Install went smoothly in about 30 minuets.
I like it, it looks nice, it has a clean look to it. Loading time i dont see much difference between 7 and 10. I've found copy and deleting to be much faster. It's stable and responsive and all my games and 3rd party modding tools work fine, so does the emulators.
Yeh like endless waves i'm a bit disapointed that there's an extra step to logging out, for me it show's a lack of ability to focus clearly on maximising the operational elegance of 10.
AS an example on start up there's a picture covering the log in screen, i think it's called the hole, you press a button and the thing scrolls away so you can input your password. I really don't see the practical reason to add a button press here, it strikes me as fanciful and eccentric.
There is only one volume control for the whole system, i find that annoying, altering the volume of different devices is a pretty important thing for using my machine more comfortably, again it strikes me as impractical and eccentric to do this, various sound problems arise with various games and apps at times. so lose a big point there MS.
I hoped Ms would consolidate interfaces but as EW states there's more navigating to be done.
For instance they have replaced My Computer with This PC, O.K not a big deal but it's not on the drop down menu from taskbar, so i have to go elsewhere then up , when i get there - folders are at the top and the disc icons are below them, this may seem petty but it's a sign of overall lack of clarity of organisational logic.
Another gripe and something that really get's to me is why the **** can't MS have made it an objective to show folder address's more clearly, now theyre half way across the window,
why not be decisive and put them at the bottom of each window in bold, having them wrap if you narrow the width of the folder. I often have folders with the same name on different disks, i fit them to the window and then have maximize and minimize to check which is which.
This could have been obvious. I dont want to have to rely on the left folder view panel as it becomes useless at a certain folder width.
I would have liked it if WMP had been glossed up a bit, i'm not sure what the point of Music is, it's bland, bare and look's hurried.
It is however beautiful compared to Windows 7, and although i make the above gripes it feels more robust than 7 and easier to handle. I'm pleased with it, it is definitely pleasant on the eyes. I would say a joy to use compared to 7.
What i think would have been nicer and more efficient, easier to navigate would have been
a system like chrome bookmarks going across the top of the screen, with drop down menus ( organised in columns ) for disks and folders, apps files, ...... and couldnt some of the stuff
that sits at the top of folders be moved to right click to unclutter the view.
Would it have been possible to have a small transparent menu follow the mouse cursor
through which you could navigate back or up a folder level ?
A request to Ms could you sort out the problem of external drives being seen as synch devices by WMP, i've looked and looked and can't find a way to stop WMP from having them in the synch window.