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Windows 11, Start button menu, make it show all apps by default
I upgraded to Windows 11 this week and I don't like the new Start button menu. I don't want "pinned" apps. I want to see All Apps in a list like before. Why don't we get the option to choose how w...
And you're talking to a person who's seen plenty of constructive user feedback go a long way to having features changed/added/removed/fixed. Of course they've got some buggy features - show me a single piece of software that doesn't have a single bug. There are countless interconnected moving parts to an OS, I'd be keen to see you do a better job than the developers of any OS out there. You converted to Apple because of a single unavailable feature (which is incredibly easy to work around with perfectly safe profiles downloaded from places like monitor manufacturer websites as far as I'm able to see?) and you still think you're going to end up with some perfect, bug free experience? You made the choice to spend that money and business time because you didn't want to implement cheaper and easier solutions. If you work in digital/graphic media you likely should have been using Apple products in the first place.
If you did then what you're doing now and complaining about it on a community forum, which is what most people seem to want to do, it won't have actually reached the teams it needed to.
If you did then what you're doing now and complaining about it on a community forum, which is what most people seem to want to do, it won't have actually reached the teams it needed to.
You seem to have missed the point: The difficulty with icc profiles was not in just obtaining them; the problem was that Windows ignored them when loaded – and it did so for YEARS. As I said before, all the dialogue boxes etc. were there to do the job but there was no actual implementation code behind them. There was a massive amount of complaint and criticism in all parts of the PC scene about it. Microsoft “not realising” that the problem existed would be like a car designer “not noticing” that their car had no seats as they drove around in it.
I suffered this problem in several sequential releases of “pro” versions of Windows and several different high-end laptops and desktops; It was never fixed until MS realised it had to compete with apple in the tablet market – then it was Ok! That is not a “bug” (sorry, “security issue”!) – that is a deliberate failure by Microsoft to acknowledge and fix a major problem.
My requirement was only to print three or four moderate quality colour images per week - hardly enough to justify spending the price of a car on an apple system from the outset (as you recommended).
The reason I eventually did go to Apple was that I had had enough; Years spent searching and researching solutions to this problem and finding none. Countless hours spent fiddling around with colour balances etc. (The only thing that partially helped was DataColour Spyder which still didn’t actually solve the basic problem.)
I have been using Windows since it first appeared and its ancestors, MS DOS and CP/M before that. I was a professional real-time engineering programmer for 20 years of that. I know what a "bug" is. I never delivered a piece of software with a huge chunk of the functionality missing and then ignored the complaints.
I also have a long (30+years) history of knowing that Microsoft ignores most problem reports and criticism and gradually became increasingly arrogant and high-handed. I would have to be stupid to keep repeating the failed behaviour of trying to get MS to do something about problems. I have taken the intelligent option and stopped wasting time trying. All one CAN do, in your words, is get the satisfaction of “whingeing” about it
I suffered this problem in several sequential releases of “pro” versions of Windows and several different high-end laptops and desktops; It was never fixed until MS realised it had to compete with apple in the tablet market – then it was Ok! That is not a “bug” (sorry, “security issue”!) – that is a deliberate failure by Microsoft to acknowledge and fix a major problem.
My requirement was only to print three or four moderate quality colour images per week - hardly enough to justify spending the price of a car on an apple system from the outset (as you recommended).
The reason I eventually did go to Apple was that I had had enough; Years spent searching and researching solutions to this problem and finding none. Countless hours spent fiddling around with colour balances etc. (The only thing that partially helped was DataColour Spyder which still didn’t actually solve the basic problem.)
I have been using Windows since it first appeared and its ancestors, MS DOS and CP/M before that. I was a professional real-time engineering programmer for 20 years of that. I know what a "bug" is. I never delivered a piece of software with a huge chunk of the functionality missing and then ignored the complaints.
I also have a long (30+years) history of knowing that Microsoft ignores most problem reports and criticism and gradually became increasingly arrogant and high-handed. I would have to be stupid to keep repeating the failed behaviour of trying to get MS to do something about problems. I have taken the intelligent option and stopped wasting time trying. All one CAN do, in your words, is get the satisfaction of “whingeing” about it
jailorJ no, I said nothing even remotely close to that. The person I was referring to? Absolutely! Maybe you should stick to Facebook.
- So everybody who gets upset when a product has obvious fault is not fixed in a timely fashion is a crybaby. Why start your post with an insult. Maybe you should stick to twitter.
- I assumed nothing. You are literally one of the people I said this wasn't for. What exactly did you not understand about my very first sentence? Besides all of it?
This thread is about solutions. Either take into account the solutions or keep on walking. Justin_Emlay
You assume that all of us are able to install and use whatever software we like, which sadly is just not the case.For those that aren't crybabies and whine about everything in life....a good solution is to use WindHawk. There's a mode named - Show all apps by default in start menu.
This is 100 times better than ExplorerPatcher. I also use this for Taskbar Thumbnail Reorder.
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Sorry MobilePhil, I wasn't replying to you directly just the thread in general.
