Windows 10
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Got home from work earlier and it finally said that my Windows 10 upgrade was ready (was in no rush to need to do it manually). Took about an hour to install and then to download some other drivers. No activation needed, no error messages. Upgrade was very smooth, no problems at all so far.
Coming from W7, the Start menu will take some getting used to but at least it's a bit more sensible than vanilla Win8.
Coming from W7, the Start menu will take some getting used to but at least it's a bit more sensible than vanilla Win8.
I've upgraded too and everything seems to be running well. I wonder though if it's worth doing a clean install from USB? I've had my laptop for a year and a half and didn't bother re-installing windows when I got it so it's been running W8 and then W8.1 since then.
I would do a clean install, I did once I got my system upgraded to W10 as I prefer to have a clean OS rather than upgrades as something always gets left behind like the Windows.old folder and everything but that is there so you can roll back to your previous OS if you don't want to stay on W10
Thanks, think I'll give it a go.
before i do this, do I need to take out the second HD? I'm on a laptop so it's not exactly easy but presumably reinstalling through the USB would only affect the drive where Windows is currently i.e. the SSD
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Cosimo, thats how I got the upgrade on my laptop, just clicked Get Started, typed in my admin password and it was all done and dusted in 30 minutes or so
That failed just like all the other attempts. I will do a clean install when the dust settles.
Its to record your gameplay footage. Seems to work in some games and not others
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Don't click to download? Why do you need two step verification for downloads?
I really need two step verification, have other issue with Edge, many sites I visited Edge automatically download javascript files as there was no file to click to download.
Oh right, thanks. Well it wouldn't work for me anyway when I tried. And now I know what it's for, I don't think I'll even bother with it in the future.
I was hoping it would be something more useful
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Windows update is saying I can download the files now. Does being on a legacy BIOS booting into Windows 7 matter at all, as in, will Windows 10 after the upgrade just legacy boot the same way 7 does?
Also, my 100mb recovery partition is visible after cloning to a new ssd a little while back, this shouldn't make a difference to the upgrade at all, right?
Also, my 100mb recovery partition is visible after cloning to a new ssd a little while back, this shouldn't make a difference to the upgrade at all, right?
Anybody notice Intel Driver utility 2.2 does not work right,comes up empty after scan like there is no Intel drivers installed,funny considering I just downloaded and installed manually the new Win10 Intel Lan driver for my main PC.
Did not get this issue on Win8.1 so guessing it is the Intel check program needs to be updated again.
Just got the notification for new System Mechanic 14.6 version out so installing that now.
I disabled fast start up as well, that kept my mouse and external USB hub on(all blue lighted) even after full shutdown,now it goes off,was fine on Win8.1(after disabling fast start up) so Win10 must have reset my power/boot start options on upgrade.
No real issues however,all stable.
Did not get this issue on Win8.1 so guessing it is the Intel check program needs to be updated again.
Just got the notification for new System Mechanic 14.6 version out so installing that now.
I disabled fast start up as well, that kept my mouse and external USB hub on(all blue lighted) even after full shutdown,now it goes off,was fine on Win8.1(after disabling fast start up) so Win10 must have reset my power/boot start options on upgrade.
No real issues however,all stable.
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Ditto with the Intel update utility. It also failed to see any such device on my Gigabyte Z77 UD5H board....!
I also installed the latest Intel NIC drivers and even though they are dated very recent if you check the date of the actual driver installed under device manager it is older than the ones installed by MS. It might seem more featured but it does not show as being newer.
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Only issue i've had recently is getting Low RAM warnings while playing dirt rally. I've got 8Gb & 64bit OS. The system monitoring s/w i use doesnt show anything out of the ordinary or give me any alerts, but W10 tells me i should shut down the program anyway
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Upgrade seemed to go OK until it finished booting into 10 desktop for the first time. The taskbar became unresponsive and the HDDs started being thrashed big time, then desktop went black and icon graphics are screwed up. The HDDs are still going now and the taskbar has been unresponsive for 20 minutes (In know because the time is stuck on 3:10!)
I'll leave it thrashing doing whatever it is trying to, can't access task manager either because it just hangs if I load it up, seems like there's something major happening to explorer.exe if I were to guess.
Anyone else had this?
I'll leave it thrashing doing whatever it is trying to, can't access task manager either because it just hangs if I load it up, seems like there's something major happening to explorer.exe if I were to guess.
Anyone else had this?
I always like to have latest drivers, found my Intel Rapid Storage driver software for my SSD cache was old too,so updated that to the latest version.
Run System Mechanic and had 128 registry issues(mostly invalid leftover ones),fixed those and a defrag.
I know some people are scared to touch registry but does backup anyway,been doing that now for about five to six years without issues.
Running smooth,off to game now
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