Windows 10: Annoying small UI issues that bother you?

Another example of how completely amateur the design is here:





"Show Task View button" is a checkmark toggle. (notice capitalization)
"Show touch keyboard button" is a checkmark toggle. (notice lack of capitalization)

But is there a "Show search button" checkmark toggle? No! There's a whole separate menu item for it, with two menu options, when a simple checkmark toggle would do the job!

How does this make any sense at all?

Microsoft needs to hire an extreme nitpicker as a "Consistency Manager", and give him some power to crack some heads over nonsense like this. Windows 95 icons still present in the OS? Don't they have a sense of shame?!

 

"Start Menu" Tab has been completely removed from taskbar properties dialog in final version of Windows 10. However, the dialog title still says "Taskbar and Start Menu Properties", even though one can argue that the dialog no longer has anything relevant to Start Menu.

 

Well, a typical Windows 10 install usually has three options in that "Search" submenu: 1) show search bar, 2) show search icon, 3) hide. This is the reason MS made it a multiple-choice submenu instead of using a mere toggle.

I don't know why yours has only two options instead of three.

 

The inability to turn off the Alphabet in the Start menu. For gosh sake how hard is it for my eyes to follow along alphabetically to find the item I'm looking for. I don't need those giant Alphabet letters cluttering up the start menu. Yeah, I've read that they're more there for touch tablets than for people with a mouse so at least allow me to turn the damn things off and clean up the otherwise nice Windows 10 start menu.

 

If set taskbar buttons to "Combine when taskbar is full" or "Never combine", the icons of already-pinned programs animate weirdly when first open or completely close them.

 

This alphabet is meant so that you no longer have to follow down the list. Click on any letter and you'll get a grid of letters. Click on a desired letter and you will get teleported to all apps starting with that letter.

 

forums and other software are not letting me stay logged in.

 

My annoyance with the Safely Remove Hardware icon is that I'm no longer getting the "You may now safely remove the ..." message; it's just that the icon disappears when there's only 1 item, but remains if there's at least 1 additional item present.

Update: Fixed, but only with a clean install. "Never mind" (Gilda Radner, SNL)

 

It is very disorienting to have to click on a letter to then see your menu change to a grid of letters to then have to click on another letter to quickly see your menu change again and now you're at the new letter where you still have to look through the list to find the program you wanted to see in the first place.

The optimal solution would be to make that an option (hell, leave it on as default, I don't mind having to click to turn it off) so that some of us can have a nice clean all programs (errr, all apps) section again.

It's really no difficulty to turn my mouse wheel and end up at the desired entry on a start menu, and after a while it becomes sort of like muscle memory and you know how much you need to spin the wheel to get to the program that you want to access.

I still firmly believe that it's more for ease of use on a touch screen. Although I don't have a touch screen, I believe it probably works a lot like the pad on my laptops to do things like scrolling lists etc, and I find using a pad horrible, so yeah on a touch screen it would probably be a blessing to be able to just touch the alphabet and quickly go to that section instead of trying to scroll down the list, but since I don't have touch pad it should never even be there in the first place. Just my opinion mind you.

The other thing in W10 UI that annoys me is..... Oh crud a brain fart, I'll have to rethink what it was.

 

Ah yes now I remember... It's the live tile menu sizing.

If I want to have two small tiles in the first column all is fine, if I want to add a wide tile to the second column then I've got a small tile size next to it and I can't shrink the start menu down to the edge of the wide tile.

It's like it's preset to show x amount of tiles in certain configurations and if you try to deviate from that it won't allow proper shrinking/expansion of the menu.

The way that I think it *should* work would be to shrink it down to exactly the width of the tiles on it. So if you only have one column of small tiles the edge should be right next to them and not an extra blank space next to it.

Perhaps if I remember I'll get a screenshot of what I'm talking about when I get home in a couple hours.

 

I basically went back to 8.1 because I can't stand the aesthetic horror Microsoft has made with W10.

It is by far the worst worst worst worst version in terms of design ever.

Windows 3.1, 95, 98... were horrible, but there was a unity, all icons and designs had a same common style.

Windows 7 was finally beautiful. The one that people loved at first glance, finally, which helped immensely to its success. Windows 8 changed to a flat style and started to have mixed elements from different versions, but still kept a very good general unity with some exceptions.

W10 combines elements from every version and there are lots of things from all of them, which are totally incompatible. The new icons are just terrible. They tried to made them flat and only made them ugly like hell. Everything is wrong. Not a single new element or design idea is right.

I just can't stand it. If only the windows color was still customizable, but not even that.

 

So as you can see in the screenshot, where the red arrow is, that is the space that the Start menu can NOT collapse down to. It's like they always have to be two tiles wide regardless that the "wide" tiles take up the space of two small tiles.

It should really allow me to collapse down the start menu to the actual width that the tiles occupy, or hell for that matter let me collapse the menu down to whatever size I want, make it so that I'm only seeing half of the wide tile in the image and the other half is hidden if that's the way that I want it.

If I try to make it any smaller than shown below, it will collapse down to one column, but then it will rearrange all my icons from the right column and put them into the first column just as if I make it wider it will take my music section and put them on the right, so it does some auto adjusting but you just can't get rid of that empty space when you want to.

 

Surely its what it can do, rather than what it looks like? You can have a beautiful lady who is totally braindead and vanity riddled, or a plain looking lady who can blow your mind? Take yer pick?

 

What is it that Windows 10 can do and Windows 8.1 or even Windows 7 cannot do that is so mind blowing? And I mean really mind blowing.

 

That may be because the Keyboard & Notification icons are more likely to be tapped / mouse clicked to utilize their functions, especially in tablet mode. IMNSHO.