Has anyone done this? What made you revert? Or if you’re sticking with Windows 10, why?
For myself, I did upgrade and found Windows 10 not too different. Of course, the first thing I did was send Cortana to the dark side of the planet Zephron. Ugh…I don’t even want my computer to beep at me, let alone talk to me. I also downloaded the Classic Menu-- don’t like the big tiles. In short, I did whatever I could to make Win10 look like Win7.
But one thing that I used all the time is missing from Windows 10, and I’m thinking of reverting. It’s the “recent places” function in the Explorer. I used this many times a day to quickly go back to the last place I was working. I do a lot of cutting/pasting from documents in folders from different years. Yeah, there are cumbersome ways around this, but THIS way worked really great. I’ve googled and tried all the fixes that are supposed to make this show up in the Explorer, but they haven’t worked for me. (There is an option to check, and I’ve checked it, but it still doesn’t work.)
“Quick Access” doesn’t do it, because it’s not just one particular folder I need to go back to, it’s the last one I was working on, and obviously it changes each time… and that folder is deeply nested, i.e., Documents>client name>year>project name.
Any other make-or-break considerations that made you decide to stick with Windows 10 or dump it?
Yeah, I remember it took me awhile to notice the ‘recent places’ icon in Windows Explorer, but once I did, it quickly became indispensable. Why in God’s name would they get rid of it? If it’s not available in Win 10, then I’m not going there.
I’ve found “Quick Access” to be an acceptable substitute for “Recent Places,” especially as the latter could take several seconds to load and sort. I rarely need to quick-jump to anything but the last three or four files I was working with, anyway, and have other tools and links set up for fast hierarchical access to my work folders.
Other than making most choices to emulate Win 7, about the only specific override/fix I’ve done is to install the Gadget pack and some useful gadgets (Nvidia GPU temp, for example).
The PDF-locking bug is driving me batshit, though. Even with Unlocker to bulldoze through, it hangs me up at least once or twice a day. Just did, as I tried to rename a PDF for sending out to a third party.
I can’t seem to get Quick Access to work the way it’s supposed to. It seems like a bookmarking function only, where you have to choose a specific folder to put there. Do I misunderstand?
My QA has a half-dozen pinned folders, which I haven’t changed around yet, and the last four or so files or folders I’ve accessed. I suspect it’s a little more customizable than that, which would make it 100% more so than Recent Places.
The “Pin to QA” feature might let me get rid of a couple of desktop icons that take me to specific work-file trees. That’s an improvement, for me.
My QA doesn’t show this. There’s a place to go into Options and choose this, but when I do, the recent folders still don’t show up.
OTOH… in the example I used above
the Documents folder shows up, but what I NEED to show up (and what used to show up in Windows 7) is the “project name” folder. I need the folder that I last used that was deepest in the nested stack. All I get is the top folder, which is useless.
Windows has grown a lot of strange little side branches I don’t think many people use/d: briefcases, libraries, etc.
But “Recent Places” has been a fixture of the Explorer tree listing since at least 7, maybe Vista, maybe earlier. Clicking on it (or creating an icon for it) brings up a list of the last few dozen places visited by deliberate intent, but not all places accessed through application menus. If anything, it was a little too comprehensive, and could take several seconds to completely fill up and sort. Long seconds, if you’re using it as a SHORT cut.
Quick Access does the same thing (on my system, at least), but only for four items, maybe a few more sometimes - haven’t paid attention. Not a lot, anyway. And the folders above it are pinned to that list and can be unpinned, or user-selected one pinned. I am finding it just as useful as RP, but with differences needing some gettin’ useta.
I don’t know where its configuration might live, if indeed it is configurable beyond what you see and pin and unpin.
I guess I could start a new thread, but what is this pdf locking bug? That would be a definite deal-breaker for me since I am continually editing and regenerating the same pdf file. In fact, I cannot use the Adobe reader because it does not allow that, but sumatrapdf is perfect for me.
I just reverted to Windows 7 about 5 minutes ago having installed 10 last night. The reasons I reverted:
The install didn’t look like Windows 10, no tiles no Cortana, just a new version of 7 with a bad color scheme
The start button and several task bar items wouldn’t respond to left mouse clicks and the search options didn’t work
Boot times blew out to about 5 minutes from under a minute according to my monitor
Everything within windows itself was incredibly slow
I could find answers to all these problems online but none of the solutions worked
I didn’t get to experience anything better about 10, it was like using a 10 year old PC to just perform ordinary stuff so it was no big deal to get rid of it.
Have you checked out the “Frequent Places” list under the “File” tab in Explorer? I don’t know how recently it looks to find your “frequent” destinations, but it might be useful for your purposes.
That’s just it. I don’t have “Frequent Places.” This is what my Explorerlooks like. At no time do I see or have I seen anything labeled “Frequent Places.” Honest to God, it’s making me nuts. Is it right in front of my nose and I’m not seeing it?
As you can see, I have “Frequent Folders,” (which is useless to me), and below that in the window, there’s nothing.
When I right-click on “Quick Access” and choose “options,” I get this. Under “Privacy,” I check the box next to “Show recently used files in Quick access,” hit “Apply,” then “OK,” but the Frequent ***Files ***STILL do not show up in the Explorer. (I don’t know anything about Frequent Places.) All that’s there are the Frequent Folders. And when I right-click on “Options” again, the box is UNchecked, even though I’ve just checked it. I believe that IS the selection I want, but the box will not stay checked. I’ve closed/opened the Explorer many times, and rebooted the computer.
I’ve googled until my eyes crossed, but haven’t found a definitive solution.
I am a Mac user with both Paralles and VMWare installed and I like to play with different operating systems, dabble in them, get a sense of what they’re like etc.
I had a Win 7 VM in Parallels and duplicated it in the Mac Finder and renamed it Windows 10 and then fetched the upgrade.
I have less to lose than someone who is upgrading their main/only OS. I still have Win 7 (heck I’ve still got Windows 95) and neither/none of these is my everyday OS so I have less at stake anyhow.
It looks nice (I like Win 7 better but it isn’t bloody awful like Win 8). It feels…crisp. Responsive.
I’m going to enjoy futzing around in it. So far nothing that worked in 7 Ultimate is failing to work in Win 10.
Windows 10 works very well, and as I said, there’s not much different except in appearance…AND this one thing that I came to rely on in Windows 7 and can’t make happen now (although some people seem to be able to).
I have windows 7 now, but i’m on the list to get windows 10 and I’ve heard stories on both sides.
I understand that windows 10 will not play DVD’s without a special program downloaded. What went through Microsoft’s collective mind to leave this feature out in the first place. I have heard that they are going to include this feature from now on.
I have win 7 now and am on the list for an upgrade to win 10. I understand that win 10 will not play DVD’s without a download of another program.
What went through their minds to not have this feature. I heard that it will be included from now on in win 10.
That reminds me of the other thing about Windows 10 that’s gone. I used to be able to insert the SD card from my camera in the little slot on the side of my laptop and transfer photos easily to my computer. No more. Now I have to use a separate card reader that I plug into a USB port. Why oh why would they remove this feature? Oh, wait, I know: because they want everyone to store everything in “The Cloud.”
I have two laptops. One from 2009 that runs Win7 and one I got in August that was “upgraded” to 10 before I brought it home. I’m on the old laptop now. The new one has been put aside until I can buy a copy of 7 to purge the evil from it.
The old lappy, Lightning, was very ill a few months ago. I took it to a friend who I thought knew computers well since he works with them for a living. He told me my hard drive was dying. We were able to back up everything but my pictures. I kept asking him if it could be a virus but he said no. So I bought the new lappy. On a hunch, when I got Lightning back, I reinstalled 7. A few hiccups here and there but otherwise good as new. I was a little miffed but Lightning has issues that would cost a new computer to fix and I need something more powerful anyway.
The new lappy has 8G of RAM to Lightning’s 4 and a terabyte of storage instead of 300G. It also takes twice as long to start up. Once it does finally get going it will freeze every 10 or 15 minutes. Then there are the problems everyone else has already brought up. I need to take pictures of items for my Etsy store. To do that I need to put the SD card from my camera into the computer and have it do something. Most of the fixes for the problems I’ve found online don’t work and I’m tired of it. Win7 does what I want when I want it done without giving me a bunch of crap. That’s why I’m downgrading new lappy the first chance I get.
