Upgrade to Windows 10?

shadow2810 said:
Fuck W10 start menu.

I purchased a license for startisback. Best $3 spent ever.
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Yeah, I used Startisback for Windows 8 (which was vital) and that worked great.

But I like the W10 menu, the only thing I miss is the normal shortcuts (in a row) in the upper left corner. They could even extend with a few extra options when you hovered over them. Why remove that!?
 
ctw0e said:
I haven't had any issues so far. Never thought an upgrade would be smooth like this!

I only have two annoyances so far; the all-white windows and the fact that I can't have normal shortcuts in the Start-menu like used to.

I mean, why have all this empty space? It's a perfect space for the apps I want to use often.

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i don't get it, why does it look so bland, small and there are no text labels or live tiles?

mine looks nothing like that
 
Been using Windows 10 for a few days and it has been flawless. Only one retry for a successful upgrade while in 8.1, and everything about the OS has been smooth for me.
Microsoft Edge has also been sleek for me by successfully showing 4K videos with no hitches unlike when I used Chrome, but the Find on Page feature randomly appeared at rare times when it felt like it after I used it only once, especially when I clicked the Start Menu. The fact that there are no apps yet for the browser is disappointing, but I guess that's only because 10 has been officially out.
Overall, I'm very satisfied with 10, though Cortana and Edge needs some fixing.
 
Anyone has this weird problem:

USB PnP Sound Device: 20 GB

Yes, 20GB according to the Storage app.
Unfortunately, I can't find the program folder that contains it.
I can uninstall it...but I will need to find a driver or risk in effing up my sound if the driver doesn't work.

But seriously...20GB????
 
Didn't quite know whether to post this here or in the off-topic Win 10 thread, so apologies if this is in the wrong section/thread.

Have upgraded and made a clean install of Win 10 on my laptop and now wanted to download the latest firmware for my processor and graphics card...

Found this for my AMD Radeon: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/mobile?os=Windows+10+-+64

But having a real hard time finding the latest driver on Intel's site, my processor is a 3rd gen i7-3720QM. Does anyone know the latest drivers for it and it's HD Graphics 4000 graphics processor?
 
fedexpeon said:
Anyone has this weird problem:

USB PnP Sound Device: 20 GB

Yes, 20GB according to the Storage app.
Unfortunately, I can't find the program folder that contains it.
I can uninstall it...but I will need to find a driver or risk in effing up my sound if the driver doesn't work.

But seriously...20GB????
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It's probably just wrong. It might be a driver in one of the windows system folders - so it might just be showing the size of that windows folder and not just the driver file size.
 
bargeparty said:
Does it show up on the left like windows 7?
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No, I see what you mean, it's just the tile that gets pinned.
It doesn't even show up in all apps, I had to use the search then pin it.
I am struggling to find certain things/settings/options that's my main problem with 10 at the moment.
 
Does anyone who owns it know whether Thief 2 works on Windows 10? I'm gonna buy it soon and the last time I checked GOG said it'll run on Windows 8, but no mention of Windows 10 since it hadn't been released at that point.
 
Mandelbo said:
Does anyone who owns it know whether Thief 2 works on Windows 10? I'm gonna buy it soon and the last time I checked GOG said it'll run on Windows 8, but no mention of Windows 10 since it hadn't been released at that point.
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There should be very little chance of it not working. If it works on Win8, it should work fine on Win10.
 
I just found out you can right click on the start button for some handy options.
Device Manager, Command Prompt, Run etc
 
jesu said:
I just found out you can right click on the start button for some handy options.
Device Manager, Command Prompt, Run etc
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This isn't working on my pc.

I'd really like to know if there's a fix.

I can see the menu but clicking on any of the options doesn't do anything.
 
Iced_Eagle said:
Unfortunately it will require work from app developers to make them high-dpi aware...

What's happening is that many apps use bitmap based resources, and not vector based. When an app does not mark itself as high-dpi aware, Windows can only do a raw scale basically. And you can imagine what happens when you zoom in on a bitmap. Yup, blurriness. They need to either use vector-based, or be high-dpi aware and load in different scale/resolution assets based on the scale factor you have set.

It does seem like there are more and more updates to apps to make them high-dpi aware, but be sure you send the companies who make the apps you use a message saying you want high-dpi support.
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Got it. Thanks for the rundown!
 
ShyGuy0504 said:
This isn't working on my pc.

I'd really like to know if there's a fix.

I can see the menu but clicking on any of the options doesn't do anything.
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I never actually tried clicking on any of them but I just did and they work for me.
A quick google doesn't show any fixes for you yet but I'm sure something will turn up, soonish.
 
So, any word on whether WiinUSoft works in W10? I use it pretty much exclusively on my gaming machine, and am hesitant to upgrade because of that. DS4Windows works well enough despite me initially having heard otherwise (just can't use Hide DS4), so who knows.

EDIT: Seems it crashes in W10 right now, but a new version that will work in the OS is in the works, so I'll wait.
 
jesu said:
I never actually tried clicking on any of them but I just did and they work for me.
A quick google doesn't show any fixes for you yet but I'm sure something will turn up, soonish.
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I just googled and found a forum post from someone else who has the exact same problem so at least I'm not alone.

The OS just officially released a few days ago so I guess should expect some issues.
 
ShyGuy0504 said:
This isn't working on my pc.

I'd really like to know if there's a fix.

I can see the menu but clicking on any of the options doesn't do anything.
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If you navigate here:

Code: 
C:\Users\<yourUserName>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WinX

you should see folders with the various shortcuts inside them. Clicking the shortcuts there, do they do anything?
 
Dear me, spent nearly two complete days trying to upgrade to Windows 10. Once I work my way around one obstacle it throws up a brand new one. It's exactly this sort of stuff that prevents me from ever going back to using Windows as my primary OS, how can they possible got it so wrong for so many people. It really shouldn't be this complicated.

I'm leaving it for now, I suppose they have another 12 months to fix their stuff. :(
 
Anyone having issues during the upgrade process? It get's stuck at 32% on the upgrading windows screen and at 6% installing features and drivers.

PC Details: Upgrading from 8.1 using media download tool to force the upgrade. I built the desktop a while ago and it has an i5, GTX770, 1 seagate 3tb hdd, 1 250gb samsung 840 evo and 16gb ram.
 
I'm waiting a bit before "jumping in". Too many issues that need to be ironed out.
Otherwise it seems to be a well rounded OS, I understand the appeal but 8.1 has been stable for me and I don't feel like reinstalling everything (I know about the upgrade but clean install is always best).
 
a very cute dog said:
Upgraded a day or two ago-- I might just be imagining it but I feel like a lot of my games have taken a performance hit since the switch, which isn't fun.
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If anything, you should be noticing a very slight performance increase.

JP said:
Dear me, spent nearly two complete days trying to upgrade to Windows 10. Once I work my way around one obstacle it throws up a brand new one. It's exactly this sort of stuff that prevents me from ever going back to using Windows as my primary OS, how can they possible got it so wrong for so many people. It really shouldn't be this complicated.

I'm leaving it for now, I suppose they have another 12 months to fix their stuff. :(
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That's why. So many people, so many different hardware configurations, so many different drivers. It's probably not as simple as you think it is.
 
SPDIF said:
If you navigate here:

Code: 
C:\Users\<yourUserName>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WinX

you should see folders with the various shortcuts inside them. Clicking the shortcuts there, do they do anything?
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Those work.

I can also access them through all other means.

I'm also pretty sure that I checked these right after I installed Windows 10 a few days ago and they worked. Something broke them but I'm not sure what because I haven't changed anything.

The run, search, shutdown, and desktop options work. Just not anything else. Very strange but from a google search I see that another person has the same problem.
 
_Ph03n1x_ said:
Anyone having issues during the upgrade process? It get's stuck at 32% on the upgrading windows screen and at 6% installing features and drivers.

PC Details: Upgrading from 8.1 using media download tool to force the upgrade. I built the desktop a while ago and it has an i5, GTX770, 1 seagate 3tb hdd, 1 250gb samsung 840 evo and 16gb ram.
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Had the same "issue" just letting it sit for ~8 minutes fixed it. Probably did some shit in the background and forgot to update the screen.
 
ShyGuy0504 said:
Those work.

I can also access them through all other means.

I'm also pretty sure that I checked these right after I installed Windows 10 a few days ago and they worked. Something broke them but I'm not sure what because I haven't changed anything.

The run, search, shutdown, and desktop options work. Just not anything else. Very strange but from a google search I see that another person has the same problem.
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I'm sure you've probably seen it but it seems like a potential reason is third-party apps installing shell extensions into Windows Explorer. Have you recently installed a media player or text editor or something that adds to the menu when you right-click a file? In the meantime a potential fix (probably until you restart your PC) might be to restart Windows Explorer using the task manager.
 
Is there any way to stop Windows 10 from letting Microsoft know every dodgy thing that I do with my PC..? My PC is Pirate City lol.

Why are pirates called pirates..?

Cos they aaaaarrrre

:oD
 
Madridista said:
I have a section named "Play and explore" underneath that "Life at a Glance" section. Maybe I can remove sections?
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You can remove a section by just unpinning everything in it (or moving stuff out to a different section). You can click on the headers to rename them, and drag them around by the handle that appears in the top-right. You're not locked to the default layout in any way at all, so just organise things however best suits you.
 
SPDIF said:
That's why. So many people, so many different hardware configurations, so many different drivers. It's probably not as simple as you think it is.
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It's downloading an OS and people are having issues, even with clean installs of Windows 10. People are having issues that aren't related to the hardware in anyway if the fixes are correct. I've never had issues like this with any other OS and I'm including upgrades with really early versions of Windows in that.

As I said, they have 12 months to fix it so there's no real need for me to spend my time on it while it's in this state. I don't need Windows so I'm just going to leave it for a couple of months or so until they've fixed at least some of the issues there is with the software.
 
Since I've updated to Windows 10 my PC keeps dropping connection to the Internet. It happens on white wifi and LAN. Seems to be a common problem. Most people have resolved it by removing a VPN but I don't have one.

Can anyone help?
 
JP said:
It's downloading an OS and people are having issues, even with clean installs of Windows 10. People are having issues that aren't related to the hardware in anyway if the fixes are correct. I've never had issues like this with any other OS and I'm including upgrades with really early versions of Windows in that.

As I said, they have 12 months to fix it so there's no real need for me to spend my time on it while it's in this state. I don't need Windows so I'm just going to leave it for a couple of months or so until they've fixed at least some of the issues there is with the software.
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I think the issues are overblown. 70 million people have installed the OS, of course there are some issues. And the "I've never had these issues before" antidote doesn't really hold water, because there hasn't been a piece of software ever made that didn't have tons of people having issues. Which magical OS do you use that doesn't have an entire forum dedicated to people who are having issues?

Anyway, for my part I've installed it on three separate machines and have yet to have so much as a single problem on any of them, and all three were done in less time than it took to upgrade a single machine to any previous Windows version. If other people having issues stopped me from upgrading my OS, I'd still be using Windows 95.
 
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