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[Sodding_Gamer]

Make sure all Window apps are closed.
Open PowerShell with admin privileges. Copy and paste the following line:

Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}

Hit enter.
It worked for me, but I still can't log in into my Microsoft Account

Tried this and below is what I got back....


Get-AppXPackage : Access is denied.
Access is denied.
At line:1 char:1
+ Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage
-DisableDevelopm ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: ) [Get-AppxPac
kage], UnauthorizedAccessException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.UnauthorizedAccessExcep
tion,Microsoft.Windows.Appx.PackageManager.Commands.GetA
ppxPackageCommand

 

[Forsete]

Any Windows 7/8 key isn't usable as an activation key for Windows 10.

You need to do an upgrade, it then converts the current key into a W10 activation.

So i have to install win 8.1 first, then upgrade? You 100% sure?

UGH

 

[Corpekata]

Fonts are kinda fuzzy for me. Can't find a good balance between size and apperance yet.

 

[NJDEN]

So I installed Windows 10 on my parents laptop from an existing Windows 8 set up. I used a product key checker and it's displaying the exact same serial key as my desktop (separate computer) has which is currently running a Windows 10 installation from the insider preview...

My question is, how is Microsoft handling product keys? I thought that any computer running Windows 7 or 8 that was upgraded would be given a new serial key and it would invalidate the old one... Or does the original Windows 7/8 key now work with Windows 10 installations after you've upgraded it at least once?


What I'm looking for is a way to get my 7 & 8 serial keys into Windows 10 compatible keys. The reason I want them converted is so when I do fresh installs I can start with a Windows 10 iso rather than installing Windows 7 or 8 and then using their "Media Creation Tool" to install Windows 10 over top of it...

I know they are trying to associate installations with the motherboard, but I do wipes and upgrade my computers often so just having a dedicated serial key would be the most preferable option.

edit~

When I installed Windows 10 on my parents laptop I used their "Media Creation Tool". I know you are suppose to be able to use the prompt in the task tray, but the laptop didn't have the option to upgrade today and I wanted to get it over with while I had some free time. I did use the icon to "reserve my free upgrade"... I heard that if you reserve using the icon Microsoft will send you an updated key, but I don't know if that is true... If it is true, what happens if you have multiple computers and want to do several reservations, do they let you do that?

 

[Moozo]

When is Cortana going to stop harassing me about not turning off my PC and why can't I mute her???

Just says it's "taking a bit longer than usual". I'd quite like to leave it on and go to bed but she won't shut the fuck up.

 

[robotrock]

Anyone else's Skype not updating properly? Trying to use the Windows store to update.

 

[Danlord]

Oh lovely, Oculus doesn't support Windows 10 yet either.

...

Perfect timing for seeing this retweet;

 

[Ricker]

Still nothing for me but I am getting all those regular Important or small windows update,like for my Razer mouse since this morning...I guess because my PC was closed for a week,that's why...once I have alll those 8.1 updates done,maybe the notification will pop up to upgrade to 10...probably early tomorrow morning when I get up...I will wait till then and if I still get nothing I will try the links here.

 

[Stumpokapow]

Start menu -> All Apps -> Right click on a folder... does nothing. For some reason. Instead, you need to open the folder, then right-click on something in it.

So far I haven't had any real bugs since booting, but I've had no end of little "stuff clearly didn't get finished here" bits and pieces. One of the least polished overall user experiences I've seen. This is clearly "landing hot".

Here's another fun one:

Windows key to open start menu -> Use keyboard to navigate. Works fine. Up, down, right to hop over to the pinned apps on the right side of the start menu. Yay. Now go to a program in your most-used that has a jump list (Chrome, Steam, whatever). Highlight it by navigating to it with your keyboard. Press right -> highlight cursor goes from program name to jump list arrow. So far, so good. Now press right again, assuming cursor will move to pinned apps on right. Nope. Just stays there for some reason.

Here's another one; open the start menu, open a jump list from any of the left-hand side options (File Explorer is one). You can open it with either a mouse or by pressing space or enter on keyboard. Now the jump list is open. Press up or down, keyboard navigation of jump list works. Press left to go back to top-left menu? Nope. You can only press escape. Try to launch a program from a jump list. Press space. Doesn't work (why does it open the menu then?) You can only open the app by pressing enter.

Here's another one: open the start menu, start navigating with keyboard. Now start to type an app name, like you would to search for it / launch it. Doesn't work. You can only type to search if you haven't used keyboard navigation.

Here's another one: Search for something. Now, how do you get back to the Start menu? You can't use keyboard navigation, because none of the left-hand items get you back to the start menu. You can't just back out of your search by erasing what you typed, that just gets you to a blank search page. If you press escape, that closes the search menu. So Winkey->Winkey or Esc->Winkey is the only keyboard way to navigate back.

Here's another one: Why does the start menu font and UI have nothing to do with the search menu font and UI?

Here's another one: Why does every single context menu in the system have a different font, padding, colour, and basically no options in common?

Here's another one. Open the start menu. Press space. This makes you search. Okay, now open the start menu again, use keyboard navigation to go to an app on the right side of the start menu. Press space. This opens the app. Okay, now open the start menu again, use keyboard navigation to go to an app on the left side of the start menu. Press space. This does nothing. Okay, now open the start menu again, use keyboard navigation to go to a jump list, press space. Opens jump list. Okay, now use keyboard navigation to navigate the jump list, press space. Does nothing.

 

[sam777]

So....What the fuck do I do?

Same crap here as well.

 

[PrematureQuiche]

I finally got mine activated by spamming the activate button for 5 minutes.

 

[Pooya]

Now if I install win10 on my other PCs on same network as my Surface Pro (homegroup) that is fully updated on Win10, would other PCs get the updates from local network as opposed to internet? Do I have to do something to make it work?

I finally got mine activated by spamming the activate button for 5 minutes.

mine was fixed like that too lol

 

[Lashley]

Is this the correct way to turn off the PC for fast startup?

 

[Moozo]

When is Cortana going to stop harassing me about not turning off my PC and why can't I mute her???

Just says it's "taking a bit longer than usual". I'd quite like to leave it on and go to bed but she won't shut the fuck up.

So it finally progressed and now I've got black screen (with cursor). Will it be fucked if I reboot?

 

[Yeoman]

I upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 8.1 on a Toshiba laptop. Then I factory reset the computer. It seems the Toshiba recovery partition wasn't upgraded and the damn thing reverted it back to Windows 8.1!
Does anyone know what went wrong? Surely the Windows 10 upgrade should have changed the recovery partition too?

 

[Unknown Soldier]

When is Cortana going to stop harassing me about not turning off my PC and why can't I mute her???

Just says it's "taking a bit longer than usual". I'd quite like to leave it on and go to bed but she won't shut the fuck up.

If you keep pissing her off she's going to go rampant in your PC

I just turned Cortana off, I already have Google Now

 

[zyxwvu4321]

This is great. I upgraded my desktop last night, Windows was activated, everything good, and I make a USB boot. Today I go format for a fresh install, log in with my MS account, and it's telling me it can't be activated.

 

[Professor Renegade]

LOL, sorry not laughing at your issue(did you really get this?) but I swear my 3 year old son wrote this error code. He always says he "needs something" or "ate something". When I ask what he says he doesn't know.

Yup I really got it :/

Since then I got rid of some malware I didn't know I had on my PC and installed a few updates (though for some reason I still can't install 11 of them), I got the windows button on my task bar now and reserved an upgrade but haven't gotten an email yet.

 

[Live Free or Die]

Anyone else still getting this?

 

[SPDIF]

Is this the correct way to turn off the PC for fast startup?

Yeah.

 

[Bunta]

Is this the correct way to turn off the PC for fast startup?

I believe so.

 

[Lashley]

Yeah.

Thanks, wasn't sure if I was doing it right.

How will I know its booting up in fast startup? I definitely have it enabled.

 

[The Elite]

Successfully uninstalled my product key from my one install and then reinstalled it on my SSD that had an insider build.

Painless.

 

[AmethystEnd]

Thanks, wasn't sure if I was doing it right.

How will I know its booting up in fast startup? I definitely have it enabled.

Well, doing it like that, when I turned my PC back on, I was up and running in 25 seconds. Dunno how that compares to other people's boot times, but that's incredibly fast for me.

 

[Saiyan-Rox]

Grrr had a look through the group policy settings etc to see if there was anything in there stopping Cortana from working and there was nothing

 

[Ricker]

Anyone else still getting this?

Yep...waiting until tomorrow morning for that notification and if I dont get it,then I will start it myself.

 

[pashmilla]

I started downloading the update and suddenly my sound is fucked (bass way too loud, the rest is muffled). Coincidence or related?

 

[Elija2]

Mine got up to 18GB with all my tries, I think its meaningless. Try the tool.

Damn it, but all I get is the "something happened" error when I use the tool.

 

[kharma45]

Things are going well

Tried the fix on Reddit to no avail where you delete the files in that download folder and run the command prompt thing twice. 8.1 was a much easier update through the Store.

 

[AmethystEnd]

I started downloading the update and suddenly my sound is fucked (bass way too loud, the rest is muffled). Coincidence or related?

If you're only downloading the update, there's pretty much no way it's related. The download isn't altering anything.

 

[blue_phazon]

Uhh, the reserve Windows 10 icon disappeared, but now the $Windows folder appeared with 24kbs.

Should I be concerned or is my upgrade ready to bloom soon?

 

[Dreams-Visions]

Things are going well

Tried the fix on Reddit to no avail where you delete the files in that download folder and run the command prompt thing twice. 8.1 was a much easier update through the Store.

GRATS ON THE DEFENDER DEFINITION UPDATE BRO

 

[Hasney]

Grrr had a look through the group policy settings etc to see if there was anything in there stopping Cortana from working and there was nothing

It just plain doesn't work in the UK yet.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Anybody ask Cortana where Master Chief's last known location is yet?

 

[Salsa]

fuck it, got the media tool and doing an upgrade from 7 rather than a clean install

should be fine

 

[Kathian]

Up and working now.

 

[kharma45]

GRATS ON THE DEFENDER DEFINITION UPDATE BRO

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

I assume if I download that tool and choose the upgrade option it'll just do for me what Windows Update is failing to do?

 

[Shy]

Me again.
Another quick windows 10 question, how do i change colour intensity and opacity. Please. ?

 

[SPDIF]

Thanks, wasn't sure if I was doing it right.

How will I know its booting up in fast startup?

Other than it being very fast, I don't think there's actually a way to tell. From lifting the lid of my Ultrabook to being logged in takes about 5 seconds or so if that's any help.

 

[Red]

Me again.
Another quick windows 10 question, how do i change colour intensity and opacity. Please. ?

Personalization settings. Right click on desktop or do a cortana search.

 

[ColtraineGF]

I got the failed install through Windows Update, so I ended up downloading the ISO through the Media Creation Tool (Win 10 Pro), copying that to my USB drive with the USB/DVD Download Tool, and upgrading using that. Everything went pretty smoothly with that method.

 

[ShaoranWright]

Finally I got this thing working on my laptop only to be extremely dissapointed to see the onedrive (one of my most used programs) doesn't have the "available online-only" type of file, I wanted to synchronize my pictures folder (over 40gb) and of course the program didn't allow it because I only have 20gb of free space.

FUCK.

 

[ThreePiMatt]

Alright, so I just upgraded, and it was a relatively painless experience (I downloaded the tool from MS directly, didn't wait for the app thing to say "I'm ready.") A solid 36 minutes from shutdown to back up and running. So far everything seems to be working, except that none of my bookmarks carried over from IE10 to Edge. This seems like a pretty dumb oversight, I was able to import them no prob.

Other question. Where do you get to incognito mode in Edge? For... reasons...

edit - NVM, found it in the settings thing on the top right.

 

[Shantom]

Anyone else still getting this?

Yep.

 

[secretanchitman]

Running surprisingly fine on my 15" RMBP. I had 8.1 Pro on here via Boot Camp and used the in-place upgrade of Windows 10. After it upgraded, I erased the Boot Camp partition and reinstalled Windows 10 from a flash drive. Skipped both prompts to type in my serial number (no idea what it was until I was able to get it via a 3rd party program) but when I logged in with my Microsoft Account, it activated my copy of Windows 10 Pro no problem.

I have to say that Windows 10 is much better than 8/8.1 in just about every way. This will be the first Windows that I will not install Classic Shell on (even though I love the classic start menu). Still a few bugs here and there but I'm sure they will get resolved over time - glad I can defer updates due to having 10 Pro as well.

 

[SPDIF]

Grrr had a look through the group policy settings etc to see if there was anything in there stopping Cortana from working and there was nothing

It just plain doesn't work in the UK yet.

Works fine for me. Have you checked to make sure you've got the UK language pack installed?

 

[Diablohead]

My tablet was not playing nice so I just deleted that windows/download folder and ran the command prompt line again, that triggered it correctly this time.

 

[Robin64]

Installed the various Microsoft games (Mahjong, Minesweeper, Solitaire, Jigsaw, and Sudoku) but each of them open up, then a moment later just close. It's quite annoying.

 

[Stumpokapow]

Tablet Cruft
App store -> My Account -> Settings. "Only update apps if I am on Wi-Fi". Pop quiz: If you are on ethernet and not Wi-Fi, and you turn this setting on, will apps update? I would guess yes, because what the option actually is is something more like "Don't use my metered cellular data connection to download stuff", but there's no label or descriptive text and the option appears even if you're on a PC that has no cellular hardware.

General sloppiness
App store -> My Account -> Downloads -> Check for updates. If no updates are found, you don't get any feedback. No prompt, no text. Just the spinning wheel disappears. No animation.

App store -> My Account -> Downloads -> Titled "Downloads and Installs". Is there where your installed apps are? No. That would be App store -> My Account -> My Library. Is this where your library of content (TV, music) is? No. That would be opening the TV or Music apps.

App store -> Games -> Game top charts -> Do you expect that what you get when you clicked on this is "Top Charts"? No, what you get is "Top Free". Why is the label not "Top free games", then? You have a left-hand side menu that has Top Free highlighted, no option for Top Paid (because no one would want to single-click go from Top Free to Top Paid), and "Chart" under Refine. If you remove "Chart" from refine (what am I removing here?), then Top Free and Top Paid are both visible as options... confusingly under "Chart", which is still under "Refine", but this time with no <x> next to it.

Possible Bug, other users report this works for them:
In Windows 7, there's a few-pixel barrier to the right of your clock, segmented off If you move your mouse over it, you discover it's a button. If you click that button, you find it's "minimize all / show desktop". I can't remember whether or not it existed in Windows 8, because of the hot corners stuff. In Windows 10, there are no hot corners, but the space is still there... but it doesn't do anything. So you can't get your clock flush to the right of the screen. Not saying the problem is having a few pixels padding, the problem is that there's a line segmenting off these few pixels and no corresponding line on the left side of the clock.

 

[brau]

Me again.
Another quick windows 10 question, how do i change colour intensity and opacity. Please. ?

Personalization>Colors

Disable Automatically pick a color from background.

Turn on Show Color on start, taskbar and action center.
Select color.

The opacity... i have to check... but i don't think they are in the same place.