Windows 10 Troubleshooting Thread
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Ok i remembered wrong about the location.. but isn't it just this thing?
No, that's a great feature. I wouldn't be looking to turn that off.
What I'm referring to is sticky corners, as in the following image. The red vertical lines represent brick walls that no mouse can pass through under any circumstances:
It makes multiscreen use a pain, because you can't simply drag a window from one screen to another along the top. You have to instead make an awkward J-shaped motion with your mouse. There was a similar thing built into Windows 8, but it was easily disabled with a registry fix. Nobody has discovered the fix yet for Windows 10. At least they made sense in Windows 8, considering the concept of "hot corners", where moving your mouse to a corner performs some action. But hot corners are gone in Windows 10.
I remember having this problem in win 7, it was goddamn annoying. I think it's a corrupt file/thumbnail. It doesn't make sense, but iirc, that's what it was lol.
Still unable to install this goddamn thing. Every time I get to the installation part, I get a message saying "modern host setup has stopped working, then it closes out. This is either with the auto update or the download tool. I've done this 5 times now with the same result.
Okay trying to clean install Windows 10 using a USB drive, unfortunately during boot-up it doesn't detect it. My HDD was formatted so right now nothing I can do.
Besides burning it onto disc and then trying to install, what can I do in the meantime?
Edit: No worries, changed the boot priority. Didn't know ASUS allowed going into the BIOS.
Besides burning it onto disc and then trying to install, what can I do in the meantime?
Edit: No worries, changed the boot priority. Didn't know ASUS allowed going into the BIOS.
Double-check your BIOS settings to make sure it's giving the USB a chance to boot. I had to set mine to legacy mode before it would boot from USB. Damn Lenovo BIOS leaves hardly anything up to the user.
Why does itunes keep starting up on startup. I only use it to sync my iphone once in a while, I don't want it to run every time I turn it on. It's not even a startup program. There's the itunes helper which I tried disabling..
think you have to disable the services under computer management
Why does itunes keep starting up on startup. I only use it to sync my iphone once in a while, I don't want it to run every time I turn it on. It's not even a startup program. There's the itunes helper which I tried disabling..
Like Engell said, it's running as a service. Also, try the Microsoft Snipping Tool for your screenshots. It comes with Windows. You'll like it. Allows you to capture only a single window in an image. Looks much better and is less work.
Cannon Goose
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Is it alright to delete the Windows.old folder and the two hidden $Windows.~BT and $Windows.~WS folders? All up they are taking up 25GB on my SSD:
Turin Turambar
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Is it alright to delete the Windows.old folder and the two hidden $Windows.~BT and $Windows.~WS folders? All up they are taking up 25GB on my SSD:
Use the cleanup windows tool, indicating you can to clean system files.
Alternatively, alt+printscreen takes a screenshot of the currently active window. No cropping necessary.
fierrotlepou
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My screen is completely fucked after installing Nvidia drivers...
What can I do?
My screen is completely fucked after installing Nvidia drivers...
What can I do?
Run Windows Update. The latest NVidia ones are only on there at the moment (or at least it was), so it might pick up a new ones.
Ugh. Alright, I'm gonna take my chances.
fierrotlepou
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My screen is entirely unreadable.
Is it alright to delete the Windows.old folder and the two hidden $Windows.~BT and $Windows.~WS folders? All up they are taking up 25GB on my SSD:
Yeah, it is. If they aren't being removed through the cleaner, use Recovery > Advanced Settings to re-start in advanced start up, enter the troubleshooting menu and use command prompt at boot.
Command to delete is: rd /s /q "C:\Windows.old" (check where yours is).
If you have multiple, they'll probably be Windows.old(1), Windows,old(2), etc.
Cannon Goose
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Thanks, that got rid of the bulk of it.
Cjdamon042
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So I turned on my PC today my Chrome had disappeared from the task bar and I couldn't find it in my list of apps. I was using it just yesterday, and indeed during the whole time I was using the insider preview, and never had any issues like this before.
Turns out it's listing itself as TrayItem.{643F5...... as Cortana manages to find it as that when searching for Chrome, and clicking on the result does open Chrome and it works fine but it's missing its task bar icon and won't pin correctly.
Anyone seen anything like that happening before? On a somewhat related note I do have a bunch of other randomly named "apps" listed under Other in All Apps. Not sure what's happened.
EDIT: Uninstalling and reinstalling it fixed the issue. Odd that it happened in the first place though.
Turns out it's listing itself as TrayItem.{643F5...... as Cortana manages to find it as that when searching for Chrome, and clicking on the result does open Chrome and it works fine but it's missing its task bar icon and won't pin correctly.
Anyone seen anything like that happening before? On a somewhat related note I do have a bunch of other randomly named "apps" listed under Other in All Apps. Not sure what's happened.
EDIT: Uninstalling and reinstalling it fixed the issue. Odd that it happened in the first place though.
Start button, type check of updates then hit enter, then click the button that looks grey. It's the only option unless you boot into safe mode to see if that works.
Sweet. Didn't know about that one.
Brawly Likes to Brawl
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My laptop keeps going into sleep after a minute of inactivity despite having auto-sleep set to Never in the settings.
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This is probably something that can't be fixed, but it seems I no longer have the ability to drag recent files from my taskbar directly to another window. Used this all the time to upload something I was working on as an e-mail attachment. No idea why they'd remove this if they did.
My screen is completely fucked after installing Nvidia drivers...
What can I do?
I had my screen do that when I finished a TeamViewer session a few days ago. A reboot fixed it and it hasn't happened since.
(I was connecting to my Win 10 PC from an iPad)
hobblygobbly
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Yes, that's what I've done. Got Win7 and Win10 installed on different hard drives. On my second PC I did it and it added the choice of choosing which OS to load upon boot. However on my main PC I don't get that, although Win 10 installed fine along my existing Win 7 installation, I get no dual boot choice. Instead I have to press F12 when my PC just starts up to choose a boot device and I choose whichever hard drive has the OS I want to boot into otherwise it'll boot into Win10 by default. It's weird and not an issue for me but I don't understand on why one PC it's fine and I can choose the OS and not have to go into the boot menu while on the other I can't and have to bring up the boot menu with F12 to choose. I installed Win10 on both the same way and both had Win 7 installations months ago done the same.
It was a bug in the insider builds, yes.
GraceflAnger
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One issue I had recently was all of the apps that were pinned to start are completely gone. The Xbox app, store and a few others that I can't think of. Happened after a BSOD, also had the computer say that it couldn't log me into my username only a guest or something like that. Any ideas on a fix?
Edit: all is good. Didn't follow my rule of rebooting first. Thought that I did.
Edit: all is good. Didn't follow my rule of rebooting first. Thought that I did.
Winterblink
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Is there any way to restart (without hiding items) the Most Used apps list on the start menu?
Is there any way to reset OneDrive?
After installing Windows it worked fine. I saw the icon in the task bar and I saw the status of the files in the file manager.
... then I changed my account from a Microsoft Account to a local account (for reasons) and later changed it back to a Microsoft Account.
OneDrive doesn't seem to work right now.
Edit: I'm now trying to run the OneDrive 'first use' setup again. We'll see how that works. Since I've backed up my OneDrive files on my NAS, I'll be fine either way.
After installing Windows it worked fine. I saw the icon in the task bar and I saw the status of the files in the file manager.
... then I changed my account from a Microsoft Account to a local account (for reasons) and later changed it back to a Microsoft Account.
OneDrive doesn't seem to work right now.
Edit: I'm now trying to run the OneDrive 'first use' setup again. We'll see how that works. Since I've backed up my OneDrive files on my NAS, I'll be fine either way.
Go here in explorer. Pro tip: if your name isn't Gavin, you'll have to change that bit.
C:\Users\Gavin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OneDrive\Update\OneDriveSetup.exe
Just curious, what process are you using to upgrade? Do you have the Get Windows 10 icon?
Thanks. Seems to have worked.
Even kept the location without asking me or just placing everything in my user folder (on my small SSD).
SliceSabre
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Ever since I updated I've noticed that gifs in Twitter, mp4s and Vine just do not working when I try to play them Chrome or Edge.
EDIT: The strangest thing happened. I saved a video to watch it on my computer since chrome and edge wouldn't play it, then when I opened the webpage again it played it like it normally would have!
EDIT: The strangest thing happened. I saved a video to watch it on my computer since chrome and edge wouldn't play it, then when I opened the webpage again it played it like it normally would have!
GazzaScotland
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Anyway to set the download folder for the Windows Store? Can't seem to find anything.
fierrotlepou
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I had to do a clean install. Where do I find my Windows 10 key? (I upgraded from Windows 8.1 to the technical preview and to home edition).
Do you have the Get Windows 10 notification icon?
You can extract it if you wish: http://www.howtogeek.com/206329/how-to-find-your-lost-windows-or-office-product-keys/
Yes I do. I reserved on this machine. I tried cleaning the Download folder and using the admin console .... it did not work like it did on my Windows 8 machine.
I forgot to format my hard drive before doing a clean install (did the upgrade before to have my key updated) and now there are windows.old and windows.old000 folders.
Is it effectively a clean install if I delete those?
(I tried deleting them but it kept bugging me for admin rights for specific files and even though it failed at a couple of them the folders are gone, lol.)
Also, does your desktop background sync via your MS account? Because I still had the same desktop as before the clean install.
Another question as a Lenovo Yoga 2 13 user: I used some Vista Synaptics Touchpad driver to get three finger click, because Lenovo's drivers didn't have that.
Now, even the new Windows 10 one from Lenovo's website doesn't have it, and I can't get the old Vista driver to work on Windows 10. Does anybody have an idea where to install a driver from so I have three finger click back?
Is it effectively a clean install if I delete those?
(I tried deleting them but it kept bugging me for admin rights for specific files and even though it failed at a couple of them the folders are gone, lol.)
Also, does your desktop background sync via your MS account? Because I still had the same desktop as before the clean install.
Another question as a Lenovo Yoga 2 13 user: I used some Vista Synaptics Touchpad driver to get three finger click, because Lenovo's drivers didn't have that.
Now, even the new Windows 10 one from Lenovo's website doesn't have it, and I can't get the old Vista driver to work on Windows 10. Does anybody have an idea where to install a driver from so I have three finger click back?
blue_phazon
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Is there a real difference between waiting for the Windows 10 update to come by itself and just simply upgrading from the tool?
I tried the tool and it failed during the final installation phase (it downloaded got the updates), so I'm pretty concerned.
I tried the tool and it failed during the final installation phase (it downloaded got the updates), so I'm pretty concerned.
I'm just going to keep posting this over and over:
http://neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=173455764&postcount=5540
Thanks! It started .... Checking Requirements. Lets see how this all goes. ...
blue_phazon
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I'm not very tech savvy and have no idea what means, but I think the gist of it is "just wait"
Thanks!
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