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[Dead Prince]

desktop worked fine.
i did a reset on laptop but after doing that it's not in an endless loop due to inaccessible boot device BSOD when i boot it up. any fixes for that?

 

[Atraveller]

Every freezes I've had with Win 10 all are the kinds that I couldn't even bring up task manager, hope MS starts focusing on stability soon.

 

[Kinky John]

Is everyone else seeing this behaviour? When you mouse-over a shortcut on the taskbar and then move the cursor away the shortcut remains highlighted. In the image below it's Steam.

Edit: a reboot fixed it.

 

[Hasney]

No freezes yet! #TeamNoFreeze

Seriously though, it's likely to be hardware related as a lot of manufacturers still need to step up their driver game for Win 10.

 

[Atraveller]

No freezes yet! #TeamNoFreeze

Seriously though, it's likely to be hardware related as a lot of manufacturers still need to step up their driver game for Win 10.

I read your post then clicked on start button several times, my Firefox stopped responding, and everything froze except my mouse cursor.

 

[Prophet Steve]

Sigh, my company has banned Windows 10 because of Wifi-Sense. Need to rollback.

 

[not_so_special]

i have a problem with w10 and my surface pro i push the button to turn off the screen and in seconds te screen is on again

 

[Hasney]

I read your post then clicked on start button several times, my Firefox stopped responding, and everything froze except my mouse cursor.

Sorry, I'll try not to make you read my posts that lock you up again

Is it happening in general, or just Firefox? I know when 8.1 came out, Firefox hung like a horse.

 

[Devil]

Since I installed W10, the process "Microsoft Windows Search Filter Host" is draining the CPU like hell. I have a constant CPU usage of 60-70% just from sitting on the desktop with the task manager.

I ran the process to delete and renew the indexing, since I read that may help. When it started, the said process immediately went down to usual CPU usage. But after about one third of creating the new indexes, it went up to 60-70% again. Now I'm waiting for it to finish up and look for another solution afterwards..

Any idea on how to find the culprit or a solution?

Spoiler

Sorry if this is the wrong thread. I figured I ask here because the issue just started with W10, never had this before.

 

[Atraveller]

Sorry, I'll try not to make you read my posts that lock you up again

Is it happening in general, or just Firefox? I know when 8.1 came out, Firefox hung like a horse.

In general, try messing with start menu and you might get similar result.

 

[TheMAK]

i have a problem with w10 and my surface pro i push the button to turn off the screen and in seconds te screen is on again

Check your settings here

 

[Hasney]

In general, try messing with start menu and you might get similar result.

I'll give it a shot when I get home. I know there's a pause on the start menu quite often when the servers are getting hammered to update the live tiles, not sure if that could be causing more severe problems sometimes.

 

[Atraveller]

I'll give it a shot when I get home. I know there's a pause on the start menu quite often when the servers are getting hammered to update the live tiles, not sure if that could be causing more severe problems sometimes.

I don't think it's that, only the news app has live tile in my start menu.

Edit: I'm gonna do a manual windows update to see if the problem persists.

 

[rou021]

For activating the Windows 10, you only need to do the upgrade option once. When you do the free upgrade from Windows 7 or 8, Windows 10 will automatically register your PC (or specifically your motherboard) with Microsoft upon activation. After that, you are free to do a clean install without any key. The key you get after the free upgrade is a generic one that is generated automatically. You don't have to worry about keeping track of the key after the first activation as Windows 10 will take care of it for you. You also don't need to worry about having or using a Microsoft account for it either.

After the first activation, you're free to do a fresh install of Windows 10 any way you want, as long as it's the same PC. If you want to reformat the hard drive and then reinstall from a USB drive or DVD, you're free to do that. When it asks for a key, just hit the skip button. Windows 10 will essentially recognize your computer has been registered and will take care of the activation process for you. I can verify this works firsthand. You can also chose to do a reset in a current install of Windows 10, which should be the equivalent of a fresh install (or so I hear).

 

[AlexMogil]

The update popped, just waiting on a couple torrents to finish before I start.

A question for Surface Pro 3 users though, how have you found battery life to be so far? Heard a lot of reports of a decrease, which would mean rolling back to 8.1 if true. How's it been for you?

Honestly about the same. Maybe a little less because of the amount of work it has been doing to update and index but since it's calmed down I'm finding it to be the same.

 

[j-wood]

So in addition to the weird safely remove HDD thing I have, task manager is showing my CPU constantly maxed at 100%, even though that isn't the case.

Anyone else have that? Is it a case of my motherboard chipset drivers not being right or something? My mobo is from 2011, and all the Asrock site has is windows 7 stuff (p67 extreme4)

 

[brotkasten]

14 million upgrades in 24 hours. That is pretty impressive.

 

[Hasney]

14 million upgrades in 24 hours. That is pretty impressive.

I know there were some activation issues on day 1, but man, after seeing that number, I'm surprised it was up at all that day.

 

[VincentMatts]

14 million upgrades in 24 hours. That is pretty impressive.

Free will do that.

 

[AlexMogil]

Since I installed W10, the process "Microsoft Windows Search Filter Host" is draining the CPU like hell. I have a constant CPU usage of 60-70% just from sitting on the desktop with the task manager.

I ran the process to delete and renew the indexing, since I read that may help. When it started, the said process immediately went down to usual CPU usage. But after about one third of creating the new indexes, it went up to 60-70% again. Now I'm waiting for it to finish up and look for another solution afterwards..

Any idea on how to find the culprit or a solution?

Let it run. It is going to run! Once it's done (depending on your system and disk speed) the benefits will outweigh this slowness.

 

[Devil]

Let it run. It is going to run! Once it's done (depending on your system and disk speed) the benefits will outweigh this slowness.

Thanks for answering, but I'm not exactly sure what you mean by this. What am I supposed to let run? I didn't intend to kill the process because that would completely take away the ability to search anything with Windows. But it's definitely not supposed to use as much CPU as it does.
Or are you talking about the index process stuff? Yeah, that's still running.

 

[heyf00L]

It's taking some getting used to.

At first I couldn't figure out how to drag a window to another monitor -- it would always want to snap -- but eventually I figured out it depends on speed. A little annoying, but I can't think of a better way to do it.

Also at first it wouldn't find apps when I searched, but it must not have indexed them yet (wouldn't have expected indexing of installed apps to be necessary) because now it works.

The only thing now is that so far Live Tiles don't show anything. Weather and News are just big icons.

 

[Silex]

I was wondering if anyone already checked what exactly happens with your old key once you upgrade to Windows 10. Is it still usable? Do you get a separate key for Windows 10?
Also, is the "revert back to old OS" option available forever or is it something that's available only for a limited time?

 

[trixx]

Anyone check out reading view for edge browser. Neogaf looking classy

 

[AlexMogil]

Thanks for answering, but I'm not exactly sure what you mean by this. What am I supposed to let run? I didn't intend to kill the process because that would completely take away the ability to search anything with Windows. But it's definitely not supposed to use as much CPU as it does.
Or are you talking about the index process stuff? Yeah, that's still running.

The index process. It has a lot of work to do to index all the files and it will take up 100% of the processor. Kinda silly but enh.

 

[brotkasten]

Anyone check out reading view for edge browser. Neogaf looking classy

Dark theme in Edge and NeoGAF looks fantastic.

 

[Boss Doggie]

Still asking if Stardock Fence eats resources or not. It'd be a great complement if it doesn't.

 

[trixx]

I was wondering if anyone already checked what exactly happens with your old key once you upgrade to Windows 10. Is it still usable? Do you get a separate key for Windows 10?
Also, is the "revert back to old OS" option available forever or is it something that's available only for a limited time?

The option is only available for a month after you do Windows 10 upgrade

Dark theme in Edge and NeoGAF looks fantastic.

That looks really good

 

[SerTapTap]

14 million upgrades in 24 hours. That is pretty impressive.

That's probably why activating gave me so much shit

 

[VincentMatts]

That's probably why activating gave me so much shit

It gave you shit? Thats not nice of it.

 

[Hasney]

That's probably why activating gave me so much shit

It gave you shit? Thats not nice of it.

 

[LeeRoyBrown]

And how did you discover that? I'd just ask someone who knows what he's doing to upgrade your PC next time, no offense.

I built my own PC, thanks anyway smart arse.

Someone on this forum in this thread told me how to fix it.

And it worked.

...

For your particular problem though, it is sounding more than Win 10 being at fault. Have you taken the usual steps of seeing if there's an updated BIOS for your motherboard, load BIOS defaults, running memtest then testing how it performs with one memory stick at a time and finally, removing your graphics card? Just to get an idea of where the issue is at.

Same for you as well. BIOS update, restore BIOS defaults (I've heard issues with RAM in XMP mode on some BIOS versions) check each stick of RAM individually, remove graphics card. Usual steps I take to see what the hell is wrong. If 32 bit works, something isn't right when it tries to address the extra memory I feel.

It won't even install Windows 8 with 16GB ram and an R9 290 installed.

I remove 1 stick and my GPU and the 64bit install goes ahead with no issues at all.

I have no fucking idea why it works. But it does.

Next time read my comment history instead of being a know it all little shit.

 

[RS4-]

I don't know if it's win10 or what, but the last few times I've restarted my PC, my boot order is fucked up; on start up I get two options, both are Win 7 (but I've only had 8.1 installed); weird stuff.

Had to reset my boot priorities in bios. Hopefully it sticks this time.

Another weird thing: I don't get the blinking cursor for text fields, at least in Firefox, until I switched to something like Chrome, then back to FF.

 

[la_briola]

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[U2NUMB]

So why can I not move apps to an external USB or SD Card? Why is this greyed out as an option... frustrating!

 

[Kinky John]

That feature's Coming Soon™: https://www.thurrott.com/windows/wi...ones-windows-10-ability-to-install-apps-on-sd

 

[RoadHazard]

I actually find Edge pretty nice to use, although the lack of extensions basically makes it a no-go. I need my LastPass at the very least.

Also, how can I disable spell-checking and auto-correction? I'm getting annoying red-marked words and incorrect auto-corrects all over the place because I'm typing in English while it's spell-checking in Swedish. Very, very annoying.

 

[SimleuqiR]

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Yeah.... that "E" icon doesn't help. They should have moved away from naming "Edge" and having that E icon look just like an IE one.

 

[Hasney]

Lack of extensions and I find the fonts to be ugly and have jaggies in Edge. If they get those ironed out though, it's a good shout for a browser and thank fuck a lot of people won't have IE pre-installed anymore.

 

[Kinky John]

Also, how can I disable spell-checking and auto-correction? I'm getting annoying red-marked words and incorrect auto-corrects all over the place because I'm typing in English while it's spell-checking in Swedish. Very, very annoying.

Type "autocorrect" into Cortana's search box, or navigate to Settings > Devices > Typing

 

[mrklaw]

Still asking if Stardock Fence eats resources or not. It'd be a great complement if it doesn't.

I've ran Fences for years without a problem. Stardock does good work.

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going to check it out too.

 

[Hasney]

I've never heard of this fences, but a quick Google makes me want to check it out...

 

[RoadHazard]

I was wondering if anyone already checked what exactly happens with your old key once you upgrade to Windows 10. Is it still usable? Do you get a separate key for Windows 10?
Also, is the "revert back to old OS" option available forever or is it something that's available only for a limited time?

You don't get a key for W10. The activation is tied to your hardware, so you can freely reinstall Windows on that same PC without needing a key.

The revert option will be available for a month after upgrading (I think), unless you use the reset feature to get a clean install. Doing that deletes the files needed to revert.

 

[wrowa]

I installed Windows 10 on my old Windows 7 laptop a couple weeks ago, despite not being part of the insider programm. Everything works fine and it's getting all of the updates, but I'm not sure if it's now a legit Win 7 to Win 10 upgrade or if I have to roll back to Win 7 and do the "official" upgrade in order to have a proper Win 10 version.

 

[Tugatrix]

The update popped, just waiting on a couple torrents to finish before I start.

A question for Surface Pro 3 users though, how have you found battery life to be so far? Heard a lot of reports of a decrease, which would mean rolling back to 8.1 if true. How's it been for you?

About the same, the battery app timer still got some bugs but it's usefull. People should use battery saving

 

[RoadHazard]

Type "autocorrect" into Cortana's search box, or navigate to Settings > Devices > Typing

Thanks, that's much better! (To anyone wanting to do this, you need to restart Edge before it takes effect.)

Lack of extensions and I find the fonts to be ugly and have jaggies in Edge. If they get those ironed out though, it's a good shout for a browser and thank fuck a lot of people won't have IE pre-installed anymore.

Except IE is pre-installed! It's just not the default browser.

 

[Devil]

The index process. It has a lot of work to do to index all the files and it will take up 100% of the processor. Kinda silly but enh.

Thanks, that helped.

But now there is another process which is taking 20-30% of the CPU, lol.

"Runtime Broker" is getting the fans all noisy, using the CPU. Google shows that others are also having this issue. Any solution yet?

edit:
Fuck what I said. The "Microsoft Windows Search File Host" Process is back again ((( CPU is constantly used by 70% by both said processes.

So annoying! What can I do now?

 

[Hasney]

I installed Windows 10 on my old Windows 7 laptop a couple weeks ago, despite not being part of the insider programm. Everything works fine and it's getting all of the updates, but I'm not sure if it's now a legit Win 7 to Win 10 upgrade or if I have to roll back to Win 7 and do the "official" upgrade in order to have a proper Win 10 version.

If it was the RTM version (build 10240), then you're fine and fully activated assuming you installed it from inside Windows 7.

 

[msv]

You don't get a key for W10. The activation is tied to your hardware, so you can freely reinstall Windows on that same PC without needing a key.

The revert option will be available for a month after upgrading (I think), unless you use the reset feature to get a clean install. Doing that deletes the files needed to revert.

Hm, where did you find that? So your license essentially gets turned into an OEM license?

Still no update damnit. Windows defender updates every few hours, but nothing else. Are they upgrading by region or something? People in west europe getting their upgrade?

 

[RoadHazard]

Hm, where did you find that? So your license essentially gets turned into an OEM license?

Still no update damnit. Windows defender updates every few hours, but nothing else. Are they updating by region or something? People in west europe getting their updates?

That info is all over the place. I guess, yeah. It's a license for one PC (which is how Windows licenses work anyway, isn't it?).

Just use the media creation tool to upgrade. Does the same thing, and you don't have to wait. Or did that fail for you?