B00nie
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You don't like it but the touch elements are very necessary on many Windows devices these days.
Not with any devices I'm going to use... Badabum ca-chiing!
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You don't like it but the touch elements are very necessary on many Windows devices these days.
FWIW, .00001% of the installed user base with a Surface device arent "many users", and most Surface users I see on the rare occasion out at a Starbucks are just using it as a glorified ultralight laptop - no screen poking.
Touch on Windows is dead in the water because the apps are crap.
The Surface line is but brand out of a quite a lot of Windows tablet and 2 in 1 devices these days and they are growing a much faster than traditional hardware and account for 10% of ALL new hardware sales today. That's not counting touch screen clamshell laptops. It's not an either or situation. Windows HAS to run on tablets and 2 in 1s devices. It's not an option for Microsoft to go back on that at this time.
As DPI stated, everytime I see someone using a surface product, which is rare, they're making no use of the touch functionality at all - They simply view it as a fancy laptop.
The touch interface has no place anywhere near a desktop PC, it confuses people due to the doubling up of certain functions in the UI, it's fragmented and it's unnessecary. As for Windows based tablets, the Surface brand is mostly overpriced and the affordable devices are literally laptops or all in one desktop PC's with touch displays - People buy them, use the touch screen for about a week, realise it's unnessecary as they have a perfectly good physical keyboard and mouse that's easier to use and never use the touch interface again.
As DPI stated, everytime I see someone using a surface product, which is rare, they're making no use of the touch functionality at all - They simply view it as a fancy laptop.
Do you really trust a third party hack when the functionality should exist in the OS itself? Next major update Microsoft will probably take it upon themselves to remove and disable this application.
I downloaded it but have never used it because I am on Win8.1 so don't need it. But, yea, I did run and it and it looks legit to me so I do trust it. You can do it manually or you can do it the easy way with this software, take your pick. Just don't suggest it is bad software that will harm your PC because it isn't. This software is a portable app so doesn't install any crap on your PC either.
I downloaded it but have never used it because I am on Win8.1 so don't need it. But, yea, I did run and it and it looks legit to me so I do trust it. You can do it manually or you can do it the easy way with this software, take your pick. Just don't suggest it is bad software that will harm your PC because it isn't. This software is a portable app so doesn't install any crap on your PC either.
Until MS force an update otherwise the user looses functionality and the third party hack is disabled and removed.
Doubt it and it is free anyway so there is nothing to lose if that was to happen.
Why do you doubt it? They've disabled and uninstalled certain software applications on major updates before.
Personally, I don't want to use a third party hack to achieve functionality that should be part of the basics when it comes to any operating system.
The issue is indeed with automatic updates, damn nearly all of the systems that have gotten hung up on applying updates automatically (against the user's choice first thing in the morning, causing fun times) and I have been involved with, apply the same update just fine when manually downloaded and installed. Microsoft attempted to make Wintel systems manage updates for users but there are too many logistical issues that it has ended up irritating users with no real benefit. It has caused me to disable automatic updates altogether on the 10 systems I normally use and install updates only after being vetted. It is a lot less stressful this way.I don't think it's a good idea to fully disable Windows 10 updates, I'd just like the ability to apply updates at my choosing at a time I believe is suitable. I'd also like to disable driver updates as part of Windows update quickly and easily under Windows 10 with the anniversary update.
The issue is indeed with automatic updates, damn nearly all of the systems that have gotten hung up on applying updates automatically (against the user's choice first thing in the morning, causing fun times) and I have been involved with, apply the same update just fine when manually downloaded and installed. Microsoft attempted to make Wintel systems manage updates for users but there are too many logistical issues that it has ended up irritating users with no real benefit. It has caused me to disable automatic updates altogether on the 10 systems I normally use and install updates only after being vetted. It is a lot less stressful this way.
After recent batch of updates, if you run Disk Cleanup you see that Windows Update Cleanup needs to remove 3.99TB of files Seen it on multiple Windows 10 installs.
After recent batch of updates, if you run Disk Cleanup you see that Windows Update Cleanup needs to remove 3.99TB of files Seen it on multiple Windows 10 installs.
The funny part here is that it's specifically the Windows Update components that is 3.99TB, like it's normally 4GB after you do an in place upgrade, etc. It's an obvious bug in this case. I saw it on a system with only a 256GB SSD.Disk Cleanup was introduced in Windows 7 I believe. In any case, a good utility to run from time to time to clean up WU temp and restore files along with error dumps and other temp files.
After recent batch of updates, if you run Disk Cleanup you see that Windows Update Cleanup needs to remove 3.99TB of files Seen it on multiple Windows 10 installs.
Um, I kinda love how Microsoft has kept the concept of pen computing alive, even when it wasn't popular. I'd be toast if the pen computer didn't exist re: the way I do my work. Writing things down just works better for me as opposed to typing it.
I've got a Windows 3.1 based 486 laptop somewhere here that makes use of a touchscreen and a pen, that's how long MS have been trying to push the idea.
Windows for Pen Computing, my first good tech job involved a project where were using this in a distribution environment, what was over 20 years ago. But again, there are natural uses for this tech, education and art in particular. That's why they've endured.
Honestly, considering the hardware,technical limitations of the day it actually worked quite well.
Windows 98. I don't have a copy of 10 around, so have they changed the UI yet?