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Windows 10 |OT| Something Happened? Something Happened.
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HarryDemeanor
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It should be in your videos folder.
Adblock and Adblock plus extensions are now available for Edge (Redstone insider).
Once LastPass and Noscript will follow, Edge will be a viable choice to fully replace FF and Chrome for me.
edit: would be nice to have extension support for mobile, too.
Once LastPass and Noscript will follow, Edge will be a viable choice to fully replace FF and Chrome for me.
edit: would be nice to have extension support for mobile, too.
Poodlestrike
Banned
HarryDemeanor
Member
Hopefully somebody makes a fork of uBlock Origin at some point for Edge.
It's not there,because i shut down the program from task manager.
Is there a temp folder for that?
on the slow ring so gotta wait sadly.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
Member
So my computer turned off while upgrading to windows 10 and now it's stuck in a boot loop where windows symbol comes up and then it resets non-stop.
I made a usb drive to try and fix it but it says a windows installation is in progress and either restart to allow that (which doesn't work due to constant reboot) or to erase the whole drive and clean install. Is there really no way to repair/finish installing the OS? Am I really forced to lose all my data?
I made a usb drive to try and fix it but it says a windows installation is in progress and either restart to allow that (which doesn't work due to constant reboot) or to erase the whole drive and clean install. Is there really no way to repair/finish installing the OS? Am I really forced to lose all my data?
If it comes to that (formating the HDD) you can always run Ubuntu from USB (download Ubuntu, follow these steps to make a bootable USB stick and run the system) and copy files you want from your HDD to another drive.
one can hope, not a fan of adblock.
brotkasten
Member
Seeing how Edge extensions are essentially Chrome extensions, it shouldn't take that long for it to appear on the Store, once they accept submissions.
Not from the original developer. Something about him not having enough time/resources.
brotkasten
Member
i upgraded from 7 to 10,and i found i have 30GB folder called "windows.old"
is it safe to move it some where else?
edit:found the answer, disk cleanup.
now i am having a problem with Windows 10,never had this problem in windows 7.
every now and while the wireless adapter disconnect and i have to diagnose it to fix it.
it's very annoying,what could be the problem?
is it safe to move it some where else?
edit:found the answer, disk cleanup.
now i am having a problem with Windows 10,never had this problem in windows 7.
every now and while the wireless adapter disconnect and i have to diagnose it to fix it.
it's very annoying,what could be the problem?
Zaraki_Kenpachi
Member
Yeah I have an external enclosure I can back up with but just a huge pain I have to redo everything. Surprised it can't try to repair or continue what's in process.
PlayALLtheGames
Banned
My honeymoon with this OS is over. I have not been able to do anything to get update 1511 installed. I even said "fuck it" and let a Microsoft tech remote in as a last resort. Not the end of the world but I was kind of hoping to play Forza beta and KI; can't without the update installed.
Meanwhile I see a ton of people at work getting the Start menu error. Fix is to create new profile. Doing this sometimes breaks Windows Store and any Windows apps. Also causes some desktop apps to be corrupted and require reinstall. The fix? Create a new profile.
Plus a lot of "Can't update; reverting changes."
Almost seems to have become less stable over time.
Meanwhile I see a ton of people at work getting the Start menu error. Fix is to create new profile. Doing this sometimes breaks Windows Store and any Windows apps. Also causes some desktop apps to be corrupted and require reinstall. The fix? Create a new profile.
Plus a lot of "Can't update; reverting changes."
Almost seems to have become less stable over time.
Mad Season
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Windows 10 Getting Much Needed Gaming Improvements Today
http://kotaku.com/windows-10-getting-much-needed-gaming-improvements-toda-1775780063
http://kotaku.com/windows-10-getting-much-needed-gaming-improvements-toda-1775780063
Red Liquorice
Member
I just upgraded to Win10, and it went relatively smoothly, but one HUGE problem I can't find a solution for is the inability turn off automatic restarts after a windows update.
Before I uninstall it, I wanted to do a last ditch attempt at finding a solution to this - I can find a way to reschedule a restart (up to what looks like a maximum of one week - whoopieee!), but can't find any way to stop it from restarting completely. I want to control when I run windows update and what happens once it's updated. What happens if I'm out of the room when it's done an update and it suddenly decides to restart and I lose everything I had open? This is completely bizarre to me and the number reason why I intend to uninstall Windows 10 if this can't be user-controlled. I'm shocked that this is how it is tbh.
Before I uninstall it, I wanted to do a last ditch attempt at finding a solution to this - I can find a way to reschedule a restart (up to what looks like a maximum of one week - whoopieee!), but can't find any way to stop it from restarting completely. I want to control when I run windows update and what happens once it's updated. What happens if I'm out of the room when it's done an update and it suddenly decides to restart and I lose everything I had open? This is completely bizarre to me and the number reason why I intend to uninstall Windows 10 if this can't be user-controlled. I'm shocked that this is how it is tbh.
BoboBrazil
Member
Have they said anything about disabling forced auto updates in a future version yet? That's all I'm waiting on. I downloaded windows 10 and then reverted back to 8.1, so I should be able to download it again for free after July right if they ever fix this?
brotkasten
Member
New Insider preview is out and swipe navigation for Edge is back!
Http://blogs.windows.com/windowsexp...ncing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-14342/
Http://blogs.windows.com/windowsexp...ncing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-14342/
xrnzaaas
Member
Are you using the desktop version of Win10? In my case after the updates have downloaded I get a prompt to decide when I plan to restart my PC but I just ignore that and shut it off at the end of the day like always.
Edit: Now that I checked the settings it looks like the system checks when you're active and in my case it set an automatic restart for tomorrow (late) evening. I don't think you should be afraid of an automatic restart if you have some apps launched. They should even prevent your PC from restarting (I often have that if I forget to close Photoshop).
Finally!
Now they just need to make it more touch friendly from a UI point of view - in tablet mode it should be full screen with swipeable big tab previews just like mobile IE used to be. I like Edge a lot, but for touch it's still a step back as it is.
brotkasten
Member
Yeah, the UI definitely needs a lot of work. For example, why is the right-click menu so barren? Not even a refresh button, what the hell? There's a reason why Mozilla made that a huge button few years ago. It sounds silly, but it's really inconvenient to drag the cursor all the way up again or to reach out to the button on the top bar.
Edge could be a really competent browser. It's fast, renders text great on the Surface Pro 4 and extensions are a good start, but it can be so clunky at times.
Poodlestrike
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So, I might have just not noticed it before, but the right click Ask Cortana option in Edge now does reverse image lookups, and it's pretty cool.
Ran into an issue using Windows Image Recovery to clone an installation to a SSD.
Screen after clicking through the menus to restore the disk image (and excluding hard disks) displayed: "Windows cannot restore a system image to a computer that has a different firmware. The system image was created on a computer using BIOS and this computer is using EFI."
Turns out on some setups, UEFI + Legacy BIOSes are both turned on, and Windows won't image if the running environment (UEFI or Legacy) is different from the one it was imaged. UEFI setup won't image a legacy BIOS image, and legacy BIOS setup won't image a UEFI image despite imaging the drive on the same system.
Solution: Some UEFI setups don't read NTFS installation disks, which Windows defaults when making an installation USB drive. Instead, when this setup can't find the UEFI boot loader, it'll resort to booting the legacy installation setup. Someone at Microsoft needs to fix this format problem because perhaps people aren't complaining due to the installer launching in legacy mode.
Go to the UEFI BIOS menus and activate UEFI boot. It'll be somewhere stating about legacy boot (Windows 7) and Windows 8 and its submenus (CSM). Copy the contents of an existing install disk to a FAT32 formatted disk to run in a UEFI environment for these setups. You don't even need to use a special setup program.
edit: On the topic of cloning, usually you're migrating a drive to a bigger capacity. You also need to run an instance of Gparted (in Ubuntu/Xubuntu or your favorite Linux distro) to move the last partition to the end of the drive and expand the middle contents to activate the extra capacity.
Screen after clicking through the menus to restore the disk image (and excluding hard disks) displayed: "Windows cannot restore a system image to a computer that has a different firmware. The system image was created on a computer using BIOS and this computer is using EFI."
Turns out on some setups, UEFI + Legacy BIOSes are both turned on, and Windows won't image if the running environment (UEFI or Legacy) is different from the one it was imaged. UEFI setup won't image a legacy BIOS image, and legacy BIOS setup won't image a UEFI image despite imaging the drive on the same system.
Solution: Some UEFI setups don't read NTFS installation disks, which Windows defaults when making an installation USB drive. Instead, when this setup can't find the UEFI boot loader, it'll resort to booting the legacy installation setup. Someone at Microsoft needs to fix this format problem because perhaps people aren't complaining due to the installer launching in legacy mode.
Go to the UEFI BIOS menus and activate UEFI boot. It'll be somewhere stating about legacy boot (Windows 7) and Windows 8 and its submenus (CSM). Copy the contents of an existing install disk to a FAT32 formatted disk to run in a UEFI environment for these setups. You don't even need to use a special setup program.
edit: On the topic of cloning, usually you're migrating a drive to a bigger capacity. You also need to run an instance of Gparted (in Ubuntu/Xubuntu or your favorite Linux distro) to move the last partition to the end of the drive and expand the middle contents to activate the extra capacity.
The process is easier, sure, but I like to do things using built-in features.
Not the first cloned installation either as I've been using imaging programs for a long time.
This shouldn't have been difficult, but I didn't read any solutions on what I experienced.
Normally you can just image right away.
As for SSD cloning programs, eh. I wonder if Clonezilla actually works with Windows 10 now. The solutions I read were all closed-source in free trial modes.
Not the first cloned installation either as I've been using imaging programs for a long time.
This shouldn't have been difficult, but I didn't read any solutions on what I experienced.
Normally you can just image right away.
As for SSD cloning programs, eh. I wonder if Clonezilla actually works with Windows 10 now. The solutions I read were all closed-source in free trial modes.
DonMigs85
Member
In my experience, built-in OS features or software can never match a good 3rd party product, on both Windows and OS X. That's why we still have to use 3rd party unzip programs/file archivers, disc burners, media players (VLC or MPC-HC), NTFS read/write (Paragon for Mac), etc.
I've been using Windows Image recovery since Vista, and I sometimes use Clonezilla.
Really depends as you can't mix closed-source + open source software experiences to say all third party products are great.
I don't think what I did was difficult.
I should clarify that I don't use all built-in software. There are some things that are great in box that people don't know about those features.
DonMigs85
Member
I believe there's an ideal way of reimaging onto an SSD to reduce wear a bit and improve performance and I'm not sure Windows Image Recovery treats them any different than a regular HDD yet. Supposedly, Acronic and Samsung Magician have special tweaks just for SSDs.
Outside of checking with AS SSD benchmark or I forgot the manual way of dividing what number for 4K alignment, there's not really much you need to do now especially when the previous installation was on a SSD.
Setup checks out.
dfrgui correctly identifies the type of drive, too.
Setup checks out.
dfrgui correctly identifies the type of drive, too.
DonMigs85
Member
Oh, in this case, carry on.
But yeah I've heard imaging from an HDD to SSD can cause problems if done straight.
I upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 7 Pro on Friday, and ever since then I keep getting this error message either during booting up or after about five minutes:
SYSTEM THREAD EXCEPTION NOT HANDLED (igdkmd64.sys)
I know this is to do with the on-board Intel 4000 graphics chip. I have uninstalled the incompatible Windows 7 drivers and disabled the device in Device Manager.
However, I cannot install the up-to-date drivers because the system keeps crashing with this message before the driver installation can finish, or even start in some cases.
Plus, because it's inconsistent and sometimes lets me login before crashing, it's not triggering the Automatic Recovery and so I can't get into Safe Mode because for some reason they've taken the F8 command away during boot-up.
Does anyone know how to fix this? I'm at my wit's end after two full days of this.
SYSTEM THREAD EXCEPTION NOT HANDLED (igdkmd64.sys)
I know this is to do with the on-board Intel 4000 graphics chip. I have uninstalled the incompatible Windows 7 drivers and disabled the device in Device Manager.
However, I cannot install the up-to-date drivers because the system keeps crashing with this message before the driver installation can finish, or even start in some cases.
Plus, because it's inconsistent and sometimes lets me login before crashing, it's not triggering the Automatic Recovery and so I can't get into Safe Mode because for some reason they've taken the F8 command away during boot-up.
Does anyone know how to fix this? I'm at my wit's end after two full days of this.
It's a common problem where suddenly the modern (metro) elements on the taskbar (sometimes even all apps) stop working for some reason. Generally, creating a new account should fix it (although if you already have your user files or programs installed it might be an annoying thing to do). But first, try if one of the two first solutions (checking system files and reinstalling all modern apps) listed here fix it: http://home.bt.com/tech-gadgets/com...g-here-are-four-ways-to-fix-it-11364000314532
thanks.
powershell is telling me i must be an administrator to able to tun this command, but i am an administrator.
my name is ed
Banned
this is weird, it says I need to update to get AdBlock but I have Win 10 pro...?
Are you in the insider program? What ver. Are you on?
You have to be a member of Insider Preview. Edge add-ons were introduced in the fast ring a month or so ago.
Never had an issue for the past 5 years.
I just updated to Windows 10 a couple of days ago and now my PC seems to have some issues booting that weren't there with 8.1. I've had one instance where it got stuck in a loop and a couple others where it froze before getting to the Windows loading screen. Anyone have an idea what might be causing this?
Sometimes BIOS needs updating + settings adjusted as Windows 8 brought a lot changes. Usually a problem for Windows 7 users upgrading to 10.
Also check your graphics card drivers.
Older Intel wireless cards seem to perform worse in Windows 10 with constant drops. Only solution for those users is to upgrade to a newer Intel card or different wireless card brand.
Also check your graphics card drivers.
Older Intel wireless cards seem to perform worse in Windows 10 with constant drops. Only solution for those users is to upgrade to a newer Intel card or different wireless card brand.
I will look into updating the BIOS. I upgraded from 8.1 but the hardware is Windows 7 era. I did make sure my graphics card driver is up to date so that shouldn't be the issue.