I understand how this would work in theory, but it seems more like they're trying to burn customer goodwill by breaking or removing old tools in favor of migrating everyone to {Modern UI,a walled garden}.
> That sounds like a hardware specific issue. If I hover over my battery indicator I get both a percentage and time estimate. If I click on the indicator I get the same information and the option to change power mode.
Not particularly - when I said capacity, I meant {design,current maximum, current remaining} capacity in mAh, which I couldn't convince it to tell me. (Admittedly, I did not go looking for the specific WMI calls that probably have this information, because I don't expect to have to resort to WMI to find out my battery's capacity.)
> Your explorer issue sounds like it could either be a hardware issue with a storage device or a problem with network discovery.
I had another bug with network {share,host} discovery which resulted in explorer crashing and me disabling that particular feature, but no, that wasn't my only issue with explorer.
If it's a hardware issue with the storage device, I'd be rather impressed, as said SSD runs other OSes perfectly fine, and SFC comes back without any complaints.
I can certainly believe it's something about my platform or usage, but after trying a clean reinstall of 10 without OEM drivers to confirm it wasn't some OEM-provided driver causing this fun and games, it stops being something I want to spend all my time debugging.
> Sleep and hibernate
Tried with the OEM-drivers install and without, no visible difference, much to my chagrin.
> Start Menu
Sorry, I meant All Apps.
I just tried it with Firefox, and after letting it sit for ~15 seconds offering a random json file with Firefox in the name as the best match, it did come up with Mozilla Firefox, and then immediately came back with every other thing I thought to try.
I don't know whether this has changed in the interim, or I'm just associating the initial delay with never trusting it, or something entirely distinct. (I don't think I'm conflating it with Windows 7, though, as I don't think I've ever seen it do that on one of my machines.)
I started to respond to this but then I realized you're just twisting things to fit your world view. Microsoft isn't removing for breaking their UI to trick people into their walled garden. Yes they'd like the Store to be a success but making advanced networking features difficult to surface by migrating from GDI to Modern UI elements isn't part of that master plan.
You're sighting what you see as shortcomings in their battery status indicator as a regress when what you're asking for has never been a feature in Windows.
I don't deny that you've had some issues with Windows but it sounds like a lot of your objects are based on personal beliefs than actual problems.
I understand how this would work in theory, but it seems more like they're trying to burn customer goodwill by breaking or removing old tools in favor of migrating everyone to {Modern UI,a walled garden}.
> That sounds like a hardware specific issue. If I hover over my battery indicator I get both a percentage and time estimate. If I click on the indicator I get the same information and the option to change power mode.
Not particularly - when I said capacity, I meant {design,current maximum, current remaining} capacity in mAh, which I couldn't convince it to tell me. (Admittedly, I did not go looking for the specific WMI calls that probably have this information, because I don't expect to have to resort to WMI to find out my battery's capacity.)
> Your explorer issue sounds like it could either be a hardware issue with a storage device or a problem with network discovery.
I had another bug with network {share,host} discovery which resulted in explorer crashing and me disabling that particular feature, but no, that wasn't my only issue with explorer.
If it's a hardware issue with the storage device, I'd be rather impressed, as said SSD runs other OSes perfectly fine, and SFC comes back without any complaints.
I can certainly believe it's something about my platform or usage, but after trying a clean reinstall of 10 without OEM drivers to confirm it wasn't some OEM-provided driver causing this fun and games, it stops being something I want to spend all my time debugging.
> Sleep and hibernate
Tried with the OEM-drivers install and without, no visible difference, much to my chagrin.
> Start Menu
Sorry, I meant All Apps.
I just tried it with Firefox, and after letting it sit for ~15 seconds offering a random json file with Firefox in the name as the best match, it did come up with Mozilla Firefox, and then immediately came back with every other thing I thought to try.
I don't know whether this has changed in the interim, or I'm just associating the initial delay with never trusting it, or something entirely distinct. (I don't think I'm conflating it with Windows 7, though, as I don't think I've ever seen it do that on one of my machines.)