My experience so far with the OS has been good but not great. I'll try to analyse some of the turn offs of windows 10 as I have experienced. I know there may be some out there that have had my kind of experience.
#1 Boot time. Microsoft has boasted of a faster boot time on windows 10 but that may not be the experience with all PC configurations. The fast boot is merely hibernation in disguise. In hibernation, your PC resumes exactly where you left it by dumping your last state on your hard drive and at boot time the dumped file is read back into memory and work continues where you left it. With windows 10 fast boot, core system file that loads every time you boot is written to memory after your first boot, this keeps those files from freshly loading at every boot. Now, loading those files quickly relies so much on your hardware configuration. Writing to and reading from memory is as fast as your cpu and memory modules can go. So fast boot may actually be slow boot depending on your hardware. As for me I use an Intel i3 laptop with 8gig RAM but my experience hasn't been fast so I disabled the fast boot. You can do this by going to Power options, click on choose what the power button does at the left pane, select Change settings that are currently unavailable then uncheck Turn On fast boot and that's it.
#2 Compulsory Update. In good old days of windows 7 we had the option to keep automatic updates permanently turned off. You can even select which updates you want. Windows 10 however does not give you that option, the most you can do is to delay the update that is if you use the pro edition of windows 10 but those with the home edition do not have such luxury. You may consider changing your version but that will cost you some extra bucks. For me, I think they should have left things the way of windows 7. That didn't hurt anyone those days.
#3 Slow logon screen. This is perhaps the most annoying. I think the fast boot time is taken back at the logon screen. I tried copying a file I needed at work this morning before leaving home to work and my laptop stayed on the logon screen refusing to go onto the desktop maybe because I hibernated the laptop. I had to hard reset my computer before I could use it. Though I experienced such long delays using hibernation instead of shutdown, the trouble exists also after rebooting but will lesser delay time.
#4 Drivers. I think Microsoft should leave the job of providing hardware drivers to those who actually created the hardware. This will save us trouble of using Microsoft drivers that complicates matters. Display drivers also contributes to what makes your computer boot fast or slow.
#5 Control panel. This is the final thing I'll talk about today. Why on earth would Microsoft want to get rid of the most beautiful windows ecosystem feature, control panel. This has been the core of windows. Microsoft is trying to do away with control panel in favour of settings app this will kill windows to me. That will make windows look and act like a Mac OS and that is now good for the competition neither is it good for the OS. I recommend they leave it in there for power users to find and tweak to suit there needs but day to day work windows users can stick with the more user friendly settings app. Please leave our control panel alone.
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