Windows 10 Troubleshooting Thread

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If I have a program pinned to the bar, then update the app, the bookmark does not update.

e.g. With battle.net, the launcher on the menu is fine after updates, but the taskbar bookmark attempts to launch the old version and battle.net complains. The obv workaround is to remove the outdated icon and create a new bookmark after each update, but is there a way to avoid this?
 
Hello!

During the upgrade installation (of Windows 10) my computer rebooted into this:
[img-]http://i.imgur.com/IdSmygLl.jpg[/img]
Scanning and repairing drive (F:)

Drive F: is one of two external harddrives I forgot to disconnect before starting the upgrade. It's been stuck at 60% for about three hours now. I want to know if it is safe to power off and on my computer removing the harddrive (or if there's a way to cancel that I'm missing)? Or should I just wait it out longer?

Edit- Took many many hours but it eventually continued and finished.
 
So i had to repair (like, put disc back in and repair the OS) my windows 8.1 desktop, and now the windows 10 upgrade icon is gone. any fix?
 
Envelope said:
So i had to repair (like, put disc back in and repair the OS) my windows 8.1 desktop, and now the windows 10 upgrade icon is gone. any fix?
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Go to Windows Update and update everything. Keep updating. Then install all the optional updates that aren't things like Silverlight or Skype. The icon should then appear and hopefully you'll be able to upgrade.
 
So I am pretty sure windows 10 crashed on my computer. Using a lenovo y500 laptop. Have had iit installed and been running fine since launch. Last night everything started to run slow and then to the point that nothing was working at all. I just did forced it to shut down by holding down the power button. Now when I try to boot up it doesn't make it past the lenovo loading screen. Tried to boot in safe mode but it just said performing automatic repair on the same lenovo loading screen then the screen just turns black and doesn't so anything. Really not sure what to do here.
 
so I rolled back to Windows 7 because I wasn't enjoying the experience, and now my mouse and keyboard won't respond and I can't even type my password. they work fine in bios and I've reset my computer twice. any opinions on how to fix?
 
Windows 10 installation got in a boot loop and I couldn't get it to repair in any way so I decided to fresh install Windows 7, loosing all my files sadly because I didn't back them up, and now Windows 7 won't accept my Windows 7 Pro key. What do I do GAF?
 
So I restarted my laptop and suddenly I can't get past the Windows loading screen, it says something about the boot config not loading properly then it's rebooted. It lets me do recovery stuff (restore from backup, fix boot errors...). I tried literally every single one of them and they all eventually say "this couldn't be done", because fuck you.

The desperate option was to completely restore the system and NOT EVEN THAT WORKS, so it's the first time in my life I have a bricked PC, considering I can do virtually nothing because everything ends with an error. Thank you Microsoft, you incompetent pieces of shit. Now I have to waste money on a repair because the engineers working at Microsoft are undergraduated and the QA is composed of chimpanzees and zebras.

Stay away from this garbage, people who are unsure about upgrading.
 
Barajas_201 said:
Windows 10 installation got in a boot loop and I couldn't get it to repair in any way so I decided to fresh install Windows 7, loosing all my files sadly because I didn't back them up, and now Windows 7 won't accept my Windows 7 Pro key. What do I do GAF?
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I thought the keys were tied to your hardware so you could reuse them if needed. However, I think if you have a problem like that you can call Microsoft tech support to have them re-enable your key. I've never had to do this though.
 
So here's an interesting one.

My parents laptop, upgraded it to Win10 a week ago, no issues.

Today, it decided to create shortcuts (and shortcuts of shortcuts, and shortcuts of shortcuts of shortcuts) of folders and copies of folders (full of shortcuts and folder copies) all over the place.

The desktop was full of them, every folder in the Users subfolder was full of them. I've deleted over 400 of them so far (this isn't counting the stuff inside the folders that I'm deleting.

It's like Inception over here.

I have no f'ing idea what is going on with it.
 
Arrogant Bastard said:
Just updated my wife's PC to Win10, everything went fine but it just boots to a black screen with a cursor. I can use Ctrl/Alt/Del, not sure what the deal is.
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Do you have a second screen? For some reason Windows 10 used my TV as my main display, so for ages I had no idea what was happening as my monitor was black with a cursor but I couldn't do anything, all the while my TV was the primary display.
 
RadioActiveLobster said:
So here's an interesting one.

My parents laptop, upgraded it to Win10 a week ago, no issues.

Today, it decided to create shortcuts (and shortcuts of shortcuts, and shortcuts of shortcuts of shortcuts) of folders and copies of folders (full of shortcuts and folder copies) all over the place.

The desktop was full of them, every folder in the Users subfolder was full of them. I've deleted over 400 of them so far (this isn't counting the stuff inside the folders that I'm deleting.

It's like Inception over here.

I have no f'ing idea what is going on with it.
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are you sure it's not some kind of malware
 
For some reason after upgrading from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 my front mic port will not be detected by my Sound Blaster Recon3d. It worked fine with Windows 8.1. The headphone port works but not the mic port. I've also upgraded to the newest drivers for the sound card.

Has anyone else had this issue?
 
It's been a little over a week since I got Windows 10, and fucking Microsoft still hasn't gotten their shit together in regards to DTS/5.1 over optical out.

Some research indicates MS has been letting the issue fester since goddamn March. There are a ton of people affected by this and they let 5 months pass with no solution (or ETA for a solution) in sight...
 
Nev said:
So I restarted my laptop and suddenly I can't get past the Windows loading screen, it says something about the boot config not loading properly then it's rebooted. It lets me do recovery stuff (restore from backup, fix boot errors...). I tried literally every single one of them and they all eventually say "this couldn't be done", because fuck you.

The desperate option was to completely restore the system and NOT EVEN THAT WORKS, so it's the first time in my life I have a bricked PC, considering I can do virtually nothing because everything ends with an error. Thank you Microsoft, you incompetent pieces of shit. Now I have to waste money on a repair because the engineers working at Microsoft are undergraduated and the QA is composed of chimpanzees and zebras.

Stay away from this garbage, people who are unsure about upgrading.
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Wait, you can fix this yourself. Is your PC Bios ok? You can simply install Windows again and go from there.

Barajas_201 said:
Windows 10 installation got in a boot loop and I couldn't get it to repair in any way so I decided to fresh install Windows 7, loosing all my files sadly because I didn't back them up, and now Windows 7 won't accept my Windows 7 Pro key. What do I do GAF?
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Contact Microsoft. You can still use W7 without the key (trial period).
 
Groove Music force closes shortly after signing me in, it started when I added an "unknown album", it seems to be related to it trying to find data on it and not being able to.
 
What happened to " Refresh this PC" from recovery options from windows 8?
Whereby you could just rewrite core code and not effect your installed programs?

Or am I imagining that?
 
I can't seem to update my drivers for my graphics card. catalyst control center keeps bugging me about an update but when I try to update, it goes on to say that no compatible amd hardware was detected. it's a 6750m
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For some reason whenever I'm away from my laptop for like 20-30 minutes, it crashes, forcing me to restart. I can play for hours on end and it works fine, but if I'm afk for awhile it crashes and I have no idea why.
 
Does anyone have any experience (or friends) with Android Development on Windows 10 - particularly drivers, Android SDK & ADB etc command line all working when upgrading from 8?

Preferably Android Studio but Eclipse is good enough (most of the tools being the same behind the scenes)

I use Windows 8.1 64 Bit with i7 4790K and drivers for Galaxy S6, Moto 360 (Wear/watch) etc and I am concerned that there are issues if I upgrade. (Getting Moto 360 wear/watch debug drivers working was a SOAB and I dont want to go through that again if W10 upgrade breaks everything)
 
unknownstranger said:
For some reason whenever I'm away from my laptop for like 20-30 minutes, it crashes, forcing me to restart. I can play for hours on end and it works fine, but if I'm afk for awhile it crashes and I have no idea why.
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This started to happen to me since yesterday, ending my run of "no problems with windows 10 so far"

Both times as I was searching an external HD and had chrome open with 18 tabs, the first time and 11 tabs on the second crash.

It gives a warning saying that it will close some things because there is not enough memory. The second time it said something like CCC.exe crashed and also MOM.exe.
 
ReBirFh said:
This started to happen to me since yesterday, ending my run of "no problems with windows 10 so far"

Both times as I was searching an external HD and had chrome open with 18 tabs, the first time and 11 tabs on the second crash.

It gives a warning saying that it will close some things because there is not enough memory. The second time it said something like CCC.exe crashed and also MOM.exe.
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er...this is not reassuring

I did have someone at work tell me that chrome didnt work on win 10 properly - perhaps this is related to that (the person told me that he thought microsoft deliberately made it hard for google's products to work out the box - which I wont comment on)
 
Is Windows 10 a natural progression of the windows 8 source or a completely new from-the-ground-up reinvention of the OS?

Also, are people able to roll back to 8 without any flaws if they have issues with Windows 10?

I know this is a trouble shooting thread but some concerning feedback from comments here, especially when everything is fine "for a few days" before problems surface
 
It appears the issue I'm having is quite small, compared to others on here, but still very annoying.

Windows keeps reinstalling the 'latest' gpu driver, because I keep installing the Beta driver instead.

Is there a way to prevent it from doing this? I thought we could at least control updates that were not for the os.
 
Grexeno said:
So my brand new laptop is not charging when plugged in. Is there any chance this is a Windows 10 issue?
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I don't think so since your laptop should also charge when it's off and plugged in. It's rather problem of cable, broken connections somewhere.
 
In Windows 10 my folder view settings keep resetting. Didn't have this problem in Win 8/8.1. They would retain their settings until I reset them using CCleaner or similar means.

Seems it is resetting somewhat randomly. Anyone had this?
 
Severely Beardy said:
It appears the issue I'm having is quite small, compared to others on here, but still very annoying.

Windows keeps reinstalling the 'latest' gpu driver, because I keep installing the Beta driver instead.

Is there a way to prevent it from doing this? I thought we could at least control updates that were not for the os.
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Right-click the start button, click system, click advanced system settings, click the hardware tab, click device installation settings, check no, let me choose what to do, check never install driver software from windows update.
 
ShadowkillXNA said:
Right-click the start button, click system, click advanced system settings, click the hardware tab, click device installation settings, check no, let me choose what to do, check never install driver software from windows update.
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Doesn't do anything about updates. Just stops it from installing new hardware when you install new things.

You can use the show or hide update manager

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3073930

But you will have to run it every time there's a new update available.
 
Condom said:
Wait, you can fix this yourself. Is your PC Bios ok? You can simply install Windows again and go from there.



Contact Microsoft. You can still use W7 without the key (trial period).
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Yes I can but I've been reading that a Windows 7 Pro key doesn't work on a Windows 7 Pro SP1 image, I'm not sure if that's true but I'm looking for a Windows 7 Pro iso and can't find any.
 
cleveridea said:
Is Windows 10 a natural progression of the windows 8 source or a completely new from-the-ground-up reinvention of the OS?

Also, are people able to roll back to 8 without any flaws if they have issues with Windows 10?

I know this is a trouble shooting thread but some concerning feedback from comments here, especially when everything is fine "for a few days" before problems surface
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Back up your data, keep track of your old key, and you'll be fine. You have 30 days to use your old key to re-install.
 
Is there a way to create a shortcut to the "Network Connections" folder within Control Panel? It's the folder you get when you select to change adapter settings. Shows your ethernet, wifi, etc adapters.
 
theusedversion said:
Is there a way to create a shortcut to the "Network Connections" folder within Control Panel? It's the folder you get when you select to change adapter settings. Shows your ethernet, wifi, etc adapters.
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I didn't even know there was a difference between Settings and Control Panel until just a couple of days ago. The best I could do was pin the Settings to the start menu.

EDIT: I found a way. First, enable GodMode
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2881613/unlock-windows-10s-hidden-powerful-godmode-tool.html

Then, go into GodMode (it's a folder), then search for "network connections".
Find the one you're looking for from that list
Right click -> create shortcut
 
Has anyone found a way to manually add programs to the All Apps menu? Programs pinned to the start screen don't appear in All Apps, which means they also don't appear in search, which will get pretty annoying in the long run.
 
I'm having an issue where the computer is booting from sleep and doing updates and rebooting. I changed the power options to say that the computer can't be awoke using wake timers. YET again the computer booted in the middle of the night, did updates and rebooted (this might of been my fault. see below).

I checked the even logs and the boot source was 'unknown' lol. It's driving me crazy.

is there not a way to set it so the computer will not do updates? the only option I see is to "download updates and ask when to schedule" it literally reboots at this scheduled time (3:00am). Even though I didn't think it would because I turned off the sleep wake. but it still woke and rebooted. FML.
 
dluu13 said:
I didn't even know there was a difference between Settings and Control Panel until just a couple of days ago. The best I could do was pin the Settings to the start menu.

EDIT: I found a way. First, enable GodMode
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2881613/unlock-windows-10s-hidden-powerful-godmode-tool.html

Then, go into GodMode (it's a folder), then search for "network connections".
Find the one you're looking for from that list
Right click -> create shortcut
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Thanks. I was hoping that I would be able to pin the shortcut to the start menu but it won't let me. Oh well. No big deal. :/
 
dluu13 said:
I didn't even know there was a difference between Settings and Control Panel until just a couple of days ago. The best I could do was pin the Settings to the start menu.

EDIT: I found a way. First, enable GodMode
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2881613/unlock-windows-10s-hidden-powerful-godmode-tool.html

Then, go into GodMode (it's a folder), then search for "network connections".
Find the one you're looking for from that list
Right click -> create shortcut
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Yeah thats the part I dont like about Windows 10. It feels like 2 different OSs glued together.
 
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