Windows 10: Microsoft did it again with build 10049....

As far as the Start Menu is concerned, it's still a work in progress; it's doable, it works well enough for now and it's the closest we're going to get to what W7 and W8 purists were crying for.

As far as Search is concerned:
- as long as the items you're searching for reside in the User directory they will come up in results.
- you'd have to modify Indexing Options if you want results from external drives and such, even then I'm not sure.

As far as stuff not working, well...,
if I rebuilt my lawnmower engine and didn't gap the spark plug properly, it may not work so well the first few times either.

Give it time. *Smile

 

I`m on the slow track, I thought that was better for bugs and updates etc ?

 

Matter of opinion, fast or slow it's a preview *Wink

 

I have given MS plenty of feedback but all of it probably goes into a bucket bit.

 

Actually, BunnyJ it is not exactly the start screen but you can get real close to it. Click on the start button and then click on the arrows by the power button. I would call it the expandable start screen.

 

Scrolling makes me tired as well *cry black box with search functions when restarted, this build is quite nice, much better than the previous 10041, who knows, I might end up as another victim of 1st April before the end of the day*Wink

 

I don't care about start screen anymore. It used to bug me during the early days of Windows 8 and I just got tired of it and never used since. Start screen is good... for mobile devices. Whenever I do a clean install, the first thing I do is install Chrome and Classic Shell.
With classic shell, you don't actually lose the start screen, it's still there inside the Win-7-like start menu.

 

Can you still pull up the start screen with Classic shell in the latest build??

 

PB,

no cannot do that, am not allowed to do this either, so i have to ga back to build 9926 to get my life back.

Jeff

 

yes Bunny, but the option in build 9926 was a better choice. Everybody could have been happy.

hi guys,

Again....when hitting the left corner and see what is coming.... i will have to go back to Win 8.1.

I do not like to be forced to sign-in with the MS account either.

Microsoft wants to control everything and that is what is going to happen.

Same with Facebook, they know everything about you and others.

I like my local account and when needed i can sign-in on the MS account.

Last time i did that, it took for ages before i could work on the PC since the MS account was taking over all the files and folders.

Afterthat i had to reverse that, so no thanks guys.

Jeff

 

hi guys,

maybe all i get is because i was on build 9926 and all of a sudden MS installs at night build 10049. The problem with build 9926 is that you cannot shut down updates, because that option was gone in 9926.

When i hit the left corner with the right mouse click, hit search, type in, let's say OFFICE and then i get the answer that search needs to be reinstalled.

I will go back to builld 9926 and then try to say to MS what i did say here.

Jeff

 

It will look like there are apps missing from the All Apps menu, there are some sub menus now. You'll see a triangle or something ( I'm on windows 8.1 at the moment) beside the ones with more entries that are hidden in a sub menu.

 

hi Alpha,

too late for me, i am back on Build 9926 for how long? Last time it stayed like this for about 10 days....

Jeff

 

Absolutely! Should be the first pinned item at top of Classic Shell menu, if you ticked the option in Shell setup. Works perfectly! Also has an "Apps" button on right side of start screen that will list all apps in cascading menu.

Or you can set the start button to do it, or the Win key. I have start button set to hover to open classic shell and click to open 10 start menu, also win key to open 10 start menu. Options galore!

 

That is good to know! Thanks for the info. *Thumbs