Win 10 MINUS

With each new major Update of Win 10 we lose more of our personalisation settings, things we set once to suit ourselves & then forget.

With Creators Update (1703) we lost text sizing but there are Registry tweaks to overcome this.

With Fall Creators Update (1709) we have lost the ability to set up or change file associations.

In the Default Programs CP both:

• Set up Default Programs
• Associate a File or Protocol With a Program

go to a Settings app window instead of the old Windows one. These can be re-invoked by issuing the following commands:

1. To invoke the old "Set your default programs" interface in 1709:
   
   • control /name Microsoft.DefaultPrograms /page pageDefaultProgram
2. To invoke the old "Associate a file type or protocol with a program" interface in 1709:
   
   • control /name Microsoft.DefaultPrograms /page pageFileAssoc

These can even be made into shortcuts on a menu.

Don't worry. Microshaft will create paid-for apps to restore this functionality.

Here's my opinion piece from 2015.

Edited by micksharpe (Tue 19-Dec-17 17:59:14)

Why do you guys use Windows if you hate Microsoft so much?

It seems rather perverse.

In reply to a post by TinyMongomery:

Why do you guys use Windows if you hate Microsoft so much?

It seems rather perverse.

Legacy apps + I can't afford to switch to Apple + I don't like Linux very much.

Microsoft are good at supporting old apps. I'll give them that. If only hardware manufacturers would give us 64-bit drivers for their older hardware.

I would be willing to pay a reasonable subscription price to revert to and stay on Windows 7.

Edited by micksharpe (Tue 19-Dec-17 19:19:18)

So, basically, Windows is better than anything else.

In reply to a post by TinyMongomery:

Why do you guys use Windows if you hate Microsoft so much?

It seems rather perverse.

lack of viable alternatives?

I use windows 8.1 for my main rig, which at least lets me escape most of the weird design decisions microsoft are putting into win10.

If every game moved to vulkan tomorrow, and all my apps worked on linux i would ditch windows in a heartbeat.

I would rather say it has the most support from third parties. That doesnt mean its better.

Windows 7 was lovely. Windows 10, not as good, but it's bearable. It's the direction in which Microsoft is taking it that I don't like. It's beginning to smack of Apple's (apparent) indifference to what their existing user base actually want (and like). Microsoft's position was always "the customer knows best." Now, it's changing to "we know best."

In reply to a post by micksharpe:

Don't worry. Microshaft will create paid-for apps to restore this functionality.

In most cases these functions are not being removed, just being moved from Control Panel to Settings.

One thing they really messed up with is File History. You cannot connect an old File History backup to a new PC with the Settings app, it has to be done with the Control Panel. I'm unsure if this is a (ridiculous) design decision or a bug.

One thing that they have never done (and I think that it's lamentable) is to allow you to place the /Users directory on a separate partition. Having it on the system partition is an abomination.