[AccessD] Further to keyboard problem

[Darryl Collins]

Yeah, that has been my experience today on the few windows 10 apps I have tried.  They are too 'bare bones', too many compromises and go 'splat!' too often for my tastes.  There is absolutely no reason to stop using the already superior alternatives available. 

I also cannot figure out why anyone would prefer to use a stripped down phone style app over a better, richer experience using a fully functional software package, at least when using big and powerful PC unit.

I like my android apps on the phone and they work great on the smaller form factor, but I much prefer using more powerful and functional software when I have the choice.

Cheers
Darryl



-----Original Message-----
From: AccessD [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John R Bartow
Sent: Tuesday, 8 March 2016 3:06 PM
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Not. I just attempted to play iTunes MPEG-4 AAC with "Groove music player"
in Win10. Starts to open the file and crashes. So I right clicked and choose to always open with Windows Media Player. Worked a charm.

-----Original Message-----
From: AccessD [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Darryl Collins
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2016 5:40 PM
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Yeah, I get this a lot.  (and same (non) 'issue' with Irfanview too).  I think it is because MS cannot believe you would want to use a 3rd party software solution that is proven, deeply functional and rock solid reliable over one of their barely functional Apps from their store.

Dunno.  Maybe I am being too cynical.  Or maybe not. :)

I also have to use the shift key with "Power off" option these days to fully shut down the unit, otherwise it tries to shut down, fails and goes back to the login screen.

Sleep works as expected though.

Cheers
Darryl



-----Original Message-----
From: AccessD [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of James Button
Sent: Tuesday, 8 March 2016 6:24 AM
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Yep Win-10 is a source of many system changes - Today ( post the latest
update) I got a message that "An app default was reset"
as the original app would not handle the association.

Well I found that IRFANVIEW is no longer handling .gif files 

Well - when I checked, it seems to have no problem with the files.

Re system restore - etc. 
Note
File History is limited in the length of filenames that it can handle, and when it has not decided to just stop - it puts the backup copies it does create into an unprotected folder - Oh! yes - and it is quite happy to 'save' sets of outlook files while outlook is updating them! - so move a folder to archive and you may find the archive save was done before the move completed, and the source .pst was saved after the folder had been 'removed'

Considering the system restore facility - I note that every so-often my system response goes to pitifully annoyingly slow as it reads through the entire OS drive -to update the SINGLE image of the system it maintains.

I use Paragon to create an approximately monthly backup of the partition - and then weekly/daily backups of things like email and wot I type-in myself.

Regards, and thanks for the detail

JimB
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-----Original Message-----
From: AccessD [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John R Bartow
Sent: Monday, March 7, 2016 5:49 PM
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Oddly enough, the Win10 problems I've had to deal with were mostly a few months after the upgrade. Haven't had any after a clean install. AND make sure it doesn't disable your System Restore! It does this based on some algorithm in relation to size of storage space but it does not inform you of "its" decision to do so.

-----Original Message-----
From: AccessD [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Colby
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2016 10:41 AM
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] Further to keyboard problem

It was a new machine with W8 immediately upgraded to 10. Been using it for a few months though.
On Mar 7, 2016 10:29, <fhtapia at gmail.com> wrote:

> Glad you got it working, what I meant was, was this a fresh install of 
> windows 10 to your laptop, or was it an upgrade.  the reason I point 
> this out is that in our environment, we have had more issues with 
> windows 8 and
> 10 when users upgraded instead of performing a fresh install and 
> migrating their data.
>
> keep those backups handy, looks like they are needed ;)


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