Aw fuck. Well, at least most people who still use IE are old and will just think Edge is IE anyway. Standards can advance!
Windows 10 Troubleshooting Thread
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Aw fuck. Well, at least most people who still use IE are old and will just think Edge is IE anyway. Standards can advance!
No, you can switch PC's with a normal license, as far as I know. Just one at a time. Only OEM licenses are not allowed to switch.
RoadHazard
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Yep, that is indeed a very good thing. I do a lot of web dev in my work, so I know your pain.
Is there any reason not to just do the upgrade yourself with this installer? https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
Tired of waiting for my place in the queue.
Tired of waiting for my place in the queue.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
All right, I'll go grab it!
Well, you are one of the few without Windows 10, you're special in your own way.
not really, no
You can just do this too: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...0/d695e827-9774-4e10-8972-df8d51a7bb51?auth=1
My main computer hasn't gotten it either. I'm pretty sure the vast majority of people in this thread who are using windows 10 used the media creation tool to get it.
I do Analytics and as a company, we have to support any browser with at least a 1% share... Man I hate giving the developers that bad news about IE 8 as it somehow STILL won't go below that.
RoadHazard
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My lock screen isn't showing any app data, even though I have weather, email and calendar selected in the settings. What up?
Nope, just go for it. That's what I did, while my upgrade was still just "reserved", and had no issues.
Yeah, ugh.
Nope, just go for it. That's what I did, while my upgrade was still just "reserved", and had no issues.
Yeah, ugh.
RadioactiveLobster
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I have the same issue. Not sure why.
Could be related to all the privacy stuff I've turned off.
Milchmonster
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Anyone else having problems with Windows search?
I have two harddrives (C: and A
and the Windows search only searches/finds stuff on C:, files on A: don't turn up as results. Any way to fix this?
I have two harddrives (C: and A
and the Windows search only searches/finds stuff on C:, files on A: don't turn up as results. Any way to fix this?Next month's Steam Hardware Survey will be interesting. Windows 10 was at 1.1% in June.
Anyone else having problems with Windows search?
I have two harddrives (C: and A
Search only finds stuff in indexed places. Add the folders you want to get hits for to the search index.
Dirtyshubb
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Thanks for the suggestions, tried the second one with no luck but in the end found on Google that Microsoft were aware of the issue and had a link to a tool that checked your system for errors and fixed them. Used that which worked and then reset the pc so I just had a fresh Windows 10 install. Seems fine so far, just copying some of my backed up media to it yesterday but otherwise hopefully it will all be ok now.
Anyone else having problems with Windows search?
I have two harddrives (C: and A
Yeah, if I use the Start menu search only my C drive stuff shows up. Strangely, if I use the one in Explorer all my drives show up:
(not my screenshot)
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The Autumn Wind
Will this still allow us to choose to download driver updates through Windows Update, or does it disable the ablility completely?
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Aww, didn't know Stardock stuff went paid now. I remember when they were free.
It's really tough to do anything with my laptop as long as these processes are using so much of my CPU 
Happened just after W10 was installed.
I deleted and renewed indexes which helped to lower the Search File Host process only for like 2 minutes before it went up again.
Now both processes are just randomly going up and down in CPU usage without doing anything. Most of the time they're up there together.
Also, Firefox is blocking about 250MB of RAM with just one tab opened.
Happened just after W10 was installed.
I deleted and renewed indexes which helped to lower the Search File Host process only for like 2 minutes before it went up again.
Now both processes are just randomly going up and down in CPU usage without doing anything. Most of the time they're up there together.
Also, Firefox is blocking about 250MB of RAM with just one tab opened.
It's not how it works. Retail licenses are transferable, and it definitely remains a retail license (if you originally had a retail license of course) once you upgrade to Windows 10.
Some more details here:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...l-retail/50b6bef4-5fb7-4075-a14b-b5bb012e3d37
It's really tough to do anything with my laptop as long as these processes are using so much of my CPU
I deleted and renewed indexes which helped to lower the Search File Host process only for like 2 minutes before it went up again.
Now both processes are just randomly going up and down in CPU usage without doing anything. Most of the time they're up there together.
They're doing a lot. Don't worry, they stop doing it eventually... Just depends how much data is on your machine. Basically killing the indexes made it restart the whole process again.
OdysseusVA
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Has the auto network sharing been discussed? I was listening to Tested's podcast and they mentioned something about your wifi info being automatically shared to your contacts? Any more info on this?
So you're saying it's usual and intended during the first day after the install and it will go away after some time? Thanks for the reply.
RoadHazard
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I disabled that right during the install process, didn't sound like something I wanted enabled.
Milchmonster
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Already did that and it didn't work. Read about the "rebuild index" button and tried that but it still doesn't work...
Maninthemirror
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The auto share is something you have to ACTIVELY enable. I don't see how anyone can be outraged by an OPT IN feature. if say your friend comes to your house. instead of telling your friend the password you can share the password like you would would ANYWAY by vverbally telling him the password. If you dont trust anyone. dont opt IN
Yeah, once it's built up the index, it should only spike whenever you add any significant number of files but it should get out of your way soon depending on the amount of data and speed of CPU.
OdysseusVA
Banned
It sounded as if a guest had a W10 device, connected to your wifi, and had not disabled that option it would share to their contacts?
Edit
Hmm they made it seem it was on by default
Thanks
Maninthemirror
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No I think the primary holder is who shares, not the shared guest, besides that wouldn't matter. those contacts have to be in your wifi range to connect.
article about it
http://money.cnn.com/2015/07/30/technology/windows10-wifi-sense/
Kinky John
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Settings > Update & Security > Recovery
There should be an option there assuming you haven't done a clean install.
So I did a search for the new license that you get when upgrading from a retail or OEM license. It seems that you retain the OEM or retail license's abilities. Retail seems to keep the ability to go to a new machine:
from answers.microsoft.com
But below it says the source is from theguardian, which is not as clear about it. The article concludes from the talk with Microsoft UK that a license is transferable, but I don't see it though.
So in short, it seems to be transferable... but I'm not 100% convinced by it. Are there no official sources for this? I mean this deals with licenses... you'd expect this to be noted somewhere. People have to know what they agree to when upgrading or buying a new license after all, so there must be an official source somewhere.
from answers.microsoft.com
But below it says the source is from theguardian, which is not as clear about it. The article concludes from the talk with Microsoft UK that a license is transferable, but I don't see it though.
So in short, it seems to be transferable... but I'm not 100% convinced by it. Are there no official sources for this? I mean this deals with licenses... you'd expect this to be noted somewhere. People have to know what they agree to when upgrading or buying a new license after all, so there must be an official source somewhere.
I don't see why people are so paranoid about it.
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Deleted member 325805
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Trying to uninstall the Xbox app using Get-AppxPackage *xbox* | Remove-AppxPackage but I get a wall of red text saying it failed, but when I search for the Xbox app it's no longer there? Does anyone know more about this?
Why are you doing that?
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Deleted member 325805
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Because I have no use for it.
not_so_special
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Check your settings here
it doesnt work the screen stills goes on seconds after i use the button
RaySpencer
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I keep getting the 'something happened' message.
I've tried making sure my language was set to US English and Spanish be tried running the program in admin mode, which seem to be the 2 ways to fix it, but neither work!
Help!
I've tried making sure my language was set to US English and Spanish be tried running the program in admin mode, which seem to be the 2 ways to fix it, but neither work!
Help!
SerTapTap
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File history HATES my libraries for some reason, refuses to safe and hits an error in the event log (silently fails in the UI) if I try and back them up. For now I just excluded them, but what's up with that? All my libraries are basic and mostly just contain my OneDrive music/pictures/etc, plus two folders on two different drives for Videos and a Games folder. But it absolutely refuses to back 'em up with a generic "can't access libraries" error.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterra...to_remove_xbox_integration_in_latest_windows/
You do all of these steps?
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Deleted member 325805
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Yeah, apart from the folders as I'm not sure if it was actually removed by the Powershell command as it gave me an error, but it's no longer showing up in the start menu so I think it was actually removed.
brotkasten
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Then why not just unpin it from the start menu? It's not like it's taking up resources in the background or makes the OS somehow worse.
RoadHazard
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It's on by default. You have to do the custom setup during install and actively disable it if you don't want it.
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