Windows 10

Digital X · 15 Jan 2020 at 16:12

Not sure if related, but my sound just glitched out. It's like a "buzz" sound while playing a Youtube video, and my mouse froze/unfroze as I was moving it. Any ideas? It happens kinda often.

LoadsaMoney · 15 Jan 2020 at 17:53

I hope they don't force that Chromium Edge they've just released, as im using FF.

^ Ive had no porblems here after updating.

Deleted member 77746 · 15 Jan 2020 at 17:57

^^ They won't force Chromium it will probably be optional and I would say edge will be removed to make way for chromium. I assumed Chromium was going to be released today. Anyone got the update for this yet?

EDIT: Microsoft Chromium Edge has been released to the wild.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge

V F · 16 Jan 2020 at 22:54

Digital X said:
Not sure if related, but my sound just glitched out. It's like a "buzz" sound while playing a Youtube video, and my mouse froze/unfroze as I was moving it. Any ideas? It happens kinda often.

Onboard sound? Latest drivers?

Digital X · 17 Jan 2020 at 14:28

Yeah it's onboard, hooked up to my TV. Latest drivers going by Device Manager.

melmac · 21 Jan 2020 at 12:52

I have been asked to upgrade a friends computer from Window 7 to Windows 10.

Until recently I know you could still upgrade for free by using a USB key. Does this still work? Or do you have to buy Windows 10 at this stage?

darael · 21 Jan 2020 at 15:11

melmac said:
I have been asked to upgrade a friends computer from Window 7 to Windows 10.

Until recently I know you could still upgrade for free by using a USB key. Does this still work? Or do you have to buy Windows 10 at this stage?

It's possible to transfer to transfer the Windows 7 license to Windows 10.

How to Directly Clean Install Windows 10 without having to Upgrade First - Windows 10 Forums

darael · 21 Jan 2020 at 22:59

Kind of Windows 10 related, as I suppose it's Mcirosoft's way of encouraging users to make the switch from 7 to 10:
End of support means end of wallpapers? - Reddit

Tute · 22 Jan 2020 at 00:28

darael said:
Kind of Windows 10 related, as I suppose it's Mcirosoft's way of encouraging users to make the switch from 7 to 10:
End of support means end of wallpapers? - Reddit

This kind of thing is utterly pathetic.

Rroff · 22 Jan 2020 at 00:37

I'm assuming activation servers were glitchy - wallpaper restrictions happen when the machine fails authentication - sometimes due to pirated copies sometimes due to MS's servers having an off day (which the OS really shouldn't have such a dependency on).

EDIT: And/or messed up patch I doubt it was intentional but usually wallpaper issues are due to activation restrictions.

melmac · 22 Jan 2020 at 17:22

darael said:
It's possible to transfer to transfer the Windows 7 license to Windows 10.

How to Directly Clean Install Windows 10 without having to Upgrade First - Windows 10 Forums

Thanks, but I need to be able to do an upgrade not a clean install if at all possible.

ChrisD. · 22 Jan 2020 at 18:34

Why? Just macrium reflect backup to an external drive and restore what you need after a clean install.

The_Arbiter · 23 Jan 2020 at 13:00

Just installed Win10, it's already been a painful experience.

If it wasn't for Steam, i'd really been looking at Linux or chromeOS right now.

It appears to have some nice things going on, but generally, trying to streamline and get things simplified is either not intuitive or not possible so far..

Buffalo2102 · 23 Jan 2020 at 15:11

It can be a pain to get it how you want it. Once you do, make an image and store it somewhere so you don't have to do it all again when you need to re-install.

Agamemnon · 24 Jan 2020 at 01:20

melmac said:
I have been asked to upgrade a friends computer from Window 7 to Windows 10.

Until recently I know you could still upgrade for free by using a USB key. Does this still work? Or do you have to buy Windows 10 at this stage?

melmac said:
Thanks, but I need to be able to do an upgrade not a clean install if at all possible.

Yeah I did it twice this month on seperate hhd's both with win7 fully licenced. (trial version wont work) You will get like for like. win7 basic to win10 basic. Win7 pro to win10 pro. Just download the Windows media creation tool from microsoft.com (https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10) and you'll need Rufus and a spare formatted USB.

Agamemnon · 24 Jan 2020 at 01:24

The_Arbiter said:
Just installed Win10, it's already been a painful experience.

If it wasn't for Steam, i'd really been looking at Linux or chromeOS right now.

It appears to have some nice things going on, but generally, trying to streamline and get things simplified is either not intuitive or not possible so far..

Yeah that Linux is really tempting especially how well the games play on distros like pop os and steams own distro.

Tute · 24 Jan 2020 at 01:57

The_Arbiter said:
Just installed Win10, it's already been a painful experience.

If it wasn't for Steam, i'd really been looking at Linux or chromeOS right now.

It appears to have some nice things going on, but generally, trying to streamline and get things simplified is either not intuitive or not possible so far..

Having given in this week and moved my Windows partition over to 10, i'm finding the experience frustrating at best. It took me hours to strip all the crap out of it, lock it down and generally get it halfway to where I want it to be, at which point a Windows update just restored it all back, leaving me with no choice but to start again.

Also there's a half decent OS under all the crap that is layered on top of it. It's like finding your £100 perfectly cooked steak served in a bowl drowning in urine. I can feel there's still some talent at Microsoft with good ideas but sadly corporate have had their way with it.

Agamemnon · 24 Jan 2020 at 02:11

Tute said:
Having given in this week and moved my Windows partition over to 10, i'm finding the experience frustrating at best. It took me hours to strip all the crap out of it, lock it down and generally get it halfway to where I want it to be, at which point a Windows update just restored it all back, leaving me with no choice but to start again.

Also there's a half decent OS under all the crap that is layered on top of it. It's like finding your £100 perfectly cooked steak served in a bowl drowning in urine. I can feel there's still some talent at Microsoft with good ideas but sadly corporate have had their way with it.

There is a very lightweight program designed to turn off the telemetry and Cortana and other undesirable features of windows 10. It's called o&oshutup10. It was recommended by a YouTuber called "Barnacules Nerdgasm". I use it, it works and there are no adverts or spyware. And when windows 10 updates, when you open shutup it tells you if windows has altered your settings. Oh, and it's free.

Infidelus · 24 Jan 2020 at 10:01

The_Arbiter said:
Just installed Win10, it's already been a painful experience.

If it wasn't for Steam, i'd really been looking at Linux or chromeOS right now.

It appears to have some nice things going on, but generally, trying to streamline and get things simplified is either not intuitive or not possible so far..

I know I've mentioned this before, but there are a significant number of Steam games that do actually work on Linux now using Proton. There's still a lot that don't obviously, but you can always check ProtonDB to see if your favourite works.

melmac · 24 Jan 2020 at 12:32

Agamemnon said:
Yeah I did it twice this month on seperate hhd's both with win7 fully licenced. (trial version wont work) You will get like for like. win7 basic to win10 basic. Win7 pro to win10 pro. Just download the Windows media creation tool from microsoft.com (https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10) and you'll need Rufus and a spare formatted USB.

Thanks mate!! Just needed to be sure it still worked before I tried it.