Sorry Microsoft, I have no use for Live Tiles
Microsoft introduced Live Tiles to Windows Phone and brought the feature over to the desktop when it launched the Windows 8 operating systems.
Live Tiles have not changed much in Windows 10, but a couple of new options like new tile sizes were added nevertheless.
Apart from functioning as a link to a an item, a program or app for instance, live tiles may display and update information directly.
Probably the most common examples are tiles that display weather information or news.
Information may use the full height and width of the tile area, and even multiple pages to display information to the user.
No use for Live Tiles
When I state that I have no use for live tiles, I mean specifically on the desktop. I can see them having uses on tablets or mobile phones, but on the desktop, they are nearly useless in their current form.
First, on Windows 10, they are only displayed in the start menu which I started to use less and less ever since Windows 7 came along and introduced taskbar pinning.
When I open the start menu, I have a specific task in mind and don't pay attention to these tiles because of that. Either I start typing a program name or search term right away, or I do something else and Live Tiles are more of a distraction than anything that I want displayed at that point in time.
That's one of the reasons why I have removed all those default tiles the Windows 10 operating system ships with as I have no use for them.
In addition to that, I don't really use apps on the Windows 10 desktop as I have yet to find some that help me do things that desktop programs or web services cannot.
To sum it up:
- The location live tiles are placed in is far from ideal. While you can switch to a Windows 8 start screen like interface to make them display all the time, it makes little sense doing so on desktop systems in my opinion.
- The information provided by these live tiles is something that I don't find useful.
The future
Microsoft announced recently that a few surprises are coming to live tiles and toast notifications on Windows 10, and that it will reveal what is in store during the Build 2016 Developer Conference which is held in San Francisco from March 30 to April 1.
The description of the session on the channel 9 website highlights that "two highly-requested surprises" are coming to Live Tiles.
The Live Tile suggestions that have received the most upvotes in the Windows Feedback application are transparent tiles and interactive tiles.
Microsoft revealed interactive tiles back in 2014 but has not launched the feature yet and it was generally assumed that the company decided against implementing it.
Basically, what they do is add an interactive element to live tiles, for instance an option to expand the view area of a tile to display additional information, or a field that you can use to find information or files directly from the live tile.
Even with these changes, and it is not clear if those are the ones that Microsoft will reveal, it won't really change my view of live tiles on the desktop.
Live tiles could become more attractive to users if Microsoft would untie them from the start menu allowing users to place them on the desktop directly.
This would then be similar to how desktop gadgets worked back in the days when they were still supported by Windows natively.
While that would certainly improve the appeal of live tiles, it would not make me use them.
Now You: What's your take on Live Tiles?
What mental age of reader are you targeting with the first sentence? 10?
Why not write an article on how to *avoid* upgrading from W10 to W11. Analogous to those like me who avoided upgrading from 7 to 10 for as long as possible.
If your paymaster Microsoft permits it, of course.
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6. Ventoy
PS. I hate reading these “SEO optimized” articles.
I used Rufus to create an installer for a 6th gen intel i5 that had MBR. It upgraded using Setup. No issues except for Win 11 always prompting me to replace my local account. Still using Win 10 Pro on all my other PCs to avoid the bullying.
bit pointless to upgrade for the sake of upgrading as you never know when you’ll get locked out because ms might suddenly not provide updates to unsupported systems.
ps…. time travelling?
written. Jan 15, 2023
Updated • Jan 13, 2023
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Anyone willing to downgrade to this awful OS must like inflicting themselves with harm.
I have become convinced now that anybody who has no qualms with using Windows 11/10 must fit into one of the following brackets:
1) Too young to remember a time before W10 and W11 (doesn’t know better)
2) Wants to play the latest games on their PC above anything else (or deeply needs some software which already dropped W7 support)
3) Doesn’t know too much about how computers work, worried that they’d be absolutely lost and in trouble without the “”latest security””
4) Microsoft apologist that tries to justify that the latest “features” and “changes” are actually a good thing, that improve Windows
5) Uses their computer to do a bare minimum of like 3 different things, browse web, check emails, etc, so really doesn’t fuss
Obviously that doesn’t cover everyone, there’s also the category that:
6) Actually liked W7 more than 10, and held out as long as possible before switching, begrudgingly uses 10 now
Have I missed any group off this list?
You have missed in this group just about any professional user that uses business software like CAD programs or ERP Programs which are 99% of all professional users from this list.
Linux doesn’t help anyone who is not a linux kid and apple is just a fancy facebook machine.
Microsoft has removed KB5029351 update
only from windows update though
KB5029351 is still available from the ms update catalog site
1. This update is labaled as PREVIEW if it causes issues to unintelligent people, then they shouldn’t have allowed Preview updates ot install.
2. I have installed it in a 11 years old computer, and no problems at all.
3. Making a big drama over a bluescreen for an updated labeled as preview is ridiculous.
This is probably another BS internet drama where people ran programs and scripts that modified the registry until they broke Windows, just for removing stuff that they weren’t even using just for the sake of it.
Maybe people should stop playing geeks and actually either use Windows 10 or Windows 11, but don’t try to modify things just for the sake of it.
Sometimes removing or stopping things (like defender is a perfect example) only need intelligence, not scripts or 3rd party programs that might mess with windows.
Windows 11 was a pointless release, it was just created because some of the Windows team wanted to boost sales with some sort of new and improved Windows 10. Instead, Microsoft cannot support one version well let alone two.
Windows 11 is the worst ugly shame by Microsoft ever. They should release with every new W11 version a complete free version of Starallback inside just to make this sh** OS functionally again.
motherboard maker MSI has recently released a statement regarding the “unsupported processor” blue screen error for their boards using Intel 600/700 series chipsets & to avoid the KB5029351 Win11 update:
https://www.msi.com/news/detail/MSI-On–UNSUPPORTED-PROCESSOR–Error-Message-of-Windows-11-Update-KB5029351-Preview-142215
check out the following recent articles:
Neowin – Microsoft puts little blame on its Windows update after UNSUPPORTED PROCESSOR BSOD bug:
https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-puts-little-blame-on-its-windows-update-after-unsupported-processor-bsod-bug/
BleepingComputer – Microsoft blames ‘unsupported processor’ blue screens on OEM vendors:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-blames-unsupported-processor-blue-screens-on-oem-vendors/
While there may be changes or updates to the Windows 10 Store for Business and Education in the future, it is premature to conclude that it will be discontinued based solely on rumors.
My advice, I left win 15 years ago. Now I’m a happy linux user (linuxmint) but there is Centos, Fedora, Ubuntu depending on your needs.
motherboard maker MSI has recently released new BIOS/firmware updates for their Intel 600 & 700 series motherboards to fix the “UNSUPPORTED_PROCESSOR” problem (Sept. 6):
https://www.msi.com/news/detail/Updated-BIOS-fixes-Error-Message–UNSUPPORTED-PROCESSOR–caused-BSOD-on-MSI-s-Intel-700-and-600-Series-Motherboards-142277
I try to disable the Diagnostics Tracking Service (Connected Devices Platform User Services) but it wont let me disable it, any help will be greatly appreciated.
Tank you for your help