Win 10 - list your post install problems

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Maybe we can help each other find solutions. So I'll start.

After successful upgrade (was quick and smooth), my display will not wake up if it goes into standby. For now I've just disabled all power saving features. A reinstall of AMD drivers did not fix this.

Apps (eg Chrome) will occasionally stop rending, and just appear blank (black).

The start menu will stop rendering and appear empty.

Fonts using the legacy rendering engine are blurry, fuzzy and crap (as seen in legacy dialog boxes and some apps). Fonts using the new rendering engine are clear and crisp (eg Chrome, desktop, title and menu bars on some apps).

There are other issues for me but more minor ones. Eg the you aren't taken straight to the lock screen when you wake the PC, it shows your desktop for a good 10 seconds and then takes you to the lock screen.

All in all, I think a clean install may be necessary to fix my problems.
 
After 10 attempts to upgrade I have to say it's been the most ball ache OS upgrade to date.

Not keen on the tablet mode being in the action menu rather than a desktop tile in the start menu.

The edge browser is carp on tablets as it's a complete 180 turn around from 8.1 where the Modern UI browser was geared towards a mobile device. The address bar and navigation is at the top and there's no swipe left and right for backwards and forwards page functions.

Haven't seen a way to set some parameters for quiet hours, so I imagine you have to remember to activate quiet hours manually otherwise risk getting woken by a notification.

No option I've seen to scroll the start screen in tablet mode from left to right.

This seems a backward step on a tablet compared to 8.1 to me.
 
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Here's a cute bug with the new Photo app (viewer).

Open a folder containing pictures and open the first photo in the folder (top left in the folder window). Observe that you cannot use left/right arrow keys to move between pictures.

Close, and then open /any other/ picture in that folder. You can now use left/right arrow keys to move between all pictures in the folder.

This bug only affects you if you open the first picture in a folder.
 
FoxEye said:
Here's a cute bug with the new Photo app (viewer).

Open a folder containing pictures and open the first photo in the folder (top left in the folder window). Observe that you cannot use left/right arrow keys to move between pictures.

Close, and then open /any other/ picture in that folder. You can now use left/right arrow keys to move between all pictures in the folder.

This bug only affects you if you open the first picture in a folder.
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Do you not simpley use the scroll wheel on the mouse to flip through the pics ?
 
Biggest problem is that the display won't go into standby.


In terms of small bugs, I've noticed that windows won't always come into focus as they should. Eg if you're copying files and you get a prompt about overwriting files - it'll be in the backround and you shave to select the prompt manually.


Also, it doesn't remember you're using PIN numbers to logon when switching between users.
 
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Here's a good one.
Just done another test install onto my main machine.
the Ethernet was unplugged.
The install went well.
Switched off and slotted my storage drives back in and booted up into Win 10.
Booted up nicely.
I noticed straight away that the Recycle Bin had files in it.
Odd I thought. I had NOT deleted any files. In fact done nothing.
On my storage drive I have a folder called "Destroy Windows Spying"
Inside were a couple of these new anti spying apps and some other related files, scripts.

Win 10 had only gone and deleted those files for me.

WHAT ???

I recon Defender is on a secret mission. Win 10 is doing more than spying on us.
 
Another small one - when opening a new explorer window often get a pause of about 10 seconds then the window pops up blank of any files and instantly closes then opens again with the blue spinning thingy for about 5 seconds before working properly. On a mechanical HDD it can take a good 2 minutes sometimes.
 
Onedrive has crashed a couple of times when playing games, leading to reselecting the folders i want backed up.

Only annoying one i've had so far has only happened a couple of times, but when playing Dirt Rally i'm getting low RAM warnings. I've got 8Gb & 64bit OS and the system monitoring tool i use hasnt shown any increase in RAM. Usually hovers around the 4.3Gb used mark.
 
I'm interested to know if anybody has had overheating issues with their CPU and/or increased overall power usage from the PC (measured at the plug)? I've heard Windows 10 uses higher clock speeds when idle and some computers, particulary laptops, run hotter.
 
tnx said:
Do you not simpley use the scroll wheel on the mouse to flip through the pics ?
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Same thing happens. Click the first picture in the folder and you can't navigate through the others, by any means.

Click any of the others and you can.

This does not affect the slideshow app, just the photo viewer app ("Photos").
 
darael said:
I'm interested to know if anybody has had overheating issues with their CPU and/or increased overall power usage from the PC (measured at the plug)? I've heard Windows 10 uses higher clock speeds when idle and some computers, particulary laptops, run hotter.
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To my knowledge that is due to GPU drivers - some releases don't downclock the GPU properly on Windows 10 but it should be fixed in the latest AMD and nVidia drivers.
 
items missing in the 'open with' menu, when you want to change default app. had to sort out manually.

quite frequent 'nvidia driver stopped working' crashes on boot up on 1 PC.
 
FoxEye said:
Same thing happens. Click the first picture in the folder and you can't navigate through the others, by any means.

Click any of the others and you can.

This does not affect the slideshow app, just the photo viewer app ("Photos").
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Will have to test further..

Cheers...

Win 10 just gets worse and worse.
 
FoxEye said:
Maybe we can help each other find solutions. So I'll start.

The start menu will stop rendering and appear empty.
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When I have had that happen, running this command in powershell (admin mode) fixes it straight away.

Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register “$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml”}
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darael said:
I'm interested to know if anybody has had overheating issues with their CPU and/or increased overall power usage from the PC (measured at the plug)? I've heard Windows 10 uses higher clock speeds when idle and some computers, particulary laptops, run hotter.
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I have no evidence other than circumstantial but laptop is spinning up it's fans more than it was when it was running Windows 7.

Bug I am seeing is that the start menu is not keeping the tile layout between reboots which is rather annoying. It doesn't remove anything just shoves it around at random leaving large gaps ...
 
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