GooberTheHat wrote:

GurtTractor wrote:

They're deliberately making it worse with nonsense like the taskbar stuff, they're moving towards Apple levels of contempt for the user.

They're moving it to the middle because it is then easier for Mac or Chrome OS users to migrate to Windows because it will feel more familiar. The start menu is pretty crap as is anyway, so changing it isn't exactly a big deal.

That's fine but it doesn't excuse removing the ability to move it to where the user would prefer. They're a massive software/hardware company, you would think they would be able to manage to code in such things...

RedDave2 wrote:

I thought you could move it back to the left? You could in the leaked build.

Start menu isn't something I use too much, I like to have my main program apps on the task bar and moving that to the middle won't be a huge change.

You can move it back to the left. Not sure if you can place it anywhere else though.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/windows-11-specifications

Alignment to the bottom of the screen is the only location allowed.

No idea why, almost just seems spiteful.

I have the taskbar on the left side of my main monitor, and I have it hidden unless I mouse over it. This maximises the useful screen area for things, if it was on the bottom then it would take up an unnecessary amount of space for the icons I need on it. Blank unusable space is something I abhor in a user interface, because it takes screen area away from content I want to be seeing. I can understand the need for it in a touch interface, but I'm on a desktop machine and I'm sure as fuck not using a touchscreen.

For a widescreen monitor having it on the left makes a fair bit of sense, to me it just looks overwide and sparse on the bottom, it would be even worse on an ultrawide monitor. Plus because I have it show when I mouse over it the left is a convenient place for this, on the bottom I'm going to accidentally bring it up all the time when I try to click something near the bottom of the screen, like for example the Home button down there. It's going to be really annoying and they can fuck off.

I always sing Lock the Task Bar in my head every time I right click on it.

High five gurt. I'm left side hidden task bar man too.

From recent experience of reinstalling operating systems on PC and on my phone, I really would like a nice big 'Fuck Off' button on the initial setup that does away with all the time and resource wasting nonsense they try to force upon you.

Check if the wonkiness has anything to do with the new ‘news and weather’ thing they’ve just rolled out. Can’t remember its name but you can right click on desktop and turn it off.

In true MS fashion, few wanted it but had no choice but turning it off caused issues with the task bar (I think) for some people.

mrsmr2 wrote:

Check if the wonkiness has anything to do with the new ‘news and weather’ thing they’ve just rolled out. Can’t remember its name but you can right click on desktop and turn it off.

In true MS fashion, few wanted it but had no choice but turning it off caused issues with the task bar (I think) for some people.

This is what the new widget for 11 will be I take it? It seems pointless to be honest . I'm on a laptop with a browser. Getting news isn't an issue and I certainly don't want an ms news feed which usually is very us centric.

Reinstalling w10 on laptop after the previous installation got corrupted. Somehow an update screwed up the igpu with bsod's, black screens and screen flickering galore. Reinstalling the driver does not fix the issue. Upon reinstalling w10, the fresh installation still exhibits screen flickering. Seriously, Wtf?

Now installing w10updates and patches and the flickering has subsided. How the fuck is this even remotely acceptable ms?

Before all this happened I did accidentally crash windows with a faulty battery but surely this can't be the cause of the behaviour described above?

The last time I had these issues only a repaste resolved things permanently. Can a power cut fuck up the thermal paste adhesion of a CPU/GPU? Not looking forward to repasting as it's a bit of a hassle.

Hmm that sounds really weird, do those issues occur in Linux? Sounds a bit like a bad ribbon cable connection or something. If it's hardware related.

Heh, in the new w10 install I don't even have access to the discrete Nvidia GPU. Access denied lol which indicates the latest w10 20H2 updates definitely fucks around with nvidia Optimus. Not likely to be hw related then. Will try to reinstall the gfx drivers first but not looking good.

Seriously, MS QC for w10 updates is shite.

hunk wrote:

Whatever happened to click the update button and it just works?

You're confusing Windows with OSX. Bill Gates with Steve Jobs. It isn't for reals without a bit of struggle etc. But think of all the games you can play.

Seriously, it feels like windows phone omnishambles all over again with the general instability. I'm open to defecting to Linux but sadly Linux atm is shit with stuff like Optimus and dual gpu's.

Linux and Nvidia are not warm bedfellows, sadly.

That's good news. Are you still overseas (South Korea?)?