like to see come to Windows 10

    The Windows Store is perfectly functional ... for apps ... No its not... lol... Yes it is. i've been waiting to dl battletoads for an hour and i've got 20MB down so far. i'm on a 600Mb connection. I feel relatively certain that wouldn't happen here and sounds like a network issue. I'm not going to shell out money for something I'd never play to prove it though.
    2 points
  28. 8 apps we'd like to see come to Windows 10

    The Windows Store is perfectly functional ... for apps ... No its not... lol... I must have a magical version that works. So must my wife and daughter. Weird!
    2 points
  29. We need Apple because we don't want Google as the sole player. However, Apple crossed the line.
    2 points
  30. Google tells Android developers to get ready for a 5G world

    Oh nice, so I can use up my 1.5GB FUP in just 10 minutes instead of 20!
    2 points
  31. Windows 10 build 20197 is now available with a new disk manager

    You are so right... This is so not intuitive. I wonder how good accessibility wise as well. Unfortunately in 5 years (from the first release of Windows 10), it is unfathomable how Microsoft couldn't come up with a coherent design with Settings - keeping two with two different set of functionality. When they push few new icons for few built-in Windows Store apps, they cheer up of which I find it really sarcastic. A new calculator icon release ? Come on... I really do not understand how they define their priorities and how they execute their project management. Just sad...
    2 points
  32. Windows 10 build 20197 is now available with a new disk manager

    This has been a problem with the entire Settings UI. Extremely large font, huge amounts of white space, terrible layout. Because a small subset/minority of Windows users buy Windows tablets/convertibles with touchscreens.
    2 points
  33. Windows 10 build 20197 is now available with a new disk manager

    typical settings layout, horrible as everything else. Control Panel and MMC might be ancient but its so much better.
    2 points
  34. Being exclusive to Epic games is such BS...I'm not adding another platform to play a game. It won't be on Steam or Origin apparently and if on Epic means ya gotta wait a whole year if that to see it on those others. Release it on disk like the original or stand alone download damnit!
    2 points
  35. is that a joke they can't be serious
    2 points
  36. No; Windows 7 disables Aero and Theming when using Best Performance in Advanced system settings. And Microsoft 'locked in' DWM on Windows 8 not because of performance but because of things such that the new experiences completely rely on DWM. No DWM ? No Start screen. Seriously? Dang it, I don't want to be a dick today. Ok, let us start with a few things to help you find the information along with anyone else reading through. The composer in Windows 7 is faster unless the the GPU didn't support DX9 or had a series set of flaws. The reason 'Composer' was in the 'performance settings' on Windows 7, is that it was from Vista, which used a slower and more memory intense method for the compositor. Around SP2, this was changed on Vista, with a new virtualized RAM model that no longer had to store copies in RAM or had to copy it back to the GPU, as it could write to the display buffer directly from System RAM. The original dual RAM allocation and transfer was expensive on Vista for users that had less RAM or less VRAM. So on average systems, with 2GB of RAM and 512MB of VRAM, the compositor on Vista would be faster. Windows 7 uses the newer composer as well, and even on integrated GPUs with shared RAM, the compositor was faster, as it was no longer doing extra RAM copies or eating additional RAM and VRAM. There are a lot of things that DWM and the newer GPU model does in Windows 7 that apparently most people still don't realize. The Windows composer has a faster drawing pipeline, not only is it buffering redraws and caching draw like most composers, it is also accelerating older GDI+ along with newer WPF/Silverllight and newer DirectX drawing. As for why the DWM was forced on in Windows 8, it was for performance first and foremost. It also had a NEW CPU based rendering pipeline, so the DWM features that were faster could be enabled and still work for users that had a 1990s SVGA card. There are many games from this era that run faster with 'Desktop/Windowed/Windowed Full Screen' - as Windows would take over VRAM management when possible, and composite the writes to GPU for the game - which was faster than older display write methods games were using to render to the GPU.) The compositor also has other performance features like GPU compute features. This is why the GPU would be handed JPGs to generate thumbnails for Explorer. There were a few hundred functions that were shifted to the GPU from GDI and GDI plus along with WPF/Silverlight's newer drawing methods. Again, these acceleration features were limited on Vista, with only a couple of dozen using the GPU, and why Windows 7's compositor offered much more performance. Even GPU functions that will translate video codecs to run on the GPU even if the GPU doesn't support acceleration of the codec. This is why installing crap 3rd party codec that were installed as OS level defaults would all run on the CPU and were slower along with consuming more power and using lower quality rendering. Ok, those are a few of main things to go look for if you think I'm making this up. I really don't have the power to make up stuff in Microsoft Tech/White Papers. Also, this is not even something worth having a discussion over, seriously, trust me. I also will not debate this, it is not opinion or subjective, these are objective facts that can be looked up or tested. (I hope I wasn't too much of a bitch or dick, I was trying not to be annoyed or annoying.)
    2 points
  37. Windows 10 build 20197 is now available with a new disk manager

    I expected nothing less.
    2 points
  38. Yikes. This looks awful. As web technologies continue to proliferate and command line grows in popularity, everything else gets crappier with it.
    2 points
  39. Windows 10 build 20197 is now available with a new disk manager

    That layout is hideous. I really hope it goes thru a complete overhaul before release otherwise this looks like something that would've been out of windows 3.1.
    2 points
  40. This is one of those things where if you need to achieve what the script does you likely know how to write the script, and if you don't know how to write the script then you don't need it to do what it's going to do I have deployed literally hundreds (or I have built the framework used by others to do so) of W10 workstations, and while I do use scripting in the deployments they are to do specific tasks and are there to do things (mainly strip out the pre-installed AppX version of Office365 + the CandyCrush style games) that you can't do directly with Intune/AutoPilot or MDT/Group Policy policies.
    2 points
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  42. Windows 10 build 20197 is now available with a new disk manager

    Blame mobile devices and touch screens.
    2 points
  43. Extremely dangerous! Here is a quotation from the author: Do you have the expertise to do that? For example, do you know what's Microsoft.549981C3F5F10? Well, that's not enough. You need to know Russian too. Or... trust Google Translate in such a life or death matter. Most likely, you'll break your Windows and blame Microsoft for the rest of your life.
    2 points
  44. These are the types of things people use and later run into problems that get blamed on Microsoft for buggy updates when people have bad systems.
    2 points
  45. Linux preinstalled on new computer purchase

    Always nice to see someone making good use of a PC and holding on to it so long. I built a similar spec Core2Duo PC in 2007 with 4gb of ram that my parents are still using today. I upgraded the hard drive to an SSD and later upgraded the GPU to a Geforce 1030 which allowed them to run a 4K monitor at 60hz. Someone on here was adamant such a PC wouldn’t be of any use today, however for general desktop use, photo viewing, internet, email and watching 4K video it works great and is really responsive today in 2020. I’m sure you will certainly enjoy a new machine after all this time, hopefully you can keep it just as long.
    2 points
  46. 8 apps we'd like to see come to Windows 10

    It’s interesting if people find it non functional even now. I used to have problems back in the early days of win10 with things not downloading, but for me it’s not been the case in a long time. I download a fair bit from the store as well as I use game pass, and I just don’t get any issues with it. Not discounting others experiences but just surprised as it’s been ok for me for a good while.
    1 point
  47. 8 apps we'd like to see come to Windows 10

    You can still install and use Movie Maker. You just need to find a trusted location for the Windows Essentials 2012 offline installer. (Microsoft removed this from the web, but it can still be found I'm told. I archived my copy long ago.) The only apps from the suite that really work properly any longer are Movie Maker and Photo Gallery, so be sure to do a custom install of only those apps.
    1 point
  48. 8 apps we'd like to see come to Windows 10

    Agreed. During covid it has become really painfully obvious how restrictive their services are. Even if it’s not a free-for-all service, whereby to use the app on windows you’d still have to have an iOS device for it to pair to (similar to how the WhatsApp app works) it would be miles better than the locked system they have now . I’d rather not use seperete third party services just to be able to function from a PC. > you’d still have to have an iOS device That would defeat the whole point of it.
    1 point
  49. Then go find a Linux forum to post in JH - your passive aggressive troll posts are annoying. How come he can't post negative comments about a company or product here, but you can? What makes you special?
    1 point
  50. Google tells Android developers to get ready for a 5G world

    You post this from the racist conspiracist (insert other ###### Ness) dilbert creator. Lost credibility years ago and has lost majority of previous healthy syndication.
    1 point