[madbadgalaxyman (Robert)]

THE UGLY (Continued)


Constant, and often unnecessary, Operating System Updates are hard to turn off ::

A big annoyance when using Windows 10 is that the bl**dy thing frequently wants to download and install lots of updates. You can try obvious methods of stopping these frequent updates, which can use up your ISP data allowance, but these commands may not work, so you have search around for a way to completely stop those updates until such time as you really do want and need specific updates.

Removing trivial or unnecessary apps is often difficult or nearly impossible::

Very large numbers of not very useful apps come pre-installed with Win10, unwanted apps that should be easy to remove or inactivate. But many apps under Win10, some of them running in the background and doing “secret” things on the internet, are not easy to remove or inactivate. Many apps resisted my multiple attempts to remove them.....forcing me to “bring out my inner geek” and enter obscure text commands into DOS-like Command Line utilities such as Windows PowerShell.

Getting permission to modify the System directories/folders is now a very difficult thing ::

In Windows 7 & Windows XP, you could play with the operating system and modify the operating system quite easily. In comparison, tweaking this Win 10 Beast is very difficult; try and do anything at all in the system directories and “permission withheld” is too often the result of your attempts to tinker and to modify. You can achieve control, but be prepared to fiddle around a lot.

Cortana is not very useful or helpful, and, worse still, it is nearly impossible to Inactivate or Exterminate it ::

Microsoft has removed the visually obvious “off switch” that used to be in Cortana, in some versions of Windows 10. So now there is a major industry figuring out ways to ex!!terminate Cortana.
But this Cortana Beast is as hard to slay as a hydra-headed monster; you can try your hardest to inactivate it or remove it, but soon enough it just starts up again.
So please Microsoft, spare us this “cute AI friend” and give us the option of using a really useful standard Help Facility!! Cortana is not even as good at answering questions as the old Windows Help facility.
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And lastly:
Win 10 has a Vicious habit of turning things back on..... after you had turned them off beforehand! You think you that you’ve killed off a program....but then, bingo!, it starts running again......so Windows tries to control you instead of you controlling Windows!



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