Marty Chinn
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Settings->Personalization->Start->Use Start Full Screen
Windows 10 Troubleshooting Thread
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excelsiorlef
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Any idea what to do to get the Netflix and Hulu apps running? It seems like this was an issue back during the Windows 8 era too,
ratcliffja
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Nobody else is having the system constantly crash? I can't get it to remain stable for even a few minutes.
Miles Quaritch
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I actually didn't mind the tiles that much, but I am happy to see a proper return of the start menu.
I doubt I'll ever bother activating the tiles. They were a fun distraction while they were there, but I'm not going out of my way to get them back.
you can also just resize the start menu if you want to go half way
AmethystEnd
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I despised the forced separation of the tiles screen from my regular desktop, but I'm digging this hybrid implementation:
Sad face.
I'll admit I miss the tiles and find the return of the start menu a pointless backwards thing which I haven't used for a long time (since Vista launched).
Giolon
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Ok I think I've found two bugs in Windows 10, 1 heinous, 1 just kind of annoying
The heinous one is that there's some issue with HomeGroups and sharing your Libraries that causes Windows to clobber all over your Library folder permissions upon reboot. This resulted in me losing permissions to all of my user folders and Windows Explorer just entered an infinite crashing loop.
I fixed it by rebooting into safe mode basically (msconfig -> Diagnostic Startup), then disabling sharing on all the libraries, re-granting permssions, rebooting, and disabling the HomeGroup.
This problem happened (and disabling HomeGroup and sharing solved it) on both my laptop and desktop.
Ditto for this 2nd problem that's just annoying - enabling OneDrive causes its folders to be added to your Documents, Pictures, and Music Libraries and it re-orders the folder priority and changes the default save location.
You can tweak the default save location and order, but upon reboot it'll happen again.
The heinous one is that there's some issue with HomeGroups and sharing your Libraries that causes Windows to clobber all over your Library folder permissions upon reboot. This resulted in me losing permissions to all of my user folders and Windows Explorer just entered an infinite crashing loop.
I fixed it by rebooting into safe mode basically (msconfig -> Diagnostic Startup), then disabling sharing on all the libraries, re-granting permssions, rebooting, and disabling the HomeGroup.
This problem happened (and disabling HomeGroup and sharing solved it) on both my laptop and desktop.
Ditto for this 2nd problem that's just annoying - enabling OneDrive causes its folders to be added to your Documents, Pictures, and Music Libraries and it re-orders the folder priority and changes the default save location.
You can tweak the default save location and order, but upon reboot it'll happen again.
Atraveller
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NVM, ninite installed itunes just fine.
Perfect Cha0s
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Just a heads up: grab Steam Tile from the store if you have a sizeable Steam library! Makes for a pretty aesthetically pleasing library experience, IMO.
Do you reckon that it remembered from how i had it set-up in 7, and those folders are just empty doubles. ?
Messofanego
Banned
What's the verdict? Is it meh or is it amazing? Give it to me straight like a pear cider that's made from 100% pears.
excelsiorlef
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Fuck it's my AMD Radeon drivers that are causing the problem, I have no idea what to do.
Nabs
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It's like an uglier 8.1 with a start menu. *shrug*
When it works, its pretty damn great. I love how fast it boots. Sure I am running it on an SSD but everything runs quickly. When you get stuck with error's or issues that you cannot seem to navigate around, it can be like every other version of Windows. Feels like an early software launch, so hopefully given a few days, people will be able to sort things out and install correctly. Kinda wish more people had done the Insider stuff so they could pass on all these issues.
Fired up Steam and tried some games and they ran fine except I tried to play Lego Marvel in Big Picture Mode and I couldn't get the Steam Overlay to appear..
Then I tried Binding of Isaac Rebirth and instead of the steam overlay a prompt appeared that said "bring up game menu? yes this is a game/no" and I pressed yes and it brought up a task bar like thing for Xbox.
h-how do I steam overlay in BPM now?
note this is only when using BPM I noticed this, desktop mode Steam worked fine.
Bruh, you can change the colors and maybe hopefully possibly import a badass Serious Sam theme if the aesthetics are a problem.
Then I tried Binding of Isaac Rebirth and instead of the steam overlay a prompt appeared that said "bring up game menu? yes this is a game/no" and I pressed yes and it brought up a task bar like thing for Xbox.
h-how do I steam overlay in BPM now?
note this is only when using BPM I noticed this, desktop mode Steam worked fine.
Bruh, you can change the colors and maybe hopefully possibly import a badass Serious Sam theme if the aesthetics are a problem.
So far it works just as well as Windows 8.1 for me. Fast, Upgrade kept all my programs (as far as I can tell right now), Cortana is a nice gimmick, return of a proper start menu is great and finally the integrated search in the task bar makes it glorious comeback from the dead. Barring any major bugs I've yet to experience (I haven't had to restart it yet, some people seem to have problems with that) I'd say you could do it, but if you feel like waiting a few weeks/months for the first updates you won't miss anything existantially important either.
Kinky John
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Have you tried the 15.7.1 drivers that just came out?
brandonh83
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Got it but it can't read my profile for some reason even after I set it to public, but I'll give it a few more moments.
It's great in all ways except on the customization front. There are a dozen little things that piss me off and I have absolutely no way to change them.
I have lots of time to do the update today, but I'm still on hold. So I want to force the upgrade. I'm on 8.1 Pro.
I only find contradictory infos on this. Especially regarding activation. Which forced method is the best and safest?
wuauclt.exe/ updatenow - Method
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Media Creation Tool - Upgrade
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I only find contradictory infos on this. Especially regarding activation. Which forced method is the best and safest?
wuauclt.exe/ updatenow - Method
or
Media Creation Tool - Upgrade
Thanks
AmethystEnd
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Amazing on my end. It's fast, it's pretty, it kept all the settings I cared about, I don't need 3rd party software for start menu, AND I can use tiles without being kicked to an alternate full screen interface, and for some reason my idle temps are down 8-10 degrees celsius from what they were before the update. It's like 150% pure pear cider, to speak in your terms.
But I had zero issues with anything involving the update, or messing with any settings I felt like messing with. I can totally understand why some people are less enthused about the update, especially if they had to fight with their systems to get it running.
wait what is this? How does this work in regards to Steam? does it launch in/via Steam or wut
Nabs
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It looks like Microsoft took the guide button back. I disabled the Xbox recording stuff, but it still isn't working in Steam.
edit: Okay, now it works. I just had to sign out of Windows and sign back in.
I love GAF for this. I'm going to try. Thank you!
did that since Media Creation tool completely refused to even start for me. Took a few hours and the installation of all optional upgrades but eventually the upgrade process started just fine.
I was just about to ask this question as I was getting this error. Sadly already did the wipe but I guess i just have to wait?
Captain Europe
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So installed Windows 10 on my laptop, and now the touchpad isn't working. It can't find new devices, and tried to download Elan drivers on the ASUS website but none of them work, so... how screwed am I?
Mike Works
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For those having problems using the installer: I continually got the "SOMETHING HAPPENED something happened" message on both my laptop and desktop when I tried installing directly. Every time. I also never got notifications for either PC that my install time was ready.
So I tried selecting the other option in the installer where you save the setup stuff on a USB. Then I just ran the setup from the USB. And it worked on both machines.
So I tried selecting the other option in the installer where you save the setup stuff on a USB. Then I just ran the setup from the USB. And it worked on both machines.
DonMigs85
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I was able to get my installation started by using a generic key from here http://winaero.com/blog/generic-key-to-install-windows-10-rtm/
Now we'll see if it actually completes and properly activates. It seems to give OEM installs a hard time, or maybe coz it's single language.
So after having a lot of issues with the upgrade I read their blog whatever to clean install. I did that and now Windows refuses USB installation onto my computer. Tons of different errors. Can't do recovery. Can't do a format and install. Nothing. Looks like Windows bricked my computer.
Everything posts in bios. It sees everything. Just can't get this thing to run set up. Tons of blue screens. Trying to install it on an old hdd now. If it works, it killed my SSD.
Tried contacting their customer support and yeah good luck on that. Had to schedule a call on Saturday at 930pm which was their earliest. This is insanity. No number to get through to them posted? Gtfo. Worst company ever.
So frustrated right now it's unreal, especially that it's my primary gaming device.
Everything posts in bios. It sees everything. Just can't get this thing to run set up. Tons of blue screens. Trying to install it on an old hdd now. If it works, it killed my SSD.
Tried contacting their customer support and yeah good luck on that. Had to schedule a call on Saturday at 930pm which was their earliest. This is insanity. No number to get through to them posted? Gtfo. Worst company ever.
So frustrated right now it's unreal, especially that it's my primary gaming device.
Messofanego
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you disabled it to get the steam overlay to work in BPM or you had previously disabled it and now enabled it to do Xbox recording on Steam?
I went to the Xbox app and I have no idea what I'm doing lol
Just boots up Steam and plays the game. Nice to have a menu full of nice images for games
There are like a billion people trying to download this huge, massively complex piece of free software today.
Dirtyshubb
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Sorry for the bump, hoping to still get some help with this issue.
I really am surprised at how painless the upgrade process for Win10 has been for me. I forced the update with that media tool and then just left my PC to it.
The only issue I had was trying to update my Nvidia drivers but it turns out that was because Windows was already updating them in the background. Would have been nice to have an alert about that, could have saved me some stress
Really liking Win10 so far.
The only issue I had was trying to update my Nvidia drivers but it turns out that was because Windows was already updating them in the background. Would have been nice to have an alert about that, could have saved me some stress
Really liking Win10 so far.
excelsiorlef
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Dice
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It was the dual-boot. I changed the boot drive to C and it failed so that was pretty obvious. I guess Ubuntu actually wiped the BCD from the system partition and slid in it's own clone after grub in order for the Linux bootloader to recognize there is a Win 7 install there. I fixed that with diskpart.exe and now it passed the "checking requirements" and it's downloading.
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