win10 What are your biggest Windows 10 bugbears?

[HellboundIRL]

All of the wasted space on the left hand side of the Start menu despite having most used and recently installed applications turned on. I'd love for it to display more than 6 most used.

[SledgeNZ]

Some of these have been covered:

• Windows Defender turning itself back on
• Laptop resuming from sleep, live tiles are dead - restarting Windows Shell Experience Host fixes it
• Arsing about turning off mail notifications on every single pc, remember those settings...
• Start menu layout not syncing across devices. At least add an option to allow this like in Win8.
• OneDrive - placeholders. Although did work out that Groove will play your music without having the music folder synced. Painful to setup though.

 

[MikeChipshop Member]

On a dual screen setup the taskbar context menu takes several seconds to popup on the secondary screen. It's annoying

Well damn. I never noticed that until you posted it, but you're spot on!

[Manoj Maharjan]

Gestures not working for Modern apps and ie and edge (Vostro 3450).

Windows boot takes time.

visual studio 2013 is not working in windows 10.(fine with vs2015)

 

[adrynalyne]

Gestures not working for Modern apps and ie and edge (Vostro 3450).

Windows boot takes time.

visual studio 2013 is not working in windows 10.(fine with vs2015)

 

VS 2013 works fine here.

[MikeChipshop Member]

Windows boot takes time.

Faster than 8 here.

[adrynalyne]

Faster than 8 here.

He just said it takes time.  Windows 10 was supposed to make booting instantaneous apparently

[Mando]

found a new bugbear last night, why oh why do we need the all programs menu listed under Letters, im sure we are all literate to know that list is alphabetical.

what a waste of space the Letter headings are! If they removed them you would see so much more without scrolling!

My boot times in 10 are faster than they were in 7, even on the same hardware both laptop and desktop boot in sub 6 seconds, its shaved at least 4 seconds off my boot times (woo!) which in real terms is a 40% speed improvement. 

[adrynalyne]

found a new bugbear last night, why oh why do we need the all programs menu listed under Letters, im sure we are all literate to know that list is alphabetical.

what a waste of space the Letter headings are! If they removed them you would see so much more without scrolling!

My boot times in 10 are faster than they were in 7, even on the same hardware both laptop and desktop boot in sub 6 seconds, its shaved at least 4 seconds off my boot times (woo!) which in real terms is a 40% speed improvement. 

Think outside the box for a moment if you will.  You can filter by clicking or tapping on those letters, and have zero need to scroll a huge list.

[Dashel]

I agree, I'd rather have the ability to jump even if I occasionally have to scroll more.

 

[Royalty]

I think Cortana is still a little buggy. It still has a lot of work to be done.

[liquidguru]

If you want to remove any of the default Windows Apps, follow the guide here, works like a charm

[SledgeNZ]

Some of these have been covered:

• Windows Defender turning itself back on
• Laptop resuming from sleep, live tiles are dead - restarting Windows Shell Experience Host fixes it
• Arsing about turning off mail notifications on every single pc, remember those settings...
• Start menu layout not syncing across devices. At least add an option to allow this like in Win8.
• OneDrive - placeholders. Although did work out that Groove will play your music without having the music folder synced. Painful to setup though.

 

Windows Defender can be disabled via policies:
gpedit.msc - Computer configuration - Administrative templates - Windows components - Windows Defender - enable "Turn off Windows Defender".

[SledgeNZ]

I agree, I'd rather have the ability to jump even if I occasionally have to scroll more.

 

They could have implemented it in a similar manner to the phone. Only show the letter options once the app list has > n items in it. Would be cool if they enabled that and made n configurable.

[firey]

Upgrade to 10 pro last night.  I only have a few annoyances.


1) I was uninstalling a bunch of software so kept getting UAC prompts with the stupid alert sound that plays way too long
2) I got errors installing updates, did a check for updates and nothing was there.
3) My ethernet was not connecting properly, ended up with 3 different screens about my connection that either did nothing or told me nothing.
4) As mentioned by others.. settings and control panel... I much prefer control panel
5) So much wasted space.  I had the application page open in settings and it was truncating application names even though it had more than enough room to expand.
6) A lot of UI glitches.  ie) If I open the Get Office app (which I have 365 so why it's there I don't know) all buttons at the top (Min, Max, close) turn red.

I am sure there are more but that's just what I have found so far.

[pixelpixel]

Does anyone use netplwiz to sign in a machine ?

I notice how slow it is compared to 8.1

[+DKAngel Subscriber²]

The new start menu is rubbish. Removal of the ability to right click icons and select "pin to taskbar" in particular annoyed me. I went to StartIsBack pretty quickly. The fact that the spyware style telemetry is still on is also questionable to say the least, I don't really want the contents of my files sent to Microsoft. Thankfully both relatively easy to remedy.

Launching edge without addon support was also questionable. The browser has potential, but sadly any speed gains acquired through the engine modifications get lost thanks to advertising. Once it gets adblocking capability I think it has the potential to be a great browser.

ummmm i just rightclick in the start menu on an ico and live tile and guess what is there.... Pin to taskbar 

[+DKAngel Subscriber²]

Does anyone use netplwiz to sign in a machine ?

I notice how slow it is compared to 8.1

i used netplwin to auto sign into my machine as im a single user and my machine is on the desktop from start to finnish in 12seconds, its faster than windows8.1

[Seahorsepip Veteran]

Apps that stop working: https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1267852-windows-10-mail-app-stopped-working/ and the fact that there isn't a single article on the internet with a fix for non windows 10 beta builds...

In windows 8.1 I could atleast remove an app and reinstall it

 

Oh and not to forget the crappy app store that consists 99% of apps that steal your info or are just actual malware...

Edited August 7, 2015 by Seahorsepip

[SledgeNZ]

Apps that stop working: https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1267852-windows-10-mail-app-stopped-working/ and the fact that there isn't a single article on the internet with a fix for non windows 10 beta builds...

In windows 8.1 I could atleast remove an app and reinstall it

I had to force a refresh on the mail client with the following in powershell:
Get-AppxPackage  | Where name -match windowscommunicationsapps | foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}

[Seahorsepip Veteran]

I had to force a refresh on the mail client with the following in powershell:
Get-AppxPackage  | Where name -match windowscommunicationsapps | foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}

Powershell now shows "Deployment operation progress initialized" and keeps showing that

[Seahorsepip Veteran]

I had to force a refresh on the mail client with the following in powershell:
Get-AppxPackage  | Where name -match windowscommunicationsapps | foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}

Solved my issue after a reboot, thank you SO MUCH  

[LimeMaster]

Here are mine so far:

• No Start Screen. The maximized Start Menu doesn't count, as it doesn't function like the Start Screen in Windows 8.
• The Ctrl key can not be used to select multiple items in the Start Menu.
• App list in Start Menu uses the old vertical view, making it harder find programs.
• Some Modern apps look like crap in windowed mode.
• Colourless titlebars. (Unofficial fix)
• Some options in the Settings app are unnecessarily greyed out.
• Only one instance of the Settings app can be opened.
• Limited control of Windows Updates, even in Pro edition.

Aside from these issues, Windows 10 seems decent.

[Obry]

1) Arranging tiles in start menu can be difficult sometimes, especially using my touchpad for some reason - very difficult to drop them where I want

2) I can pin items from Start menu to taskbar but not the other way around - that's retarded having to search for an app in the start menu to pin it when it might be staring me right in the face from the taskbar

3) Multi-monitor support is still buggy - doesn't always remember screen layout after resuming from sleep (even though the last cumulative update from yesterday might have improved that - will see how things go today)

4) Mail app is absolute garbage - unbelievable that they would release such crap app for so commonly used feature

5) Settings app needs tons of improvements - why the hell do I need to go to display settings then go to "advanced settings" to change my display resolution - makes no sense to me

Etc...

[aberg]

On a dual screen setup the taskbar context menu takes several seconds to popup on the secondary screen. It's annoying

Behaves like that on my single screen, 4 seconds to open.