Windows 10 Troubleshooting Thread

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claviertekky said:
No, the notifier only appears when the computer is ready to restart to upgrade.

Poorly designed.



I use 7-zip as well. Hm.

Maybe that's the issue?
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I don't want to say for sure. I have been using Windows 10 for about a month and only started having this problem today right after installing 7-zip. It's really messed with my security settings. I had to go into local security and disable a few warnings to allow me to copy and install files to Program Files. Real pain.
 
Sorry if missed earlier, but is this normal for it to fail this many times?

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RoadHazard said:
Use the media creation tool (the link has been posted like five times per page). Contrary to what its name suggests, it's not just for creating bootable media, you can also just use it to upgrade right away. No waiting for Windows Update necessary.
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I can clean install the good old way with this tool with my win8 key? Do I need to do in place upgrade first or direct to bios reformat?
 
TimeEffect said:
Not sure how to do this. And I feel like it will lead to more problems.

A friend of mine help build my PC. Its a genuine copy. But I dont know how to reinstall it.
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Time to call your friend :)

You may have something funky with your current install of Windows. Cleaning that version out and just doing an upgrade after would be where I would go next.
 
For anyone who reverted back from 10: On the troubleshooting page, when it says go back to previous build, does that mean 8.1?
Edit: Looked around a bit and it seems to be an AMD gpu driver issue. Unfortunately I'm in the middle returning to 8.1 (I hope) so I can't test it. If I get back to 8.1 I'll just wait a bit until AMD figures this out.
 
Just an FYI in case my problem may be driving anyone else insane. I've been having an issue with Excel taking 5-10 seconds to load files. I tried at least 20 things that I found while googling to fix the slow load of Excel, nothing worked. Until I started going through the task manager and ending processes one by one... It turned out that Cortana of all things was causing Excel (none of the other office products) to start up extremely slowly. To be more specific, Cortana can be enabled, but the feature that allows her to listen if "Hey Cortana" is said, causes the problem.

I fucking hate you Cortana!
 
So I did a clean install (new SSD) after doing an in place upgrade in my old SSD. Booted up, signed in with my Windows account and says Windows is activated and good to go. FYI for anyone wanting to do a clean install.
 
Great the PC was on track for upgrade but just today it says that the manufacturer (nvidia) hasn't made drivers avaliable so I'm out of luck. I was on the hype train :(
 
GavinGT said:
They would slow the mouse down, but not completely stop it (IIRC). But they were also easy to remove through registry fixes, which isn't the case yet for Windows 10.
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Mine would stop completely unless I moved the cursor around those spots on 8. Never bothered me enough to do anything about it I guess.
 
I had to look up the drivers to my laptop. Nothing was recognized. Thank god my desktop wasn't updating to Windows 10 too at the same time.
 
Yuck
They screwed up onedrive



Now you have to SYNC all of your onedrive folders to have access to them in the file explorer. In Windows 8(7 too I think) you could choose which folders to sync offline and which were online only.

Crappy


I'm not overly impressed by 10.
 
dem said:
Yuck
They screwed up onedrive



Now you have to SYNC all of your onedrive folders to have access to them in the file explorer. In Windows 8(7 too I think) you could choose which folders to sync offline and which were online only.

Crappy


I'm not overly impressed by 10.
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Right click the one drive icon in task bar and select only the folders you want synced. I only wanted a few. Works perfect.
 
dem said:
Yuck
They screwed up onedrive



Now you have to SYNC all of your onedrive folders to have access to them in the file explorer. In Windows 8(7 too I think) you could choose which folders to sync offline and which were online only.

Crappy


I'm not overly impressed by 10.
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That was only in Windows 8. The app in WIndows 10 is the same as Windows 7.
 
Damage Inc said:
Right click the one drive icon in task bar and select only the folders you want synced. I only wanted a few. Works perfect.
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But the ones you don't sync don't show up at all then.

In 8 they would still show up... but you would access them over the network.
 
Okay, decided to test the boot-up time and wow, a full damn minute and a half.


Yeah, I think I'm gonna revert back guys. Along with the overheating, this is not looking good for me performance wise. Probably will wait out til I get a newer machine as well some bug fixes.

Fatalah said:
Hmm...my Start button randomly stopped working. Weeeeird.
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Yeah, my taskbar just suddenly froze up too now that you mention it.
 
SalsaShark said:
where exactly do I customize window color and all that

as in, the top of chrome stops being so white it hurts my eyes
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You fucking can't. They removed all title bar customization options. There are some hacky methods to change the color, but the text will be black no matter what so good luck reading it.
 
It really bums me out that they removed the transparency effect from open windows.Also, I'm sure it's been asked a million times already, but where do I go to change the opacity of the taskbar?
 
Does anyone else have a 350mb or 450mb inexplicable partition after upgrading? I have two additional partitions: one is a 350 "System Reserved" that I'm fairly certain has been there since installing Windows 8.1, but I now have a "Recovery Partition" that is 450mb. I seemingly can't do anything with this recovery partition - no option to remove or format it. Are you guys seeing anything similar?
 
Tried the creation tool with my USB thumb drive , not only did I get a something happened error, but my usb is corrupt and unformatable now. Damn MS.
 
dem said:
Yuck
They screwed up onedrive



Now you have to SYNC all of your onedrive folders to have access to them in the file explorer. In Windows 8(7 too I think) you could choose which folders to sync offline and which were online only.

Crappy


I'm not overly impressed by 10.
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You still can choose online and offline folders - what sucks is that you can't see your online folders. Apparently it confused stupid people to see folders that weren't actually on your HDD. I don't really see why I should have to put up with a gimped OneDrive because some people don't understand how it works.

Overall I like W10 though. it doesn't feel quite as snappy in some places as W8, but that largely seems down to slightly more elaborate animations. The start screen 'fades in' slowly compared to just popping up like in W8. I'm not using the full screen start screen but it's noticeable if I do turn it on.

But then there are little things which I like - better window management and taskbar, windowed apps - and I really like the new Start Menu and I wasn't sure I would.

I'm guessing most of the niggles will be worked out as its updated. There are always niggling things when an OS is new
 
Well I just did a fresh format to see if it fixes the issue im currently having. Youtube snd Twitch lag badly on chrome when Windows 7 never did that unless I put it at 720p or Scorce on Twitch. Using Edge just makes YouTube a green pixelated mess and Twitch a all black screen with only sound :(
 
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