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Klyntar

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Well Microsoft finally fucked me over and completely installed 10 without my consent while I was asleep and I never even signed up for it. I literally woke up to a different computer.

Does anyone know if there's any way to increase the size of the taskbar icons? They're like 2-3x smaller than windows 8 was, it's pissing me off. I've already gone through and practically gutted the entire OS of all it's hidden bullshit, I just can't figure out how to change the damn taskbar if it's even possible because the box is already unchecked for "larger" icons but the things are still small as an ant. I'm not increasing the DPI because that jacks with everything on the screen, not just the taskbar.

14-Mar-2016 08:42:14 - Last edited on 14-Mar-2016 08:44:07 by Klyntar

Klyntar

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I almost want to turn this into a thread for telling people how to find all of the garbage files to delete and regain the massive amount of storage 10 took over. I just found a sneaky little file in system settings that had a whole GB of memory saved to it. It was used for offline world maps.

14-Mar-2016 16:06:20 - Last edited on 14-Mar-2016 16:11:00 by Klyntar

Boeing

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yea there's also an issue going around with windows updates that cause it to revert the changes it tried made since the security feature failed to update. Now it takes takes like 30 minutes at bootup because it has to revert the changes for some bullshit reason since the update faild

i remember theres an icon zoom thing on 7 so it may be similar on 10?

Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\Display

14-Mar-2016 16:07:15 - Last edited on 14-Mar-2016 16:08:02 by Boeing

Klyntar

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Boeing said :
yea there's also an issue going around with windows updates that cause it to revert the changes it tried made since the security feature failed to update. Now it takes takes like 30 minutes at bootup because it has to revert the changes for some bullshit reason since the update faild

i remember theres an icon zoom thing on 7 so it may be similar on 10?

Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\Display
You can zoom the icons on the desktop by holding ctrl and scrolling the mouse wheel just like you would in a browser, but that doesn't affect the task bar. The only way I can find to make the taskbar icons larger is increasing the DPI scale but that magnifies everything, not just the taskbar. I'm still looking around trying to see if there's a registry hack or something floating around for it, kind of like the hidden dark theme for windows.

14-Mar-2016 16:14:51 - Last edited on 14-Mar-2016 16:16:35 by Klyntar

Zoeeeee

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Why not uninstall it? In the state it's in atm it's pretty shit. It's possible to revert back to your windows 8, not that hard if you know what you're doing. Microsoft is forcing windows 10 out through automatic updates, which the majority of people, yourself included I assume, have set to install everything automatically, which in your case sounds like it ran auto windows updates when you powered it off.

That was your first mistake. Don't people ever actually look at/review what's being put on their system anymore?

15-Mar-2016 11:16:59

Boeing

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Nah i love windows 7, change sucks. im just manually dealing with it now and i've found a way to not update to windows 10 even though it forces you to- if you shut down normally.

Search -> Updates -> view available updates -> deselect everything -> log off -> shut down without updates

it seems you can only shut down without updates via the log in screen which is weird but its been working.

15-Mar-2016 13:18:45

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