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duTrieux.
Oct 9, 2003

faster at doing stuff
notification action center thingy is useful
other things scattered about
if you're jumping from windows 7, right-click the start menu

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duTrieux.
Oct 9, 2003

echinopsis posted:

never use the start menu in 7.

95% of the apps i use are on the start bar thing and the others i get by windows key and type



ive got this w7 usage down tite

win 10 will do right by you, then. win+q (and win+s i suppose) will call up the search directly, but you can still start typign from start. be sure to turn off cortana and web searching, though

duTrieux.
Oct 9, 2003

duTrieux. posted:

the best feature of windows 10



duTrieux. posted:

here's the search menu with both cortana and web searching turned off:



here it is with cortana turned off, but with web searching enabled:


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