You seem to be missing the point. I remove all pinned programs and only leave the quick launch. Pinned programs are a clutter and not in any way useful to me. I also unlock the quick launch toolbar so I can drag it to the right near the clock.I guess I can see the appeal of it. Looks a little too crowded to me, but different strokes for different folks and all that...
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Nah, I got it. I was just showing what it looks like in Win10.
Still, I've never liked the quick launch bar. The icons are way too small, and too cramped for my tastes. What I did back in XP was pin all my apps on the Start menu, and launch them from there. Did the same thing in 7, but added the ones I use most to the taskbar. In 8, I went an extra step and almost piled all my stuff on the new, huge full screen Start menu.
And 10? I do the best of both worlds.
It was just apps shortcuts in Taskbar ever since Internet Explorer 4 added that feature to Windows 95.
You use 20ish programs daily? I don't believe that. The stuff in the background does not count because you can just throw that in autostart if you use it daily or create a startup script. Even with background 20 sounds like a lot.
A lot of people pin way to much. Most people use no more that 3-6 apps frequently enough to need pinning.
And everything you don't use daily, just typing two or three letters in the search bar and press enter is the way to start that stuff (that what it is for). Keeps the clutter away.
No autostart programs. Programs I start myself. I'm sorry you don't believe that. It may be difficult for you to grasp the concept that not everyone is like you, but I assure you that it's quite easy to understand.
If I need something on a daily basis, I'm going to put it to the quick launch. I'm not going to pin all those apps and have it take up space. I like my legacy look. I don't like the new look Windows 7 brought on. Why is that difficult for you to comprehend? I'm hardly concerned about quicklaunch clutter with a 5120x1600 total resolution.
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You can... I left the quick launch label there so that you could see it clearly.So far as I can tell the task bar works identically in 10 as it did in 7.
Thank you for this very concise answer. Others seem to lack this skill and brevity in their replies.
I often have 10-15 open for my day job so 20 isn't unbelievable to me. I'm a .Net developer.
Having said that, I do seem to use more apps at once than my coworkers; I've had surprise/shock when they've seen how much stuff I have open!
I easily have a high number of apps running at once. I have 8 to 10 RDP sessions open at once, multiple spreadsheets open at once, one or two word docs opened, not to mention outlook, a text editor (Ultraedit), acrobat, etc, etc. Multiple custom built apps from my company, etc, etc.
What is so hard to believe that people run 10, 20, 30 apps at any time?
you just mentioned 6 different apps. That is still a long way from 20. 10 RDP sessions are still only one program. And two docs and multiple spreadsheets are still only two programs. You see why I am having difficulty seeing somebody use 20 different apps daily?
well, I've currently got 11 open running at work right now (not including multiple versions of each)
outlook, Putty, IE, Chrome, TextPad, TimeSheet, Excel, Explorer, WinSCP, RDP, internal software, Command prompt, Word, IP Office, one note
but Depending on the day, that might also expand to include Citrix, Firefox, multiple other internal programs
I have problem to install windows 10 to my external lacie rugged thunderbolt 500 gb tb drive. I have the imac5k. I install first with the bootcamb and after I mirror it in my external lacie drive with winclone. It boots normally but after couple reboots doesnt. I try different rtm version but the problem remain. Anybody has this problem? Maybe the bootcamp drivers is not ready yet for windows 10 from apple! I also after I copy the win10 to my external I erase it from the internal with the bootcamp.
The 'Fisher Price' Apple direction of late is really turning me off. Windows 10 looks very polished and I'll definitely take the free upgrade for my iMac. We'll see what they deliver. Vista looked good, too... LOL
Same here but by the same token, some things are still easier to do in OS X over Windows. I split my time about 50-50 between my MBP and my SP3. I pre-reserved my copy of windows 10, and so once it arrives next week, I'll get to see how well it works. I was running the beta for some time, but a few things were not working to such a degree that I re-loaded windows 8. Nothing major, but scaling wasn't working and going from a large display to the tablet (removing it from its dock) made the text too small.
I pre-reserved Windows 10 as well but haven't seen the preview. I got burned with the Office 2016 preview and decided to just wait for the Windows release this time. The new Office by the way is fantastic!
Let's compare notes next week. I'm pretty excited to see what Microsoft has in store for us.
My main issue, having used the RTM for a few days now is that they haven't entirely unified the UI yet. In some places you still get "old windows" instead of the new Metro-inspired interface. For instance, the "Settings" app is supposed to have entirely replaced the old "Control Panel", but the settings app does'nt have all the same functionality, so if you do some things it will revert to the old control panel.
While my work computer is in the shop I'm using an old early 2011 13" Macbook Pro and I have to say, the difference in performance between Yosemite and Windows 10 is staggering. It loads faster, apps load quicker, and it feels much snappier.
That seems to be a general Windows quirk that is fixed by logging out and back into your account. It seems that unlike OS X, Windows sets the UI mode once upon login.
While my work computer is in the shop I'm using an old early 2011 13" Macbook Pro and I have to say, the difference in performance between Yosemite and Windows 10 is staggering. It loads faster, apps load quicker, and it feels much snappier.
That seems to be a general Windows quirk that is fixed by logging out and back into your account. It seems that unlike OS X, Windows sets the UI mode once upon login.
Oh I know you need to log out and back in, which I do for win 8.1 but with the earlier builds of win10, doing so did not effect the scaling. Yes it reported the scaling factor as larger text but the text size was unchanged.
I wished MS would take a more dynamic approach to scaling so I can alter it without needing to log out.
