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Windows 10 |OT| Something Happened? Something Happened.

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roytheone

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Funny thing I just noticed: that game bar that should allow you to DVR your games works with almost every program on my pc...........except all actual games.
 
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GhostRidah

Member
Anyone find a way to customize the upper left side of the start menu? Being blank looks pretty ugly

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cartoon_soldier

Member
In the Windows 10 calendar app (I have it syncing with my google cal) how do I setup meetings in different timezones?

Also...sync seems a bit off in it?
 
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PlayALLtheGames

Banned
I understand W10 is made with tablets and shit in mind but aesthetically it just seems to be stripped down and bland. Windows 7 is a lot more colorful and I was hoping to see some cool new effects in W10. Maybe I haven't played with the personalization settings enough?
 
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Deleted member 325805

Unconfirmed Member
Did anyone notice a gaming boost after yesterday's Windows update? I was having issues in Van Helsing III where the frame rate would drop as low as 30fps while on max settings but after the update I'm now staying around 80 - 90fps with the lowest being 70fps. It wasn't an Nvidia driver as I do those manually but the difference is night and day.
 
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Vyer

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I notice that sometimes when I open a new tab in Edge the cursor does not start in the search/address bar. It's rather annoying.

In addition, sometimes random buttons and functions on websites just don't work, and I have to restart the browser or switch to Firefox. Also rather annoying.

Little nagging things here and there may cut my Edge trial period short.
 
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clav

Member
Vyer said:
I notice that sometimes when I open a new tab in Edge the cursor does not start in the search/address bar. It's rather annoying.

In addition, sometimes random buttons and functions on websites just don't work, and I have to restart the browser or switch to Firefox. Also rather annoying.

Little nagging things here and there may cut my Edge trial period short.
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All of Edge's problems are even more obvious on very low-end hardware. Quite perplexing when Chrome and Firefox don't have those issues.
 
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Vyer

Member
claviertekky said:
All of Edge's problems are even more obvious on very low-end hardware. Quite perplexing when Chrome and Firefox don't have those issues.
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ugh, I couldn't imagine. Though I guess most of what annoys me isn't exactly those types of performance issues, though I wouldn't want that added to the nagging stuff.
 
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clav

Member
Vyer said:
ugh, I couldn't imagine. Though I guess most of what annoys me isn't exactly those types of performance issues, though I wouldn't want that added to the nagging stuff.
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I would say as of right now, Windows 10 is a downgrade for CPUs that don't score over 700 in CPUmark.

The start menu takes 2-3 seconds to open vs. instantaneously in Windows 8. Edge's scrolling lags and chugs especially when ads load in the background.

Most of GAF probably wouldn't dare touching that kind of hardware for personal use, but I like to see where the lowest boundary is since an underpowered setup puts things in prospective. You really don't need much spec wise on a computer these days for basic tasks. Even a 2007/2008 setup will work fine.
 
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Lakitu

st5fu
Please help...

I got the free upgrade stuff popping up but I have some very important questions. I should read the OP but since I only have 2 minutes...

1) If I get the free upgrade, will it always remain free? I mean they're not going to ask me to pay £99 one year later to continue using it are they?
2) All files (read: porn) will still stay on the hard drive? Or will they be deleted?
3) I've been running Fallout 3 and used an unofficial patch to run on my current version, will that continue to Windows 10? Or will I have to wait for yet another unofficial patch?
 
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danielcw

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Lakitu said:
1) If I get the free upgrade, will it always remain free? I mean they're not going to ask me to pay £99 one year later to continue using it are they?
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On the same hardware it will stay free forever.
If you get a new PC, you might need a new license.

If you replace parts on your current PC it should continue to work. Worst case: call Microsoft's activation hotline and explain to the person on the other hand what happened.
 
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Lakitu

st5fu
danielcw said:
On the same hardware it will stay free forever.
If you get a new PC, you might need a new license.

If you replace parts on your current PC it should continue to work. Worst case: call Microsoft's activation hotline and explain to the person on the other hand what happened.
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Thanks, exactly what I needed to know.
 
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Rosur

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Lakitu said:
Please help...

I got the free upgrade stuff popping up but I have some very important questions. I should read the OP but since I only have 2 minutes...

2) All files (read: porn) will still stay on the hard drive? Or will they be deleted?
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you want lose any files doing the upgrade. Unless you do the full install of windows 10 then you lose whats on the drive your installing to as having to re-format etc.
 
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Skux

Member
Still trying to work out what do with the live tile areas, since I never use those apps. Here's the setup so far:

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Also, you don't have to have the search button on the taskbar to do a search. You can just start typing once you open the Start menu.
 
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Altazor

Member
cartoon_soldier said:
Will reset wipe both my drives or just the one that has Windows installed on it?
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you can choose, IIRC.

EDIT: You will be prompted during the reset procedure: "Your PC has more than one drive. Do you want to remove all files from all drives?", to which you should select "Only the drive where Windows is installed"
 
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Arctic Feather

Member
Finally decided to upgrade only to find out that my wi-fi adapter doesn't work as there are no Windows 10 drivers yet. Had to roll back to Windows 8.1. I hope updated drivers get released.
 
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Angry Grimace

Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
So my computer has been real slow, so I started what I thought was the "download" of Windows 10 for free the other day so I could do a fresh install of the new OS, but then whoops, it just actually woke my computer up and installed Windows 10 while I was sleeping. Its not a big deal, but I'm wondering if there's a way I can go back and do a clean install - everything interesting on my computer is already backed up.
 
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aristotle

Member
Has anyone found a way to stop all the damn annoying TAP-Win32 Adapter OAS and TAP-Windows Adapter V9 under Network Adapters yet? They seem to install themselves constantly and multiple times. Uninstalling doesn't fix the problem either.
 
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munroe

Member
Angry Grimace said:
So my computer has been real slow, so I started what I thought was the "download" of Windows 10 for free the other day so I could do a fresh install of the new OS, but then whoops, it just actually woke my computer up and installed Windows 10 while I was sleeping. Its not a big deal, but I'm wondering if there's a way I can go back and do a clean install - everything interesting on my computer is already backed up.
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Settings-update-backup&restore there should be an option there to do a clean install
 
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LasagnaPastrami

Neo Member
Have people been having any problems with game performance on Windows 10 with AMD graphics cards and/or processors? Or is there a thread about this already someone could lead me to
 
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Herne

Member
I've just ordered an SSD and will be installing Windows 10. I've noticed on my laptop that updates seem automatic, that you can't turn them off that I can see, you can only schedule them. On my gaming pc, I don't want our limited bandwidth used by Windows when I'm playing a game. Is there a way to enable manual updates only, a la Windows 7?
 
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Kinky John

Member
Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 10525

Here's an explanation as to why System/ntoskrnl.exe can use a lot of memory.

Memory Manager Improvements: -In Windows 10, we have added a new concept in the Memory Manager called a compression store, which is an in-memory collection of compressed pages. This means that when Memory Manager feels memory pressure, it will compress unused pages instead of writing them to disk. This reduces the amount of memory used per process, allowing Windows 10 to maintain more applications in physical memory at a time. This also helps provide better responsiveness across Windows 10. The compression store lives in the System process’s working set. Since the system process holds the store in memory, its working set grows larger exactly when memory is being made available for other processes. This is visible in Task Manager and the reason the System process appears to be consuming more memory than previous releases.
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Altazor

Member
Herne said:
I've just ordered an SSD and will be installing Windows 10. I've noticed on my laptop that updates seem automatic, that you can't turn them off that I can see, you can only schedule them. On my gaming pc, I don't want our limited bandwidth used by Windows when I'm playing a game. Is there a way to enable manual updates only, a la Windows 7?
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Windows 10 Home edition downloads updates automatically. You can defer them for a while in W10 Professional, Enterprise and Education editions.
 
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M3d10n

Member
Kinky John said:
Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 10525

Here's an explanation as to why System/ntoskrnl.exe can use a lot of memory.
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I suspected something like this was going on when I noticed the System RAM usage went up in situations that normally would cause pagefile accesses back in 8.1 (like when I crash the Unreal Editor -_-).

I noticed an overall increased responsiveness when I max RAM usage in Win10 too. 8.1 was a bit better than 7, but it still took a while to recover from having to use the pagefile.
 
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btags

Member
I have a weird question that I am hoping someone here might be able to help me with. When I go to the disk defrag tool it lists four drives: my C: drive, a D: drive that Lenovo partitioned (I am using a Lenovo laptop), and two drives with the names PBR_DRV and WINRE_DRV. What are these last two drives for? I never saw anything like this when I had windows 8.1 installed.
 
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clav

Member
Kinky John said:
Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 10525

Here's an explanation as to why System/ntoskrnl.exe can use a lot of memory.
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M3d10n said:
I suspected something like this was going on when I noticed the System RAM usage went up in situations that normally would cause pagefile accesses back in 8.1 (like when I crash the Unreal Editor -_-).

I noticed an overall increased responsiveness when I max RAM usage in Win10 too. 8.1 was a bit better than 7, but it still took a while to recover from having to use the pagefile.
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That might explain some CPU cycles.
 
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MarkusRJR

Member
So I have two problems:

-My laptop still is telling me that my copy has been reserved and I can't upgrade. Is there any way to start the upgrade or am I basically stuck waiting forever? It's been almost a month since W10 released.

-My all-in-one desktop running W10 has recently had an issue where it'll randomly turn on and wake from sleep. I'll occasionally also walk into my bedroom and see it already on and frozen on the Lenovo boot screen as if it restarted on it's own and froze. Genuinely confused as the what the fuck is going on.
 
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epmode

Member
Herne said:
For a while? Hmmm.
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Deferring updates doesn't work like it does in earlier versions of Windows. From what I can tell, enabling deferred updates stops ALL updates but essential security fixes. You don't get to pick and choose. The deferred updates are automatically installed a few months later.
 
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LukasTaves

Member
The build is not showing up for me... I'm this close of clean installing win 10, it's just so buggy for me now.

Steelyuhas said:
Shouldn't have a significant impact on CPU, just memory (unless I'm not understanding it correctly).
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Well, I'm assuming it needs CPU time to compress and decompress everything. In scenarios with many apps opened and lots of switching could cause an ongoing high CPU usage...

(Just guessing here, and would explain why all the sudden the surface gets warm, with system processes eating the CPU up, assuming there's no bug or anything like that causing those spikes)
 
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Winterblink

Member
Well, time to turn on notify for restart with Windows Update. I had it set to Automatic, walk away from my PC for a moment and bam, it's restarted it after applying the last cumulative update.
 
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