Windows 10

PapaLazaru said:
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Whilst trying to download to USb using Media Creation Tool.

Anyone?
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How much free space do you have in drive C:?

Also disabled anti-virus then run setup again.
 
AthlonXP1800 said:
How much free space do you have in drive C:?

Also disabled anti-virus then run setup again.
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Not a lot since I started faffing about trying to get it to run last night. Had 4.6gb, now 1.6gb.

I got the same message when downloading it straight onto C (when I had 4.6gb), hence why I then tried to dl it onto USB.
 
Psyoletic said:
Anybody been suffering with these visual errors?




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Hmmm you don't have task view button, search box or button on taskbar. I had same issue when I had startisgone app in startup caused visual error in taskbar with nearly all icons vanished.

Right click on taskbar to check show task view button and search/show search icon or search box all ticked?

Show me list of apps you have in startup that would caused visual errors.
 
PapaLazaru said:
Not a lot since I started faffing about trying to get it to run last night. Had 4.6gb, now 1.6gb.

I got the same message when downloading it straight onto C (when I had 4.6gb), hence why I then tried to dl it onto USB.
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Ah that explained error codes was caused by low space. Setup required 13GB free space to install Windows 10.

Try run disk cleanup to get rid of files and backup some data to free up 13GB space.
 
Wonder why MS took out 3D scanning in win 10? Win 8.1 has it and it's easy to use and cheap to do it. Another mistake by MS
 
I try to avoid posting opinions on the front page, but now that I've had the chance to do a clean install of the retail build of Windows 10 and delve into it, I feel compelled to share some thoughts with you. To me, Windows 10 is one step forward, two steps back. Sure, the interface is now unified, but Metro integration is now much harder to avoid as well, and user control has been diminished even further. Case in point: I wanted to set Windows Photo Viewer as my default image viewer, instead of the Photos app. In Windows 10, Microsoft has deliberately made this impossible to do without resorting to editing the Registry. Why? To unashamedly force you to use the Metro-based app. Similarly, the somewhat bloated new Start Menu seems to have interesting potential at first, until you realize that it is extremely limited in terms of customization options. Exploring its features, I quickly found that Windows 10 offers me virtually nothing new of practical use over Windows 8.1. Indeed users now have much less control over some features, such as the infamous Windows Update changes which see everyone forced to automatically accept updates. And of course MS has stepped up its efforts to foist its OneDrive and Bing services upon users through tighter integration, as well as mining your data wherever possible. Something has to pay for this free upgrade.

I could provide plenty more examples of annoying or counter-productive feature and UI changes and the forced use of watered-down Metro apps, which I believe outweigh the benefits of Windows 10. As harsh as it may seem, that's my honest opinion at the moment. Of all the versions of Windows I've used over the past 25+ years, Windows 10 has required the greatest amount of tweaking and use of third party programs to get it close to my desired state. Maybe MS will refine Windows 10 and offer greater choice. For now, I recommend sticking with Windows 7 or even Windows 8.1 if you value control over your OS and your data.
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http://www.tweakguides.com/
 
shamus21 said:
The longer I wait before installing win 10 the more and more problems keep coming up.
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Same...

And time and time again I still don't understand how Microsoft manage to continue to get something so wrong which many Linux distros have been getting right for decades...

Let the user customise absolutely anything and everything if they want to

It shouldn't be hard to let everything be tweakable; users who don't care about that will never even know the settings exist, users who do will be eternally grateful for it... With all the gushing about how "it's your OS" "giving you the best experience" etc. etc. why not actually deliver on that?

Also amusing that they seemlingly ran so short on new features they had to pull in virtual Workspaces as if it's some sort of big innovation... Not only does it sound like their implementation of it is severely lacking and poorly thought out, it's again another feature which has been around for ages on other platforms (and even hidden away in earlier Windows versions)

Perhaps a combination of updates and 3rd party tools will fix these issues in time, but there's no excuse to not get these aspects right in the first place
 
Bah, spoke to soon. Put in my wireless card and its jaffed the system :( Tried restoring and that failed....now trying a reset, stuck on 99% for the last 30 mins.

Getting a bit sick of this now.
 
PapaLazaru said:
Possibly, but I am getting that error when also trying to download it onto usb.
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If you are using the MS media creation tool to write to USB, it still needs space on the C: drive, then it copies the files to USB.

Just clear some space, Windows has always needed free space on the C: drive.
 
I think the new Start Menu would be better if you could use the space on the right where pinned apps are to show your most used and recently installed apps instead. I don't really have any need to pin things there, so it's currently just a grey space apart from Calculator whilst the left side is far too busy.
 
MichaelAwkward said:
I think the new Start Menu would be better if you could use the space on the right where pinned apps are to show your most used and recently installed apps instead. I don't really have any need to pin things there, so it's currently just a grey space apart from Calculator whilst the left side is far too busy.
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Then remove the calculator, drag the grey space to the left using the edge of it, then leave most used apps on the left side...As you use Calculator often (I assume) it should stay there. OR pin it to your task bar
 
Delvis said:
Then remove the calculator, drag the grey space to the left using the edge of it, then leave most used apps on the left side...As you use Calculator often (I assume) it should stay there. OR pin it to your task bar
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Ahhhh. I didn't realise you can get rid of it if you unpin everything. Awesome, much better.

With all the tweaks from the FAQ thread, I've managed to remove all of the default apps bar Contact Support, Cortana (switched off), Microsoft Edge, Store and Windows Feedback. Got rid of the action centre too. I'm quite pleased with Windows 10 now.
 
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I have a few questions about Windows 10 (Sorry if these have been asked and answered but 278 pages is a lot to trawl through!)

1) How do you "trigger" the download? - I signed up a couple of months ago when the little Windows logo popped up in my task bar but I can't see anywhere to start the process!?!?

2) Will I be able to go back to my retail copy of Windows 7 if I don't like it?

3) Did I read somewhere that they have removed Windows Media Centre/Player? (if so, can you download it separately or is it "gone"?)

Thanks...
 
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