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Gerdalti posted:Just to counter point, I've had 28 of 30 computers with no issues at all in my test deployment. The first problem one ended up having bad ram, the second had on and off Cortana search issues. That's is in a work environment right? I'm assuming workstations with similar hardware across all machines. Anything in those 30 computers with high end GPUs? 64+GB or Ram? Any of those computers used for anything other than office work? 
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So, I just purchased a new Dell and I made a recovery drive through Windows 10. If I restored my computer using this drive, does it also install all of the software that came with it? Or is it a fresh install and I'll have to look for the drivers?
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Dec 20, 2015 21:14
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Stanley Pain posted:That's is in a work environment right? I'm assuming workstations with similar hardware across all machines. Anything in those 30 computers with high end GPUs? 64+GB or Ram? Any of those computers used for anything other than office work? Yeah, on a domain. 20 of them are one model, higher end I5 with 16 GB of ram, Intel video. The other ten are another model, but similar specs. Pretty bog standard poo poo really. I have been using 10 on my home computers too, and it's been ok, a few snags back during the insider preview stages though. I think most of the people who have issues are power users honestly. People who like to get in to the settings and operate slightly differently than the average user. 5 years ago that would have been me, but I mostly just game and browse forums these days. I toss in higher end ( budget) hardware on my home machine and just fly with default settings, and it works good enough. Windows 10 isn't quite mature enough for the tinkerers yet, they haven't worked all those kinks out, which is pretty obvious when you have things like the old control panel, the settings panel, etc.
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Dec 20, 2015 21:33
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So, Windows 10 installed some updates last night. It decided Edge needed to be my new default PDF reader. It also decided to unpin everything I had pinned in the start menu and remove the custom sections I had created and placed them in. Thanks, Microsoft!
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Dec 20, 2015 23:37
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Are there any common performance fixes for Win 10 besides updating drivers? Getting a pretty significant performance downgrade in games since upgrading on a Nvidia 670 and new drivers aren't helping any. Like easily 15-30 fps lower in Rocket League and F04 so not just some tiny bechmark difference. Otherwise I'm digging Win 10 features (spaces, the expose thing) but that performance hit is pretty rough.
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Dec 21, 2015 02:58
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GI_Clutch posted:So, Windows 10 installed some updates last night. It decided Edge needed to be my new default PDF reader. It also decided to unpin everything I had pinned in the start menu and remove the custom sections I had created and placed them in. Thanks, Microsoft!
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Dec 21, 2015 03:11
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Is there a listing of major applications that aren't supported with Windows 10? As in, for example WebEx doesn't support Windows 10 which holding me back given I've got to use this with work stuff.
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Dec 21, 2015 03:21
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FuzzySlippers posted:Are there any common performance fixes for Win 10 besides updating drivers? Getting a pretty significant performance downgrade in games since upgrading on a Nvidia 670 and new drivers aren't helping any. Like easily 15-30 fps lower in Rocket League and F04 so not just some tiny bechmark difference. Otherwise I'm digging Win 10 features (spaces, the expose thing) but that performance hit is pretty rough. If you did an upgrade, reinstall clean. I wouldn't have believed it myself, but one of my housemates who had been running on an upgrade install recently upgraded his GPU to a 980ti and was getting way lower 3DMark scores than he should have been. My SLI 970s were wiping the floor with him even though we have literally the same CPU/mobo/RAM. He did a clean reinstall and gained almost 2000 points on Fire Strike. No other benchmarks were run as he was planning to do the reinstall with the upgrade anyways, but it was a lot more of a difference than I'd have expected.
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Dec 21, 2015 03:55
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Gerdalti posted:Yeah, on a domain. 20 of them are one model, higher end I5 with 16 GB of ram, Intel video. The other ten are another model, but similar specs. Pretty bog standard poo poo really. Desktops or laptops? Of the ten or twelve laptops I've upgraded only one (a ThinkPad T430s) worked without a hitch, the rest either had completely non-functional trackpoints/pads (various age HP EliteBooks), crashing video drivers (first gen i5/7), broken audio (newish Asus 15") or just flat out non-functional power management (my beloved AMD E-350 netbook). No issues with desktops, but then they tend to have much less fiddly hardware.
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Dec 21, 2015 06:29
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Jesus christ MS, everyone knows you want to force everyone possible onto WinX, but please quit un-hiding the WinX installer app in KB3035583 update and trying to backdoor it on me for fucks sake.
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dissss posted:Desktops or laptops? They're mostly EliteBook 840 G1 or G2s. The smaller handful are something like 8460's or something (can't remember the model at the moment). All laptops at the office.
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Dec 21, 2015 13:47
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slidebite posted:Jesus christ MS, everyone knows you want to force everyone possible onto WinX, but please quit un-hiding the WinX installer app in KB3035583 update and trying to backdoor it on me for fucks sake. Yeah, that's really winding me up.
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Dec 21, 2015 14:17
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Ghostlight posted:Updates have an unfortunate regularity of resetting any changes you make to its default programs. It happened once with the November update.
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Dec 21, 2015 15:26
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Tab8715 posted:Is there a listing of major applications that aren't supported with Windows 10? "Doesn't support" as in "we haven't specifically tested this OS"? My product manager has a Surface Pro 3 w/Windows 10 that seems to work fine with WebEx for calling in and screen sharing. Is there something in particular that doesn't work?
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Dec 21, 2015 20:19
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How the hell are you starting the app?
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Dec 21, 2015 20:24
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Tab8715 posted:Is there a listing of major applications that aren't supported with Windows 10? I don't know about a comprehensive list but WebEx works fine for me in W10 using Firefox and I've been told that Chrome works too. Are you using Edge?
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Dec 21, 2015 21:46
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Tab8715 posted:How the hell are you starting the app? I can ask him tomorrow maybe and see if he is doing anything special, but I'm pretty sure he's doing the exact same things as when he had a laptop with Windows 7 and everything works fine for him.
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Dec 21, 2015 22:26
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MikusR posted:It happened once with the November update. But really, it's happened at least twice on my work computer - though probably because it's on Insider builds - and it probably seems like more to me because I kept getting "oh yeah, I open with this now" prompts for like a month and I'm running 10 on two computers.
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Dec 21, 2015 22:46
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Is it possible to have a different wallpaper for each virtual desktop?
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Dec 22, 2015 02:26
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I wish I could license the LTSB for home use because it undoes all my Windows 10 annoyances right out of the gate.
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Dec 22, 2015 03:11
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Yikes. Tried clean installing from a USB drive for almost four hours. Got nothing but freezes on the blue Win10 symbol or "Invalid partition table." The fact that the official media creation tool needs to redownload the iso after every attempt didn't help. Rufus didn't work either though, so I guess it didn't matter. It did at least let me see the Win10 symbol, which is more than the official tool did. So I just downloaded the iso manually and installed in place, keeping nothing. Then it froze on pre-downloading updates for an hour at 0%. Then I cancelled and it froze on "closing and cleaning up" for just under half an hour. Now it seems like it's working if I skip updates. If I "keep nothing" and then do a reset install as soon as the in place install finishes, that's about the cleanest I could hope for, right?
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Dec 22, 2015 05:29
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If you hit "create installation media to upgrade another PC" I'm pretty sure you're left with a static USB that won't need to redownload anything; I used the same one on multiple machines without issue. Perhaps if it hits a CRC error it silently voids the USB? Create USB > reboot > install is the easiest method of getting a clean install.
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el_caballo posted:Got nothing but freezes on the blue Win10 symbol or "Invalid partition table." You may be experiencing hardware failure
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Factor Mystic posted:You may be experiencing hardware failure Alternatively you updated your motherboard bios which made Windows 10 decide that your boot partition was the C drive, your OS partition was the D drive, and your second hard-drive was the E drive. God that was fun to deal with. edit: If you can't get to the recovery area (that will give you a command prompt so you can use diskpart and fix things) though it's probably a hardware issue.
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Maybe. Who knows. I used the same USB drive that I successfully (and painlessly) used to put Win10 on my lovely old netbook three months ago. And then I tried two others. I used two different machines to create the bootable drive. It's on there now. Two in place installs seem to give you a clean copy of Windows. 
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dud root posted:What exactly does the search bar search? I've unticked online/web results. Does it require indexing because I usually clear that out of entries. While this may somewhat of a niche problem, the lack of any tooltip when you do get a search hit to show location (like Win7 would do) is obnoxious, as there are instances where I have a file with the same name but have it in different locations (such as using both Google Drive for business and Onedrive for my personal). So in those instances I can't trust that the file I'm opening is the one I want, so I'm basically clicking "My Stuff", waiting a couple of secs for the results, and scrolling down to my local files. I say scrolling down as the first hits are one Onedrive, which if you click that file opens up a browser link. Jesus. That, and the lack of indexing emails/messaging/appointments, christ searching for your local stuff is such a huge regression from Win7. The bigger thumbnail views and image previews are about the only improvement, but still has nothing on OSX's Quick Look from ~8 years ago which offered nearly instantaneous resizable previews of almost any file on 5400rpm laptop HD's and first gen Core CPU's. Yeah I care about search
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You're the first to reply to that, so thanks. Even when I hit My Stuff I'm not confident is actually searching everything because I've seen stale results in there
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Dec 22, 2015 23:36
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The weirdest thing I've seen with the search in Windows 10 is that I can type part of a file name and find the file, but then if I continue to type the complete file name it goes away from the search results entirely.
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Phoenixan posted:The weirdest thing I've seen with the search in Windows 10 is that I can type part of a file name and find the file, but then if I continue to type the complete file name it goes away from the search results entirely. That's how google's omnibar works with web sites!
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Dec 23, 2015 07:48
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Local search has been a joke since Windows 8. I can't believe there's still no way to have it always search your local stuff first without doing to a web search. At least in 8 you could hit Winkey + F or whatever for local files. It's tempting to install Start10 since it gives the option of the Windows 7 search behaviour, which does the trick every time.
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WattsvilleBlues posted:Local search has been a joke since Windows 8. I can't believe there's still no way to have it always search your local stuff first without doing to a web search. 
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WattsvilleBlues posted:Local search has been a joke since Windows 8. I can't believe there's still no way to have it always search your local stuff first without doing to a web search. At least in 8 you could hit Winkey + F or whatever for local files.
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I'm on the latest Insider build (11082) and that specific option isn't there, though it still made no difference when I disabled it on older builds. It stopped showing web results but didn't show me local results til I clicked My Stuff. I don't know why they insist on making it so poo poo. Josh Lyman posted:Just upgrade to Win10 already. It's so much better than Win8. I'm already on 10. I never minded Windows 8 (except for the local search  ).
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Dec 23, 2015 21:10
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Gerdalti posted:I think most of the people who have issues are power users honestly.
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Phoenixan posted:The weirdest thing I've seen with the search in Windows 10 is that I can type part of a file name and find the file, but then if I continue to type the complete file name it goes away from the search results entirely.
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WattsvilleBlues posted:I'm on the latest Insider build (11082) and that specific option isn't there, though it still made no difference when I disabled it on older builds. It stopped showing web results but didn't show me local results til I clicked My Stuff. I don't know why they insist on making it so poo poo. Yes, get the same behavior when I disable it though - it removes the web search results, and replaces it with...white space. You still have to search My Stuff to get hits on most of your files.
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https://www.voidtools.com/ This is my solution to crap Windows search (for actual files, anyway).
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Is there word yet on an official or unofficial tool to stop automatic downloads and installs of ~whatever~ MS wants you to have? That's probably the biggest single reason why I haven't updated any of my boxes/laptops yet.
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slidebite posted:Is there word yet on an official or unofficial tool to stop automatic downloads and installs of ~whatever~ MS wants you to have? That's probably the biggest single reason why I haven't updated any of my boxes/laptops yet. Pro will allow you to defer updates. I like this search tool: Everything https://www.voidtools.com/
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redeyes posted:Pro will allow you to defer updates. Can that replace the useless windows search? Like integrate into start search results?
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