It's really funny, I like windows 10 a lot, for me it's the best Linux distribution, but there are a few of these little things...
To reply to some of your points to clean up possible misunderstandings:
> If you initiate a Copy and then change focus, the dialog will not steal focus. Perhaps that's what you're experiencing?
No, I drag or Ctrl-C/V file between two explorer windows and a new window icon appears on a taskbar with progress indication (by a backgound color fill), but the progress window is not visible until I click on that icon or Alt-tab to it. There are some complains and workarounds about this on the web.
> That notification sits in the tray until you manually dismiss it.
That is the cause of the problem for me. The notice is mostly invisible (no dialogs), until 7 days later "You have 15 minutes to pack up your things"...
> If you've installed a driver directly from the Vendor, Windows will not supersede that install with the Windows Update Version
It absolutely does. I manually install 341.81, everything works. Then, some weeks later bam, black screen, driver crashed. And a notification that driver was updated. Same way touchpad driver keeps updating after I manually reinstall it.
> > Randomly resets file associations.
See search results for "An App Default was Reset"
Since the amount of side-effects from the combinations of installed 3rd party software (antiviruses, ugh) is so huge, I'm constantly amazed they keep everything working and backwards compatible as much as they do. But some of this new stuff, eh.
> I drag or Ctrl-C/V file between two explorer windows and a new window icon appears on a taskbar with progress indication
That's unusual. I just tried copying large swaths of files with varying combinations of Explorer snapped, unsnapped, overlapping, not overlapping, etc. In ever case the Copy window appears h/v Centered over the origin Explorer window.
Do you have anything that has custom Shell integration installed that might be causing some weird interaction? I tried this on a pretty bog standard install. I'll try to reproduce it later on a more customized system.
> The notice is mostly invisible (no dialogs)
Yeah, that seems like an area of user experience they could improve. Do you lock your PC? All my PCs require password unlock and when I unlock them notifications like "Updates were installed that require reboot" or "Windows Defender finished scanning your PC" always pop out from the Action Center briefly. That's been my que* to go inspect it.
> I manually install 341.81... some weeks later... a notification that driver was updated.
I'm curious what could be causing that. I have some old Logitech Webcam drivers installed because they removed some features in the Windows Update version of the Driver and it's never updated.
> See search results for "An App Default was Reset"
This seems to be a result of 3rd party applications changing file associations using mechanisms outside of the Windows Guidelines. This is a big problem for Microsoft with regards to the Start Menu Icons, Uninstall Utilities, Control Panel Programs, and apparently file associations. They have recommended specific ways of interacting with the OS since XP that have been routinely ignored. Now in Windows 10 they're making changes that break these unsupported mechanisms and are catching flak for it.
It's really funny, I like windows 10 a lot, for me it's the best Linux distribution, but there are a few of these little things...
To reply to some of your points to clean up possible misunderstandings:
> If you initiate a Copy and then change focus, the dialog will not steal focus. Perhaps that's what you're experiencing?
No, I drag or Ctrl-C/V file between two explorer windows and a new window icon appears on a taskbar with progress indication (by a backgound color fill), but the progress window is not visible until I click on that icon or Alt-tab to it. There are some complains and workarounds about this on the web.
> That notification sits in the tray until you manually dismiss it.
That is the cause of the problem for me. The notice is mostly invisible (no dialogs), until 7 days later "You have 15 minutes to pack up your things"...
> If you've installed a driver directly from the Vendor, Windows will not supersede that install with the Windows Update Version
It absolutely does. I manually install 341.81, everything works. Then, some weeks later bam, black screen, driver crashed. And a notification that driver was updated. Same way touchpad driver keeps updating after I manually reinstall it.
> > Randomly resets file associations.
See search results for "An App Default was Reset"
Since the amount of side-effects from the combinations of installed 3rd party software (antiviruses, ugh) is so huge, I'm constantly amazed they keep everything working and backwards compatible as much as they do. But some of this new stuff, eh.