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Microsoft Announces Windows 10
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Woffls
Member
Sweet. Sure I checked there, but must have missed it. I'll change it back when continuum turns up.
I used the Windows 7 USB Tool to do a clean install on a different system, so it looks like it works exactly the same way as Windows 8 did in that regard.
I used Rufus to make my installer as their tool never recognized my HDD. I don't see why not though, if your device is recognized.
Took me like 2 hours to finish upgrading to 10, but man was it worth it. Start menu is glorious, I took off all the pins and now it is sleek as fuck.
You don't need to use an MS account either. When it is setting up and asks to sign in click "Create an Account", then on the next screen at the bottom click "Use an existing account", it will just skip straight to the OS, no account needed.
You don't need to use an MS account either. When it is setting up and asks to sign in click "Create an Account", then on the next screen at the bottom click "Use an existing account", it will just skip straight to the OS, no account needed.
oh god how do you revert this now
edit: got it
http://www.wpcentral.com/get-back-modern-start-screen-windows-10
I like having my account in it. Makes it easy when I do a re install or move computers, everything comes with me.
if you have onedrive it will back up things to onedrive as well.
Jzero
Member
Something is wrong with your computer brotha. It should take about 20 minutes max.
Damn, props to Samsung for making awesome SSDs then because mine was fast.
No, it could easily take hours especially if you're on a traditional rotational hard disk. It'll also take longer depending on how much you have installed.
On a fast SSD without much it still might take as long as an hour right now.
Syphon Filter
Member
Nice, can i still do it with 3 os's? I go windows 7 and then a trial of windows 8. will i still be able to get windows 10 preview dual booted?
Angelus Errare
Banned
I installed it on a 210GB partition of my 2TB drive (7200rpm Toshiba) that's nearly full and it took me about 35-40min.
Ok, I have a problem with Win10 installation. I downloaded the ISO (the SHA-1 hash is OK), copied it to USB using Windows USB DVD Download Tool and tried to install the OS. However, every time the install fails at the second step (after copying files to HDD - I think it's preparing for installation); sometimes it's at 25%, sometimes at 8% and a lot of times at 0%. After a while a message appears:
This is the content of setuperr.log file:
I've checked USB sticks (two of them) and they seem to be OK. I've also formatted and checked the partition I'm installing the system on and it's good too. So I have no idea what's going on. Can anyone help? :/
This is the content of setuperr.log file:
I've checked USB sticks (two of them) and they seem to be OK. I've also formatted and checked the partition I'm installing the system on and it's good too. So I have no idea what's going on. Can anyone help? :/
I was just going to install it on my laptop outright, but then I remembered I had some unallocated space from when I wiped my Linux partition.
I think I'm just going to dual boot 8.1 and 10.
Jzero
Member
That's what i did and it feels just as stable.
The Cowboy
Member
As stated already, there is options in the taskbar and start menu properties to make it revert back to the start screen, however its basically broken right now - all apps for me go strait to the desktop version (even if you've selected for them not to), the charms bar doesn't work at all even if you've selected to turn it on etc.How do I get my full-screen start menu back?
Presumably the new start menu will just expand to fill almost the whole screen if you have enough tiles there? I'm going to download a bunch of free apps and see what happens. All that's important is that they stay in the same place and I know where to click without having to look if I want to load Excel or whatever.
I'm running it on my laptop for a few days to see what happens. If it goes well, I'll main it on my PC as well. I did this with Win 7 and 8 on the earliest versions I could, and everything was fine.
Did that help?
Right now the preview is only worth using if your happy with sticking with desktop mode and start menu, i went strait to the start screen mode (i really like SS mode) and well, its just to much hassle in the preview to deal with.
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You never really realise how much you like a feature until its broken/not upfated yet - snapping, it doesn't revent back to the original size when you drag it back to normal, its such a simple thing BUT man is it annoying to have to resize everything back to there orignal size after snapping them.
Jzero
Member
Extra Sauce
Member
This is terrible news. Microsoft alternates between good and bad versions of Windows (XP good, Vista bad, 7 good, 8 bad). Now they're skipping what was going to be the good Windows, and going straight to the next bad one!
I was going to use isotousb. Should I use one of those instead?
In the future you can just use parted to change the partition table to msdos.
The Cowboy
Member
When i installed there was an NVida driver in the check for windwos update section - i just used that one.
Jzero
Member
I'm using the one i was using before the upgrade and it works the same.
It's not a big deal, I think it was because part of the HDD was MBR at one-point. I needed to reformat anyway.
Emperor Bohe
Member
Yeah, I did a hard reset and everything seems fine now
I like rufus because it let me choose GPT installation for UEFI computers. If you don't know what this means, I think any program will work for you.
neogaffer1
Banned
Jzero
Member
Build number yes, black screen not sure.
Alright found my first bug. My Spotify Albums are failing to load but all you need to do to fix it is to start it as an administrator and problem solved.
Emperor Bohe
Member
Will we be able to upgrade to the retail version (when it's done) from the technical preview without losing our files?
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/preview
I wonder how one gets into this line of work. There's only a handful of companies making OSs so getting professional experience in operating systems would be difficult. I suppose most of the engineers who work on these things have contributed to Linux and used that on their resumes?
Perfect Cha0s
Member
Is the preview broken/incompatible in any notable ways? I know it's feature-incomplete, but I'd consider running it on my desktop instead of my current W7 install if I can install it without most of my stuff breaking.
Will probably put it onto my laptop to check it out, regardless.
Will probably put it onto my laptop to check it out, regardless.
Syphon Filter
Member
I am curious about the games, looking forward to hearing back about that.
LukasTaves
Member
Installed on my SP3. Everything is smooth but there's some weird things happening. For instance I can't bring the search charm bar, not by using the win+S neither the search button on my cover. But if I swipe from the right it's there and working.
I think those are just for metro apps at the moment though
Edit: Yeah, just tried and only metro apps switches the title bar font color when you chose a dark theme.
Them edges are so sexy and white title bar text is finally back.
I think those are just for metro apps at the moment though
Edit: Yeah, just tried and only metro apps switches the title bar font color when you chose a dark theme.
Jzero
Member
I'm going to run a 3Dmark test first and see how it matches up, I'll post that in about.. 15-20 mins since I have to d/l and run it.
LukasTaves
Member
So fr everything is fine, but I can see what he is talking about. Currently metro apps work only on desktop and it's a little troublesome to work with them using touch (but I just noticed you can double tap the title bar to toggle maximized or not, so that's nice).