Microsoft has made a disaster out of Windows 10.
During a code-editing session, the whole windows UI–the taskbar and everything–froze up. Luckily, I wasn’t doing a large development or anything else, but I was editing some code on a website with three windows open. I tried clicking on the action center button. It did nothing except get stuck. I tried all the other buttons on the taskbar, but they didn’t seem to work either. The whole Windows UI seemed to have been locked-up.
Commands using the Windows logo button didn’t work. I couldn’t do a screen recording of this, nor could I make sure I copied down all the changes I had made to the code because the clipboard was unavailable. Windows was becoming really annoying. But this wasn’t the worst: It seemed that quick Internet loading was deemed impossible at that moment, because every single web page I tried to load was taking forever.
Worse yet was the fact that when I tried to commit my work in SmartGit, it was taking forever to upload to GitHub because of the slow Internet (most likely caused by Windows). The progress bar that showed commit progress was not even moving. It was just sitting there, doing nothing. This was getting crazy.
Eventually, I resolved to reboot the computer. Fortunately, after doing this, all the problems were solved, all my work was saved, and the commit was out in seconds. But I still cannot believe why Windows did this. True, the Internet had been abnormally slow all day, but nothing like this, where the Windows UI was deemed impossible to use and webpages were unable to load. Windows 10…is not the greatest operating system.