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Thought I'd post this here in case it happens to anyone else...

All of the icons randomly disappeared from my task bar and my system tray was almost empty despite the programs being loaded according to task manager. Mucked around for a while trying to fix it and realised Windows had somehow enabled tablet mode when no-one was at my computer :/ the Settings menu wouldn't load for me to change it back either. Got lucky and Settings loaded after the 5th reboot and I managed to disable tablet mode. Of course Settings loads first time every time now that I don't need it!

Edit: Computer is clean btw, pretty sure it wasn't malware that caused it. I have Malwarebytes + Windows Defender running real time and did some scans afterwards to double check.
 
Past few days when I shut off my pc I get some message regarding "windows task host is trying to close an app" and it seems to be related to Windows Update. When I go to WU it tries to download the latest Windows Defender definitions but it can't for some reason. I opened up Windows Defender and try to download the definitions manually but it can't either. I figures its Defender that is causing the shutdown problem. Anyone else have problems downloading the latest definitions?
 
Is there anyway to reactivate windows 10 (upgraded from wins 7 retail) if I replace mobo/CPU?

I heard that I can downgrade to wins 7, change the hardware, then upgrade to wins 10 with the new mobo, is it possible? (though I have already removed windows.old so not even sure how the roll back would work...)

EDIT: actually I heard the fall update is going to allow W7/8 keys to activate W10, so I guess I'm good then?
 
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How do I remove quick access and one drive on that section?
 
I can't for the life of me get Steam installed on my laptop. I get the "cannot connect to steam" message and to check my Internet.

It installed fine on my desktop.
 
Crossposting from other thread:

I am having an issue where my laptop will not go past the Windows loading icon at bootup. It just goes to black and never gets past it.

When I reboot in repair mode, nothing works, all the system restore points (I have three) give an error. Any of the other tools available also give an error.

Is there a way I can fix this without deleting all my files? If it isn't recoverable, can I recover my files some other way (like taking the hard drive out?) I have years of photos on this laptop that haven't been backed up....
 
Jeels said:
Crossposting from other thread:

I am having an issue where my laptop will not go past the Windows loading icon at bootup. It just goes to black and never gets past it.

When I reboot in repair mode, nothing works, all the system restore points (I have three) give an error. Any of the other tools available also give an error.

Is there a way I can fix this without deleting all my files? If it isn't recoverable, can I recover my files some other way (like taking the hard drive out?) I have years of photos on this laptop that haven't been backed up....
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Has it booted fine before? On Win 10, or is this during install/upgrade?
 
I am so fucking sick of Microsoft and their random, bullshit OS problems. If it wasn't for gaming I'd be back on Mac OS X in a heart beat.

I don't use metro apps at home, but a friend of mine had an issue where attempting to use them returned error, "Can't use X app while user account control is turned off." First of all, SO FUCKING WHAT? Who the flying fuck cares about fucking UAC? It's bullshit and does nothing.

I go into the registry. UAC is enabled. Wtf? I go into control panel and try to open UAC and the screen just flashes but nothing happens. Great.

Looked on the internet and everyone has a random fix, plus it's all for Windows 8 and mostly related to registry where UAC is already enabled. Microsoft itself offers some bullshit, long ass list of stupid ass things to try (enable half of start up items, disable half of start up items, enable half of services, disable half of services). Fuck off.

So randomly I just try changing the registry value to 0. Restart. Try changing it back to 1. Now computer says, "restart to enable UAC." Restart. Log in. Now apps work.

Fuck Microsoft, fuck metro apps, and fuck UAC.
 
So you got it working again?

Always nice to read a feel good story with a happy ending with the world being so cynical and angry these days.
 
hadareud said:
So you got it working again?

Always nice to read a feel good story with a happy ending with the world being so cynical and angry these days.
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I did, with a solution that makes no sense and is different than all the other solutions I saw for the same issue (which did not work for me).

lol
 
Jeels said:
Crossposting from other thread:

I am having an issue where my laptop will not go past the Windows loading icon at bootup. It just goes to black and never gets past it.

When I reboot in repair mode, nothing works, all the system restore points (I have three) give an error. Any of the other tools available also give an error.
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Have you tried launching a console and doing a full scan disk? In repair mode: Troubleshoot -> Advanced options -> Command Prompt (and least that's the path in Windows 8.1 - it should be similar in Win10) and then in console you type: chkdsk C: /f /x /r

Is there a way I can fix this without deleting all my files? If it isn't recoverable, can I recover my files some other way (like taking the hard drive out?) I have years of photos on this laptop that haven't been backed up....
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Yes, you can take the hard drive out. Depending on the manufacturer it might void your warranty though (if you care about such things, better check before you do anything). Taking out HDD from a laptop is just a matter of unscrewing few screws. However, if you want to access it from another computer you will have to buy a 2.5" HDD casing.

You can also try using a live Linux system, e.g. Ubuntu - download it, "burn" on a flash stick (or DVD) and boot your laptop from it (you might have to change few things in BIOS to enable running your laptop from media other than your main HDD partition). The system will run entirely from a USB stick, you won't have to install anything, and yet you will be able to access your main HDD and, for example, copy your files to external HDD.
 
AndyD said:
In the same vein, can OneDrive be replaced with Google Drive?
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I can't seem to find on how to add the Google Drive on Windows Explorer Side Panel. What I did is put the google drive under "quick access" and remove the onedrive from the windows explorer side panel.

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In the subkey System.IsPinnedToNameSpaceTree change the DWORD from 1 to 0.
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AndyD said:
Has it booted fine before? On Win 10, or is this during install/upgrade?
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It has booted before in Windows 10 just fine, I upgraded to 10 near launch.

Mr_Zombie said:
Have you tried launching a console and doing a full scan disk? In repair mode: Troubleshoot -> Advanced options -> Command Prompt (and least that's the path in Windows 8.1 - it should be similar in Win10) and then in console you type: chkdsk C: /f /x /r

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I will try that today, thanks.
 
My second computer running Windows 7 recently had its hard drive die, so I bought a new one and decided to use the computer as a Plex server. Rather than re-install Windows 7, I opted to create a boot drive on a USB stick I have and install Windows 10, foolishly thinking the Windows 7 key would just work. It wouldn't take during the installation, so I skipped it and figured I'd deal with it later.

Is there any way to convert this legitimate Windows 7 key to work with my new Windows 10 install? Do I really have to re-install Windows 7, then install Windows 10 again as an upgrade to get it to convert?
 
Hey guys, I've installed Windows 10 and now my audio is fucked.

It will no longer automatically change from speakers to headphones.

Sometimes, as a result of plugging in headphones, the sound will completely disappear and will not come back if I plug out the headphone jack,

To work around the issue I've removed the drivers and reinstalled them several times but same issue..

I'm using a Dell Latitude E4310 and Dell is not going to support windows 10 for this laptop so it would seem I'm shit out of luck but I'm hoping you guys know a way around this.
 
Kozak said:
Hey guys, I've installed Windows 10 and now my audio is fucked.

It will no longer automatically change from speakers to headphones.

Sometimes, as a result of plugging in headphones, the sound will completely disappear and will not come back if I plug out the headphone jack,

To work around the issue I've removed the drivers and reinstalled them several times but same issue..

I'm using a Dell Latitude E4310 and Dell is not going to support windows 10 for this laptop so it would seem I'm shit out of luck but I'm hoping you guys know a way around this.
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Update your sound drivers on device manager. My cousin had this issue and that did the trick.

Anyway, wanted to ask--anyone know how to delete your previous Windows installation after the upgrade? I want that file gone so i can make some space.
 
I have W10 pro on my HTPC now I bought a new CPU and MB and I need to format e reinstall W10, question is... what should I do? I mean how the activation would work ? I also remember that direct install was not possible when I upgraded from W8.1 to 10, is it changed now?

Thaaanks !
 
I don't know if this is a Windows 10 problem, or a problem with the program, but I never had this issue before Windows 10, so maybe someone here can help me out.

I use Xpadder for controller mapping, but ever since Windows 10 it hasn't been as reliable as it used to. When I use the auto profile feature, it loads up a custom profile for the game I'm running, and then shuts off that profile when I close the game. These days, it tends not to shut off the profile (or recognize the controller I'm using) until I bring the program up from its minimized status.

Another issue is that when I open up Steam Big Picture Mode, it will sometimes display programs I've got running on the desktop (specifically Rainlendar). This forces me to mouse over and click it out of the way. It will also sometimes show the desktop bar, which I also have to mouse away.

It's been pretty annoying, and again, I didn't have these issues with Windows 7. Any ideas how to fix this?
 
OraleeWey said:
Update your sound drivers on device manager. My cousin had this issue and that did the trick.
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Nuh :\

Dell's confirmed they won't be making drivers for this laptop on Windows 10 so I'm kinda bum out of luck..

It still works, I just gotta do a fair bit of work around.
 
Kozak said:
Nuh :\

Dell's confirmed they won't be making drivers for this laptop on Windows 10 so I'm kinda bum out of luck..

It still works, I just gotta do a fair bit of work around.
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Is it a Realtek/High Definition Audio soundcard you have? Try installing these drivers from Realtek themselves: ftp://ftp3.realtek.com.tw/Realtek/GeneralRelease/7654_PG436_Win10_Win8.1_Win8_Win7_WHQL.zip (username : spcust password : hwwk758z if it asks).

Dell don't officially support my old laptop either but it works fine.
 
Last night my laptop suddenly reverted to the Windows 8 style tile layout rather than the typical desktop. I've tried everything and can't find a way to change it back. I've looked up solutions online, and most tell me to open "Taskbar and Start Menu Properties" from the control panel. I've done this, but there is no "Start Menu" tab, nor any option to change it back from the tile display.

This is really annoying me as I feel I'm missing something obvious, but I don't see it. Any tips, GAF?

Edit: I've even gone into Settings > Personalization > Toggled Use full Start Screen on and off. There's no difference between either one.

Edit 2: Problem solved. I had accidentally put it in Tablet Mode. Oops...
 
NeoGiff said:
Last night my laptop suddenly reverted to the Windows 8 style tile layout rather than the typical desktop. I've tried everything and can't find a way to change it back. I've looked up solutions online, and most tell me to open "Taskbar and Start Menu Properties" from the control panel. I've done this, but there is no "Start Menu" tab, nor any option to change it back from the tile display.

This is really annoying me as I feel I'm missing something obvious, but I don't see it. Any tips, GAF?

Edit: I've even gone into Settings > Personalization > Toggled Use full Start Screen on and off. There's no difference between either one.

Edit 2: Problem solved. I had accidentally put it in Tablet Mode. Oops...
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Lol. Same happened to me weeks ago!
 
1. Any way to plop the Edge address bar to the bottom? W10 is kinda inferior for small tablets.

2. Threshold 2 coming out this week yeah?
 
So Windows 10 still doesn't remember certain settings. Everytime I start Skype I have to change certain settings, same with uTorrent and File Explorer options.

Any solutions????
 
Few problems I'm having:

1) My Start bar becomes unresponsive every couple of hours, I can open my apps on my start bar but the start button becomes unresponsive. I have to restart the system by pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL and do it that way. Which leads me to my second problem

2) When I restart my computer every time, the system goes idle with a black screen for about 30 seconds and it shuts off. I have to turn on the power button again and restart it that way. Not a major bug but a bit of an inconvenience.

3) Every hour or so, my WiFi connection times out and I have to reset the wireless network adapter. Super annoying when I'm watching Netflix.

Insane after nearly 5 months after release these bugs are still prevalent.
 
Hmm. I updated Windows and now I can't seem to reliably open folders via the start menu search. I used to be able to type something like d:\pc and open it by hitting enter. Now it doesn't seem to work all the time. Anyone else run into that?

Also, is there any way to make Windows 10 search as good as Windows 8? I feel like Windows 8 remembered shit I searched for, making it easier to find folders by just typing in the name. The only thing 10 seems to remember are the programs on my desktop.
 
Nabs said:
Also, is there any way to make Windows 10 search as good as Windows 8? I feel like Windows 8 remembered shit I searched for, making it easier to find folders by just typing in the name. The only thing 10 seems to remember are the programs on my desktop.
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One thing about the search in Windows 10 is that there is some initial ramp-up time after which it gets better. It used to infuriate me in that I was typing the name of a shortcut in the Start menu as a test and the search wasn't finding it, it was offering me to search for the name on the web and whatnot, but the shortcut from the Start menu a few pixels to the left just wasn't in the list offered by search - and after a week or so the search finally learned that the shortcut was there and started returning it.
 
Macadinho94 said:
1) My Start bar becomes unresponsive every couple of hours, I can open my apps on my start bar but the start button becomes unresponsive. I have to restart the system by pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL and do it that way.
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Check event log. If this doesn't help, try reproducing the hang with Process Monitor open, this should help pinpoint the source of the issue. (My first thought is a driver issue, but it can be easily be something else - ie, an antivirus check, an update that fails to install and tries again and fails and tries again, etc.)

Macadinho94 said:
3) Every hour or so, my WiFi connection times out and I have to reset the wireless network adapter. Super annoying when I'm watching Netflix.
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Check power options, just in case (and disable powering off the adapter).
 
Yes, W10 search is weird. Sometimes it shows straight what you want, like settings withing the settings menu. Another time it just shows web results... no idea what is causing that.
 
Okay so this is strange. Since upgrading from Windows 8.1 to 10 everything stopped working properly. From YouTube, to loading tracks in iTunes, to playing local video files to generally my performance taking a severe hit - everything became much worse on this computer when I upgraded to Windows 10. About the only thing that didn't take a hit was games but overall the experience has been much worse. My computer isn't the newest thing around but on Windows 8.1 it was at least functional and performed well. Windows 10 was such a performance disaster on here I've been thinking of buying a new computer with improved specs to remedy the issue.

After several weeks of failing to find a solution and just coming to the conclusion that my computer is nerfed (I did consider downgrading back to Windows 8.1 so I guess that was also an option) what I did was just update to ATI's new GPU/APU drivers (Beta drivers released on November 5). I just did that and restarted and wow, what a fucking difference. Everything works now. Like seriously everything. YouTube is back to normal, iTunes loads instantly, local video files play immediately and my performance just increased exponentially. The computer is lightning fast now. As fast as when I was running Windows 8.1 if not a little quicker. Before it felt like the entire interface was lagging constantly. So what the fuck?

Can anyone explain this? I read the driver notes and "Windows 10 support" and "Performance optimisations" are listed in the notes. Is this correct? Are the drivers really that good that they just fixed everything? Was ATI playing catch up or something and only just released decent drivers?

I'm happy about this but also dumbfounded. Anyone have any ideas?
 
Is anybody else's windows 10 being a total asshole with this new build update?

I have a non-UEFI machine here that it downloads and prepares the update, prompts for reboot, but it never reboots into the update installer that I'm used to getting. Instead it just reboots into my desktop and then windows update said it was unable to install updates, then it starts re-downloading and re-preparing the update again. I've done this three times today and I'm pretty sure it's going to murder my poor old OCZ Agility 60GB SSD that I'm pretty sure is on its last legs.
 
Update failed to install here, booted to a black screen and I had to cut the power. Then Windows initiated system restore on the next bootup.

My system is up and running again but on the old version - not sure what went wrong, don't see anything obvious in Event Viewer. Might do a clean install I guess...
 
shockdude said:
Welp. Started the update, expected a standard Windows update, did not expect a full OS rewrite.
45%, 50 minutes and counting. Bleh.
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45%, [url="http://www.windowscentral.com/how-prevent-windows-10-november-update-getting-stuck]or 44%...?[/url]

Now, while the software giant expects the roll out to go smoothly, it's just a matter of time until we start seeing isolated issues. For example, there have been reports in the Microsoft Answer forums that there seems to be a bug that can prevent the Windows 10 November update from completing the installation.

The bug seems to be specific too: if you begin the installation process, the Windows 10 November update will stop responding at the 44% marker.

According to Microsoft, the company has been observing that "some devices" that have an "SD bus with an SD card inserted" may experience some issues trying to install the update.

While the software giant keeps investigating the issue and offers a permanent solution, it recommends users to remove the SD card from their computers, before proceeding with the install.
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Patch Tuesday has just ruined half my Native Apps - Camera, Maps, Photos and even the Store. They just won't open. Tried a billion Powershell "fixes" and nothing has worked. Why are these Apps still complete bullshit.
 
Update finished in about 1.5 hours.
I was actually lucky, the power outlet that my laptop was connected to was a dud and I was updating on battery the whole time.

The start menu still does not include my manually added programs. Also application title bars are the same color as the accent color, which is way too bright imo.

The start menu's new right-click menus are nice; it's about time they added a recently opened files menu.

Looking at some articles about the update highlights some nice features. Will dig through it more.
 
Got a random error after downloading the TH2 update. Went back to try again and it says I'm up to date. Cleared the 2.5GB download and now it still says I'm up to date.
Guess I'll just wait for this to fix itself in about a month or whatever.
 
idk if this is best place for this but I've recently become unable to use a third monitor, enabling a third monitor in display settings turns that monitor on but makes my main monitor turn off and say Out of Range.
It was shortly after installing the latest Nvidia driver update but I went back to a previous one and still had the issue so it probably isn't that.

Two of my monitors are plugged in via HDMI and DVI into my GPU, the third is via VGA into the motherboard. Any ideas?
 
megarockexe said:
Got a random error after downloading the TH2 update. Went back to try again and it says I'm up to date. Cleared the 2.5GB download and now it still says I'm up to date.
Guess I'll just wait for this to fix itself in about a month or whatever.
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Same for me. Maybe they're patching it up and will push it out again eventually.
 
I did the update and I think the context menu that shows when I right-click the task bar changed. I honestly am not 100% sure when it changed, but I'm pretty sure it was after the update

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Is there any way to change it back? Was this part of the update or is something weird going on?
 
mike23 said:
I did the update and I think the context menu that shows when I right-click the task bar changed. I honestly am not 100% sure when it changed, but I'm pretty sure it was after the update

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Is there any way to change it back? Was this part of the update or is something weird going on?
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Yeah they changed it, that's normal. Dunno if it can be changed back.
 
Has there been anything new to try to fix the Critical Error Start menu thingy? I tried the methods from the community site and it worked for two days then it just came back. Tried them again but it didn't work anymore.
 
I have been having 2 new things happen recently.

1. When I do a search with Cortana or even just from the start menu, it never finds any apps or files. The only results are from bing or the Windows Store. Now I think this is because I turned off indexing on my SSD? However shouldn't it show the files on my second HDD I have attached? Is it bad to have indexing enabled on an SSD? I turned it off because the Samsung program recommended it

2. When I boot my PC, the ASUS logo comes up twice. It looks like it boots, and then it restarts and boots again, everytime. I am pretty sure this is a new behavior. What's going on? Feels like it takes a little extra time booting because of this.
 
Ashhong said:
I have been having 2 new things happen recently.
2. When I boot my PC, the ASUS logo comes up twice. It looks like it boots, and then it restarts and boots again, everytime. I am pretty sure this is a new behavior. What's going on? Feels like it takes a little extra time booting because of this.
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I used to get the double boot on 7 and 8. I must've caught it only a handful of times on 10. I know it's just a motherboard thing, not sure if that ever got fixed even with bios updates.

Personally it didn't bother me all too much. Didn't go through with bios updates because the asus site is awful and their notes are bad.
 
RS4- said:
I used to get the double boot on 7 and 8. I must've caught it only a handful of times on 10. I know it's just a motherboard thing, not sure if that ever got fixed even with bios updates.

Personally it didn't bother me all too much. Didn't go through with bios updates because the asus site is awful and their notes are bad.
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It's not an issue? I'm worried thinking that it's resetting for whatever reason, which doesn't sound like a good thing to me
 
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