Reinstalling my work laptop with Windows 10 and Full Enterprise Straightjacket.
Both fun and frustrating 🙂
The amount of small and useful apps installed on my old Win 8.1 was staggering. Two days, and I am still working on installing and reconfiguring them all.
It is at times like these that you truly learn to appreciate apps that store their data and configurations in the cloud. Such a massively huge difference between those and the old school build-your-config-from-scratch variants!
The point in time where I reformatted my old drive was poignant. New disk, new OS, new config. Old disk reused for scratch, temp and backup data.
Upside: Now I have 1 TB to spread my content on + the old scratch disk in an external cabinet for backup of core data.
And if you don’t have an updated recovery/restore media… the updates.. oh. so many updates. Just did a win 7 install from scratch, it took days to finish, days!
Windows 10 was better, since the image I installed was a freshly consolidated one.
It’s more fun that way 🙂
Have Microsoft finally fixed the Win10 issue where Apps (ie newfangled things) use the default keyboard layout language as display language, rather than the configured (forced) display language?
Asbjørn Heid Well, I have a Norwegian Keyboard layout, but I use a US English UI language. How is supposed to behave?
Lars Fosdal If it’s fixed, Apps/tiles (such as the weather/news live tiles, or the PC settings app) will be in english and not in norwegian.
MSN Vær – still appears in Norwegian, although my display language is set to English. WTF, MS!
Seems to be the same for News app, as well as for the XBox app. This is ridiculous!
Lars Fosdal I reported this 3 days after Win10 launch, and every time I re-tried Win10 after that (3 times total, last time about 9 months ago).
Nice to see MS still not giving a fuck about the UI experience in Win10 🙂
Have fun shutting down all the MS bloat services that hogs cpu, took me another week. Having done that it’s running pretty well. And yes, still the language thingy. Just installed an instance of Adobe CC (not voluntarily mind you) Indesign & Illustrator, I have English as UI language but for some reason I got CC in Norwegian. I can tell you I’m rusty as hell on the Adobe stuff and having the whole UI in Norwegian isn’t helping…
Ran into another snafu. The user profile bars me from running CMD files. Gotta love corporate IT. It also barred PS1 files, but I managed to hack around that with Set-ExecutionPolicy.
Asbjørn Heid – There actually is a workaround for the app language issue. Settings, Region and Language, Languages. You can add multiple input languages, and the one that is set as default, governs the language of your Windows 10 apps.
Side effect: If you have Norwegian and English (w/norw keyb) installed, and set English as default – you get the English apps – and the English keyboard. So, every time I log in, I have to swap keyboard from English to Norwegian down at the toolbar.
Or… not quite. News you still have to manually select the source, and by that the language. Norwegian sources = Norwegian UI.
Lars Fosdal Yea it’s half assed 🙁