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I came to this article to see whether other people are having the problems with Windows 10 that I am having, and I find none of them mentioned! I think this is quite remarkable and unacceptable. Can anyone provide references for these problems so that we can improve this article? Eric Kvaalen ( talk) 07:59, 28 December 2017 (UTC)
Now, it's true that I don't have the most powerful computer in the world. But it is one of the most powerful I have ever had! (500 Gb disk, 2.16 GHz dual core, 2 Gibytes of RAM.) And yet I get the worst performance I have ever had. I got this computer in the summer of 2015 and when I started it up it immediately suggested I upgrade to Windows 10, which I did. All these problems I have had since the beginning, so it's not due to some virus or something. Eric Kvaalen ( talk) 15:32, 16 August 2018 (UTC)
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FleetCommand: I did not "drag your name in the mud". I never even mentioned you nor anyone else by name in
that complaint.
I actually do want sources for modifying the article! Let's say Mail (Windows) is a disaster. Then wouldn't that be an appropriate criticism to put in our article?
What I don't like is not that Task Manager shows me things I never use, of course. It's that things I never use are started up without me asking! Maybe that's one of the reasons for the poor performance.
I don't know what you mean by "the Alt-Tab trick outright fails verification". You tried it and it didn't work? Maybe you didn't do it quite right. But that's not the point! My point was that Alt-Tab often doesn't work.
I said nothing about Task Manager not always being on top.
Now tell me, exactly which of the problems I mentioned do you think are caused by software bloat or malware? I would like to see the numbers (Problem 1, yes or no? Problem 2, yes or no? etc.). Remember, all these problems were there from the first day I used this new computer (in August 2015). I have installed very few things – Firefox, VLC, LibreOffice, that's about it.
@ Andy Dingley: Thanks for your reply. It could be that more RAM would solve some of the problems, like numbers 1, 6, 7, 9, 10, and 11. But even if that's true, is that justified? Should I really need 4 Gibibytes for it to be able to sort 20 files into order by date?? I think it's a severe criticism of Windows 10 if that's the case. As I said, Windows 3 didn't have that problem!
The reason I upgraded to Windows 10 was, besides the fact that my new computer urged me to do so when I first turned it on, that I knew that Microsoft was going to be giving updates to it for the next 10 years. I figured it was the best way to keep safe. You know, WannaCry hit people who were using older versions. I also thought that even if there were problems, Microsoft would eventually get around to fixing those problems. Well, it's been two and a half years and they haven't done so.
I have put Linux on a few computers. But this one came with all four partitions in use, for stuff like re-installation! I wonder whether they did that on purpose to stop you from installing Linux. I could free up a partition by making a CD (or DVD?) of the re-instalation partition, but so far I haven't gotten desperate enough to bother with all that.
Please Ping me if you reply.
Eric Kvaalen ( talk) 12:04, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
https://www.vistax64.com/threads/windows-update-just-seems-to-hang-while-checking.303992/
Vista has had this issue since the same day that Windows 10 was released - there have also been reports of it on Windows 7 (though they seemingly were fixed around the time GWX was mostly 'dropped'). Seems like MS were trying to 'throttle' the CPU usage of these older machines to make less technical people give up and buy a new Windows 10 PC.
The date just seems like way too much of a coincidence and this was never fixed without manual intervention (i.e. finding the kernel patches from the update catalogue), so this theory doesn't seem too far off the mark. 86.187.231.84 ( talk) 01:09, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
How can Microsoft really care about customers when its customers are literally losing sleep getting up in the middle of the night to check if the darn updates have finally installed on their home computers? The installation is so slow that users literally have to walk away from the computer leaving it running to waste precious earth energy and resources while it slowly putters along installing some ultimately useless feature or system update. Although Microsoft represents a capitalist company, it's product reflects communists wait lines very accurately. 2405:9800:BC30:7644:F136:1B4A:6867:334 ( talk) 14:22, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
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I came to this article to see whether other people are having the problems with Windows 10 that I am having, and I find none of them mentioned! I think this is quite remarkable and unacceptable. Can anyone provide references for these problems so that we can improve this article? Eric Kvaalen ( talk) 07:59, 28 December 2017 (UTC)
Now, it's true that I don't have the most powerful computer in the world. But it is one of the most powerful I have ever had! (500 Gb disk, 2.16 GHz dual core, 2 Gibytes of RAM.) And yet I get the worst performance I have ever had. I got this computer in the summer of 2015 and when I started it up it immediately suggested I upgrade to Windows 10, which I did. All these problems I have had since the beginning, so it's not due to some virus or something. Eric Kvaalen ( talk) 15:32, 16 August 2018 (UTC)
@
FleetCommand: I did not "drag your name in the mud". I never even mentioned you nor anyone else by name in
that complaint.
I actually do want sources for modifying the article! Let's say Mail (Windows) is a disaster. Then wouldn't that be an appropriate criticism to put in our article?
What I don't like is not that Task Manager shows me things I never use, of course. It's that things I never use are started up without me asking! Maybe that's one of the reasons for the poor performance.
I don't know what you mean by "the Alt-Tab trick outright fails verification". You tried it and it didn't work? Maybe you didn't do it quite right. But that's not the point! My point was that Alt-Tab often doesn't work.
I said nothing about Task Manager not always being on top.
Now tell me, exactly which of the problems I mentioned do you think are caused by software bloat or malware? I would like to see the numbers (Problem 1, yes or no? Problem 2, yes or no? etc.). Remember, all these problems were there from the first day I used this new computer (in August 2015). I have installed very few things – Firefox, VLC, LibreOffice, that's about it.
@ Andy Dingley: Thanks for your reply. It could be that more RAM would solve some of the problems, like numbers 1, 6, 7, 9, 10, and 11. But even if that's true, is that justified? Should I really need 4 Gibibytes for it to be able to sort 20 files into order by date?? I think it's a severe criticism of Windows 10 if that's the case. As I said, Windows 3 didn't have that problem!
The reason I upgraded to Windows 10 was, besides the fact that my new computer urged me to do so when I first turned it on, that I knew that Microsoft was going to be giving updates to it for the next 10 years. I figured it was the best way to keep safe. You know, WannaCry hit people who were using older versions. I also thought that even if there were problems, Microsoft would eventually get around to fixing those problems. Well, it's been two and a half years and they haven't done so.
I have put Linux on a few computers. But this one came with all four partitions in use, for stuff like re-installation! I wonder whether they did that on purpose to stop you from installing Linux. I could free up a partition by making a CD (or DVD?) of the re-instalation partition, but so far I haven't gotten desperate enough to bother with all that.
Please Ping me if you reply.
Eric Kvaalen ( talk) 12:04, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
https://www.vistax64.com/threads/windows-update-just-seems-to-hang-while-checking.303992/
Vista has had this issue since the same day that Windows 10 was released - there have also been reports of it on Windows 7 (though they seemingly were fixed around the time GWX was mostly 'dropped'). Seems like MS were trying to 'throttle' the CPU usage of these older machines to make less technical people give up and buy a new Windows 10 PC.
The date just seems like way too much of a coincidence and this was never fixed without manual intervention (i.e. finding the kernel patches from the update catalogue), so this theory doesn't seem too far off the mark. 86.187.231.84 ( talk) 01:09, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
How can Microsoft really care about customers when its customers are literally losing sleep getting up in the middle of the night to check if the darn updates have finally installed on their home computers? The installation is so slow that users literally have to walk away from the computer leaving it running to waste precious earth energy and resources while it slowly putters along installing some ultimately useless feature or system update. Although Microsoft represents a capitalist company, it's product reflects communists wait lines very accurately. 2405:9800:BC30:7644:F136:1B4A:6867:334 ( talk) 14:22, 6 September 2020 (UTC)