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I'm about to have to switch from 7 to 10 at work. I haven't used 10 before. What's going to piss me off most?

(You'd think there would be an answer to this somewhere, but I haven't found one that is more than a puff piece.)



Cortana, the tighter integrations of microsoft bullshit you don't want. Having to search a dozen times for how to disable/turn off things.


Probably the settings app which is there to replace the control panel of old. It's very dumbed down, and frequently has to launch cpls itself to allow you to do more complex things.

FYI you can still get the control panel, just hit windows key and type "control panel". (Note, it appears for me after just CON, so you probably won't have to type the whole word, depending on what you have installed)


Or just hit 'WIN+x', then 'p' to bring up the Control Panel.

WIN+x, e for Explorer

WIN+x, c for CMD (but configurable to launch Powershell instead)

WIN+x, r to bring up the Run dialog.

And so on...

Learn to love WIN+X+Key... until Microsoft takes it away or otherwise nerfs it.


seeing as how its a new (and advertised) power feature to windows 8, why would they nerf it?


Control panel and some of it's applets are available also by right-clicking the start menu. Since w8.1/2012r2, even.


They removed that in the newest beta build. Now it has a menu option to the new settings app. Pretty stupid. They haven't even finished transferring everything yet.


I get most pissed off at the crapware that keeps getting re-installed. I don't want Microsoft's weather, news, money, music, contacts, calendar, etc... You can uninstall most of them by right clicking and choosing install but others require a PowerShell script.

My advice - do it all by script and keep the script because you are going to need it again when Microsoft decides to re-install all of it.




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