JorgeA Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 (edited) Note how the visually styled Reserve button built a moat around itself to keep from being infected by the Metroness. Wouldn't be surprised if it were designed that way to avoid tipping off the unsuspecting Win7 user as to the flat ugliness that awaits him. --JorgeA Edited June 13, 2015 by JorgeA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rn10950 Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 What update is that new notification in the WU window apart of anyway, is it KB3035583? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JorgeA Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 Paul Thurrott claims that you can resize the Start Menu to eliminate the tiles: Windows 7 fan? Try this. While you can’t really enable the same two column layout found in the Windows 7 Start menu, you can at least get rid of all those tiles you’re never going to glance at, resize the Start menu, and make it more efficient. (Just pin apps you use all the time to the taskbar.) It takes a while, but when you’re done, it can look like this. (You can also use the “Customize List” option to add items like Documents and Downloads to the list at the bottom of the Start menu.) Build 10130 just finished installing on my test system, and I see no way to do that. Anybody have an insight into how he did it? He provides no details, and I haven't found any settings to change that would affect that. --JorgeA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rn10950 Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 Paul Thurrott claims that you can resize the Start Menu to eliminate the tiles: Windows 7 fan? Try this. While you can’t really enable the same two column layout found in the Windows 7 Start menu, you can at least get rid of all those tiles you’re never going to glance at, resize the Start menu, and make it more efficient. (Just pin apps you use all the time to the taskbar.) It takes a while, but when you’re done, it can look like this. (You can also use the “Customize List” option to add items like Documents and Downloads to the list at the bottom of the Start menu.) Build 10130 just finished installing on my test system, and I see no way to do that. Anybody have an insight into how he did it? He provides no details, and I haven't found any settings to change that would affect that. --JorgeA That looks like a less-functional version of the Win9x Start menu: I don't know how he did it, but I am curious to why you can't just pin shortcuts to the top of the Start Menu like you can do in all versions of Windows from Windows 95 to Windows 7. I personally don't care for the whole taskbar pinning thing and just use the Start menu and Desktop for everything, so this will force me to Classic Shell or to stay on 2003/XP/7 (more probable). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelC Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 What update is that new notification in the WU window apart of anyway, is it KB3035583? Who knows? There are half a dozen or more KBs that mention "easing the upgrade to Windows 10" or some such BS. I haven't hidden every last one in the "how to prevent..." thread, myself, and I don't get the notice. These are the specific ones I've hidden: KB2952664KB3021917KB3035583KB3068708 Plus KB2483139 (a whole bunch of Windows 7 language packs I don't need)KB2876229 (Skype, which I do not need on my Win 7 system) There could be some interaction... For example, having installed the "GWX" update, KB3035583, it might install other stuff. I wonder whether installing the update, then running and removing the update undoes everything it has infected affected. -Noel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Formfiller Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 I think the main culprit is the GWX update (KB3035583). I have all others installed except GWX and I don't get the ad in Windows Update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 I wonder which OS may have inspired this Dilbert strip http://dilbert.com/strip/2015-03-24 jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bphlpt Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 (edited) Hmmmm. That looks strangely familiar and similar to http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/172826-windows-10-first-impressions/page-16#entry1096774: I wonder what inspired today's Dilbert comic. Hmmmm? Cheers and RegardsPerhaps great minds thing alike? But not to worry. It's true enough to be worth repeating. Cheers and Regards Edited June 15, 2015 by bphlpt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dencorso Posted June 15, 2015 Author Share Posted June 15, 2015 Dogbert is bound to become MS's CEO soon, you'll all see... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 Perhaps great minds thing alike? Sure they do. The issue at hand is however that also small (and teeny tiny) minds think alike, and when you put a discrete number of them together what comes out is the Syrius Cybernetics Corporation (actually its Marketing division). :http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Sirius_Cybernetics_Corporation "Update, Share and Enjoy" jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 Anybody have an insight into how he did it? I was able to do it with the very first version... I just right-click and remove or unpin or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparkles Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 Hmmmm. That looks strangely familiar and similar to http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/172826-windows-10-first-impressions/page-16#entry1096774: I wonder what inspired today's Dilbert comic. Hmmmm? Cheers and RegardsPerhaps great minds thing alike? But not to worry. It's true enough to be worth repeating. Cheers and RegardsThere was a very short-lived Dilbert animated series, I recall the ep where they had bought two companies and were merging them, Pathway and E-Tech, and they needed a new name for the merged company so they simply dropped the "way" from Pathway and merged the two names together...(took me a few secs to get that one) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelC Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 Paul Thurrott claims that you can resize the Start Menu to eliminate the tiles... Anybody have an insight into how he did it? Though Win 10 is less "discoverable" than prior versions, I managed it... 1. Unpin every tile.2. Click and drag the right edge of the remaining open space to the left -Noel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JorgeA Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 (edited) Hmmm -- it's at the click-and-drag stage that the process fails for me. I see the double-arrow thingy, but dragging it to the left doesn't do anything. What makes it stranger (and more frustrating) is that I can resize the Start Menu vertically. Just not in the dimension I'm interested in, which is sideways. --JorgeA Edited June 15, 2015 by JorgeA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rn10950 Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 Dogbert is bound to become MS's CEO soon, you'll all see... The sad thing is that Dogbert would probably be a better CEO than Nadella is... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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