Windows 10

FatRakoon said:
I no longer use Fences, however, I did upgrade, it warned me that he program will need reinstalling and when I did the upgrade and reinstalled it, it did keep all the settings and so on.

This was with Fances 2.1 and so I think that if anything it will be even more compatible and so I would say that it should be just fine.
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So you upgraded with Fences installed/running... and apart from havnig to re-install it, all was OK?

Ta!
 
Does anyone know why the hell the notification icon keeps lighting up with "Windows Defender needs to scan your system" every five ****ing minutes? I've caved in let it scan but it still lights up again five minutes or so later with the same message.
 
Malevolence said:
Does anyone know why the hell the notification icon keeps lighting up with "Windows Defender needs to scan your system" every five ****ing minutes? I've caved in let it scan but it still lights up again five minutes or so later with the same message.
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Mines been doing that the last few days but only when I first turn my PC on. It seems its not remembering it did it the evening before. lol
 
Just updated today and noticed that jump lists have finally been re-added to the start menu. You can now pin recent documents if you had a piece of software pinned as a start menu tile. About time!
 
Gah, so the big update that arrived for me this morning totally borked my OS installation.

I had done the 7 to 10 upgrade route, so just now trying a fresh USB install of 10.

It was quite impressively screwed up, mind. Hardly any system operations worked, windows would hang, I couldn't power off or restart from the start menu and the PC would freeze completely after about three or four minutes, necessitating a hard reset.
 
Update: something odd has happened with my re-installation too :(

Re-installed from Windows Media USB, and everything seemed to be up and running. I then set the system to boot from C:/ in BIOS and... nothing. Just a flashing white cursor thing in the top left.

Boot options now include something called "Windows Boot Manager" which is separate from my C:/ drive, and I guess this is what the BIOS is now seeing the USB as. This wouldn't be too much problem, but the system doesn't seem to be saving some of my settings such as Chrome browsing data.

What the hell has happened here?!?

EDIT: nope, not the USB. It's just separate from the C drive. It boots okay with the USB removed, but there is the white cursor flashing at the top left when the Windows boot screen appears, which is what you usually see when it's booting from USB, but not when it's booting from a standard drive. Have I screwed up my installation in some way?
 
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Will probably be fine. Though given my experience I think I'll go for full installs rather than upgrades in the future. My Win10 was working great up until that one big upgrade this morning.

Now I've done a fresh install it seems fine too, apart from the odd boot behaviour noted above.
 
Now have 3 devices on Win ver 1511:

- yoga 13 (2014)
- i7 PC (2010 I think)
- ASUS Eee netbook (2009)

All seem reasonably happy. Microsoft seem to have been kind to me!

- 1 to go - new Z97-k Core i5 4690K 3.5 GHz (just bought mb+cpu from OCUK). Still on 1st Win 10 incarnation as not yet 30 days old!

2 XP PCs shut down and not really missed!
 
bigmac121 said:
I did a windows update yesterday.
Today it killed my PC. I had to reset it:mad:
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My newest build is only a mess about PC, but on day 2 of owning it, I saw the BIOS was F2 and the latest is F3a and so naturally, I upped it, only to hit a BSOD in the process and that rendered it useless.

GUTTED just does not cover my feelings.

However, thankfully, I read the website and it said dual BIOS and so I started her back up and I left her go for a few minutes and all of a sudden, she showed life with a message saying that she has failed to boot up blah blah and recovering from a backup and so on...

PHEW!

I didnt learn, I still tried it 2 more times only to find that he BIOS was for v1.2 Board and mine was 1.3 and they are not compatible.

Now I have it all done, plus I did that stupid face bios thingy and when you boot it up now, you have a pair of snakes eyes peering at you as soon as you turn her on, and so Im happy... bit of a child, but happy about it LOL.
 
bigmac121 said:
Rebooted fine Saturday night. Did a shutdown , Sunday would not log me in only option reset!
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Bizarre. I updated the laptop last night. This is an upgrade from 8.1, to Windows 10 release to the November release.

All appears to have went well. Done the same as you and no problem. I'm surprised how fast this release is on a laptop mechanical. Boots up within 20 seconds. I've still to create a USB install of the November release for the SSD.
 
Wow... never liked Windows 10 but having picked up a Windows 10 tablet cheap through work I'm actively hating it (actually trying to use it rather than dabbling on a test PC or VM)... came home from work today to find it had spent most of the day burning battery feeding windows updates to random people on the internet (forgot to disable that) and now having issues with updating to 1511 causing all sorts of problems... on top of several annoying bugs with windows opening/closing on their own or not responding for ages then suddenly opening ages later.
 
Quick question,

I purchased a Tesco Connect tablet with win 10 on and was all good until recently it has now just conked out on me.

I'm about to return it but I'm just worried that if they repair it that they will then just turn it on and have access to my files etc that are on there. Now, it was connected to Microsoft account and I used to use a pin to login. Im hoping they will just see this and reformat but I'm just paranoid they can reset the password and have access to my files!?
 
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