Windows 10

Just found another reason to love Windows 10. Boss brought his laptop in as his folders "were doing strange things". He'd managed to duplicate a few of his folders containing his Word docs - so now he had "Documents\Lodge Documents" and "Documents\Lodge Documents\Lodge Documents" and others. He had no idea how this happened, or when as he's only just noticed it. The files in the folders looked duplicated, but there weren't as many in the sub-folder as the main one, and yes - he's been updating some files but didn't know in which folder the newer ones.

You know, the standard thing that someone brings you that makes you want to hit their head repeatedly on the desk.

First thing, let's see how many of the files are duplicates, so told Win10 to move all the files from the subfolder into the main folder. A few copies, and asked what to do with the 315 same-named files. I selected to let me choose for each file with a view to see which folder contained the larger/smaller/newer version of each file. Win10 then showed me a column of the file in each folder, together with the filesize and date modified - which made things easier. Then I noticed a tickbox at the bottom that said to "Skip files of the same size and date". Ticked it and immediately it only showed the three files he'd amended, one was newer in the sub-folder and two in the main. Sorted these three out and could then happily delete the sub-folder knowing all the rest were duplicates.

The whole process would've taken a couple of hours manually with the folders he'd duplicated, or required a lower time after installing comparison software, in older versions of Windows, but only took a couple of minutes in Win10. Never tried this in Win 8/8.1 so don't know if this functionality was in there too, but whoever at Microsoft thought to add this tickbox - thank you! :D
 
Windows 8 has the same functionality (not sure if its as advanced as 10 off the top of my head) its one of the few things I do find lacking from Windows 7.
 
I set build 14251 off to install last night and went to bed. Just gone into my office to see the PC still upgrading :/. It's at 99% and says 96% against the final step of settings or something. I've no idea if its hung during the night, or if its genuinely taken 20 hours to get this far?

Anyone else installed the latest Insider build? Did it take forever for you?
 
I set build 14251 off to install last night and went to bed. Just gone into my office to see the PC still upgrading :/. It's at 99% and says 96% against the final step of settings or something. I've no idea if its hung during the night, or if its genuinely taken 20 hours to get this far?

Anyone else installed the latest Insider build? Did it take forever for you?

Did my server a few days ago in about an hour.
 
Well I assumed it had crashed, so restarted it, and it sat on the Windows boot (blue Windows icon) for aaaaaages (about 3 hours) and has now dropped back to applying the update again, and is currently at 0% :(
 
Well I assumed it had crashed, so restarted it, and it sat on the Windows boot (blue Windows icon) for aaaaaages (about 3 hours) and has now dropped back to applying the update again, and is currently at 0% :(

But but Windows 10 updates will be flawless and tested and.... :P hence why I like to leave major updates to my own timetable and HATE any degree of forced update. (That was pretty much my experience on half of my devices when I updated to 1511).

EDIT: LOL wtf "we couldn't apply some updates because the PC was turned off" in context kind of funny as it had to have been turned on to do any of the actions that triggered the message. I just started the 14251 update so will post back when its done.
 
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It's not just Windows 10. We've had a few bad patches for 7,8.1 and Office in the last few months.

MS shouldn't have fired most of the QA and testing teams...
 
Atleast with the older OSes though you can disable automatic updates and deal with it when you have time to.

EDIT: Started the update at 12:13, finished at 13:18

EDIT2: Its not gone ok - its a screw up - the task bar only responds to right clicks and is missing half the icons including most of the notification tray, task manager is half stuck in some really ugly old UI scheme for a start - gonna try restarting.

Restarting solved that but I'm seeing an error message briefly pop up just as it switches over to the desktop which goes to quickly to read.
 
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Can you or can you not install Win 10 from scratch with a Win 7 retail key without upgrading first?

When 10 first came out you couldn't, it was upgrade over the top first which was a stupid decision by MS in the first place.

Since the major update last November (build 10586) you can now install 10 cleanly without upgrading first with a 7, 8 or 8.1 key. It's how it should have been done in the first place.
 
Lol, Rroff off on is rant horse again

It's an Insider Preview build, all your crying about broken updates and no testing are null and void.

Wait, wtf are you doing running Insider builds given your stance on hating upates anyway? That's like complaining your being **** on while deliberately standing under a sewage outlet?
 
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Lol, Rroff off on is rant horse again

It's an Insider Preview build, all your crying about broken updates and no testing are null and void.

I had (and far from alone) pretty much the same experience as you had but with the 1511 proper release and would be totally unsurprised to see it on future not-insider builds either.
 
^^ I keep my systems upto date - I also picked up a Windows 10 tablet a couple of days after it was released and checked to make sure it had the latest updates as part of setting it up - which turned into a horrendous mess if you missed my posts at the time and did exactly give or take what you experienced to a brand new less than 2 day old fresh install of Windows 10 completely automatically of its own accord - I just clicked the button and left it to it. (With the full release of 1511 as the tablet is not on insider/fast ring).
 
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So my remark about a sewage outlet was pretty apt? Your deliberately putting yourself in the path of updates you aren't being forced to take just so you can then complain about them.

:rolleyes:
 
What? not all of my systems are on insider ring. I keep upto date with whatever updates are relevant to those systems.

EDIT: Oh nice... on the subject of errors and stuff just booted up one of my VMs to be met with a RunDLL error - Missing entry: RefreshBannedAppsList and a load of software/files are missing... good thing this is a system on the insider ring.
 
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Rroff, I think Microsoft is deliberately targeting you!

My partner's 68 year old parents managed to update a few work laptops without issue (against my advice) they can barely use email.

I just don't know how you are having so many issues or why your even bothering with win10 given your experience so far.
 
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