Windows 10

I've finally decided to get the laptop upgraded, and after figuring out that the media creation tool can't upgrade an English (United Kingdom) version of windows 8.1 to 10 I went for the windows 10 pro 64-bit DVD I created a few months ago using the aforementioned media creation tool to engage the upgrade and I'm currently at 83% total complete with configuring settings now at 34%.

I just have to hope that everything is complete by this evening since it's the only system that has my video editing software on.
 
Is there a way to tidy up the navigation pane in File Explorer to be more like Win7? I hate the ugly pin icons in Quick Access and the default user folders appearing under Computer (sorry, "My PC") what a stupid idea that was, why cant they just list the disc drives ffs

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Oh come on Microsoft! Your taking the pee now!

A whole new Insider Build for a couple of bug fixes!! Really!! This is like the 4th new build this week!
 
darael said:
Since the last batch of updates, has anybody been getting "Windows Module Installer" working in the background for about 2 hours? On two PCs this is happening.
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I had it on my laptop but not my desktop. It seemed to sort itself out eventually though
 
Well, the laptop completed its upgrade and I am impressed as even though it was chugging through the small amount of updates it had to download and install (it took at least 4 hours before it gave me the schedule restart notification) I could still use the computer which was something I couldn't do before, and those games that windows 8.1 broke now work again and even with the more generic 4200 series graphics driver FTL runs as smooth as glass where with the driver that got dumped into windows 8 caused it to lag badly (I actually fixed that by reverting to the windows 7 driver).

Since I've now gotten all the information I need, it's going to be windows 10 for all my computers from now on (the first of those being my current desktop since I need to get it off its no longer supported OS and onto something more current and supported).
 
I have rolled mine back to Windows 7, I'm fed up with the latest update failing to install and rolling back over and over again with no way to stop the installation, I might try 10 later on in the year when I build my new rig and see if it has improved by them
 
phil-k said:
I have rolled mine back to Windows 7, I'm fed up with the latest update failing to install and rolling back over and over again with no way to stop the installation, I might try 10 later on in the year when I build my new rig and see if it has improved by them
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I did the same on my PC, had 10 for awhile but a few weeks ago I went back to 7.

transfer speeds from SD card where poor (900kbps and lower) on windows 7 I was getting 32mb! with the same drivers installed.

one memory stick caused a number of BSOD even though memtest showed it fine.

no issues what so ever on 7, W10 would crash when using movie maker randomly which again was fine on 7.

doubt ill try 10 again till I get a new system that has w10 driver supported
 
silversurfer said:
Half of all PC are win7

http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/15/technology/microsoft-windows-10/index.html
MS wanted 1 billion windows 10 pc as a goal, hence the hard sell I guess
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Annoying thing is one of the reasons they likely won't hit that number is due to the collapse of Windows 10 mobile ecosystem but half the reason Windows 10 is poor in parts is due to the design approach where they've gone for catering to the lowest common denominator i.e. mobile when implementing features rather than dynamically implement them to take the best advantage of each device.
 
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Your both (and that article) talking like Windows 10 is a failure? Its still the fastest adopted Windows OS ever.

Microsoft set a ludicrously high target which they may not reach. But that just means its slightly less ludicrously successful than they wanted.

I wonder what the stats for 7 were like 1 year after launch? I expect XP still held well over half the market then too.

Edit: 60% XP and 17% 7.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/208486/Happy_Birthday_Windows_7_Anniversary_Stats.html
 
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Depends how you measure success - its basically being foisted on people, stealth upgrades, etc. so using the uptake numbers in isolation is potentially far from a truthful measure of real success.

It would be interesting to see the results of a "blind" test whereby people who ever only had exposure to XP were given the choice of Windows 7 or 10 as an upgrade (without being told which was newer) and see what numbers went for what.
 
Skeeter said:
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Funny thing is I'm not even talking about success or failure but that the OS is being held back from what it potentially could be due to reasons which increasingly are looking silly. You might not like my opinion but if you step back a bit and look at it objectively you'll find there is more truth to what I'm saying than you'll ever admit.
 
weyland yutani said:
Is there a way to tidy up the navigation pane in File Explorer to be more like Win7? I hate the ugly pin icons in Quick Access and the default user folders appearing under Computer (sorry, "My PC") what a stupid idea that was, why cant they just list the disc drives ffs

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Id be more concerned about those big black boxes you seem to be suffering with
 
Rroff said:
Funny thing is I'm not even talking about success or failure but that the OS is being held back from what it potentially could be due to reasons which increasingly are looking silly. You might not like my opinion but if you step back a bit and look at it objectively you'll find there is more truth to what I'm saying than you'll ever admit.
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Objectively? From the guy who's inventing incredibly skewed fictional situations to try and claw any excuse possible to say Windows 10 isn't successful? OK.

There's plenty wrong with Windows 10, but its not a failure. Don't tarnish the few good points you have by making up stupid arguments, and don't expect anyone to entertain an objective discussion with you when you do.

Dispite its many flaws, Windows 10 is a massive success. And I agree, if they avoided some of the flaws it would be even more successful.
 
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Skeeter said:
Objectively? From the guy who's inventing incredibly skewed fictional situations to try and claw any excuse possible to say Windows 10 isn't successful? OK.

There's plenty wrong with Windows 10, but its not a failure. Don't tarnish the few good points you have by making up stupid arguments, and don't expect anyone to entertain an objective discussion with you when you do.

Dispite its many flaws, Windows 10 is a massive success. And I agree, if they avoided some of the flaws it would be even more successful.
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Are you accusing me of lying?

I will put it in black and white here - hand on heart I have never invented any situation I have spoken about in this thread.
 
Lying? No?

But your XP user blind test is clearly a heavily skewed fictional situation you have cunjured up to try to play down Windows 10.

Why not give someone who's only used 10 the option of 7 or XP? Or a user of 8 the option of Vista or 95? They are all equally pointless and designed to artificially produce a skewed result.

10 has been adopted faster than 7, in higher volumes than 7, and has reduced the previous market leaders share to less than 50% in half the time 7 did.

Are you saying 10 isn't successful?
 
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Skeeter said:
But your XP user blind test is clearly a heavily skewed fictional situation you have cunjured up to try to play down Windows 10.
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No it isn't I said the results would be interesting to see from an objective point of view to see what people would really choose - I didn't speculate in which way people would choose.
 
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