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Is anyone still using the Technical Preview and sending feedback via the Feedback app, blogs and social media?

Now that MS is actually listenig to user feedback / suggestions / criticism / complaints, they need to know that users NEED the ability to TURN OFF desktop composition for a low-latency desktop experience. Bring back that essential Windows 7 feature !
Being forced to live wth those 2~3 frames of additional latency and the horribly SLOW Direct2D rendering is just too much.

Also, what happened to the good old Windows Task Manager? Since Windows 8, it has gone downhill. The "modern" Task Manager a resource hog that also takes a lot of precious desktop real-estate (HUGE fonts and too much whitespace). A Task Manager should use as litlle CPU time as possible and have all the important sysinfo on a single page. It has to be lightweight, reasonably accurate and reliable (e.g. using ~0.1% CPU, showing correct clockspeeds if the CPU is overclocked, etc.). They already have a very good Task Manager (Process Explorer). Just take the best stuff from Process Explorer and optimize that pig (it feels like a dotNET app) to be as efficient as the Win7 / WinXP Task Manager.

I just deleted and merged my Windows 10 partition back into my Windows 7 partition

I came back to Windows 8.1 late December to enjoy some DX11 games that weren't working with Windows 10 at that time because of crappy nVidia drivers and hadn't time to switch back to Windows 10 since them (apparently nVidia Optimus is fixed in current Win10 builds). I agree with you that they should bring back the ability to turn off desktop composition (it's useful for some old emulators/3D apps that doesn't have exclusive full screen support, for example) but completely disagree about Task Manager, the current one found in Windows 8.1/Windows 10 is thousands of times more useful than the old task manager found in Windows 7 and older Windows editions. And who cares about it consuming more system resources? It's still veeery lightweight overall. If you are too paranoid about it and aren't happy at all you could just download any other 3rd party task manager that fits your strange needs...

(03-23-2015, 02:53 PM)Jhonn Wrote: [ -> ]completely disagree about Task Manager, the current one found in Windows 8.1/Windows 10 is thousands of times more useful than the old task manager found in Windows 7 and older Windows editions. And who cares about it consuming more system resources? It's still veeery lightweight overall.

It does have some nice features (e.g. the Startup tab and the "heatmaps" are awesome), but the fonts are HUGE, there's too much whitespace, too much border padding, no dark theme (colored graphs on a [b]black/b] background is easier on the eyes), it takes too much desktop space to be useful. You can't display as much info in a small window size (as with the Win7 Task manager). It doesn't show the correct clockspeeds if your CPU is overclocked. It lacks some customization options (removing columns, displaying useless info / statistics you don't need in a new tab instead of showing everything in the main tab), etc.

[EDIT] Previous post updated.

But you can select what columns you want to see...

from what i've looked at on the web multiple sources are saying windows 10 is gonna be free to windows 7, 8, and 8.1, but i am not totally sure but this is suppose to happen later this year.

As far as I read, during the first year after final release it'll be free for everyone who currently have a valid Windows 7, 8 or 8.1 license. Rumors indicate July as release date, so, in theory, Windows 10 will be free to everyone who meets the requirements and update before July 2016...

It's also free for pirated Windows 7/8/8.1 if I remember correctly

It is I think, but they still won't be genuine.

Pirated Win7/8/8.1 users can upgrade to Windows 10 through Windows Update but it'll remain in trial until you buy a license...