A Windows 10 Whinge

Like millions of others we 'qualified' for a free upgrade to Windows 10. The OH installed his first and then he had a whinge because it was all so stable and problem free. I assume that this means that previous incarnations weren't quite so well behaved when they first came out. It's not the sort of memory I retain.

 

To be honest I never really liked Windows 8 much, but we got along in a ' if you behave yourself and don't crash, I will not scream in frustration when you do something inexplicable' basis. But oh! how I dislike Windows 10.

 

I'm not quite sure exactly what irritates me the most about it, but high on the list is the fact that it interfered with my Blog settings. Hence the brief appearance of a post earlier this month which was only left justified. Not only could I not tidy up the appearance of the writing, it proved impossible to upload photographs successfully as well.

 

Then there was the fact that VLC media player no longer launched automatically when you put a CD in the disc drive, and then refused to let me click through the tracks. This was quite a downer, since we recently got rid of all our old hi-fi components on the grounds that we could get headphones for our computers that were far superior and less space consuming than our old wall mounted ones (which were state of the art and v expensive when we bought them er- astonishingly, now I work it out - about 26 years ago.)

 

I also got mired in something called Microsoft Edge and was constantly offered the services of Bing! Does anyone actually use/like Bing!? I seem to have spent months and years avoiding it, or clearing it off my machine when I have inadvertently clicked on it and it has installed itself. Like puppies and toddlers with your legs, Bing! displayed a remarkable ability to place itself right under the tip of your cursor just as you were about to click.

 

Anyway the OH has sorted out my issues with Windows 10, not by educating me in its mysteries and even, for all I know its myriad advantages, but by re-setting my defaults. So normal service has been resumed, as far as I know. I have yet to try uploading photographs from my camera and then sorting them properly. I know that people involved in IT generally trumpet how superbly intuitive all their new programs and apps are; possibly they are to other IT people, but - breaking news! for some of us humble users they are not intuitive at all.