"WINDOWS 10": THE GOOD AND THE BAD

"WINDOWS 10":
THE GOOD
AND THE BAD
Web location for this
presentation:
http://aztcs.org
Click on “Meeting
Notes”
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SUMMARY
The good of "Windows 10" consists of
the free upgrade, return of the Start
Menu, improved graphics resolution,
an easier to see Task Bar, and
multiple desktops.
The bad of "Windows 10" consists of
defaulting to lots of privacy issues, the
loss of "Windows Media Center",
defaulting to lots of pop-up
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"Notifications".
TOPICS
• The bad of "Windows 10":
o The loss of "Windows Media
Center"
o Defaulting to lots of pop-up
"Notifications"
o Defaulting to lots of privacy
issues
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TOPICS (continued)
• The good of "Windows 10":
 Free Upgrade
 Return of the Start Menu
 Improved graphics resolution
 Easier to see Task Bar
 Multiple desktops.
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THE BAD OF "WINDOWS 10.."
o The loss of "Windows Media
Center"
o Defaulting to lots of pop-up
"Notifications"
o Defaulting to lots of privacy
issues
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THE LOSS OF THE "WINDOWS
MEDIA CENTER"
According to
http://www.microsoft.co
m/enus/windows/windows10-specifications:
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THE LOSS OF THE "WINDOWS
MEDIA CENTER" (continued)
If you have Windows 7 Home
Premium, Windows 7 Professional,
Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows 8
Pro with Media Center, or Windows
8.1 Pro with Media Center and you
install Windows 10, Windows Media
Center will be removed.
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THE LOSS OF THE "WINDOWS MEDIA
CENTER" (continued)
Watching DVDs requires separate
playback software ("Windows 10"
does not have "Windows Media
Center")
Two options for playing DVDs:
Free "VLC Media Player from
"videolan.org"
or
the "Windows DVD Player" app which
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is free for some upgraded computers
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DEFAULTING TO LOTS OF POP-UP
NOTIFICATIONS
"Windows 10" has a new "Action
Center" that has an icon in the
"Notification Area".
This "Action Center" pops up a
lot of notifications by default.
This notifications can be
annoying. They can be
suppressed.
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DEFAULTING TO LOTS OF POP-UP
NOTIFICATIONS (continued)
To suppress pop-up notifications:
Click on the Start button.
Click on the "Settings" gear icon.
Click on "System".
Click on "Notifications & actions".
Turn off "Show me tips about
Windows".
Turn off "Show app notifications".
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DEFAULTING TO LOTS OF POP-UP
NOTIFICATIONS (continued)
Turn off "Show notifications on the
lock screen
Turn off "Show alarms, reminders
and incoming VOIP calls on the
lock screen.
Turn on "Hide notifications while
presenting".
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DEFAULTING TO LOTS OF POP-UP
NOTIFICATIONS (continued)
Close the "Settings" / "System"
window by clicking on the "X"
button on its upper-right corner.
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DEFAULTING TO LOTS OF PRIVACY
ISSUES
The privacy issues surrounding
"Windows 10" are summarized
at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win
dows_10#Privacy_and_data_col
lection
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DEFAULTING TO LOTS OF PRIVACY
ISSUES (continued)
The issue of privacy is best viewed
from a larger perspective such as
the analysis at
http://www.gnu.org/proprietary/pr
oprietary-surveillance.en.html
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DEFAULTING TO LOTS OF PRIVACY
ISSUES (continued)
It is up to you to determined
how much information
Microsoft and other companies
can store about you.
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DEFAULTING TO LOTS OF PRIVACY
ISSUES (continued)
Many free software programs
are available to help you
control what information
Microsoft can gather from your
use of "Windows 10".
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DEFAULTING TO LOTS OF PRIVACY
ISSUES (continued)
The best free software utility
for configuring privacy settings
in "Windows 10" is
O&O's ShutUp10
which you can download at
http://www.oosoftware.com/en/shutup10
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DEFAULTING TO LOTS OF PRIVACY
ISSUES (continued)
If O&O's ShutUp10 does not work
well for you, Kim Komando
recommends the free Ashampoo
"AntiSpy for Windows 10" which
you can download at
https://www.ashampoo.com/en/us
d/pde/1004/securitysoftware/Antispy-for-Windows-10
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ADVANTAGES OF "WINDOWS 10.."
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Free Upgrade
Better Graphics Resolution
Restored "Start Menu"
Multiple Desktops
"AeroSnap" Improvements
Features Carried Over from
"Windows 8" and "Windows
8.1"
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FREE UPGRADE
Three ways to get the free
upgrade from "Windows 7.." or
"Windows 8.1" to "Windows
10..".
See pages 71 through 91 at
http://aztcs.org/meeting_notes/
winhardsig/win10/win10upgrade-install-use.pdf23
BETTER GRAPHICS RESOLUTION
"Windows 10" has better
graphics resolution relative to
previous versions of
"Windows..":
When you upgrade to
"Windows 10.." photos and
videos will probably appear
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sharper
BETTER GRAPHICS RESOLUTION
(continued)
My "WinTV" television tuner
provides a sharper over-the-air
television screen, after I
upgraded from "Windows 8.1"
to "Windows 10".
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BETTER GRAPHICS RESOLUTION
(continued)
"Windows 10" has the new
"DirectX 12" video "application
programming interfaces"
(APIs) for third-party software
developers to communicate
with.
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THE RESTORED "START MENU"
By default, an improved "Start
Menu" is back
(and the unpopular "Start
Screen" that was in Windows
8.1 is no longer a default. It is
now an option called "Tablet
Mode".).
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THE RESTORED "START MENU"
(continued)
There still are two columns in the
"Start Menu":
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THE RESTORED "START MENU"
(continued)
The left column looks like the left
column in Windows 7's "Start
Menu":
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THE RESTORED "START MENU"
(continued)
The right column is a
grid of "tiles" like those in
the "Start Screen" of
"Windows 8" and
"Windows 8.1":
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THE RESTORED "START MENU"
(continued)
Many tiles in the right side of the
"Start Menu" are "Live tiles" but
you can right click on them to turn
them off.
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THE RESTORED "START MENU"
(continued)
The desktop applications that
you install into your computer
such as Quicken, Firefox,
Chrome browser, Microsoft
Office, LibreOffice, games etc.
are at the bottom of the "All
Apps" submenu.
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THE RESTORED "START MENU"
(continued)
This means that you will
probably have to scroll
vertically downward in order to
see the programs that you
have installed into your
computer:
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THE RESTORED "START MENU"
(continued)
Drag the top of the "Start
Menu" to re-size the height of
the "Start Menu".
(You cannot do this in all
previous versions of
"Windows..".)
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Multiple
desktops:
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Use the "Task
View" button to
create multiple
desktops.
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The "Task View"
button is on the
left side of the
"Taskbar":
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MULTIPLE DESKTOPS (continued)
When you click on the "Task View"
button, all windows that are
running in your current desktop will
be displayed as equal-sized
thumbnails, even if they are
actually minimized:
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MULTIPLE DESKTOPS (continued)
After you click on the "New
desktop" button, "Task View"
shows you a new desktop
thumbnail AND the new,
empty desktop which will have
no windows in it yet:
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MULTIPLE DESKTOPS (continued)
The new desktop is shown to
the right of the existing
desktop and the original
desktop is now called
"Desktop1":
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MULTIPLE DESKTOPS (continued)
Each time you click on "New
desktop":
you get a new empty desktop
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MULTIPLE DESKTOPS (continued)
To have "Task View" show a
specific desktop, hover the
mouse cursor over the
thumbnail of the desktop and
all Windows inside the desktop
will be displayed above the
thumbnails:
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MULTIPLE DESKTOPS (continued)
To move a window to a
different desktop, drag it to the
thumbnail of the desired
desktop:
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MULTIPLE DESKTOPS (continued)
To go to a desktop, click on its
thumbnail.
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MULTIPLE DESKTOPS (continued)
The Taskbar in each desktop
will only show you the windows
that belong to that specific
desktop.
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MULTIPLE DESKTOPS (continued)
When you close a desktop, all
windows that belong to it will move
to the desktop that is to the left of
the closed desktop.
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Improved
"AeroSnap"
and "Snap
Assist":
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IMPROVED "AEROSNAP" AND
"SNAP ASSIST"
(Similar to "Windows 7,
"Windows 8", and "Windows
8.1"), you can drag the title bar
of a window to top of the
monitor screen to maximize
the window so that it covers up
the other open windows:
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IMPROVED "AEROSNAP" AND
"SNAP ASSIST" (continued)
(Similar to "Windows 7,
"Windows 8", and "Windows
8.1"), you can drag the title bar
of a window to the left or right
edge of the monitor screen a
corner to create a "Snap" to
half of the monitor screen.
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IMPROVED "AEROSNAP" AND
"SNAP ASSIST" (continued)
Unlike to "Windows 7",
"Windows 8", and "Windows
8.1", you can drag the title bar
to a corner of the monitor
screen to "Snap" to one
quadrant of the monitor
screen.
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IMPROVED "AEROSNAP" AND
"SNAP ASSIST" (continued)
Similar to "Windows 7",
"Windows 8" and "Windows
8.1", you can use the
"Windows Key" combined with
the four "arrow keys" to move
a window to the two side-byside halves of the monitor
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screen.
IMPROVED "AEROSNAP" AND
"SNAP ASSIST" (continued)
(Unlike for "Windows 7",
"Windows 8" and "Windows
8.1"), you can use the
"Windows Key" combined with
the four "arrow keys" to move
a window to any of the four
quadrants of the monitor
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screen.
IMPROVED "AEROSNAP" AND "SNAP
ASSIST" (continued)
After you snap one window to a
quadrant corner or a horizontal
half of the monitor screen,
"Snap Assist" pops up thumbnails
of other windows for you to click
on to also snap them to the
remaining corners or horizontal
half of the monitor screen:
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IMPROVED "AEROSNAP" AND "SNAP
ASSIST" (continued)
If you do not want "Aerosnap"
and "Snap Assist", you can
disable them by stopping and
disabling "Themes" in the
"Services" Management Console
by running services.msc from an
"Command Prompt (Admin)".
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FEATURES IN THE "WINDOWS 10..
TECHNICAL PREVIEW.." THAT ARE ARE
CARRIED OVER
FROM "WINDOWS 8.1"
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File History
System Image Backup
Storage Spaces
Hyper-V (in the "..Pro" and
"..Enterprise" editions only)
• Windows To Go (in the
"..Enterprise" edition only) 89
FEATURES IN THE "WINDOWS 10..
TECHNICAL PREVIEW.." THAT ARE ARE
CARRIED OVER
FROM "WINDOWS 8.1" (continued)
Several computer journalists agree
with me that the many of the
advantages for running "Windows
10" are the features that were either
new or carried over from "Windows
8" and "Windows 8.1":
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FEATURES IN THE "WINDOWS 10.."
THAT ARE ARE CARRIED OVER
FROM "WINDOWS 8.1" (continued)
• The enhanced version of "Hyper-V"
(in "Windows 10 Pro.." and
"..Enterprise..", is the only virtual
machine program that can create a
"virtual machine" has a virtual
"Secure Boot" module running inside
a "EFI". This is critical for testing the
most advanced distros of "Linux".
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