Upgrade to Windows 10?

Fuck this thing.

I knew there would be issues, of course, but this shit... games won't play, they go 1 frame a second, so I figured I'd update to the Windows 10 driver, right?

Nvidia drivers will not install at all. I'm fucked.
 
JigglesBunny said:
Fuck this thing.

I knew there would be issues, of course, but this shit... games won't play, they go 1 frame a second, so I figured I'd update to the Windows 10 driver, right?

Nvidia drivers will not install at all. I'm fucked.
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Have you restarted your computer? I hear the drivers have issues installing if you don't do a couple restarts.
 
Just started my upgrade, apparently I was supposed to receive mine on the 29th but an automatic update kept on failing, did it manually, restarted et voila.
 
Quick tip to have MS Paint within easy reach:

Right click desktop to create a new shortcut and paste this into where it asks you for the location: %WINDIR%\System32\mspaint.exe

After that you can pin it to the start menu under "Life at a glance" and delete the desktop shortcut, if you wish.
 
I can't even upgrade to Windows 10. Every time I do my display says no signal than I have to restart and it reverts back to previous windows. Lol. I get some error like C30019 or something.
 
tjohn86 said:
What is the error when you try to install the driver?
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It just got to the "Installation"' screen in the driver menu and all of it was failed and I had no option besides "Close."

Then, shortly thereafter, I got some notification about "Close Find New Hardware Wizard", then it changed to "Missing Necessary Requirements."
 
Tried to switch today.
I downloaded an msdn iso to do a clean install, then I formatted the system partition with the installer. After that when I hit the install button I always got an error that it can't find nor can make a system partition. lel
Then I put in the win 8.1 DVD, formatting the hdd with that (it made a 350 Mb system partition on it's own which the win 10 installer did not). Tried to install 10 again - same error.
After this I installed 8.1 pro back and tried to upgrade with the media creation tool. I choose win 10 pro 64 bit, but when I started the setup.exe I got an error window that I should put in the 64 bit disk. Wtf?!
So I wasted two hours but ended up staying on 8.1. So far this is worse than Ubuntu.
 
Had to get on the horn with Microsoft and have them remote in and make some reg edits but I finally got my old copy of Win 8 activated which then allowed me to make the upgrade to 10...liking it so far: "hey Cortana" is fun to mess around with.
 
Oh, Pipo X7 is updating.

Now, this is unexpected.
It's never going to work afterwards lol

Edit: works just fine actually, everything was smooth and relatively quick
 
laxu said:
Upgrading from Win7 didn't go quite smoothly for me. I tried several times before figuring out I had to disconnect all my other hard drives for the install to complete. I think it didn't like my Hackintosh SSD for some reason (why I have no idea, it's a completely separate drive from the one where Win7 is installed).

So if any of you get a 0x20009 SAFE_OS phase error and rollback then try disconnecting any additional drives you have.

After the upgrade went thru it does work fine. I'm still considering doing a clean install just to get it properly clean. It would be nice to know how the upgrade process actually works since your old Windows version is still preserved in windows.old folder.
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Pretty sure this is what's happening to me. I haven't been able to upgrade because it keeps failing and giving me that error no matter what method I used. Besides the main drive where Win 7 is installed I also have another internal HD and a powered external that was connected via USB but switched off during installation. Ugh, I hate that I'm going to have to open the ol' girl up and physically disconnect the 2nd internal just to see if Win 10 will install correctly.
 
Anybody know if you can change how the Lock Screen Slideshow displays images? I'd like it to just show the images fullscreen instead of scaling them and making montages.
 
anyone else getting this error whenever they plug in their xbone controller?
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Any reason why the drivers for my GPU keeps failing? I never had that problem until I upgraded to Windows 10. My GPU is an ATI FireGL V5600, it has the latest drivers. I've also searched over the net to see if people were having problems with ATI GPUs failing.
 
suppadoopa said:
anyone else getting this error whenever they plug in their xbone controller?
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It's some weird interaction between the 360 accessories program and the xbone controller drivers. Just ignore it, everything should work as normal, even if you're using 360 and xbone controllers simultaneously.
 
JigglesBunny said:
Fuck this thing.

I knew there would be issues, of course, but this shit... games won't play, they go 1 frame a second, so I figured I'd update to the Windows 10 driver, right?

Nvidia drivers will not install at all. I'm fucked.
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Use display driver uninstaller to uninstall the old drivers and then reinstall the latest Nvidia ones.
 
One week later, I finally got the install to work. Did absolutely nothing different, I guess my early upgrades were buggy :/

I think I'll keep the 25 GB of Windows old for about a week or two given the reaction so far to Windows 10
 
Keep getting error code 0xC1900101-0x4000D on my HP Pavilion m6-1035dx after it gets to around 75-82% with the windows 10 update process. Anyone else have this issue?
 
Welp, I'm on Win 10 now. Disconnecting the secondary internal hd seemed to do the trick. Everything seems to be working so far, need to test out some games first before I can give out the all-clear sign on my end.
 
Finally got Windows 10 installed on my main gaming PC today.

Only issue is that pin/unpin apps to start does not work. If I unpin something on the start menu it will stay there. If I try to pin anything via right click and pin to start menu, nothing happens. Anyone else have this issue?
 
I upgraded from Windows 7 Ultimate to Windows 10 Pro and it seems that the screensaver it's broken, if I set the time to 5 minutes and then restart the PC it reset to 1 minute, I think it's a common bug that needs to be fixed. :/
 
PensOwl said:
It's some weird interaction between the 360 accessories program and the xbone controller drivers. Just ignore it, everything should work as normal, even if you're using 360 and xbone controllers simultaneously.
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i was wondering about this too on my Win7 when plugging the X1 controller.

thanks for saving me the search time :)
 
Well ... shit.

Color me impressed. I thought all the jabber about 'improving performance' was just PR, but i'm getting much improved performances on Mass Effect 3 on my budget Core i5 laptop now. I'm very impressed with not just this, but generally how fast and responsive everything else is now.

I'll try PCSX2 and see if i get better frame rates on FFXII now.
 
What is the cheapest safe way to buy a Win7/8/8.1 license/key to upgrade to Win10 these days? I don't want to pay shipping so digital sale / key sale would be fine..
 
My 360 controller has basically committed seppuku and won't connect to shit on Windows 10

I have the wireless dongle, controller is plugged in with the play and charge, it won't actually connect to the pc

Input mapper wouldn't have fucked things up I think so I'm not sure what the deal is

Might just get an xbone controller and not deal with this shit
 
shiftplusone said:
My 360 controller has basically committed seppuku and won't connect to shit on Windows 10

I have the wireless dongle, controller is plugged in with the play and charge, it won't actually connect to the pc

Input mapper wouldn't have fucked things up I think so I'm not sure what the deal is

Might just get an xbone controller and not deal with this shit
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It happens periodically for me as well. To fix it, I just go to Manage/Device Manager and point to the 360 wireless adapter drivers again and it fixes it every time.
 
Just not working for me. Tried via update and via install media. Both repeatedly boot during the second install phase and fail. No idea what's up, tried everything suggested here.
 
derFeef said:
Just not working for me. Tried via update and via install media. Both repeatedly boot during the second install phase and fail. No idea what's up, tried everything suggested here.
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Same thing here. I did it a bunch of times a few days ago and eventually messed up my original Windows 7 on my PC. It ended up forcing me to do a system restore to get it up and running again. I guess I'm waiting a few weeks then I'll try it again.
 
If you install and run that program you basically deserve every single problem that will result in doing so.

I wish :lol still worked
 
Been using Windows 10 since launch day now, and I'm not sure why it's better than 8.1. I keep reading all these posts from people saying it fixes all of 8's mistakes. Are they talking about 8.0? I upgraded from 8.1, and my workflow has changed pretty much by zero. What am I supposed to be looking for? Control panel apps in a Window? Is that it?
 
cpp_is_king said:
Been using Windows 10 since launch day now, and I'm not sure why it's better than 8.1. I keep reading all these posts from people saying it fixes all of 8's mistakes. Are they talking about 8.0? I upgraded from 8.1, and my workflow has changed pretty much by zero. What am I supposed to be looking for? Control panel apps in a Window? Is that it?
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Multiple desktops (winkey+tab).
Scrolling inactive windows.
Revamped command prompt.
 
shockdude said:
Multiple desktops (winkey+tab).
Scrolling inactive windows.
Revamped command prompt.
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Ok, agreed on the first and last point, although I think most users don't care about the command prompt (I do, I just don't think it's a big selling point for *most* people). What is the second one you're talking about?
 
cpp_is_king said:
Ok, agreed on the first and last point, although I think most users don't care about the command prompt (I do, I just don't think it's a big selling point for *most* people). What is the second one you're talking about?
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Open a text editor, and open a web browser with a scrollable page such as this thread.
With inactive window scrolling, when you type in the text editor you can also scroll the web browser without having to click into the browser. It's extremely nice.
 
cpp_is_king said:
Ok, agreed on the first and last point, although I think most users don't care about the command prompt (I do, I just don't think it's a big selling point for *most* people). What is the second one you're talking about?
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You can scroll in windows that are not activated (just mouse-over "background" windows and scroll using the mousewheel without clicking/selecting the window).

Treating all modern/universal apps as floating windows on the desktop is really nice, too. As is the return of the start menu.

DirectX 12 and updated platform frameworks should also pay off in the near-to-mid future. Edge, once it gets tracking protection lists, should be a pretty good browser, too.
 
suppadoopa said:
anyone else getting this error whenever they plug in their xbone controller?
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I had that "issue" myself. The cause was having the driver for the wireless X360 controller receiver installed -- plugging in the X1 controller would break it.
 
I have 2 things that have been bugging me.

1. How do I stop this Photos app from popping up this albums and My Pictures folder stuff every other time I open a picture? It's pretty annoying. I put a folder full of random pictures in there and put the live icon on my start menu to see if it would shut up, but it didn't do anything.

2. How do I set it up so it gives me the choice of what user account I want to login to every time I turn it on? My parent's computer has 2 user accounts and, after a boot or reboot, it just automatically logs into the last account used and they have to manually log out to go into the account they want.
 
I just upgraded!

Took an hour. So far so mostly good. Witcher 3 runs better than it did on Win7 - no more stuttering Novigrad, fuck yeah.

My main issue is that although MS finally implemented taskbar on multiple screens (I have 24" LCD and 55" plasma both connected), of course they had to completely half-ass it to the point of making it useless (no tray, date, clock, shortcuts on second taskbar...morons). So I guess I will have to keep using DisplayFusion, oh well.

First boot up was pretty weird, I could not even open start menu (which is terrible, I want those live tiles GONE), task manager froze..etc, but few restarts (correct ones, from windows) and now everything seems to work well. I like how everything is the way I had it in Win7, almost zero hassle.
 
emag said:
You can scroll in windows that are not activated (just mouse-over "background" windows and scroll using the mousewheel without clicking/selecting the window).
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This is huge for me coming from Windows 7. Makes the whole experience better.
 
So ever since switching to Windows 10, now when I set my desktop background, it also sets that background for my laptop which is also on my network.

How do I prevent that?
 
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