Windows 10

ZombieFan said:
Laptop updated without and problems yesterday. My desktop hasn't shown any interest in receiving the update yet, but I read that MS may be leaving problematic hardware until later release waves until the drivers are stable so I'm not going to force it.

Pleasantly surprised when playing Hearthstone last night. The Xbox live panel automatically popped up and let me use the Xbox DVR and save clips to my Xbox profile. No idea how it knew when to trigger that, but it's kind of clever.
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I was also amazed with how Windows 10 was compatible with most of the hardware on my laptop from the word go, even the smaller things such as the WIFI & the Bluetooth - Windows update even automatically installed the latest basic NVidia drivers and the full Realtek audio drivers during the final part of the installation after it had connected to my WIFI.

The only thing I had to install hardware wise was the Intel drivers and a couple of bits & pieces manually - and even them are the older Windows 8.1 drivers as the Windows 10 ones haven't surfaced yet.

Liam.
 
chroniclard said:
Anyone having issues with Crucial SSD? (MX 100)

Samsung SSD seems fine, can run a bench test on it. Tried it on the Crucial and it just locks up windows. Also seems extremely slow, cant install games on it, GTA V installer crashed, Witcher 3 estimated 3 hours to install.......
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Same SSD in my PC. Works fine
 
So I click on Start, and there's a delay before anything happens sometimes.
I'm seeing a little 'working on it' message instantaneously when navigating folders sometimes. Is that new in Windows 10?
Backup is spelt 'back-up' in portions of the settings for some or other reason.
I go into PC Settings and the advanced settings take me to ...Control Panel. I thought we'd moved on from that.
And, the active and inactive windows titlebars are all the same colour. I am sure nobody asked for that!

I suppose the answer to all the above is BECAUSE **** YOU, THAT'S WHY!
 
I wish they'd make Cortana good.

One simple feature that both Apple & Google have is "timer 10 mins" or "set a timer for 10 mins". I'm not even bothered about saying commands to Cortana, but at least make it have some useful features apart from adding calendar entries!
 
After about 20 failed installs via the Windows Update method I gave the media creation tool option a go. Wish I'd done it sooner. No problems whatsoever. Flawless installation on my SSD from 8.1.

A few bonuses for me were that it seems smaller than 8.1 so after running CCleaner (which removed 17gb of temp files after the installation was done) I was left with way more free space. It also installed Realtek drivers which seem better than the previous ones I had.

Windows 10 seems good too. Very fast on the SSD. Only problem I have so far is that individual windows don't have your custom theme colour around the top section of their borders. So they are just white. Anyone noticed this? Looks nasty compared to 8.1/7. Also, Cortana works fine for me but my early verdict is that it doesn't seem to have the character and fun factor of Siri. Early days though. The "Hey Cortana" thing doesn't seem to work either even though I enabled it.
 
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Nanobot said:
I can almost hear the moderators having a case of Tourettes there are that many Windows 10 posts spawning up again outside of this one...
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Meh, they should just leave them. The way this forum deals with subjects by having one MASSIVE thread is annoying, questions often get lost or ignored and it's a nightmare to search. I honestly don't see an issue with having a page of Windows 10 threads on and a few days after release day.
 
Craig321 said:
Meh, they should just leave them. The way this forum deals with subjects by having one MASSIVE thread is annoying, questions often get lost or ignored and it's a nightmare to search. I honestly don't see an issue with having a page of Windows 10 threads on and a few days after release day.
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I totally agree, one massive thread is too difficult to work from, especially here with the number of Win 10 queries going on. We could do with a sub Forum for such matters.

Andi.
 
mrbell1984 said:
Yes but what is even more annoying is when people don't see that link to the FAQ and ask questions that already have been answered. ;)
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People should have course be encouraged to search first, or check the stickies, but it seems people are even getting annoyed when someone posts a new question or a question that was answered on page 574 in post 5847. You can't expect people to search through or find such a huge thread useful.

I just find these massive threads that keep popping up on here a bit useless when it comes to asking your own question.

andicole0 said:
I totally agree, one massive thread is too difficult to work from, especially here with the number of Win 10 queries going on. We could do with a sub Forum for such matters.

Andi.
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Yup, temporary sub-forums for big releases would be nice :)
 
Hey guys, the updates, Running W10 Pro and I have options for Automatic or notify to schedule restart. No option to notify but let me choose what to download, I thought this was an option in Pro? :confused:

Is it the defer updates one?
 
I installed the updgrade last night on my Acer laptop, everything seams to have gone well, thanks to the FAQ ive turned off a lot of the privacy rubbish... but I don't see what's so great, windows 10?, its more like windows 8.2, looks like they simply merged Metro into the start menu.. added a load of extra option pages for stuff that was and still is in Control panel, am I missing something here?
Some of the stuff does not even work, for example, in the start menu, the link for Windows Update does nothing...

Anyway, I have one much bigger gripe... scrolling with my touchpad.. I have googled and all I can find is stuff related to synaptics and two finger scrolling, not my issue.
Scrolling via the touchpad scroll bar or using two fingers works fine in Explorer, ok in Chrome and other areas, but in MS Edge and IE... its horrible, and either will scroll one link at a time or do nothing at all...
In chrome, once a page has loaded, I have to click on a blank area of the page before the scroll will work, if I leave it for a minute, I have to click again before I can scroll..

Second issue both IE and Edge are SLOW, terrible at loading pages...
 
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UKDTweak said:
I installed the updgrade last night on my Acer laptop, everything seams to have gone well, thanks to the FAQ ive turned off a lot of the privacy rubbish... but I don't see what's so great, windows 10?, its more like windows 8.2, looks like they simply merged Metro into the start menu.. added a load of extra option pages for stuff that was and still is in Control panel, am I missing something here?
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I know what you mean but I think behind the scenes Windows 10 seems snappier and more light weight than even 8.1. Many don't realise that, for all its UI faults, Windows 8/8.1 was actually a massive improvement over 7 under the hood. So 10 is probably not massively different in that respect as all the hard work was probably done when they coded 8 tbh.
 
Upgrade install on my desktop went oddly last night. The auto download never happened so I downloaded and burnt a dvd. During the upgrade it restarted and then couldn't find a boot disc. Turns out it had installed the boot loader to one of my hard drives rather than the ssd. In hindsight I should have disconnected the drives before installation. When the install was complete it activated fine. It wasn't too reliable though. The gigabyte utilities kept throwing up loads of badly worded errors at boot for one thing. I've never been a fan of upgrade installs and had been holding off a clean install since I upgraded my board and cpu last month.

I disconnected my hard drives, booted from the dvd, formatted my ssd and did a clean install. It's now working perfectly. It's damn fast too!
 
UKDTweak said:
I installed the updgrade last night on my Acer laptop, everything seams to have gone well, thanks to the FAQ ive turned off a lot of the privacy rubbish... but I don't see what's so great, windows 10?, its more like windows 8.2, looks like they simply merged Metro into the start menu.. added a load of extra option pages for stuff that was and still is in Control panel, am I missing something here?
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Nope, this is essentially 8.2 they just gave it it's own number because it sounds cooler and makes it appear more special. It's only minor changes (though a few of them) because it's only been 21 months since the last version of Windows came out (the was 6 years between XP/Vista, 2.5+ between Vista/7, 3+ between 7/8, etc).
 
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