I say it is just like windows 10 in general.
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I say it is just like windows 10 in general.
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Microsoft,Oh Microsoft..why do you do this..
Windows 8.1/Windows 7 updates
KB3075249
KB3080149
Spy on you apparently,Just like the crap in windows 10.
Windows 8.1/Windows 7 updates
KB3075249
KB3080149
Spy on you apparently,Just like the crap in windows 10.
That's not what they are. Look up the KB numbers at MS. One is for people who agree to participate in their Customer Experience Improvement Program which you can opt out of at any time, and one tracks low level programs that ask for elevated admin status (ie tracking threats from unsigned programs asking for admin privileges).
Sure, we could belive that MS is lying, but then you couldn't trust anything from any of their OSes, as they could be lying about that too.
I did this also (except bought two SSDs and made two clones). Samsung drives, so used their own software.
I was hoping to do the same with my laptop, only one HDD but two partitions. But whatever I try, I cannot clone to the partition. I gave up in the end.
Interested to see you mentioning an Asus Eee... was that one of the older models or the newer X205TA model, one of which I updated a few days ago?
An interesting experience, to say the least!
It was an older 2009 model. When win 10 originally rebooted it came up with "recovery" and errors but after a couple of reboots sorted itself.
Main initial error was "ACPI driver missing" - I found out that deleting the original hotkeys program resolved this - removed the error but also the hotkeys didn't work. (i.e fn keys).
More googling found that there was an ACPI 8.1 driver on the ASUS site for a later Eee, and this runs so hotkeys (fn operated keys) now work so can turn Bluetooth on /off via fn keys etc. So all hunky-dory!
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No. And if the installer had warned me that the firewall would be disabled, or even that it wasn't Win10 compatible, I wouldn't have a complaint. But it didn't. It completely disabled it without telling me it had done so and left my PC totally unprotected. That fits the definition of malware.
Ah yes, forgot all about that. Used the Windows 7 one, installed 10 and all has gone quite well so far.
Only real niggle (other than it importing a bunch of settings from my Windows 10 tablet without asking me first), is that the taskbar icons look a mess. Really badly resized. Other than that, no performance issues, no bugs or crashes, I'm very impressed.
I am impressed with w10 management of multiple monitors. I have four and the top one is plugged into an HDMI splitter. The other output on that splitter is a projector.
When I turn the projector on, all screens go off and goes to the projector - this is how I want it. And when the projector goes off - all screens come back on automatically.
This isn't the splitter doing it, its w10 as the splitter technically should duplicate the top screen but because I set w10 this way the first time I turned the projector on it remember.
However this brings me onto the only issue I have with w10. When the projector goes off and all screens come back on - the start menu tiles only have text with no background and in Edge, the bookmarks only have icons and no text.
Very weird - but is a very specific issue.
When I turn the projector on, all screens go off and goes to the projector - this is how I want it. And when the projector goes off - all screens come back on automatically.
This isn't the splitter doing it, its w10 as the splitter technically should duplicate the top screen but because I set w10 this way the first time I turned the projector on it remember.
However this brings me onto the only issue I have with w10. When the projector goes off and all screens come back on - the start menu tiles only have text with no background and in Edge, the bookmarks only have icons and no text.
Very weird - but is a very specific issue.
Anyone had any issues where by you start the pc leave it for a while say 10 - 15 mins then come back and its frozen?
Had this a few times now where I've started it then come back and its loaded everything up and its on the desktop but the keyboard and mouse are unresponsive.
Had this a few times now where I've started it then come back and its loaded everything up and its on the desktop but the keyboard and mouse are unresponsive.
that sounds like a hardware issue? have you got an led code panel on your motherboard
Yeah that really does sound like a hardware or overclock problem.
Have you overclocked CPU/GFX cards and/or running SLI?
I had issues with NVidia drivers that came down via windows update which froze my computer after about 5 minutes on SLI - resolved with uninstalling and downloading direct from Nvidia.
In regards to overclocks - I had this issue once where it would freeze randomly. 15 mins/30 mins and it was due to a bad overclock setting I applied.
Nope no overclock, used to have one which was preset from overclockers from about 2 years ago but I removed it due to stability and bluescreening so its now running at stock.
There's nothing interesting in the window logs and this is on a fresh install of windows, only really installed the graphics card drivers, although saying that i'm thinking it could be something to do with that. Often i'll turn the pc on then i might turn the tv on which is connected to the PC, so windows tends to shuffle the screen displays round once it detects another monitor.
There's nothing interesting in the window logs and this is on a fresh install of windows, only really installed the graphics card drivers, although saying that i'm thinking it could be something to do with that. Often i'll turn the pc on then i might turn the tv on which is connected to the PC, so windows tends to shuffle the screen displays round once it detects another monitor.
One of the first things I did when upgrading to Windows 10 was to remove the arrows by using the old Windows 7 registry tweak. As far as I can see, it hasn't broken anything.
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Has anyone noticed that the 'Ask Cortana' feature on Edge has disappeared?
