RoyalLaFlame
Banned
Windows 10 design is so inconsistent. Kind of a mess... Otherwise the experience has been great. Shame about Edge not having Adblock.
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Windows 10 |OT| Something Happened? Something Happened.
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LukasTaves
Member
I had an old laptop with a corrupted windows 7 install and instead of fixing it and then upgrading I decided to install clean from the media tool...
But now windows 10 won't recognize my win7 serial key to activate it, is there a way to convert keys, or do I have to go back to win7, use the upgrade tool and then once in win10 I recover the new key to keep it?
But now windows 10 won't recognize my win7 serial key to activate it, is there a way to convert keys, or do I have to go back to win7, use the upgrade tool and then once in win10 I recover the new key to keep it?
Yes, you have to upgrade, so the key will be registered at MS as a Windows 10 key.
Alternatively: call the activation hotline and talk to a real person and explain the issue
LukasTaves
Member
I see, thanks. Will try calling them!
Netherscourge
Banned
It might not auto-Defrag unless the drive is more than 15 or 20% fragmented?
I'm not sure what Windows 10's threshold is. In the past on Windows 7, if I just did an "Analyze" and it was less than a certain % fragmented, it would say "You do not have to defrag at this time" or something like that.
I use a SSD now, so I don't defrag at all.
Goddamnit. I don't understand how someone could be confused about it unless they were completely oblivious what was OneDrive is.
OneDrive use has become so much more cumbersome without them.
I found a video showing how to map it as a network drive and essentially function as shortcuts. I suppose that will do for now, but I really hope they bring it back.
thanks for the heads up, just did that. pretty cool
hamburger menu top left/settings icon -bottom of that tab/Accounts -from right window that pops out/click on Account you want to delete/Delete account
Note you can not delete an email account that you are logged into windows with , can only stop email syncing
Thanks a bunch, had not noticed I was logged into my pc using that email address.
honeymustardn
Member
It happens regardless of how fast I move my mouse. I just looked really stupid trying to move my mouse super fast.
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
OS X has been doing that for a while. People complained and got confused back then too. Now it's second nature and no one thinks of it.
LukasTaves
Member
While I agree that they definitely should have shipped with smart files support, it needed to be handled better than it was on 8.1. Not because of the overlays, but the whole system was very spotty at getting files on demand. Not to mention issues like taking a lifetime to process changes, even when you change but a single file, or the stupid filename length and file size restrictions which makes absolutely no sense nowadays...
In short, the step back had to be done... Onedrive was just a mess. But, the most worst part is how they take so goddamn long to make very minimal progress. In the end the result was that we paid the price of that step back, but haven't seen any of the benefits. OneDrive is still a mess using too much CPU and taking forever to sync files, we still have the same nonsensical limitations (specially for a service that claims to offer unlimited storage now) but now we have reduced functionality and absolutely no way of manipulating files not synced locally.
I'm no Windows power user or anything, but I used the smart files pretty much every day for Word, Excel, and image files for the last 2 years. Never had an issue with getting them or syncing when I was done.
ShaoranWright
Member
Why is microsoft making things more difficult to IT admins?, not only forces updates for the OS but now they won't even say what the update is for.
Where is the difference to today?
Don't most, if not all updates, have KB articles associated with them?
A friend of mine found an interesting bug in the Calculator app: writing "2 + 2 * 2" will give you 8 as a result instead of expected 6. That's because it calculates operations as you write them (so it first calculates "2 + 2", then the result of that is multiplied by 2) instead of waiting for the whole sequence to be written.
Put the calculator in scientific mode.
That is how calculators are supposed to work in standard mode.
Go, get a real simple calculator and compare.
It's two clicks.
Hm, I don't have any physical simple calculator but maybe you're right. Maybe I've just been spoiled by all other apps (e.g. Google's default calculator app) and calculators build-in into web searches; if you type the same operation in Cortana, she (Bing) gives you the correct result, i.e. 6.
Prophet Steve
Member
I dunno if it stays on a restart of your PC, but it even remembers the setting after closing an reopening it.
deltatheta
Member
And most people don't expect calculators to follow the order of operations, so I don't see how that's a bug.
killertofu
Member
Is there any downsides to getting a free Windows 10 Education key...?
SJRB
Gold Member
Just finished the upgrade, that went super smooth. Took about 45 minutes, all I had to do afterwards was install the Nvidia drivers again.
Just finished adjusting the privacy settings, now to explore the OS itself. Even though the screen resolution is the same, everything seems way smaller. Even this screen, it seems weird.
Does Windows 10 not have any Aero-style themes? I really like the transparancy effects, but I can't find it anywhere.
Just finished adjusting the privacy settings, now to explore the OS itself. Even though the screen resolution is the same, everything seems way smaller. Even this screen, it seems weird.
Does Windows 10 not have any Aero-style themes? I really like the transparancy effects, but I can't find it anywhere.
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
My laptop finally got the prompt to upgrade. Now I can't remember how I disabled automatic windows updates.
The KB articles for updates on previous Windows versions had a lot of info in them, including what was fixed with great detail. The KB articles for W10 on the other hand aren't saying *at all* what was fixed or changed and only listing files that were added or modified, which is bullshit.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Installed Win 10 on Boot Camp and to my delight it boots up incredibly fast! Booting Win 10 Preview was like molasses.
Who needs Paralells when I can toggle back and forth to OS X this quickly?
Who needs Paralells when I can toggle back and forth to OS X this quickly?
?? The program works fine in W8 AFIK.
How can I disable the fucking popup about Updates being scheduled, etc.
It happens during the worst times, like I'm in the middle of a Dota match; I get taken back to desktop about the system being ready to install updates, blah blah.
Any way for me to just relegate it to the taskbar?
It happens during the worst times, like I'm in the middle of a Dota match; I get taken back to desktop about the system being ready to install updates, blah blah.
Any way for me to just relegate it to the taskbar?
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
Steelyuhas
Member
Yeah it doesn't "block" it or anything. I made a USB bootable from the media tool from my Windows 10 install in order to do a clean install.
What the shit, It installed a new update then after restarting the PC it began fixing C: drive and now the "explorer.exe" stopped working. The UI crashes every second it gets and start menu or any menu at that mention does not open up, also half the program icons have disappeared.
EDIT: That's it. It's unusable now after making a recovery from previous stable point. That was fun, never had this problem with previous windows'
EDIT: That's it. It's unusable now after making a recovery from previous stable point. That was fun, never had this problem with previous windows'
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Deleted member 125677
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Anyone had an issue where you've had to restart computer on every fresh power-up before your wifi usb dongle starts working?
Thanks, changed the appropriate settings, will see what happens when I get an update prompt.
megarockexe
Member
So, the Mail app is really quite a downgrade, right? IE6-era red X images for missing images. Pointless transform controls on click. No way to load images. Poor email rendering. And no attachments support. Tell me improvements are on the way. It's just sad when Windows 8 had it done right for so long.
Honestly so many of Microsoft's universal apps are just... terrible. I'm a big fan of the direction they took with Windows 10 but they have totally dropped the ball with their apps.
Slackbladder
Member
Currently only have one issue with Windows 10. Often when I finnish a game and quit the task bar refuses to show so I have to use the windows key to get my start options up. Not a big problem and maybe not an issue on Windows 10 alone but I don't remember it on 7 or 8.
Poodlestrike
Banned
I have had... uh, none of these issues with the mail app? Been using it for everything and it does splendidly.
