Windows 10

llamadal said:
Rroff, I think Microsoft is deliberately targeting you!

My partner's 68 year old parents managed to update a few work laptops without issue (against my advice) they can barely use email.

I just don't know how you are having so many issues or why your even bothering with win10 given your experience so far.
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My entire intervention was clicking the check for updates and reboot buttons everything else was done automatically by the Windows Update process so you can't really blame me :P.

Not every system/update fails or failed - when I did 1511 final updates slightly over half the systems went fine, but on some it was a catastrophe - one of which was a completely fresh install being updated to 1511 and the other a system that had been running awhile so very little in common.

(If you look on google, etc. its not an unusual story).

I'm bothering with Windows 10 because I actually try new stuff not just hate on it without ever touching it despite the perception I'm not just hating on Windows 10 but actually want to see a solid OS out of it - but it ain't going anywhere near my main systems any time soon.

After many months of moaning they finally put the ability to have an extra tile wide on the start menu yay so maybe eventually they'll make the other changes needed.
 
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llamadal said:
Rroff, I think Microsoft is deliberately targeting you!

My partner's 68 year old parents managed to update a few work laptops without issue (against my advice) they can barely use email.

I just don't know how you are having so many issues or why your even bothering with win10 given your experience so far.
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Given his incredibly vocal stance against everything Windows 10, its really bizarre that he not only runs it, but keeps it right up to date and also runs the insider builds, even though nothing is forcing him too?

It's as if he's doing it deliberately just to ensure he has something to complain about? Most other people who have his views on 10 have stuck with 7.

It's very odd.
 
You miss the bit where I've stuck with 7 on my main systems?

Contrary to your perception I'm not just hating on Windows 10 and there is a reason why I keep upto date with Windows 10 - there is the potential there for an OS that can significantly superseded Windows 7 let down by some very poor decisions and execution by Microsoft that I hope eventually they will get past. For some reason people seem to be very short sighted towards these issues and can't see the bigger longer term issues with them.
 
That attitude would align to having perhaps one machine on 10 Preview so you can keep in tune with what's going on. But you made statements about having upgraded all your "machines" to 1511 (ignoring another selection of multiple "machines" on 7) and that over half of them had various issues. Exactly how many machines have you got that your deliberately pushing Windows 10 on in order to be so confident that it's all broke because you've had so many issues? You make it sound like you have 20 machines your constantly updating in the hope they break?

I'm a horder of technology and even I only have 4 Windows machines and a Windows tablet.
 
Windows 10 tablet (Toshiba Click 10), my old Q9550 system (so as to free up a Win 7 license), 2 old laptops - one a single core atom I was curious to see performance on and a couple of VM installs on my main system.

I have a fair amount of systems/devices - even just tablet wise I've got the Click 10, Sony Xperia Z (largely acting as a backup 4G router though), Encore 8 and Linx 7 (For reading datasheets, etc. so doesn't matter if I accidentally put a soldering iron through the screen or something) in frequent use. Never mind desktops.
 
I have been using Windows 10 now for about a month, and so far I love it.

From a very basic and user perspective, it seems to incorporate the things I loved about Windows 7 and 8.1 into one OS.

So far, so good.

The upgrade was also remarkably straight forward.
 
Not had any issues with 10 on desktop and Surface Book until today. The February 9 windows update on the Book has sat here working on updates stuck at 77% for ninety minutes. Now when do I pull the plug...
 
Cosimo said:
Not had any issues with 10 on desktop and Surface Book until today. The February 9 windows update on the Book has sat here working on updates stuck at 77% for ninety minutes. Now when do I pull the plug...
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Restarted manually after 90 minutes. February updates present and now on build 10586.104

Don't know what happened there but we're happy again.
 
Apologies if this has been talked about but im on Win10 pro(not insider) and i'm still on build 10240, i still get regular updates but not the 'big update' to 1511. Shouldnt i be on it by now, its been out since November?
 
Grandmaster Fap! said:
Apologies if this has been talked about but im on Win10 pro(not insider) and i'm still on build 10240, i still get regular updates but not the 'big update' to 1511. Shouldnt i be on it by now, its been out since November?
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Should definitely had the upgrade by now. My grandfather had the same issue, I instead forced the upgrade via the download tool as Windows update said all was up to date.

Just download the tool here and upgrade over the top, it's pretty much the same as what the Windows update would have done.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10
 
'Windows 10 Update History'

MS has launched a new 'Windows 10 Update History' site, giving a clear breakdown of what each such update includes...


“After listening to feedback regarding the level of disclosure for Windows 10 updates, we decided to implement a new system for communicating updates to the operating system,” a Microsoft representative told me. “Today we are rolling out the Windows 10 update history site, a hub for the release notes that will accompany each update and serve as a historical record of prior release notes.”
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Here it is:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/update-history-windows-10
 
im thinking of upgrading to windows 10 from 7 pro,,,my question is will all my steam games,,,motherboard utillities and drivers etc be deleted? i only use this pc for gaming so have nothing in documents etc that i worry about just mainly my motherboard utillitys that i use to monitor temps/power and voltage etc and my steam/origin games plus my gpu drivers im worrying about

thanks
 
wigster said:
The mail shortcut kept on going white/bank at least once a week.
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Simian said:
Mine did that when it was pasted to the desktop... but it doesn't seem to have done it sine the November update!!
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Seems to still be happening,After all the updates you would have thought it would be fixed.

Ive now moved my mail onto the taskbar to see if it will still happen??:confused:
 
Same issue with this build, its been going for 10 hours and only got to 23%

Last time it was something related to the 2 HDDs I have (C: drive is an SSD) so I've stopped the update, pulled the drives and will try again.

Edit: With the HDDs disconnected it updated in 10 minutes. Seems like a perfect excuse to bin these and replace with an SSD :p
 
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Might not be the HDDs - often it goes through in an hour or less on the second attempt (if it doesn't get stuck in a loop of restoring your previous OS due to being interrupted).
 
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