Users of non-enterprise Windows don’t have much control because MS has decided they’re most useful as beta testers.
It’s not about helping the average user by any means, though… it’s Microsoft’s new “Windows as a service” model, which (when referring to non-enterprise users) can also be thought of as “Windows as a way to force its users into service of Microsoft.” From the beginning days of Windows Update through 8.1, the user always had control if he wanted it. Not until Windows 10 has any version of Windows attempted to take as much control from the user. NT4 (the last version to be branded NT) looked very stable indeed in its day, but compared to Windows 95, what wasn’t? From Windows 2000 (NT 5.0) to Windows 8.1 (NT 6.3), they were all NT, and they could all be very stable with decent hardware and drivers. It was one of the best most stable OS and yet too complicated for the average users so Microsoft had to dumb it down and ruin it.Īll of the Windows releases from XP (or 2k, if you ignore ME, which was supposed to be the consumer version of Windows at the time) forward are NT, just not by name. Restarting the Dell XPS One 2720 did not help.Īt least with NT you could install your own drivers and Microsoft would not be calling all the shots. After that, the Start menu would no longer allow apps icons to be pinned or organized. Same result: the Start menu performed normally until these bogus apps appeared in the app list (Candy, et. I deleted all partitions, and performed a second clean install from scratch (using a newly downloaded Media Creation Tool). As soon as I would try, the app icon would unpin. The Start menu also would no longer allow me to reorganize app icons. This is when the Start menu began not allowing me to pin apps to it (e.g., Notepad). After uninstalling these apps, they reappeared again and again. Examples: Candy Crush, Minecraft, Paradise Bay. (These apps did *not* appear in Settings > Apps > Apps & features). Everything was working fine until I right clicked on various apps that *only* appeared in the Start menu app list and selected Uninstall. After clean install of Win10 version 1703 using Media Creation Tool, the Start menu stopped allowing me to pin apps to it.
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