Originally Posted By: NHHEMI
Originally Posted By: gathermewool
This seems similar to the post where someone complained about how hard it was to get to the control panel in W10.
I would honestly think that most users would love how W10 works. No complicated terminology or clicking through folders to find things. Simply tap the Windows button once and type what you want to find. This isn't a "power user" technique or something used only by young techie-types. It's simply faster, easier, and something we're all familiar with - it's almost as easy as searching on Google.
A couple of quick examples:
Select: Windows button >> type: "calc" >> select: enter (or click within the search results.
Select: Windows button >> type: "device manager" >> select: enter (or click within the search results.)
Etc.
I posted that about finding the control panel( as you well know so don't pretend not to - just lame ). Sorry, but I can't disagree with you more. There are certain things that have been accessed the same way in Windows dating back to 95 and maybe even 3.1( been so long since I used that I can't be 100% sure ). Why change them now?
Let the people who want to search by name do that if they think it is so much better and faster. Just don't take away the standard UI path that they have used forever that the rest of us prefer to use. To do so is ridiculous.
I realize you are just looking to bait me by dredging this up. I am not getting into it further than I have now. Please go pester someone else.
Some here seem to mark everything said by everyone, but that's not me. Also, why on Earth would I want to bait you in a Windows 10 thread? Seriously, it's Windows 10, not Mobile 1 (sic)! Well, now that you've resorted to name-calling and attempting to bite my head off, I will say:
Since you've just told me that you are the person who started the hard-to-get-to-the-control-panel thread, which I did not know until you just told me, I'm not sure what to tell you. You've twice asked Windows 10-related question that had simple, effective solutions. I'm not going to go back and look at the previous thread, but, based on your responses in this one, I'm going to guess that you failed to acknowledge the responses and solutions in that one, too.
None of us is attempting to brow-beat you into using a completely new program or utilizing Windows 10 in an entirely unfamiliar manner. It's really as simple (and mostly more effective) as Googling something. If you really want to click on something, then you can also create a legacy "click here" folder with short-cuts to all of your favorite used-ta-links. I haven't tried this, but I can't see why it wouldn't work.
Regardless of how long a program (or OS) has been around, there are faster and more effective ways to use it, even BEFORE upgrading. Case in point: the ability to find the control panel and calculator and other features has been around at least since W7, and some of us have found the efficiency in opening programs this way. It wasn't a W10 change we had to get used to; it's simply a more efficient method that was already there, and with which Windows might be pushing newer users toward using.
A good example: several years ago I complained when all of our work laptops were upgraded to Office 2010, because its UI was unfamiliar and everything I did seemed to take longer than before, because there weren't easy-to-click headers and sub-headers to navigate through. I considered it unnecessarily 'pretty' and overall less practical. When someone showed me how to use it, as well as the shortcuts that were also available in previous versions, I begrudgingly changed my opinion. I could have continued to stubbornly complain about how it used to be, but where would that get me? My company wasn't going to downgrade, simply because I liked the way it used to be, right?
Kind of a bad example, because Office is sometimes one of the most difficult programs to easily use. You really need to take a freaking course just to relearn a format you lost that you created a long time ago and have continued to use (e.g., I hadn't used pivot tables in 3 year and completely forgot how to use them, when I again needed to generate a quick report.)
Originally Posted By: CKN
The issue being that Windows 10 IS SLOWING down some older machines. I think it involves the video card. So some could experience slower operations.
I am researching video cards and more memory to band-aid my 5 year old machine.
I just upgraded my old laptop, but not because of Windows 10; it was already painfully slow with its E-350 AMD APU. Actually, boot time and file access times were REDUCED with W10 (from W7), not lengthened. The reason I'm upgrade, is because it was adequate 5 years ago and was simply a poor choice for long-term ownership. The small, low-res screen and very modest specs were adequate for a tiny travel laptop, but not one that I need more for work-horse duties now.
My PC, which is also the same age as my laptop, had and has no issues, because it had more appropriate specs for what I needed: i-7 920, 12GB RAM, AMD Radeon HD 5850 video card. It won't play the latest games on more than mid-low settings, but it will have enough power to last me another few years, at least.