Microsoft Tests Colorful New System Icons for Windows 10

[rtwjunkie]

Once you get the build, all the icons are changed and folder content previews are disabled.

Wow, I must have missed that bit. Folder views is a big deal to me, and I imagine others as well. How did MS arrive at the conclusion this should be eliminated?

I'm betting on MS pulling an Apple and calling it Windows 10 for at least 5 more years

Yeah, actually forever if they keep their word. They said W10 is the last version ever.

 

[windwhirl]

Wow, I must have missed that bit. Folder views is a big deal to me, and I imagine others as well. How did MS arrive at the conclusion this should be eliminated?

Don't know how that happened.

Just to be clear, the file thumbnails are working fine. The problem happens with the thumbnail that used to show up for the folder itself. For example, for "Images" you had that icon of the folder half-open and it showed you two random pictures you had inside that folder. Now, it's just the folder icon.
Expected behavior:

What actually happens:

 

[rtwjunkie]

Yeah, that’s actually a time waster, not a time saver. The decision to open a folder or move to another is often dependent for me on what the preview shows, Having to open each one, assuming one’s folder naming was lazy/not very good, is just bad.

 

[windwhirl]

Yeah, that’s actually a time waster, not a time saver. The decision to open a folder or move to another is often dependent for me on what the preview shows, Having to open each one, assuming one’s folder naming was lazy/not very good, is just bad.

Agreed. I made the clarification just in case someone skimped over the thread and thought that all thumbnails for everything were broken.

 

[8BitZ80]

There's plenty of naysayers, but I actually think the new icons look really nice. They add a welcome dash of color and style back into the Windows OS.

 

[windwhirl]

There's plenty of naysayers, but I actually think the new icons look really nice. They add a welcome dash of color and style back into the Windows OS.

I don't mind really. I just wish they had not broken the folder content preview feature.

 

[MarsM4N]

Windows was totally unstable, insecure, slow, resource hungry & ugly to look at. From Win8 on they added Defender, did a complete core code overhall to make it less resource hungry & stable, and changed the windows style. So I thought they get their crap together now. But looking at these icons, I can only shake my head. Looks like Win7 times. Don't get why they the minimalist 2D icons line from the system settings.

Got a new 1TB Samsung 860 EVO laying around, where I plan a dual boot with Win10 & Manjaro KDE, so I can take a break from sickening Windows. For the time. Eyeballing with the MacMini as a daily driver, but going to wait for v2 when all the minor bugs are fixed. Such a sexy little thing. Windows only on the gaming rig, at least in full screen gaming mode you can't see Microsoft's mess.

 

[Atomic77]

I think giving Windows 10 some more color is awesome.

 

[AsRock]

No software is bug-free. Specially not when said piece of software is literally millions of lines of code big.

And people with issues will always be way louder than the rest that runs Windows (or whatever other software you can think of) just fine.

Myself, I've been running insider builds since basically the Windows 10 launch and so far I can say that I've encountered issues rarely enough that I could count them with the fingers of one hand.

On top of that, Windows isn't Mac, where there are just a handful of different hardware configurations. There are literally millions of different configurations. And then you have to start considering whether the driver for each hardware piece is written correctly or if it's fully compatible with whatever you're running, plus whatever else may be running in kernel-mode not fucking something up, and user-installed crap.

EDIT: You could remove a lot of legacy code and clean up a bit, I suppose, but we should start thinking of getting rid of all the purely 32-bit stuff for that matter. And discarding nearly half the devices around the world that require some sort of legacy support.

And yet they insist of forcing updates on most, How about windows 10 gamer edition or would that be in conflict of there Xbox HAHAHA. Be about time they did and strip this mofo down already.

Just more MS BS.