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WINDOWS 10

Posted by Cheryl Nelson on July 31, 2015 at 1:32pm in 3D News

Windows 10 just downloaded to my computer.  I'm test driving it to see what it does, and whether I'm going to go to Linux in a few months. 

The first problem I've found is that this website doesn't load properly.  The right column doesn't show up.  Not the end of the world, but just know it if you download Windows 10. 

The calculator has a new look, larger, which I like, and more functionality.  I opted out of Cortana.  Reminds me to much of HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey.  Microsoft wants your entire life fed into the bitch and I said no thanks.  

I'll add more to this blog as I learn more. 

Windows 10 has a new browser, called Microsoft Edge.  You can write on web pages.  I don't know if other people can see it, or if it's just for you.

Windows 10 is a free download if you have Windows 7 or 8.1.  I don't know why it's not for 8.  Nor do I know what happened to Windows 9.  Cyber mysteries.

The Start menu has returned. 

The Paint program doesn't appear to have changed. 

Your open windows no longer tile across the bottom of your browser window.  There is an icon called Task View that toggles between your normal desktop and all your open windows.  You can even open a blank, desktop #2.

So far, it's not obvious where the printers icon is, or the control panel.  When they put the "Start" button back, it's still not as good as Windows 7, but there's also more "stuff," (useless to me, games, apps, store, other stuff).

I may need a touch screen computer to be able to write on the web.

I found the printer/devices in the Settings app.  But Windows 10 can't find my printer, an older HP 1020.  But I still can't find the add/remove programs.  In the Apps feature, some of the apps, when clicked on, have an uninstall feature.  But not Skype, which I'm trying to uninstall.  It won't let me.

Okay, when Win 10 downloads, the Control Panel isn't visible.  Last night, I sent something to print and it did print, but if I need to cancel/restart a print job, that screen is what I can't find.  So, I did a search for printers and THEN the Control Panel loaded with the devices and printers icon.  But I still couldn't find a link to Control Panel.  So, I used the new "Web and Windows" search function (which takes up over 1/3 of the task bar) and I found this article:  http://www.groovypost.com/howto/find-traditional-control-panel-familiar-utilities-windows-10/.  So, you right click the Start button (bottom left) and there it is with all the old favorites.  (The problem was I disliked 8.1 so much, I had found a "Web Shell" program that gave me the old Win 7 configuration, so I had forgotten about right-clicking the Start Menu cuz I never used it.)

I posted pictures in the comments on 8/1/15.

Skype is built into Win 10, so there may be no way to uninstall it, or at least unpin it from the task bar.  Still looking.  http://blogs.skype.com/2015/01/22/skype-in-windows-10-preview-built-into-windows-10-so-you-can-do-more-with-friends-across-devices/.

I now see that search results are done and show up in the Edge browser. 

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