Windows Phone shows that they do have a great design team. I'm guessing it's just slightly harder to create a completely consistent experience in an OS that has to maintain 20+ years of compatibility.
Windows 10 Troubleshooting Thread
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Windows Phone shows that they do have a great design team. I'm guessing it's just slightly harder to create a completely consistent experience in an OS that has to maintain 20+ years of compatibility.
888
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Check your dpi in the display settings. Slide it to 100 if it is more than that.
Oh my gosh, thank you so much! It looks like it'll finally work!
BannedEpisode
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888
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Read a few posts up or run the download tool.
Sorry pain pills are kicking in. Yes waiting game it is.
Wow windows 10 seemed to have installed perfectly fine on my laptop I played around with it for a few hours. Did a restart on it turns on but doesn't try to load windows and the screen doesn't come on, yaaaaay, tried manually turning on and off a few times with no luck.
Might see if o can reinstall again, Windows 10 seems to be slower on my laptop when I was playing around with it, start menu would take ages and espieclly chrome.
Might see if o can reinstall again, Windows 10 seems to be slower on my laptop when I was playing around with it, start menu would take ages and espieclly chrome.
Just download the drivers themselves from NVidia. I had to do the same thing for some reason, even though I was up to date before the win10 install.
Go to the NVIDIA website and download the driver.
888
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Run DDU to remove all Nvidia files. Then grab the newest driver from Nvidia and reinstall. Had that happen also. I used the tool to hide Nvidia updates from Ms.
888
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Reset away!
Kinda new to PCs. DDU? Also, is that something that I normally should do?
Good to Know. Thanks!
888
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Display driver Uninstaller. I always do that when upgrading Nvidia drivers. Just out of habit. You can Google search ddu and download the newest one from there. It will reboot into safe mode and then clean from there. After it reboots install the new driver.
What's wrong with the clean install feature in the Nvidia installer?
Mike Works
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I can't get this to install on my laptop. If anyone can help, here's what I've done:
I reserved Win 10 on both my desktop and laptop weeks ago. Today rolls around and I don't get any notifications. So I download the 64 bit installer. On both PC's, I get the "Something Happened" message.
However, on my laptop I decided to try downloading the 3GB setup files to a USB. I plugged the USB into my desktop, tried installing, worked like a charm.
So I tried using that same USB install method on my laptop. Problem is, this time it asks me for my Windows Key, which it didn't on the desktop. So I type the Windows Key that's on the bottom of my laptop and it says it didn't work. Then I download a program that can find my Windows Key (and it finds a different one which is weird). Type that in too, doesn't work.
So I've got Windows 10 running great on my desktop, but not my laptop.
My desktop was running 8.1, and I've owned it for 2+ years.
My laptop is running 7, but it's almost as powerful, and I bought it new and legally less than a month ago.
Any suggestions?
I reserved Win 10 on both my desktop and laptop weeks ago. Today rolls around and I don't get any notifications. So I download the 64 bit installer. On both PC's, I get the "Something Happened" message.
However, on my laptop I decided to try downloading the 3GB setup files to a USB. I plugged the USB into my desktop, tried installing, worked like a charm.
So I tried using that same USB install method on my laptop. Problem is, this time it asks me for my Windows Key, which it didn't on the desktop. So I type the Windows Key that's on the bottom of my laptop and it says it didn't work. Then I download a program that can find my Windows Key (and it finds a different one which is weird). Type that in too, doesn't work.
So I've got Windows 10 running great on my desktop, but not my laptop.
My desktop was running 8.1, and I've owned it for 2+ years.
My laptop is running 7, but it's almost as powerful, and I bought it new and legally less than a month ago.
Any suggestions?
I installed my GTX 980 over my GTX 770 drivers when I had the same thing happening as you (GPU not working properly without the correct driver) without scrubbing the old drivers off the PC before and that went without a hitch. Not 100% the same situation though so YMMV.
ShyGuy0504
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Just upgraded my Windows 7 pc to 10.
Upgraded in about 25 minutes.
No issues so far. Everything seems to be working fine.
Is there anyway to change the color of the program window?
Upgraded in about 25 minutes.
No issues so far. Everything seems to be working fine.
Is there anyway to change the color of the program window?
con-ca-te-nate
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Anyone experiencing a very slow animation?
-Edit: I updated the driver to 15.7.1 and it got fixed.
-Edit: I updated the driver to 15.7.1 and it got fixed.
888
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Just based off my experience the clean install feature doesn't do as well as DDU. Back when I had some 660ti cards and was having driver issues the clean install feature was worthless and I continued having those issues. DDU took care of the clean up and I ran the installer and all issues went away. Since then I just do it. I guess you can only do it when you have issues but at this point it takes a few minutes and I can't say I have had major driver issues in a long time.
888
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Did you make sure you are installing the right edition of Windows 10 that the key was generated from? 32/64 bit?
Used the media creation tool and went to Upgrade instead of installing on a USB/DVD. It downloaded to 100%, and then said, "setup couldn't start properly. try rebooting."
Rebooting does nothing.
Anyone have any idea what could be wrong?
I'm retrying yet again, but this time with more disc space(I only had 14GB free the last times I tried, now I have 45GB free. I read somewhere you need at least 20GB free for a 64 bit install, so I'm hoping this is all it takes).
Thanks in advance.
Rebooting does nothing.
Anyone have any idea what could be wrong?
I'm retrying yet again, but this time with more disc space(I only had 14GB free the last times I tried, now I have 45GB free. I read somewhere you need at least 20GB free for a 64 bit install, so I'm hoping this is all it takes).
Thanks in advance.
Asked this earlier and didnt' get a response
yes, you can
Nope, there's no way to change the title bar color without doing some hacky stuff. And even if you do change it, you can't change the text color so it'll probably look like shit.
megarockexe
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Everything seems to have gone well. Here are some concerns.
Mouse doesn't "feel" right. Why is there a lack of pointer cursor sections? It makes it hard to gauge what's clickable when the basic arrow is everywhere.
Is there a keyboard shortcut for the Task View? That would be useful. Then I could unpin the icon, right?
Is there any way to set Edge as the default program for GIF? I wanted to view animated GIFs and the Photos app doesn't let me zoom in, so that's a bust.
Can the taskbar color be changed? I liked the translucency from Windows 8.1. Now it just bleeds off the edge of my screen and I don't think I could get used to it.
Wow the white edges are distracting. I see why people complained. Everything looks deselected and out of focus. I'm sure it looks great on other apps, but for the most part, it's a bit annoying.
Also, lol.
Mouse doesn't "feel" right. Why is there a lack of pointer cursor sections? It makes it hard to gauge what's clickable when the basic arrow is everywhere.
Is there a keyboard shortcut for the Task View? That would be useful. Then I could unpin the icon, right?
Is there any way to set Edge as the default program for GIF? I wanted to view animated GIFs and the Photos app doesn't let me zoom in, so that's a bust.
Can the taskbar color be changed? I liked the translucency from Windows 8.1. Now it just bleeds off the edge of my screen and I don't think I could get used to it.
Wow the white edges are distracting. I see why people complained. Everything looks deselected and out of focus. I'm sure it looks great on other apps, but for the most part, it's a bit annoying.
Also, lol.
Ran the DDU, had some issues with my TV being detected as my main monitor, fixed it. Got my monitor issues fixed. Haven't tried running a game yet though. It's immediately apparent how much better this interface is compared to Windows 8.1. It was my first Windows operating system since the beginning days of 7 (when I switched to a MBP in 2009), and it was such a piece of shit.
888
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Awesome. Keep am eye out for Nvidia drivers being pushed from Windows Update. May need to hide those. I couldn't hide it on one of the systems because it was already installed but I removed it and replaced it.
Page loading seems to take forever on W10, and I'm not sure why. I updated my ethernet driver and that helped a little, but sites that took a blink of an eye to load in W7 are taking their sweet time here. I thought it might have been just a Firefox problem, but it's followed me to Edge, too. It's really annoying me.
Mike Works
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They're both 64 bit so the problem shouldn't be there.
I'm going to try downloading the setup on my desktop (onto a USB), and see if that works with my laptop for some odd reason.
Everything seems to have gone well. Here are some concerns.
Mouse doesn't "feel" right. Why is there a lack of pointer cursor sections? It makes it hard to gauge what's clickable when the basic arrow is everywhere.
Is there a keyboard shortcut for the Task View? That would be useful. Then I could unpin the icon, right?
Is there any way to set Edge as the default program for GIF? I wanted to view animated GIFs and the Photos app doesn't let me zoom in, so that's a bust.
Can the taskbar color be changed? I liked the translucency from Windows 8.1. Now it just bleeds off the edge of my screen and I don't think I could get used to it.
Wow the white edges are distracting. I see why people complained. Everything looks deselected and out of focus. I'm sure it looks great on other apps, but for the most part, it's a bit annoying.
Also, lol.
you can set mouse cursor to whatever you want in mouse options. not that I've messed with that since like win95
win+tab is the shortcut for task view
you can set file associations in the default programs settings
for taskbar color right click on desktop and go to personalize
Windows+Tab
Settings > Personalization > Colors. But it's a bit more restrictive than I'd like.
Nope and it fucking sucks. There are ways to change the title bar colors, but I don't think any solutions allow you to change the text color or to pick different colors for focused windows vs unfocused windows:
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=windows%2010%20change%20title%20bar%20color
Cbajd5
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IMPORTANT NOTE IF YOU ARE SEEING THIS
DO NOT go and wipe your download folder. While that may work for some people, it doesn't work for everyone, as the upgrade process is complex with a ton of different phases and multiple reasons why it may or may not work.
You'll likely end up causing more problems than you solve.
INSTEAD
Follow the instructions here:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...0/d695e827-9774-4e10-8972-df8d51a7bb51?auth=1
By doing this, not only are you avoiding re-downloading the entire thing with the Media Creation Tool, but you are also avoiding a lot of potential headaches.
The error code does not mean that there was a problem with the download. It simply means that you weren't eligible to install it yet.
Thinks are actually going really well! Just been super busy is all
Thanks, this made it a lot easier to get the upgrade started on my Laptop. Did the delete method on my mom's HP Steam 7 before I saw the post though and I'm glad that worked there since I hate typing on that thing. I don't want to think about doing any registry edits on it. It took like 5 hours just to get it to update at all.
DirtyManos
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So I've had my reserved copy or whatever, still haven't gotten the notification to upgrade.
Anyway, maybe this has been asked, but:
When the notification comes up that Windows 10 is ready, can I wait like a couple of weeks to do the upgrade until the kinks from the OS and programs are mostly sorted, or is there a time limit to the free upgrade??
Anyway, maybe this has been asked, but:
When the notification comes up that Windows 10 is ready, can I wait like a couple of weeks to do the upgrade until the kinks from the OS and programs are mostly sorted, or is there a time limit to the free upgrade??
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So some folks are brute forcing the upgrade on their machines even though the system check basically told them it wasn't ready for them yet and its causing some issues? Be patient folks.
Posting this again since no one replied. My driver is "Microphone (IDT High Definition Audio CODEC) Version 10.0.10240.16384, and it works perfectly fine in Voice Recorder. Cortana does nothing, "Learn My Voice" just beeps and then nothing happens, and if I go to Settings->Time & Language -> Speech -> Microphone -> Get Started , I get stuck on this image. Nothing I say does anything here, but I know the microphone is working since it works in Voice Recorder!
Any ideas?
you have 1 year
888
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You have a year. You can upgrade now using a few different methods from MS if you want. But if you wait you can click the task bar icon and start the install when it is ready later.
DirtyManos
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Thanks you two, very much appreciated. Feel like I'm good waiting for a bit.
888
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I haven't seen anyone doing that and I have been here for 4 hours now. People are starting the install manually. I think one guys system check failed for an integrated graphics adapter.
dinosaur_hunter2
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Ok, Windows 10 beautifully installed and running.
If anyone wants to know, I installed from a preview build using the tool mentioned in the OP. It didn't asked me for a license code, so I believe my installation is still in the preview state. I think it'll be possible to enter my valid Windows 7 license code in the future, so I'll just keep it this way and see what happens.
The OS is amazing, just tested the Xbox One streaming and it worked flawlessly.
EDIT: Also installed Nvidia drivers and Steam, so far, so good.
If anyone wants to know, I installed from a preview build using the tool mentioned in the OP. It didn't asked me for a license code, so I believe my installation is still in the preview state. I think it'll be possible to enter my valid Windows 7 license code in the future, so I'll just keep it this way and see what happens.
The OS is amazing, just tested the Xbox One streaming and it worked flawlessly.
EDIT: Also installed Nvidia drivers and Steam, so far, so good.
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