Windows 10 to be the last

talos · Nov 25, 2015, 07:21:11

Tried to update to win 10 on my laptop yesterday

what a nightmare !.
Firstly the first download failed for some reason, so it downloaded it again this process used my valuable giggers and tied up my network for hours,
finally it started to set up, this took another 2-3 hours, when finally Win 10 appeared the laptop was painfully slow and the keyboard wouldn't work, fortunately the mouse did. After a few more hours of trying to get the keyboard to work I gave up and decided to revert to Win 7, but search as I might there was no option to revert because it said there were no Win7 backup files. So since I still had the original Win7 installation disks I decided to do a clean install, this seemed to go OK, but I now have a Win7 system which cannot for some reason download any updates it just hangs, the hammer is now resting on the desk ready for action, Ill give it one more try waste a few more hours but my patience is getting very thin

My desktop is nagging to be upgraded now, but hell will freeze over first, is there any way I can stop the nagging ?

Simon · Nov 25, 2015, 09:48:14

After my initially positive experience with Windows 10, I am now growing to hate it with a vengeance. Last night, on three occasions, all of which when I was in the middle of something, I was kindly informed that: "Windows has encountered a problem and we are gathering information, then we will restart your computer for you.". I presume this is a new take on the BSOD, but WTF! Who is "We", and do they now own my computer? They might as well have added: "And we don't give a flying f**k what you might be doing, as we're going to restart your computer anyway". I know it's just a BSOD, but all this "we" stuff is getting on my tits.

J!ll · Nov 25, 2015, 13:39:41

I have had only one problem, something to do with it's stop clock.

Simon · Nov 25, 2015, 13:47:52

This was apparently something to do with a page file.

J!ll · Nov 25, 2015, 17:02:45

It made me laugh, have never seen it before.

Simon · Nov 25, 2015, 23:39:31

Are you sure it was clock?

J!ll · Nov 26, 2015, 06:56:51

Yes

zappaDPJ · Nov 26, 2015, 08:18:03

I had a eureka moment which woke me up at 4.30am this morning. Nearly 4 hours later and I've finally got JRiver Media Centre to sort my stuff last name first but display first name last

So now I'm back to what I was doing at the beginning of August when my effort to upgrade to Windows 10 went horribly wrong. The problem is, I can't remember what I was doing

J!ll · Nov 26, 2015, 16:05:39

Technical Ben · Dec 25, 2015, 10:57:00

I spent a good fer hours for a neighbour getting their new graphics card to work for their son. Why? Windows 10. I basically had to disable every new automatic feature, and every new feature (UEFI boot etc). Now it works fine.

Though partially getting a graphics card that is worse than their in built GPU because they just wanted to buy the cheapest thing in the shop, did not help either.

Lance · Dec 25, 2015, 22:16:37

Over the last couple of weeks I've installed Windows 10 on two different machines. One install was an upgrade, whilst the other was a clean install option. The upgrade went perfectly and other than a small issue with the clean install not being able to create a partition (and therefore having to use diskpart via command prompt) that one went smoothly as well.

talos · Jan 07, 2016, 14:45:43

http://win10wiwi.com

For those who don't want Win10, it worked for me tested it , scanned it seems OK

talos · Jan 11, 2016, 11:17:48

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35251484

Not that I am biased in any way of course

Glenn · Jan 11, 2016, 17:52:31

I don't use Edge, Contana, Bing or the photos app.

Technical Ben · Jan 25, 2016, 13:10:14

Or so you think...

Technical Ben · Feb 25, 2016, 14:17:50

And so it starts: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3037396/windows/windows-10-lock-screen-ads-begin-with-rise-of-the-tomb-raider-push.html

Adverts right in Windows 10 screens.

Yep, avoiding it like the plague.
I'm already annoyed at the junk carriers put on phones that decides to "message/notify/advertise" to me and sound a message alert at 10 at night... really helpful. I'd not want Windows wasting my time with anything even close to this.

Ray · Feb 25, 2016, 14:47:25

Well, that's a big non issue all you need to do is go into Personalisation settings and turn them off.

Technical Ben · Feb 25, 2016, 14:57:39

You mean the settings MS changes when it feels like it back to defaults? I don't like childminding my OS.

Glenn · Feb 25, 2016, 15:18:23

I haven't seen any ads on lock screen, could it be because I use a local account rather than a MS account when logging in?

Ray · Feb 25, 2016, 15:25:00

I use an MS account Glenn, and I haven't seen any either, I've now disabled them in settings in any case.

zappaDPJ · Feb 25, 2016, 16:24:22

I've not seen anything either but if I had I would have probably assumed it was malware and had a minor panic so it's good to be informed.

Clive · Feb 25, 2016, 17:56:42

I have a serious aversion to adverts so turning them off was my very first task on Windows 10.

talos · Feb 26, 2016, 10:44:13

I turned off Win 10 and feel much happier

Clive · Feb 26, 2016, 15:42:35

zappaDPJ · Apr 30, 2016, 13:19:11

This is probably not going to endear 97% of Windows 10 users to Windows 10 (the other 3% being Bing users).

QuoteMicrosoft is forcing people to use its Bing search engine with the Cortana digital assistant in Windows 10.

Every search done this way will also be piped only through its recently released Edge browser.

In a blogpost, Microsoft said it was making people use Bing so they could get the most out of other search-related features in its products.

Many Cortana users have previously preferred to carry out searches with Google rather than Bing.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36168857