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Windows 10 |OT| Something Happened? Something Happened.
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Frustrated_Grunt
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Trying to upgrade my pc, but it's been stuck on the "Checking for Updates" screen for 2-3 hours. Is this a common occurrence?
commanderpepper
Member
I just finished installing Windows 10 and it is smooth. It'll help me when I work.
hellmonkey
Member
Well, balls...
Tried putting win 10 on my laptop, it wont find video drivers. its an hp dv6605, so its like 7 years old+. Kinda sucky and gives me weariness about doing my pc, which is custom built this spring.
Tried putting win 10 on my laptop, it wont find video drivers. its an hp dv6605, so its like 7 years old+. Kinda sucky and gives me weariness about doing my pc, which is custom built this spring.
Control-Alt-Delete. Open task manager. Choose to see more details. Click on the Performance tab.
See how much memory is being used as you use the computer.
I'm only using 22% of 8GB RAM while browsing with 3 tabs open and playing music. Also some photos are being uploaded in the background.
Rex Griswold
Member
I'm loving it so far. Upgrade went very smoothly, and left me with no desire to do a clean install.
The only hiccup I can find is that when I first sign on after a cold boot, the screen flickers the background color I selected. It's less than a second, and that's the only time it occurs. That aside I'm very happy with it.
The only hiccup I can find is that when I first sign on after a cold boot, the screen flickers the background color I selected. It's less than a second, and that's the only time it occurs. That aside I'm very happy with it.
So far I like everything except:
01. You gotta go way out of your way to get to what would be "normal" privacy settings
02. You need to opt out of being a bandwith conduit for other people's updates
03. App icons on the left side of the start menu should be transparent, like they are on the task bar
Edge performs really well as a browser. Good for using when I don't want to open up Chrome and the attending extensions. I did an upgrade over Windows 7 and everything works precisely as it should. Smoothest upgrade experience I've had since going from Windows 2000 to Windows XP Pro on the same machine.
Can a Google calendar be added to the stock metro calendar app without also importing all of the emails on that account? The only reason I ask is because I noticed in the updates that "Mail & Calendar" are treated as a single application which is weird.
01. You gotta go way out of your way to get to what would be "normal" privacy settings
02. You need to opt out of being a bandwith conduit for other people's updates
03. App icons on the left side of the start menu should be transparent, like they are on the task bar
Edge performs really well as a browser. Good for using when I don't want to open up Chrome and the attending extensions. I did an upgrade over Windows 7 and everything works precisely as it should. Smoothest upgrade experience I've had since going from Windows 2000 to Windows XP Pro on the same machine.
Can a Google calendar be added to the stock metro calendar app without also importing all of the emails on that account? The only reason I ask is because I noticed in the updates that "Mail & Calendar" are treated as a single application which is weird.
CreepingFear
Member
PSY・S;174000933 said:Found it.
Go download drivers for Windows 7. Should work.
No, not from in the app from what I can tell. You either have to turn off email sync in settings after you add your Google account (and have given it enough time to sync and sort all of your emails) or subscribe to an ICS link in the calendar via Outlook.com.
You can get an ICS link for all the calendars you want to export from Google Calendar in the Calendar Details page of each calendar on google.com/calendar.
Septimus Prime
Member
Not BS Player right now. It keeps popping a notification for the file you're playing for like a minute. And if you manually close it, it pops a new one.
MPC-HC or VLC.
Edit: If you mean music player then MusicBee.
Much lighter on resources than iTunes.
Perfect Cha0s
Member
PSY・S;174000933 said:Found it.
You can't just do that without sharing with the rest of the class!
CreepingFear
Member
Uno Venova
Banned
It's been like that for hours. And the files are music files.
iTunes works fine. I tried importing my 500 gig music library to the new Groove music windows app and it was slow as shit.
CreepingFear
Member
PSY・S;174008691 said:
Thanks!
It's been like that for hours. And the files are music files.
LOL. Did you check your network usage?
You might want to run the initial setup again:
C:\Users\BackFlip\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OneDrive\Update\OneDriveSetup.exe
Upsidedown Fuji
Member
I'm not sure there is an official method to downgrading a windows key, especially to an OEM. You'll have to reinstall using your starter Key. You'll be getting 10 home in that case.
The notification pop up is broken. You have to left click on the application icon to see the real progress.
Uno Venova
Banned
I'll try that, thanks.
Still something has to be wrong, normally files like that would upload in seconds but it's just stuck.
Twilight Gap
Member
that title though.
should be joining the fun very shortly, assuming something doesn't happen.
should be joining the fun very shortly, assuming something doesn't happen.
It's not broken for me.
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Deleted member 325805
Unconfirmed Member
I'm liking Windows 10 on the whole, although I don't feel it's a massive leap from 8.1.
I really hope they tweak the start menu though:
I really hope they tweak the start menu though:
Twilight Gap
Member
i've seen start menus with bigger tiles. are they really not resizable? did those tiles just come at the large size by default?
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
I've seen several people having issues with Nvidia drivers, so between that, the privacy stuff, and the fact you apparently can't directly do a fresh install with the upgrade, I'm holding off for a bit.
Most of the improvements over 7 seem pretty nice though, looking forward to upgrading. Have a new RAID setup with a couple 500GB SSDs ready for it.
You can do either a reset or a refresh, forgot which. If you do that you don't need to reactivate or anything.
Most of the improvements over 7 seem pretty nice though, looking forward to upgrading. Have a new RAID setup with a couple 500GB SSDs ready for it.
You can do either a reset or a refresh, forgot which. If you do that you don't need to reactivate or anything.
Overall I prefer it over using Win8.1. Not only I managed to free up 4.5 GB from my puny 16GB eMMC, it has a lot of tablet improvements, like the, uh, tablet mode. The only quirk that I still haven't bothered to fix is that if I lock the screen it always asks me for the PIN to unlock it, where in Win8.1 it waited 15 minutes before I needed to input the PIN again.
Be aware that most likely after you finish the installation your tablet most likely will be slow. Like, ridiculously slow. Somehow, the installation is missing the video drivers and it uses the CPU in the meantime.
What I did is I downloaded the media creator tool from Microsoft's website. Launch the exe and just follow the step of "upgrade my current PC". Chose to keep nothing. Seems to have done a very clean install for me.
Yep, the start menu is super limited right now from a tweaking standpoint.
That's kind of the case across all aspects of the OS. I'm sure these things will change, though.
The fact that I can't satisfactorily change the title bar color is ridiculous, for instance. Why on earth use white as the title bar color when that's historically been the unfocused window color?
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Deleted member 325805
Unconfirmed Member
You can resize the tiles, that's not what I'm after. I want to resize the start menu so it's closer to the tiles, here, I made a GIF. It won't go any smaller for some reason, which leaves loads of ugly dead space.
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
When you do that, can you select a different drive? Otherwise I need to move everything to my new drives then overwrite it all.
Steelyuhas
Member
At some point in preview builds, you could pin to the list, so I assume it's functionality that they will consider bringing back (if it's not already on the roadmap).
You can resize the start menu, but it's only to a few preset positions, which happens to be the width of the groups of live tiles you make. It'd be nice to have more control.
Twilight Gap
Member
You can resize the tiles, that's not what I'm after. I want to resize the start menu so it's closer to the tiles, here, I made a GIF. It won't go any smaller for some reason, which leaves loads of ugly dead space.
ah gotchya. i would have thought that it'd auto size to the width of the columns
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Deleted member 325805
Unconfirmed Member
You'd think, but nope, I'm left with a shit load of dead space instead. I doubt Microsoft will leave it like this, and I can live with it for now.
Ohh, so i can use my win 7 key for 10. ? so for my stupidness.
I was going to say.... My HP Stream desktop that is my HTPC works great with 2GG of DDR3. Only about 1.3 ~ 1.5GB used with Kodi open.
megarockexe
Member
But why not just use the space? It can be useful.