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Had it a few days now. Generally like it. Edge browser has lots of issues...Ebay and my work remote email don't fully work on it.
I've found a few things that don't work in Edge, enough that have me convinced it's not fit for purpose in its present form. Broadly similar issues to that of IE8 (yes, I still use it, under duress) in terms of compatibility.
Solved my connectivity issues by switching from an ethernet connection to wifi and it's spot on now. IIRC I had some issues with the computer when switching connections before so it may well be more of a driver/ethernet card issue than w10.
I certainly prefer it to w8.1 as it's basically w7 with a few add ons St least in terms of user interface
done, no fuss and working fine.
My only bugbear having worked with MS products are the over friendly messages "we're working it" "we're setting things up" "this shouldn't take long". All inoffensive until things go wrong at which point you can't help reading the meaningless error messages with a Microsoft US accent invoking the rage.
How can you tell if your computer is downloading the windows 10 update?
Ive registered for it a while back and so far nothing has happened?
Not sure. Sick of waiting for mine to update so did that force update mentioned a couple of pages back. Think it updates the same as just waiting.
I cant find the info a few pages back ?
Can someone remind me how to force update please?
From a run command:
wuauclt /detectnow
Sit back and wait.
Can do it here as well(did mine this way)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO
Just pick 32 or 64bit and away you go.
Can someone quickly explain how office 365 works?
I'm about to order a new laptop. Office 365 is available at a discounted price, however in the description it says it's a 12 month subscription. Does that mean I have to keep paying to use it?
Some floppy disks in a huge box seems to be a thing of the past!
ive tried to force the update by using the info above and its still not working ??
Yes Office365 is a subscription. You may get a cheap starting price but you must keep paying to use it. If you don't the software doesn't let you do much.
Costs £5.99/month (personal - 1 computer), £7.99/month (up to 5 PCs/macs)
EDIT: here's the relevent MS web page. [url= https://products.office.com/en-gb/compare-microsoft-office-products ]https://products.office.com/en-gb/compare-microsoft-office-products[/url]
ive tried to force the update by using the info above and its still not working ??
Download the tool porlus linked to 2 up ^^ - run the update or download an ISO for later use. Personally I don't think it's worth rushing to update.
I cant find the info a few pages back ?Can someone remind me how to force update please?
Turn on automatic updatesDelete all the contents of "C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download" (but not the folder)
run the wuauclt.exe /updatenow command from the command prompt in admin mode
Make a brew.
[url= http://www.windowscentral.com/windows-10-upgrade-not-showing-yet-heres-how-manually-trigger-update ]Click here[/url]
Signed up for the upgrade a few days ago. Got the notification today that I could download and install it. Its all working fine so far...
I managed to crash it on the second day by trying to remove a file from the new recent files list in Explorer that was on a drive I'd dismounted.
Apart from that it looks nice and 'Hey Cortana!' is fun. Edge seems ok so far, but then I always like a fresh browser before I manage to clog it up with shite
Well downloaded onto my Win 7 4 year old Dell and it seems to have worked well enough. It's retired from being a work machine so not too much stress, chrome working fine and and the adobe stuff I use seems to be ok.
Not bad, like the bastard child of 7 & 8
I was going to wait for a while but in the end I couldn't help but scratch that itch last night.
Installed it on my 7-8 year old Dell. I've messed about with it a bit over the years; extra RAM and put a SSD as the OS disk into it. Upgraded to 10 (from Win7) in about 30 mins no hassle. Initial look seems everything working OK. Lightroom is running a bit quicker which is nice.
Lightroom is running a bit quicker which is nice.
Probably more free RAM.
Has anyone tested garmin uploads and trainer road on it yet?
Most of the stuff I do on the home pc is browser based, but uploading from my garmins, using trainer road and also probably itunes (they must have itunes ready???) are the things I need to make sure work before I give it a go.
No but I did do a check for firmware on my 800 and that worked fine, downloading the garmin software and then running it (I didn't need a firmware update)
Has anyone tested garmin uploads and trainer road on it yet?
Yep done both of those things, no problems.
yep garmin stuff (fenix 3) is working fine for me.
After upgrading from 8.1 it worked for a few days and then the Ethernet connection wouldn't work. I've restored back to 8.1 until this is fixed. Quite a few people seem to have experienced it
I think I am sticking to my Window 7 until I get my next pooter but I am tempted to upgrade. hmmm ...
Upgraded - extracted the product key - and then installed fresh on a new SDD. Hence seems a bit snappier than 7.
I have the Cisco VPN software running OK. This page seems to sum up the issues - getting the DNE software to work properly and then altering the display name in the registry :
http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/120150-fix-cisco-vpn-error-27850-on-windows-10
I actually took the advice from this page :
http://www.gleescape.com/posts/2917
which seems a bit superstitious in the number of required reboots, and also the bundled cicso VPN client used is not the latest 5.0.07.0440 version, which I pulled down from here :
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/files/app#/file/90b4f704-9b8b-4118-81e5-d4c4b949b3c3
Anyone running intel WIDI on W10? I installed W10 last week but went back to W7 as the WIDI didn't run and I couldn't find an upgrade that fixed it.
I had the opposite with WIDI on my laptop - Win 8.1 totally borked it, upgrade install of Win 10 and WIDI springs back into life!
Running on i5 CPU with Intel HD4000 iGPU, all drivers as chosen by Win 10 installation software. Has additional GPU options too - I can control refresh rate of TV via WIDI (which I couldn't under Win 8 ) so at full 1080p HD can go for flicker-free 24Hz or 25Hz (instead of the choppy as hell 30Hz that Miracast hobbles you with by default). 60Hz for all non-HD resolutions.
stimpy,
Which version of WIDI are you using. I'll download the same and re-install W10.
It's just whatever Win 10 installed all by itself - I haven't done anything to it. Sorry, I know that's precisely nil help!
My laptop is at home - will double check when I get home later and post up what details I can about the version.
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/windows-10s-privacy-policy-is-the-new-normal/
You guys all know about the privacy issues, right?
Given the frankly astonishing amount of data collected about all of us in our everyday lives by many more sources than the OS on my PC, I don't see that Win 10 is anything incredible or even out of the ordinary in terms of data collection. As the article points out, it's the new norm.
Faceache and Google between them collect an incredible amount of data without anyone ever thinking about it. And that's just two obvious targets.
It depends on whether you blankly click "allow" (or similar)/go with the default, or are the kind of user who actually bothers about their security and privacy settings.
But as the article also points out, if you want all the shiny, you've got to play by their terms.
Maybe just that people don't evaluate terribly well what they're giving away to get the shiny shiny.
If it's free you're the product.
Yes, this I know. But I thought it would be right to post the link so you can make your own mind up.
It's good to remind people of this kind of thing. I disabled various bits of Win 10 on install for privacy reasons, but I suspect many people didn't/won't.
Hey dallas95:
Intel HD 4000 - driver 10.18.10.4252
Centrino wireless N 2230 - driver 15.16.0.2
I just (now) ran the widi update tool downloaded [url= http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/highlights/wireless/wireless-display ]from here[/url] - it uninstalled the widi software from my Win 10 laptop, restarted it then 'detected' two new audio devices & installed drivers; Belkin miracast (screencast) shows as a device in device manager even when not connected.
After that 'uninstall' of the widi software I find widi runs better now (i.e. smoother and quicker) than straight after the upgrade install, although I notice that the ability to change scaling has disappeared (I previously had to change the scaling to prevent a little too much overscan on the TV).
I suspect (given that Win 8.1 got rid of the widi widget) that Win 10 handles widi with a 'baked in' set of controls. I can't find any widi software installed on my laptop anymore, even though widi runs perfectly well.
stimpy,
Thanks for the info'. I'll try the update from your link and see how it goes.
cheers,
I updated from 8.1 (which I quite liked) a couple of days ago, nothing to report here (touch wood), all pretty straightforward.
I installed windows 10 and i did not like it and i am using windows7 and its great.
Updated at the weekend and the 'sleep' function no longer seems to work, which means i have to turn the PC off at night.
A shame, but you should reboot every few days anyway.
Does hibernate not work either?
Seeing as my Acers sleep function, and some keyboard issues have been ongoing since Day1, I don't think I have much to loose.... 😕 😉 😆
you should reboot every few days anyway.
Did you accidentally install Windows 95?
Did you accidentally install Windows 95?
Well, for a start you can't patch it unless you do!
Then there's there's memory leaks, threads and services that haven't quit correctly, inability to defrag files listed as in-use.... etc etc
I am very surprised you don't do it. Rebooting machines daily, or at least every few days [2-4 tops] is critical, and every machine I have ever worked on has benefited hugely from reboots with more free memory and less CPU load.
All my MS computers are now running W10. The tablet has been fine - just worked.
Both desktops required manual driver updates - both for the ethernet cards (which didn't work otherwise) and for the Nvidia graphics card on one.
Now that's done, they're all working perfectly but I don't reckon a non-techy would have been able to resolve it themselves.