You know how, in Windows 10, if you click on the Start menu it will show a bunch of large, ugly icons such as photos, the weather, a few games, etc.? These icons, for reference, are the ones that occasionally spin randomly to show you different photos, for example.
Well, somehow my desktop has been taken over by these things. I want my old desktop back, with the small, non-spinny icons that line up where I want them and stay put.
I’m scared. I’m going to have to get Windows 10 soon for a new video editing computer build. Is there any way to make the thing run in “grown-up” mode?
I completely avoided Windows 8 because I didn’t want any part of a Playskool “My First Computer” OS. Please tell me there is a way to turn off the cartoons and any smart-phone type uselessness.
When I very recently upgraded my desktop from Windows 7 to Windows 10, I used this website to help me get Win10 to a place that was a lot more familiar.
I also downloaded and installed Classic Shell as shown in the site above.
same as jz78817 offered you knowledge … perhaps you could state exactly what you did to resolve the issue? tomorrow or the next day … someone is bound to come across the same situation … and you will have helped him in turn … full circle.
It is very hard to adapt such a program to each release of Windows 10 when MS seems to be deliberately modifying things to throw such programs off. It takes a lot of effort to do things like find out where/what is that registry setting now?
I recently did an update/refresh install and an amazing number of tweaks and settings were lost.
agreed … two weeks after buying my win-8 laptop … ended up installing classic-shell … been using it ever since (upgraded to win-10.1903). if not for classic-shell … i’d probably have gone mac-osx or linux.
The quickest way to toggle between desktop and tablet mode is to click on the action bar (the rightmost icon in the taskbar) and click the tile for “tablet mode on/off”.
Honestly, what’s all the drama? If you unpin the tiles from ‘start’, you get a rather conventional-style start menu with no tiles and no empty space where tiles might have been.
See, I don’t get this. You can’t deal with Microsoft making some changes to the Start Menu, so you think moving to a platform with a significantly different user interface will be easier?
I think your second response might answer the question you raised in your first: a user who switches to Gnome or KDE is moving one’s own cheese, which is much more palatable than the alternative.
The key, for me, was realizing that it was “tablet mode” that I was looking at. Once I was made aware of that, I searched within settings to find where the Table Mode settings lived. There are options to have it activate when using a tablet, or to never activate (which is what I selected).
Sorry, don’t remember exactly where in settings this is located; just search for Table Mode.
ETA: The toggle jz directed me to was already in the off positin.
While Macs have a completely different interface, Linux distros have very close approximations of the Windows interface available, and are the default in most.
And it’s not the interface that is the problem for most people. It’s the extra widgets and the horrible search. The former can indeed be removed, but the latter is built in. I mean, people will type the exact name of the program they want into search and Search won’t find it and will instead show a Bing search result. It’s ridiculous how bad it is.
Not to mention several updates (including a very recent one) that can break the start menu. What used to be the most stable part of Windows is now loaded with junk that messes things up.
Here’s the drama in a nutshell:
1 - MS announces new UI geared towards mobile devices
2 - MS announces same UI for desktop
3 - The entire planet vomited in unison (except for about 8 people)
I just laughed at all the idiots who bought 8 or 8.1.
Now I might vomit a bit because soon I’ll have to get Windows 10 on a new computer and I’m scared that it has some stupid shit for phone-swipers that’ll either be a pain to workaround or not possible to work around.
