Windows 10

I think Microsoft are doing background installs on Windows 10 similar in the way spyware gets installed but for testing purposes and keeping it quiet. My computers with Windows 10 installs have really serious problems some days and the next seem to be back to normal.
 
Get-AppxPackage | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online | Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -online

Nice elevated PowerShell command to remove all the crap Windows 10 apps.

Such as?
Will this remove all pre-installed apps, or can you select what to remove?
 
Welp... I've put it off long enough, about to upgrade to a new system so going to end up being stuck with W10 I guess...

My g/f can get a copy of Windows 10 Education for free, and looking on the wiki comparison page it seems to have all of the features; has anybody else got this version and can confirm that it doesn't have any annoying limitations?
 
Such as?
Will this remove all pre-installed apps, or can you select what to remove?

If you want to remove the applications for all users use the AppxProvisionedPackage command.

Using AppxPackage will only remove for the current user and as others have noticed the applications get reinstalled again.

Use this command to get an easier to read list of applications,

Get-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online | Select DisplayName, PackageName

and this command to remove an application

Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -online -packagename XYZ

where XYZ = full PackageName, e.g.

Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -online -packagename Microsoft.Appconnector_2015.707.550.0_neutral_~_8wekyb3d8bbwe

There shouldn't be a space in the packagename above, it's not there when I edit the post !!!
 
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is there a version of windows10 where you can turn off all updates?
a business version or something?
ive been searching google but cant find anything useful

there's the "Using Group Policy Editor" but does that work 100%?

any tips appreciated >.<

There's the Enterprise LTSB (long term service branch). It doesn't include most of the Windows apps like news, weather etc and is only updated every quarter. Still receives security updates but misses out new features.
 
Welp... I've put it off long enough, about to upgrade to a new system so going to end up being stuck with W10 I guess...

My g/f can get a copy of Windows 10 Education for free, and looking on the wiki comparison page it seems to have all of the features; has anybody else got this version and can confirm that it doesn't have any annoying limitations?

Seems to be the same as Enterprise, just different licensing. Maybe features will be made available at a later date but I haven't seen anything different.
 
There firing the Previews out at quite a pace at the moment aren't they!

Installed 14291 and got the issue with Xbox pads crashing the system (I turned my wireless pad on and the system died, turned it off and it came back). I figured it couldn't be something as random as that so Googled it and confirmed it was. But before it could get in the way of my gaming 14295 rocked up and fixed it :)
 
Is there a spellchecker app for MS Edge browser that I can use?

Often when posting on OCUK I get the nasty red underline when I misspell and sometimes when I correct it the underline remains which means future words I type are ALL underlined regardless of if they are correct. Actually, it's just happened again now in this post. See IMG below.

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Only seems to happen on this forum though. Is it a bug? Help much appreciated.
 
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The mail app has improved, you can finally create folders and soon will be able to pop out a message from the main window.

Mine still doesn't sync unless I manually sync. Pita.

Have tried all the tips and fixes on the internet, uninstall and reinstalled, had Microsoft tech so everything......which was nothing...

Will be interesting to see a fresh install if it works but I wont be doing that for a few months at least.
 
They listened to insiders, the fast ring is being released faster but with more bugs. It's what people wanted.

It looks like they have stopped pushing hotfixes out to the Fast Ring Insider builds, and instead how just push a whole build out with them in. I've seen a few builds arrive that bring nothing but fixes.

Its not a problem, its just a noticeable change in pace given that previously we have gone a month or 2 between builds.
 
What type of mail account is it, POP/IMAP or exchange?

I had two on it originally, my normal outlook email, and my work exchange. They worked fine for a few months, and then when I updated to the fall update, it broke.

Reinstalled and its still broke - and that is for both accounts. My phone syncs fine with both but the PC doesn't.

Its not a major issue for me, but still...something that isn't working.
 
Windows hello coming to websites.
Can't wait for this. Good buy passwords for 600 sites you use. Hope websites get in on it. They announced a few.

And the drawing on top of Edge. That's coming to all apps. Which is great. Now can someone build a decent recipe app.

And 270million installs and counting,

Oh and bash for windows

Probably more but that's all I've got from build so far, as the keynotes aren't available yet.
 
Anyone have any idea why my windows keeps booting to startup settings? I did a shift restart to boot into safe mode, now whenever I boot the PC up or restart it boots to the startup settings list every time. I've checked the system configuration and the options are as they should be.

It boots to this screen below every time:

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Windows hello coming to websites.
Can't wait for this. Good buy passwords for 600 sites you use. Hope websites get in on it. They announced a few.

And the drawing on top of Edge. That's coming to all apps. Which is great. Now can someone build a decent recipe app.

And 270million installs and counting,

Oh and bash for windows

Probably more but that's all I've got from build so far, as the keynotes aren't available yet.

"Hello" as in facial/iris/fingerprint recognition? So it will have some sort of automated password manager that interacts with websites and stores your details encrypted behind your Hello ID?

Pretty cool, but limited by the availability of hardware (facial and iris cameras especially). Hopefully this will be a boot up the arse of OEMs to put the cameras in more things as standard. Monitors having Hello spec cameras in by default would be great.
 
yep.
limited by hardware initially but more and more devices are coming with them(albeit it mainly laptops/tablets). would be great if monitors started coming with them.
although i'm not entirely sure how it works. it sounds a bit more than just a password book, as sites have to implement it.
 
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