Do not adjust! Make them add that back in for tablet users.
Its pretty good except for that. Loving this OS in general. Amazing redesign from 8.
Upgrade to Windows 10?
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Do not adjust! Make them add that back in for tablet users.
Its pretty good except for that. Loving this OS in general. Amazing redesign from 8.
KiteGr
Member
I'm about to start the update and I have a few questions.
- The SSD Disk where I have my Windows 7 based has about 24 gb free. Is that enough?
- Is there any content on my PC that will NOT be spared from the update? (ex. the stuff I have on desktop for some reason)
- I have lots of games installed. Do I have to re-install them?
- The licence opens up saying to read "If I'm based in the US". Does that mean that I don't have to read it?
- If it ends up and Windows 10 suck, can I easilly return to my Windows 7? (without the need to find my serial codes, formating or reinstalling).
DryvBy
Member
I fixed mine by manually downloading the drivers for Windows 8.1 64-bit and reinstalling over and over. Finally worked. The GeForce Experience was installed before but would never complete the install of the drivers.
Stay away from Windows 10.
Windows 10 Solitaire requires a subscription to remove ads
I suspect they're doing this as an experiment, but I imagine that most, if not all of the critical OS components are going to go the DLC route.
Fuck that. I'm just gonna go to Apple or start to really look into Linux if this will be the future of Windows.
Windows 10 Solitaire requires a subscription to remove ads
I suspect they're doing this as an experiment, but I imagine that most, if not all of the critical OS components are going to go the DLC route.
Fuck that. I'm just gonna go to Apple or start to really look into Linux if this will be the future of Windows.
Leatherface
Member
A bit dramatic, no? lol
Thanks, will try this when I get home.
Aha, I'll try that out tonight. I was running into this issue on my laptop. Desktop was fine.
Oh no Microsoft released a game with DLC whatever shall we do windows is doomed. DOOMED I SAY
paperspace
Member
Do you realize you're talking about Solitaire?
I posted about this maybe 2-3 months back in the screenshot thread. Had the same problem with only my display showing up there when I used to have both. Now after the upgrade I only have GPU instead. ¯\_(ツ
_/¯At least I am stuck with the right option this time, no weird scaling where letters and stuff look really weird.
Your usage of windows 10 hinges on an app which has no impact on usage of said operating system?
K.
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Deleted member 17706
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Solitaire is a critical OS component.
Finally, My PC allowed me to upgrade after troubleshooting for like two days.
I've reset my Windows 8.1 installation, add my Media Center key, let my PC download Windows 10 and BAM!
got the message to start upgrading to Windows 10 with no stupid error codes or "something happened" messages and no "Windows 10 has failed installing" message boxes.
So now I've reset my Windows 10 installation and created a Windows System Image backup.
Phew...
I've reset my Windows 8.1 installation, add my Media Center key, let my PC download Windows 10 and BAM!
there it is,
So now I've reset my Windows 10 installation and created a Windows System Image backup.
Phew...
Dr. Zoidberg
Member
Calm down. Solitaire was not included with Windows 8 when it released and became a MS-published App on their app store. Like many app-store casual games, they have gone with a freemium model. With W10, they are just pre-loading the app. (Are they?) This is not a sign of some new scheme. If anything, W10 being a free upgrade is more suspicious than this.
jediyoshi
Member
Huh, just realized I last had Windows 8 Pro Student, so the upgrade lead me to Windows 10 Pro. Weird since I'm pretty sure I selected Win10 Home when I was installing
It'd be more suspicious if you weren't able to purchase it at all or the deal wasn't finite.
It'd be more suspicious if you weren't able to purchase it at all or the deal wasn't finite.
A reboot didn't work for me. I went to the NVIDIA site and downloaded the drivers for my 640GTX. Oddly, after the install, I wasn't prompted for a reboot, but I went ahead and rebooted anyway then both monitors came up.
My second monitor is an older dell 4:3 which I use for mame, and have edited mame.ini to use that instead of my primary widescreen, which wasn't happening. mame -verbose was seeing my secondary display as \.\\DISPLAY3, which was odd. Another reboot got that straightened out.
Besides edge not supporting java plugins, bsnes (pre-higan, which supports command line launch) and few other misc. windows games not working, the update was smooth. No complaints here.
The problem isn't that it's Solitaire -- I don't give two shits about it. If they're going to move to a subscription base where I have to pay for every component I want, then I'm bailing. Especially so when they start introducing ads, which as you can see if you follow the link I posted, they will not be small, unobtrusive ads.
I don't mind paying the license fee at all. However, moving to this system is just ridiculous.
Right, I don't mind if they remove it and decide to offer it as an optional component you can download. But this freemium bs doesn't sit well with me.
Kssio_Aug
Member
Not a replacement yet. However have been a long time since I use 2 browsers alternatively: chrome and firefox (mainly chrome). Now I believe I can retire firefox and keep edge and chrome (mainly edge it feels like). If there happens to be a great add-on support in edge along with some more updates I may even consider retire Chrome aswell.
Edge doesn't offer a Save As dialog box for downloaded files >_<
scoobs
Member
So my experience was that Geforce Experience wouldn't allow me to install the windows 10 driver for some reason... so what I did was go to task manager, end all nvidia apps and processes, then go back to Geforce Experience and install the latest Win 10 driver. For some reason this works.
Dr. Zoidberg
Member
But Solitaire ISN'T a Windows component any more. It's a game from their Appstore now, just like Minesweeper and Mahjong.
So if they had continued their Win8 policy and not pre-installed Solitaire you would be fine? You can right-click and uninstall it almost instantly.
Kadin
Member
Well that didn't work. First, I can't get full ownership of the WindowsBT folder to be able to delete it. Keep getting access denied when trying to take ownership of it. UAC is fully disabled. I keep getting error code 80246010 when it attempts to download W10 and the status shows: Failed.
Downloaded a Windows Update fixer and it's downloading once again now but the size is smaller. It's only 2716MB whereas before it was like 5.5GB. We'll see how it goes. WindowsBT folder is also 140MB now instead of the 6.7GB it was prior.
Pretty sure I screwed it all up but I feel good about this update now...
lol get a grip
jediyoshi
Member
Psst, you're still talking about Solitaire.
It's not a component, but that's not my point. It starts out with something like this, which is farily harmless. But it's pretty clear where they want to go with this.
OmegaDL50
Member
Where was your outrage during Windows 8 and 8.1 when the same Solitaire program existed then?
Why make the assumptions because Windows 10 is free for 7 / 8 / 8.1 users it's also going to somehow use a subscription plan. Where is this even coming from?
Iced_Eagle
Member
...Clear?
Seriously, they did this two years ago. This is not new to Windows 10. Do you not think that when they did this "grand experiment" two years ago, that any such scheme would have surfaced in Windows 10?
I'm amazed at how you look at tiny ads in Solitaire that aren't even close to being front and center (seriously, open it up and see for yourself!) and then decide that the entire OS is doomed. The sky is truly falling.
justgames7604
Member
Dr. Zoidberg
Member
Using freemium models to pay for casual games? I'm afraid the boat has sailed on that one.
No. This is just yet another free app on an app store that includes the option to pay to remove ads.
Azure Phoenix
Member
Curious, the files in Download certainly require permission to delete (and without a reboot will probably complain they are in use) but the BT folder had no kind of block for me. I definitely had to use a Windows Update Fixit tool as well, but that was because a prior update attempt crashed during install and caused some registry damage.
OmegaDL50
Member
It's not even this.
Windows 8 Solitaire which is the SAME as Windows 10 Solitaire did not require one to pay to even play the game. OF course going by the other thread on this subject didn't prevent people pushing their faux outrage agenda.
Playing the basic Solitaire modes is the same as it's always been. It's only in the challenge modes is when adverts are shown.
This isn't even the appropriate thread for this anyways.
I hope a moderator cleans up this because this is supposed to be about Upgrading to Windows 10.
But the ads are only in the New challenge Mode added with win8, you can Play without ads when you Play without the New unnecessary challenges
So you Don't Need a subscribtion for playing a round of solitaire
Visualante2
Member
By the time Edge has the features people want it will be as slow as Chrome I figure.
It isn't though.
I mean, right now it's pretty tolerable, especially since it's, y'know, Solitaire. Don't get me wrong, I am really hoping that I'm just being one of those paranoid people that make a lot of fuzz over nothing. However, as it stands right now? I've loathed freemium systems like this and this kind of crap really turns me off from 10.
OP is specifically asking whether it's time to upgrade OS. I am simply stating that no, it isn't, and why that is.
I can confirm the error code in the Windows 10 Store where it hangs when acquiring licenses seems to be a server-side issue. The problem sorted itself out after trying a few times and leaving it in the background.
I uhh...intended of writing out the error code for the sake of this comment, but the problem fixed itself and you can't copy-paste the error text. Sorry about that.
I uhh...intended of writing out the error code for the sake of this comment, but the problem fixed itself and you can't copy-paste the error text. Sorry about that.
prag16
Banned
To make the slippery slope argument, you have to provide proof that the slope is in fact slippery. What other convincing and substantive data points do we have to support this?
Not being a smartass, but genuinely asking. Maybe I missed something, but nothing else really grabbed my attention as some kind of proof that Windows will start having important existing chunks taken out of it and locked behind a paywall.
FlammableD
Banned
it is though
Dr. Zoidberg
Member
Do you use a phone or tablet? Because if this turns you off from 10 it should turn you off from iOS and Android as well. They have freemium apps just like solitaire as well. It's no different.
I tried getting Reader and a couple other apps updated many, many times last night and this morning and it never went through, hanging on acquiring license. Other apps would go through after a few tries but not those three. Were you able to update those as well?
OverturePT
Member
Does anyone know if it is possible to keep Cortana from minimizing programs when you give her a task? For example, asking her to play a certain song or setting a reminder while playing a video game.
this_multiverse
Neo Member
Edge is pretty slick but man I can't get by without highlight search option, chrome spoils
Run GeForce Experience and get the Windows 10 Driver. That's what fixed stuff for me. Can't speak for second monitors though.
Visualante2
Member
If everyone uninstalls Solitaire they will get the message.
OmegaDL50
Member
So an game with an option to remove ads that existed since OS version released nearly three years ago is your reason to avoid the current version of Windows 10 which still uses the same version of that game from that version of Windows of three years ago.
Yeah...okay, then.
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