Another annoyance: Windows 8 will ignore your personalized folder view (Windows Explorer) as soon as audio/video files are involved. So you will need to configure it over and over again with each new folder. I would love to meet the Windows developers team, and give them a piece of my mind. It wouldn't be a positive experience for them, I can tell you that.
I think it's a distinct possibility the Windows developers team are all in a padded cell playing with rubber keyboards.
LOL, I mean if you look at all these bugs and annoyances that they seem to have completely missed, it's just beyond me how that is even possible. Good idea, I was a bit lazy, but I will try to run Win 10 inside a virtual machine.
Hi Daveski17 If there not in a padded cell they should be , and if they are then they should have their Rubber Keyboards confiscated. Take Care TheQuest
Hi TheQuest, I'm still convinced it's something contaminating the water supply at Redmond. The recent actions by MS defy logic and definitely qualify them for the rubber laptop brigade.
New annoyance: You can not clean up tray-bar icons. http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/manage-and-tidy-the-windows-7-system-tray/ My bad, forgot to enable "third-party browser extensions", now the breadcrumbs are gone, and I can see file-sizes again in the status-bar. Isn't it a bit sad that we have to install Classic Shell to get basic functionality back? They should hire the developer, I'm amazed by all the config options, this guy got skills.
Just wanted to let you know that this has been indeed the fix for this problem. If Win Explorer crashes, the tray icons stay active. I feel like an idiot, it could have saved me a lot of time.
Glad it worked out for you. I hope, that MS will separate explorer in Windows 10 too, since it already abandoned IE as well and created a separate browser.
A combination of Windows 8 and touchpad can be disastrous actually. When moving the cursor it is very often that the charm bar menu unexpectedly shows up and then the screen suddenly jumps into the Start Screen. I have my works got messed up by that quite a few times already. Never had such problem with mouse though. And yes, I've disabled the charm bar hover menu. So I don't think that is the source of this problem.
Hi Daveski17 With their recent theatrical actions they should not even qualify for a rubber laptop, but I do believe they qualify for a Rubber Room. Take Care TheQuest
Hi TheQuest, yeah ... at least the rubber room and plastic utensils. Maybe it's lack of funding sending them round the bend? Perhaps with the overall consumer dissatisfaction with recent releases they've been paid with bouncing rubber cheques. lol
Another annoyance: File Dialog Boxes do not have a standardized view, and do not remember size and position. Column sizes are also not remembered. Shame on M$ for not fixing this. For people who care about this, you might want to check out: FileBox eXtender and Direct Folders. The first one does not work correctly on Win 8, and I'm still testing the second one. http://www.hyperionics.com/files/ https://codesector.com/directfolders
Main annoyance with Windows 8.1 other than the looks & metro is it deciding to delete all your media file thumbnails every few days, when you have folder full of TV shows & videos it really is a pain when it has to rebuild the thumbnails.
One of biggest annoyance for me is option "Hide extensions for known file types" being enabled by default.
Nice find. I never thought there was an app to enable/disable those options. Though, I would never use an app just to change those settings.
I set my screen brightness to only 50%, but sometimes Windows 8 ignores it and made the screen brightness went full 100%. My eyes!
I've just found out, that you can disable this function with Ultimate Windows Tweaker. It's the "Disable Automatic Folder View Discovery" setting.
LOL, this is how it should have been, nice and simple: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/task_scheduler_view.html
I know its a pretty late reply, but it happens with me too on Win 7, I use Media Preview Configuration to rebuild the thumbnails and it works for another week or so.
It seems they have fixed the issue on windows 10, I have been using it since the start of August & the thumbnails have never been deleted.
