First off, let me say that Windows 10 appears to be very stable. I’ve not yet had it crash and I’ve been running various PCs on it for almost a year now.
But it has A LOT of very annoying issues that Windows 7 never had. And now, even after a year, none of them have been addressed by Microsoft. Update after update gets forced to my laptop and yet nothing seems to change. Windows 10 still looks and behaves just as badly as it did almost a year ago. I don’t know what Microsoft is doing on these updates, and they never disclose it like they did in Windows 7. So other than assuming its just more privacy invasive user tracking, I have no idea what’s going on.
All these following annoyances, while each being minor, add up to making Windows 10 an overall poor user experience for me, and so I hate it:
- Network
Hovering over the Network Icon after boot often just displays “Internet Access” with no SSID given. Other times it will display the Modem Software Name and not the SSID. Switching to another Network and back often corrects this.
Switching to another network many times fails to connect. If it does connect, its really not connected for up to 2 more minutes. Web site time-out or are reported as unreachable. All you can do is wait and then try again after Windows 10 has decided to finally actually connect to the network.
No longer can you double-click on a network SSID to connect to it. Now you have to click on it and then click on ‘Connect’. This is just a stupid extra step that you didn’t have to do in Windows 7 - User Privacy
User Privacy was really throw out the window with Windows 10. There are almost 20 questionable privacy setting in Windows 10 that are enabled by default (LifeHacker.com) and even when disabling all of them, it has still been shown that Windows 10 still constantly reports data back to the Mothership about your system and the stuff you do. Makes me think this was created by the NSA. And its no wonder the Chinese government banned its use it all its government offices.
And now there are rumors that Microsoft is making a special version just for China (Gizmodo.com). So apparently, all those nifty spying tools in Windows 10 will come in really handy to the PRC - Startup/Shutdown
Yes, Windows 10 starts up fast. And Microsoft says Windows 10 shuts down fast too, but this is just BS. When you go and shutdown Windows 10, sure the screen turns off almost immediatly. But your backlite keyboard (at least mine on my notebook) stays on for up to a minute longer). Even then, its not finished shutting down. The power light stays lit for at least another minute. I swear its much slower than Windows 7
On Startup, there is now an annoying splash screen even if you have only one account. An extra step and click-through you have to do in order or actually log in and start using Windows.
The other part that annoys me is having to click too many times to actually shut down:- Click on the Windows Icon in the lower left
- Then click on ‘Power’
- Now, finally, click on ‘Shutdown’
What is up with that? Windows 7 you just click twice: Windows Icon, Shutdown. Its a stupid extra step
- Updates
Microsoft doesn’t want to tell you what’s in an update anymore. Nor do they want you to choose to install an update or not – or even hold off on installing an update. Too many times in Windows 7, updates broke my PC and kept it from booting. So I disabled automatic updates in Windows 7 and started installing them a month later manually so Microsoft had time to fix any update bugs before I got bit by them. You can’t do that in Windows 10 now. Every other OS tells you whats in an update and lets you choose if/when to install it. Not the Microsoft Dictatorship. Ok, so maybe Windows 10 wasn’t designed by the NSA, maybe it was the PRC?? - Bluetooth
So, I got a Bluetooth adapter for my Bose speakers so I should share them across Android, Apple and MS devices. Everybody’s happy, right? Wrong. When I connect Windows 10 to the Bluetooth adapter, it still keeps my laptops internal speakers enabled. Does your Android/Apple device keep using its internal speakers when you’ve connect it to a bluetooth audio device? No, of course not. That would be stupid. Are you listening Microsoft? You are stupid.
Ok, So I go to disconnect my Bluetooth speakers in Windows 10 and it says “Couldn’t Disconnect” even though it did. Now, really, how can software NOT disconnect from a wireless device? Again, Microsoft, you are stupid.
Compare and contrast again. You’re on your Android/iOS device and want to transfer a file via Bluetooth. All you have to do is have Bluetooth enabled, already be paried to the other device and then just ‘share’ the file over Bluetooth. The other device pops up a notice that you have an incoming file and allows you to accept or reject it. But with Widnows 10, where Microsoft is stupid, you still MUST start up the Bluetooth File Transfer Wizard BEFORE reciving the file, otherwise it goes NOWHERE! Windows pops up annoying notices all the time (including to tell you that you plugged in an audio device to your headphone jack – duh, you just did it) but it can’t notify you of an incoming bluetooth file without you manually starting the stupid program first. - Title Bars
I hate the Windows 10 native title bars. They are the same color as the Menu bar and most of the time you can’t tell where one ends and the other begins. So I’m constantly clicking and trying to drag a window around, but I can’t because I’ve inadvertly click in the Menu area. Again, just stupid and annoying. - Scroll Bars
Scroll bars auto-hide in Windows 10. This is just stupid. Most of the time you can’t even tell there is more info on a page that you can scroll down to because there are no scroll-bars (they’ve auto-hidden). This is especially true in the Control Panel (Now Settings Page). So you have to move and jiggle your mouse around over on the right where you think there might be scroll bars to see if you can scroll down to see more text/setting.
The Start Menu is especially bad. The Scroll Bar there is so narrow, most of the time I miss it. And clicking and holding on the scroll bar DOES NOT AUTO-SCROLL IT!
Then, in the Start Menu/All Apps list, there are Alphabetical Breaks in the listings: A, B, C, etc., of your apps. So, don’t you think you could hit a letter and it would auto-scroll to that section? Nope, Microsoft is too stupid to have thought of that nice feature. - Tablet Mode?
Windows 10 thinks I have a tablet with a touch screen. I do not. How hard can that be to detect? Apparently Its impossible for MS.
I have a Asus UX31A Notebook. It does NOT have a touch screen. It is NOT a tablet. Yet in the Windows 10 Notification Panel, I could click on ‘Tablet Mode” and switch to touch-screen input. Needless to say, I have NOT done this. I would loose all mouse input and probably render my Laptop into a brick as I would loose all mouse control. Thank you, stupid Microsoft. - Notifications
I plug a set of headphones into the headphone jack of my laptop. I know I’ve done this because I had to dedicate a thought process to it and manually carry it out. Yet, for some stupid reason, Windows 10 MUST pop up a notification window to tell me that I’ve just plugged something into the headphone jack of my PC. Duh! How much did you pay one of your goons for that useless piece of code?
Every Sunday I get a notification to turn on Windows 10 backup. I don’t use Windows backup. I have my own process, thank you very much. Yet I cannot get rid of that notice. Apparently Microsoft thinks everyone is a stupid as they are and must be repeatedly notified to use THEIR backup solution and not anyone else’s. - Gadgets
So, like I said, I have an ASUS notebook, and it has a SSHD. There are no blinky lights to tell me the HD is being accessed. There are no blinky lights to tell me the Network is transmitting/receiving data. And there are no blinky lights to tell me the CPU is churning away. So I had Gadgets in Windows 7 to track all that. Then I would know, when the PC is locked up or sluggish, where the bottleneck was, or if something just crashed.
Can’t do that in Windows 10. No more Gadgets. Now I just have to take it on faith that Windows 10 hasn’t gone off into la-la land, never to return. After all, its Windows 10. It’s perfect? Right? BS - Keyboard Function Shortcuts
My Asus laptop has Function keys: Brightness, Loudness, Network, Sleep, etc., access by holding down the Fn key and pressing the corresponding Fx key across the top. They all worked great in Windows 7. Now in Windows 10, I’m lucky to get them to work more than once. Hit the brightness up, and it goes up 10%. Hit is again and nothing happens. Brightness down is broken as well. The Notification Panel allows you to set the brightness in 25% increments. That’s much too rough. I need a finer setting. If there is one, I can’t find it. Again, Microsoft is stupid in thinking one setting fits all. - Windows Feedback
I’d love to fill Microsoft’s inbox with all these issues in hopes that someday they would finally fix them. But in order to do so, you must relinquish control of you PC to them: You much give Microsoft your Login Password! No Thank You, MicroSpy. I don’t think so!!
You must sign up with a Microsoft Account and then you that account password to log into you Windows 10 PC. I’m sorry, I don’t share my passwords with anyone. Least of all the most Privacy Violating OS ever developed. - No Real Encryption
Every OS has has a full system encryption ability, including Windows 10. But it has been proven that BitLocker (Microsoft’s solution) has known vulnerabilities. You can even deduce this yourself from all the news regarding the FBI and NSA’s whining over Android and iOS device encryption and how they are so worried they won’t be able to read your data whenever they want. Now, notice how Microsoft, Windows and Bitlock are never whined about…
It’s already been determine that MS doesn’t give a shit about your right to privacy. Why would BitLocker be any different? - Forcing Windows 7/8 Users to Update
Microsoft has stated that they will continue to support Windows 7 until 2020. Yet, they have repeatedly tried to force upgrades on those systems – and without user consent (Infoworld.com). Why? I think its because Windows 10 is a user data mining tool (a Trojan in disguise) that Microsoft wants on as many user’s PC as possible so they can make they money selling personal user data to anyone and everyone: corporations and government agencies…
Oh, and Windows 10 Tiles: The FIRST thing I did after upgraded to Windows 10 was to turn off those STUPID tiles!