Microsoft Windows gripes

Shift-Control-N my dude

Window placement has always been shit in windows. No idea how anyone thought putting part of a window below the bottom of the screen was ever a good idea.

I hate how they make it hard to make desktop shortcuts now. Smartphone UI is just a huge pile of icons. You'd think windows would follow suit.

Thanks calstars, I can remember that.

I need more screens evidently but whenever I return to the desktop from the screensaver the windows I've carefully placed has moved around and shrunk. I guess there might be some setting to stop this but I can't imagine what purpose it serves.

Microsoft, why do i have to go into the registry to alter the fucking colour of the scroll bars! Madness.

i only just now discovered that if the cursor is in the tool bar area, that if I right click, I could open the task manager that way, as opposed to having to ctl + alt + del

Folders randomly being surrounded by black squares, printers refusing to remember default paper size (A4 not Letter, you motherfuckers), random shortcuts backing up to OneDrive without being asked and getting green ticks on them, Explorer crashing and needing to be killed and restarted because it takes 700 hours to dump something in the Recycling Bin

ctrl+shift+esc is task manager as well btw (xpost) (I happen to do that quite often without thinking and had to look at my hands how I do it: right thumb on the right ctrl, right ring finger on the right shift, left middle finger on esc)

I couldn't remember the password to my microsoft account or any security questions and also having a new phone threw a spanner in the 2fa works so for some reason I had to wait 30 days for them to do something about it. 30 days later I get an email sent to my gmail account saying I can reset all the security info related to the account. So I click the link, enter my gmail address as the microsoft account name, set up a new password, job done right? I try to sign in with the new password. 'This microsoft account doesn't exist'. Ok you twats. I try to create a new one with the same gmail account name. 'This account already exists'. Lol you fucking morons.

So there was a *different* 'create new account' link I had to click - after filling in some details there the page spins endlessly, great job again.

Newest Dev build of Windows 11 finally lets you un-combine taskbar icons. I was surprised by how annoying I found that.

I just bought a new laptop with Windows 11 on it and ^^^ this was the first thing I noticed and couldn't fucking believe they'd removed that. what the fuck is going on at Microsoft, how fucking dumb do you have to be to get a job designing their dogshit operating system? and it took them what 2 years to put it back in? why does everything just get worse

of course that build isn't on general release yet so I still have stupid combined taskbar icons for now.

kind of a niche gripe I guess but every time windows does a major update it disables and hides stereo mix audio input and it really winds me up.

I hate that it shows me my most frequently used programs as a helpful suggestion… like I don’t need to be reminded of this. If I want quick access I will put it in the taskbar… otherwise it’s screenspace best used for something else

I need Microsoft Authenticator to use work apps on my phone, except when I open Authenticator, it asks me to authenticate Authenticator first by using… Authenticator (i.e. itself), which is… impossible?

^^^ you’re not alone

yeah I've been stuck in that nightmarish loop, always authenticate using text messages!

tbh I've got to hand it to Windows after my earlier gripe. at least it's not Debian. just upgraded Debian from 11 to 12 and it's completely fucked my Postgresql database. think I've lost it all. nothing is working to get the data back. most of it I can get from backups but not all of it. what a fucking nightmare

Every time: click on the Windows button, carefully click on the tiny icon for Word or Excel or whatever Office thing I need, realise that it doesn't give a shit which one I clicked and will open up a new panel of bigger icons to click on.

Oh, you'd like an external drive to always have the same letter, the one you assigned to it multiple times, every time you plug it in? Well, fuck you.

I have an external drive which I turn off often. I haven't had that happen. But I found this site which may solve that issue: https://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html

Cheers!