I’ve been trying to play around with Windows 10 Home for a few hours now, though most of that time was trying to get my secondary monitor to turn itself on (as not even updating the drivers were working). I finally figured out the “reason” (and it feels really upsetting). Basically, I can no longer use my monitor to play on my PS4 (that worked perfectly in 7).
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Fortunately, I discovered it’s not a fault with 10, but a fault with the user. I checked the wires, and discovered a single USB plug wasn’t plugged in (which was making the switcher part of my hardware, not work). Plugging it in, and I finally got a picture! Had another issue trying to get sound to work (this time I did have everything plugged in). The trick was to go into the settings of Line In and check the ‘Listen to this device’ option in order to get sound.
So yeah, I can play my PS4 on my secondary monitor again!
With that out of the way, I made a list of (so far) what I like, dislike, and find neutral about Windows 10 Home.
Note that these lists will be updated overtime, so keep checking them.
Likes;
-The Weather app. It really feels useful, even having an 11-day forecast.
-Having Ethernet and USB 3.0 drivers already installed (didn’t need my motherboard CD).
-Task Manager looks more streamlined, and easier to understand.
-Resource Monitor’s GUI is strikingly similar to Windows 7, but enhanced in places.
-I like the animation of closing and opening a window.
-Playing Wurm, I haven’t seen any major issues (crashing and the like). Seems to behave just like it did on 7. I still need to test Modded Minecraft.
Dislikes;
-When Windows Update is in its ‘pre-restart stage’, it doesn’t show me what’s going on (took upwards of 6 minutes until it finally showed a percentage..on an SSD).
-I can’t get rid of Cortana. She manages to turn herself back on even when I set all of her settings to Off.
-When shutting down, I don’t understand why it feels it needs to turn off the monitors before my computer turns off. Shouldn’t it be the other way around?
Neutral;
-Going to take awhile to get used to seeing everything jammed into the new Settings menu replacing Control Panel (this includes Windows Update).
-Even though updates are forced, 10 actually feels like it cares enough to not ram updates down your throat (by being able to set when you’ll be using your computer the most).
-The thing I thought that I can remove the “touch screen’ feel of the Start Menu, doesn’t actually work. However, I can close the individual apps down to get rid of them.