Windows 10 Troubleshooting Thread

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My wife has gone back to chrome for last pass support. I'd prefer to stick with edge for battery life (surface pro 3) but will have to wait until they add extensions at least, before trying again.
 
Teknoman said:
Well at first I couldn't save or delete anything to/from those folders, and after seeing that it might be permissions having an effect I tried to changed them. At first it didn't let me save the changes, but now seems to be just fine?

Its just that I really shouldn't have had to mess around with permissions when I only have one account you know?
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I'm having the same problems.

In the Windows store settings it says that I have to contact the administrator to disable the automatic updating of apps when my account is the only one the pc. :/
 
The little cortana search is awesome for opening up progams. However, I'm not sure that I like the side of it and it's placement. I understand why it's that side but I dislike how far it pushes my programs to the right.
 
ajim said:
I keep getting 'something happened' when i click 'upgrade now'.

why :(
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Go to "region" and change the administrative setting to USA. It should work.

I have another problem entirely:
I cannot keep my data, only the personal files... It says the problem is with me installing a different language version of Win10.

My laptop was set to German, but even after I changed all the settings to English (USA) it still says I cannot upgrade and keep everything intact.

Any solution for this?
 
Einchy said:
The little cortana search is awesome for opening up problems. However, I'm not sure that I like the side of it and it's placement. I understand why it's that side but I dislike how far it pushes my programs to the right.
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You can disable the search box in the taskbar (right click, "Cortana", "show Cortana icon" or "hidden"). Cortina works just as well when you open the start menu (windows key) and then just type what you're looking for.
 
What do you do when your taskbar crashes? I tried restarting explorer, fiddled with every setting I could think of in settings and control panel and Start and whatever else, messed with taskview, still couldn't get it back and had to restart.
 
brotkasten said:
You can disable the search box in the taskbar (right click, "Cortana", "show Cortana icon" or "hidden"). Cortina works just as well when you open the start menu (windows key) and then just type what you're looking for.
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Ohh, I like that!

Thanks.
 
brotkasten said:
You can disable the search box in the taskbar (right click, "Cortana", "show Cortana icon" or "hidden"). Cortina works just as well when you open the start menu (windows key) and then just type what you're looking for.
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Or if you out the task bar on the sides, it'll disappear automatically too.
 
So far I really dislike windows 10 on my surface.
Window snapping is actually less intuitive than on w8.,but my biggest annoyance is edge.

IE Metro was a fullscreen, touch optimized browser. Edge takes a lot of screen real estate away. Why can I hide the taskbar in desktop mode but not in tablet mode?

Why are tabs and the adress bar always in sight? I enjoyed swiping from the top to show them. The UI went out of my way when i didn't need it. Now, its there all the time. I can't even watch movies in the w8 Netflix app without the taskbar being visible in tablet mode.

I also miss swiping to the left to go back to the previous page. Why would you take that feature away? It was super intuitive.


If you guys know how to fix any of these things, or if I'm able to use w8 IE metro on windows 10 id be a lot happier!
 
Damon Bennet said:
IE Metro was a fullscreen, touch optimized browser. Edge takes a lot of screen real estate away. Why can I hide the taskbar in desktop mode but not in tablet mode?

Why are tabs and the adress bar always in sight? I enjoyed swiping from the top to show them. The UI went out of my way when i didn't need it. Now, its there all the time. I can't even watch movies in the w8 Netflix app without the taskbar being visible in tablet mode.

I also miss swiping to the left to go back to the previous page. Why would you take that feature away? It was super intuitive.
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well IE is still there, so maybe you just have to open it, and set it as default browser? ( i don't have tablet so cant be sure)
"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"
 
Tried to update with the tool last night, got to 50 odd % then it didn't boot back up after an hour so had to abort the install and go back to 8.1.
 
is there a way to sync settings between multiple computers? Once I've got my main computer tweaked just right, it would be handy for me to copy that across to other computers just by logging in.

also a way to remove read email messages from action center - it is just full of stuff I've already read. If I can't do that I'll probably remove mail from there completely.
 
Daffy Duck said:
Tried to update with the tool last night, got to 50 odd % then it didn't boot back up after an hour so had to abort the install and go back to 8.1.
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Do this instead:

http://neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=173455764&postcount=5540

It's the safest, most reliable way, and the poster is an MS employee. It's basically skipping to the front of the line.

If you are very eager to upgrade, tech savvy users with the above message can modify the following registry key to install immediately.

Warning: Serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Before you modify it, back up the registry for restoration in case problems occur.

1.Locate the registry key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\ OSUpgrade]

2.It should exist, but if not, create it.

3.Create a new DWORD (32-bit) Value with Name = "AllowOSUpgrade” (without the quotes), and set the Value = 0x00000001.


Once the registry key is modified, close and reopen the desktop Control Panel, go to Windows Update and check for updates. You should now be able to click the Get Started button to upgrade to Windows 10. Note: Windows 8.1 users must go to the desktop Control Panel, and not the modern Windows Update UI.”
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calendar live tile doesn't seem to show anything?
edit: ah, only today's appointments? Would be nice to show the upcoming next few appointments even if not today. Oh well.


edit2: arranging my start menu I might start adding blank icons to pad the space out. Did that with my windows phone and it worked quite well.
 
Hi guys just bought a laptop today with Win 8.1 and was considering upgrading to Win10. The purpose of the laptop is to connect to ECU's in race cars so if the programs I use aren't compatible with Win 10 the laptop is useless. Is there any way I can roll back to Win 8 if the programs don't work? Is this even an issue I need to worry about?

For reference the programs I'll be using are Aim Race Studio 2 and Haltech ECU Manager, both tested on Win 8

Cheers
 
JimmyRickard said:
Hi guys just bought a laptop today with Win 8.1 and was considering upgrading to Win10. The purpose of the laptop is to connect to ECU's in race cars so if the programs I use aren't compatible with Win 10 the laptop is useless. Is there any way I can roll back to Win 8 if the programs don't work? Is this even an issue I need to worry about?

For reference the programs I'll be using are Aim Race Studio 2 and Haltech ECU Manager, both tested on Win 8

Cheers
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For a month it keeps your old Windows installation on the machine, you can rollback to it. But there seem to be few programs that have incompatibility issues.
 
Prophet Steve said:
For a month it keeps your old Windows installation on the machine, you can rollback to it. But there seem to be few programs that have incompatibility issues.
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I don't get why people don't make a Partition backup of their current boot drive, before they do crazy stuff like installing a new OS.
I can go back to my win8.0 installation in 30 minutes, without any trace of me ever hitting the upgrade button.(for some reason 8.1 ran like ass on my machine).
 
Surprised so many people are having so many problems. I've been using it for the past 2 days and everything has been fine.

I upgraded using the mediatool over a clean installed W8 with minimal programs. Was working ok, then remembered I wanted a clean install. So i used the mediatool again to do the clean install using the usb stick method. Skipped the activation key part during installation and it did the activation thing on its own.

Thought I was going to have more problems but so far so good. Haven't really dug into everything. Made me realize how little I use Windows these days. Mostly a consumption user these days. Hopefully things work itself out once I need to install more intricate software.
 
JimmyRickard said:
Hi guys just bought a laptop today with Win 8.1 and was considering upgrading to Win10. The purpose of the laptop is to connect to ECU's in race cars so if the programs I use aren't compatible with Win 10 the laptop is useless. Is there any way I can roll back to Win 8 if the programs don't work? Is this even an issue I need to worry about?

For reference the programs I'll be using are Aim Race Studio 2 and Haltech ECU Manager, both tested on Win 8

Cheers
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Did your laptop come with recovery media or a recovery partition? If the rollback fails you should be able to just wipe.
 
Right, got a quick question. I want to customize my W10 experience on my tablet a bit further, but not have it sync to my desktop and laptop. If I turn off sync in the settings on my tablet, will it still do it between my desktop and laptop?
 
ricochetguro said:
I have the same issue. At times putting the cover up will make it go into sleep mode but other times it just won't and restarting doesn't seem to fix it. Very frustrating.
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The workaround I found was forcibly enabling the Hibernation option in the Power menu and just manually Hibernating my SP2 instead of letting it try to Sleep which inevitably fails. This is the best I can do now until MS fixes Sleep.
 
I tried searching the thread but can't find it. Can anyone tell me how I can postpone/stop an automatic update? I don't want it to download these Nvidia drivers. Using Pro.

Edit: Wait, is it "defer" in the updates window?
 
I've got a laptop with Windows 7 OEM version but Windows Update is broken in this machine and I can't seem to fix it and I have no OEM disc to reinstall Windows 7. That means I can't get the Windows 10 reservation app to work. Can I still upgrade to Windows 10 with the ISO without actually reserving? Or will it not activate for me?
 
mandiller said:
I've got a laptop with Windows 7 OEM version but Windows Update is broken in this machine and I can't seem to fix it and I have no OEM disc to reinstall Windows 7. That means I can't get the Windows 10 reservation app to work. Can I still upgrade to Windows 10 with the ISO without actually reserving? Or will it not activate for me?
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If it works, it'll activate. But you might need updates to make the install work.
 
mandiller said:
I've got a laptop with Windows 7 OEM version but Windows Update is broken in this machine and I can't seem to fix it and I have no OEM disc to reinstall Windows 7. That means I can't get the Windows 10 reservation app to work. Can I still upgrade to Windows 10 with the ISO without actually reserving? Or will it not activate for me?
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1) Retrieve your Windows key (http://www.howtogeek.com/206329/how-to-find-your-lost-windows-or-office-product-keys/).

2) Use a Windows 7 ISO to reformat and make sure to enter the key you retrieved in step 1 (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-recovery).

3) After getting all the updates in Windows 7, upgrade to Windows 10 using this method: http://neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=173733132&postcount=7321

It might not be the quickest method, but that's what I'd do and it's sure to work.
 
dLMN8R said:
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 :-)
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Thank you very much for this.
 
GavinGT said:
1) Retrieve your Windows key (http://www.howtogeek.com/206329/how-to-find-your-lost-windows-or-office-product-keys/).

2) Use a Windows 7 ISO to reformat and make sure to enter the key you retrieved in step 1 (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-recovery).

3) After getting all the updates in Windows 7, upgrade to Windows 10 using this method: http://neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=173733132&postcount=7321

It might not be the quickest method, but that's what I'd do and it's sure to work.
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Thanks, buy the Windows 7 key doesn't verify when trying to download the Windows 7 ISO. I think the website wants a retail key, but I've got an OEM key. Is there any other workaround?
 
For anyone having the 'something happened' update now problem with the media creation tool, choose the make ISO option instead. And just run the setup from the ISO by mounting it (or burn it to disk if you want). Make sure to select your language and correct edition when promoted. I had the 'something happened' error on two of my machines and this method worked fine and both installs activated right away.
 
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