Seems like GPU drivers are missing or incorrect. Find and install them, reboot and see how you get on
Upgrade to Windows 10?
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Seems like GPU drivers are missing or incorrect. Find and install them, reboot and see how you get on
Why is the search box so damn stupid. Press start, start typing name of program and it almost never brings up the one I want. Just does a web search. Turning off web search doesn't help either.
Yep, seriously more I use this on my gaming PC the more I find the whole UI useless.
If you install startisback or classic shell the search works much better.
cyberheater
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It's still downloading it appears. Over a day later. On a 100mb broadband. Come on MS.
(not my pic but the same error message)
(not my pic but the same error message)
Use the ISO!
Fahzgoolin
Banned
Disappointed with Edge. Using it on my Surface 3 has been inconsistent at best.
TBiddy
Member
Why is the search box so damn stupid. Press start, start typing name of program and it almost never brings up the one I want. Just does a web search. Turning off web search doesn't help either.
Works fine for me, apps show up as the first result. Maybe your search hasn't indexed your stuff yet.
cyberheater
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I'd rather not. I want to do it the proper Microsoft way god damn it.
/I'll wait until the weekend and then try the ISO method if it still hasn't worked.
JehutyRunner
Banned
Seems like GPU drivers are missing or incorrect. Find and install them, reboot and see how you get on
Weird. Went to go and update the drivers, but said they were up-to-date without doing anything. But then I was prompted to restart and everything's fine and dandy now, visual and audio.
Anyways, cheers guys.
Saintruski
Unconfirmed Member
I'm a little to bothered by the EULA changes. To bothered by it and the USA's need and capability to just do whatever it wants and look at whatever it wants to benefit from whatever DX12 may give me.
Strange Young Man
Neo Member
I found that enabling the hyper-V Windows features would render my PC unable to boot normally, only booting successfully in safe mode. I tried a bunch of other things, in turn inflicting myself with other problems, but ultimately realised disabling hyper-V feature would correct the problem. Is this a known issue?
I was aiming to set VPN software on a VM since the VPN software isn't compatible with Windows 10.
I was aiming to set VPN software on a VM since the VPN software isn't compatible with Windows 10.
Feel_The_Pain
Member
Well, my win10 install has improved boot times, edge is blazingly fast, except for a few slowdowns /bugs, it's much quicker in my experience. Now need to try gaming .
TBiddy
Member
Try following this guide, if you can't wait.
http://venturebeat.com/2015/07/28/h...tart-downloading-the-windows-10-update-files/
I didn't get the update on my pc (I'm Danish as well), until I forced it via that guide.
I'm on an SSD so any differences will be marginal but it certainly isn't any slower than Windows 8.1.
I tested this morning and the time from clicking Restart PC to opening Google Chrome took me 46 Seconds. This includes a very slow UEFI and password entry. So far so good for the "final" build.
derExperte
Member
German site Computerbase did a bunch of gaming benchmarks with the result that except in a few cases we get improvements even without DX12 (click on the game names to see all the titles): http://www.computerbase.de/2015-07/windows-10-spieler-test-amd-nvidia-geschwindigkeit/ Most noticeable is PCars + AMD.
It's the exact same thing. The ISO contains the same files as the downloaded folder. Just open setup.exe in the ISO job done.
No, you must upgrade 8.1 to 10 as I describe above, then fresh install via USB boot. The fresh install will ask for serials but just skip and it will auto activate via hardware Id check.
Did you try this?:
http://neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=173455764&postcount=5540
That's an MS employee, btw.
AFAIK, Microsoft is rolling out Windows 10 based on hardware configurations, which in turn are based on whatever information they got from the Insider program. What kind of PC are you running?
QuickSilverD
Member
Just when from 8.1 to 10, haven't really notice much difference besides the theme, and that the photo viewer can actually play gifs again, anything else I should be looking at to see the differences or improvements?
No.
You have to update first so your keys will convert to Win 10 then use the toolkit again to create a bootable OS before you can install fresh.
Fox Mulder
Member
how does it work with old files? I've got documents and media lazily scattered all over the place on my pc and really need to tidy it up on an external HDD, but will I be able to use them like nothing changed?
JailDesigner
Member
Alienware Alpha user from Spain here. No upgrade prompt for me (I reserved the upgrade long ago). Forcing method not working. Why not? I'm out of Windows 10? Now I doubt if I should upgrade or not 
Alienware Alpha user from Spain here. No upgrade prompt for me (I reserved the upgrade long ago). Forcing method not working. Why not? I'm out of Windows 10? Now I doubt if I should upgrade or not
Have to tried downloading the Media Creation Tool from the MS website and let it upgrade? I did it this way Day 1 and it worked without any problems.
Presumably the Reset this PC > Remove Everything option formats the partition? So I can move any important files over to another partitions and they will be fine?
For more context, i keep my Documents, Music, Videos, Saved Games and Downloads folder on my D: partition. Presumably Windows wouldn't delete them during the reset process.
For more context, i keep my Documents, Music, Videos, Saved Games and Downloads folder on my D: partition. Presumably Windows wouldn't delete them during the reset process.
derExperte
Member
Even a game that broke with W8 now works again (Serious Sam Random Encounter).
You can choose to keep everything, only data or nothing. With first option only Windows get upgraded and everything else left alone.
From what I'm seeing, those instructions are for those that already have Windows 10 downloaded.
What about those who haven't gotten it to download yet, should I just keep waiting?
Checking the registry I have:
Inside OSUpgrade there's the key ReservationsAllowed with the value 0x00000002.
Inside OSUpgrade\State there's the key OSUpgradeState with the value 0x00000001 and key OSUpgradeStateTimeStamp with the date 2015-07-28 08:29:51.
holland666
Member
You can use a tool provided by Microsoft to force downloading of windows 10:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
LooseLips
Member
That is exactly what I did - worked like a charm. I had to re download GeForce experience myself to get the latest windows 10 driver, aside from that, it was relatively swift and painless - all apps/software and documents are still there and working so far.
undu
Member
Alienware Alpha user from Spain here. No upgrade prompt for me (I reserved the upgrade long ago). Forcing method not working. Why not? I'm out of Windows 10? Now I doubt if I should upgrade or not
You need to change the locale to English (USA) to make the forcing method work.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/change-system-locale#1TC=windows-7
Alienware Alpha user from Spain here. No upgrade prompt for me (I reserved the upgrade long ago). Forcing method not working. Why not? I'm out of Windows 10? Now I doubt if I should upgrade or not
My Alpha upgraded fine, I'm in the US, with the Media Creation Tool listed in the OP. I got a Cortana era on the first boot, but went away after a second boot. Hivemind (Alpha's Kodi implementation) works fine after the update as well. I did update Nvidia's driver before W10.
I know about the tool, but seeing all the issues that people been posting around, kinda wary about trying it through the tool.
Pretty much why I ask if I should just keep waiting.
60EffPeeEss
Member
I'd love to install Win10 but all the ridiculous amounts of data harvesting is just not cool with me. The biggest worry I have is that data harvesting, when turned off, turns on automatically after a while. Stuff like keystrokes being sent to Microsoft is just mad.
Anyone found a way to permanently gut that stuff or am I gonna have to wait for 6 months for a block?
Anyone found a way to permanently gut that stuff or am I gonna have to wait for 6 months for a block?
lighthouse777
Member
I have one PC that its loaded on, and another that's waiting yet for the update
and I just received an email that I am in the queue, but it might be a few weeks
so up to you
killatopak
Member
I keep having problems regarding my internet connection. My wired connection always gets and error and needed to be fixed by resetting the default gateway. This never happened before.
LUXURY
Member
I got tired of waiting so I cleared my folder like numerous reports said and at first it downloaded, got to the end of the very long preparing install then threw an error. Tried again with a wired connection and no problems. I really like it actually. It does seem faster. I think I also see an improvement with games. Well the only one I tried was Left 4 Dead 2. Only thing I noticed was that when a new chapter starts the screen has these little choppy moments for a few minutes then goes away.
Ok so 2 questions which may have already been answered earlier in this thread:
1. The Nvidia Control panel seems to have disappeared. Why?
2. Is there a way to make the stuff on the task bar bigger? I had the icons bigger on Windows 8.1 but now they are small again and changing the scaling on the display menu to something higher than 100% makes things blurry.
edit: Nvm about the first one, a restart sorted it. Second one, I used the scaling display and signed out/in again and it seems to work but is there no way to just make the icons on the task bar bigger? Since the desktop icons almost look too big now.
1. The Nvidia Control panel seems to have disappeared. Why?
2. Is there a way to make the stuff on the task bar bigger? I had the icons bigger on Windows 8.1 but now they are small again and changing the scaling on the display menu to something higher than 100% makes things blurry.
edit: Nvm about the first one, a restart sorted it. Second one, I used the scaling display and signed out/in again and it seems to work but is there no way to just make the icons on the task bar bigger? Since the desktop icons almost look too big now.
Microsoft is generally smart, but every so often I wonder what kind of weak link idiots in the chain are working for them. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that it's unfortunate to create a "failed" message in a software update log if that's not what actually happened. Of course such misleading messages will lead to people coming up with creative "solutions" to..."fix it".
JackAubrey
Member
Same way you did in previous Windows. Right click on Taskbar, select properties.
Untick box marked "Use small taskbar buttons".
TheOnlyMook
Member
Got Windows 10 installed last night and everything runs great. I only ran into issues while trying to stream some Xbox games. I was getting some serious lag and the stream crashed a few times before I gave up.
When I checked network settings on my Xbox I noticed way more routers in my area than before. I may have to switch to 5.0Ghz to get a better connection. Other than that though, everything has been awesome.
When I checked network settings on my Xbox I noticed way more routers in my area than before. I may have to switch to 5.0Ghz to get a better connection. Other than that though, everything has been awesome.
Jacksinthe
Banned
Have issues in my laptop with hanging onna black screen on boot for a while and blue screened a few times randomly in the OS.
Good thing the laptop is a spare and not my production machine. I'd be pissed.
Good thing the laptop is a spare and not my production machine. I'd be pissed.
PuppetSlave
Member
Did the upgrade last night on an 8.1 rig, went smoothly, at least after an restart after I logged in the first time.
Did not get an notify about the upgrade though. I just clicked on the windows symbol and instead of the notify me text it told me it had downloaded win 10 and was ready to get installed. So if others are just waiting, it may be worth a try.
Did not get an notify about the upgrade though. I just clicked on the windows symbol and instead of the notify me text it told me it had downloaded win 10 and was ready to get installed. So if others are just waiting, it may be worth a try.
Felix Lighter
Member
I upgraded yesterday and I have not run into any issues except for the known limitations to DS4Windows, which I have semi-cumbersome work around for now.
I've cleaned up my task bar a bit by moving much of it to the start menu. I haven't dug in too deep but the little improvement that I noticed right away is, that a maximized Chome window no longer prevents me from showing my hidden task bar when I hover over my cursor over the bottom of the screen. That was always annoying.
I've cleaned up my task bar a bit by moving much of it to the start menu. I haven't dug in too deep but the little improvement that I noticed right away is, that a maximized Chome window no longer prevents me from showing my hidden task bar when I hover over my cursor over the bottom of the screen. That was always annoying.
Mihos
Gold Member
If your talking about the Cortana stuff, yes, you can turn it off.
If you are talking about the tester keylogger, that was in the preview, that isn't there in the full version.
If your still paranoid, here is how to make it annoyingly dumbed down as far as predictive stuff and keep the black helicopters out of your neighborhood
http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/174160-guide-disable-data-collection-in-windows-10/
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