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KIA said:
Pulling support months after hardware has shipped is really pathetic.

Make these announcements before hardware ships to avoid screwing people over.
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Problem is the precedent it sets rather than the actual practical fallout in this case which might actually be nothing - but now you've got IT people running scared - and not towards embracing MS products.
 
Draeger said:
I've got a new SSD here and was thinking of trying W10 to see how it goes. Main use my desktop PC sees is Adobe CS6, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, PS and Illustrator. Plus I use it for gaming - Fallout 4 is my current favourite.

Any issues I should expect using W10 for those? PC is an i7 920 D0@4Ghz, 16Gb Corsair Vengeance, GTX760 GPU. Currently running W8.1.

Ta.
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I had an SSD OS drive with Windows 8.1, and it upgraded fine to W10.

ps: On one of my machines I had a small issue with AVG (free) so maybe uninstall it before if you're using it.
 
KIA said:
Pulling support months after hardware has shipped is really pathetic.

Make these announcements before hardware ships to avoid screwing people over.
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I don't see the issue at all with Microsoft putting a cutoff on the chips that 7 or 8.1 will support, that's just logical with the architecture moving and them having to emulate support for newer chips.

However I agree that dropping support of a platform that's already out there is a **** move. The roadmap for Skylake support should have been laid out before the chip was released. Anyone who has refreshed a large number of machines in the last 6 months is going to be peed off.

Based on that I can see them maybe reversing this decision. Kaby Lake will stay as a 10 only platform though, as there is an advanced heads up on that one.
 
ajf said:
A question about customising.
I wanted to edit the OEM information shown in System.
I found a website that shows the registry keys that do this:
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/add-change-oem-information-windows

However, the manufacturer and model are not actually appearing in System. They used to in Windows 8.1.
Is this by design, if so, is there a way to turn it on?
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Do you mean the keys are not in the registry or they are but don't show is system?

Run the commands below as administrator to add the keys if missing

reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OEMInformation /v Manufacturer /t REG_SZ /f /d "Overclockers UK"
reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OEMInformation /v Model /t REG_SZ /f /d "Dodgy PC"
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The keys are there but they do not show in the System window.
Not a major issue, just wondered why.

I have restarted the system too :)
 
KIA said:
Pulling support months after hardware has shipped is really pathetic. Make these announcements before hardware ships to avoid screwing people over.
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I missed this and can't seem to find what hardware we are talking about - can you advise please - think if a new build . . .

Thanks, Mel
 
I see an issue with pulling support for 7 on skylake, as someone who has to support hardware some of our cad stations are skylake and win 7 and the software support for 10 isn't there.
 
anyone else having this issue, been happening a few days, just got another win10 device and it's happening on that one as well, long threads on micrisift haven't found any real solutions yet.

"one or more internet protocols are missing"

only solution I've found so far is uninstalling driver and then installing again. this sometimes works for minutes or days.

so annoying.
 
I'd just like to make it known, that I've been messing around with an old system and Windows 10 works fine on my 2mb Matrox Graphics Card from 1996 and it genuinely works well. That impressed me. The rest of the system wasn't as archaic but still....
 
I have five pcs at home which I'd like to update to Windows 10. Can I use the one download on all of them, or is the download tied the the machine was downloaded on?

Thanks
 
joey1211 said:
I have five pcs at home which I'd like to update to Windows 10. Can I use the one download on all of them, or is the download tied the the machine was downloaded on?

Thanks
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AFAIK - you can use the one download for all of them as long as the machines all have a current Windows 7 or 8.1 license, and they will all get a win 10 license after install when they are online for updates etc. I presume you will be using a USB stick to make the bootable media.
 
Alright, as there are now hints that a few games I'm getting soon will be using DX12, I decided to re-upgrade to 10 (I previously upgraded, then rolled back after raging at file/folder permissions over LAN and a couple other things.

I've had a good old fiddle, and also had a play with Windows permissions... I'm now treating it like a domain environment. The default % shares don't work in 10, bypassing them with a DIY fix breaks other things. So I've applied a share to the root of my internal drives and given an admin account full rights to those drives. This fixes root access permissions. I've created a public read only account which I will set on LAN machines so they can access the shares they are entitled to since Win10 now must have a username/pass set from a LAN machine when browsing to \\machinename even if it's to access a folder where "Everyone" has read access to.

So permissions are sorted and I can even access shares now from any non Windows device.

The Startup folder in the start menu not loading a few software due to them not being elevation aware I've sorted by copying those shortcuts I can quickly load from the taskbar. I simply mass load those 4 pieces of software if I ever have to restart.

Bit of faff, but I think I've got there at last...
 
I have a question about windows 10 and accounts.

I have other users on this pc how do i stop them from seeing whats in my account when they are in their account.

So far another user can click on file explorer and click on the drive letter and see all the stuff on someone else account.
 
wigster said:
I have a question about windows 10 and accounts.

I have other users on this pc how do i stop them from seeing whats in my account when they are in their account.

So far another user can click on file explorer and click on the drive letter and see all the stuff on someone else account.
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1. Bitlocker (or other encryption)
2. Make sure they don't have admin accounts (if using whole disk encryption)
3. Make sure they don't have read permissions to your files/folders.

If you aren't using encryption, then they can see your files any time they like. If they have admin accounts, they can bypass permissions.

If everyone /has/ to have admin accounts, then you need to manually encrypt your sensitive files with a password/key. This works differently to whole disk encryption (aka Bitlocker), so even you need to enter your password every time you access those files. A bit like logging onto a website.
 
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wigster said:
I have a question about windows 10 and accounts.

I have other users on this pc how do i stop them from seeing whats in my account when they are in their account.

So far another user can click on file explorer and click on the drive letter and see all the stuff on someone else account.
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Put your porn somewhere other than on the PC?
 
If an account has a password then other users should not be able to view the contents of that account if their account is just a standard user surely.

Otherwise just set permissions to those document folders to your user account only from the parent folder properties dialogue.
 
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