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My desktop is still stuck on build 10240, what's the easiest way of forcing it to update to the current (non-Insider) build?
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Jan 2, 2016 20:04
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:My desktop is still stuck on build 10240, what's the easiest way of forcing it to update to the current (non-Insider) build? Download the Media Creation Tool and run it. Easy peasy.
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Jan 2, 2016 20:07
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Cool, thanks. I did consider using the tool, but it doesn't tell you what build you're upgrading to when you click install so I wasn't entirely certain what it was planning on doing.
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Jan 2, 2016 21:02
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Cool, thanks. I did consider using the tool, but it doesn't tell you what build you're upgrading to when you click install so I wasn't entirely certain what it was planning on doing. Just make sure you download the latest version of the tool itself as the original ones from July just download build 10240. WattsvilleBlues fucked around with this message at 22:44 on Jan 2, 2016 |
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Jan 2, 2016 22:23
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Also if you try to download from Not Windows it'll just give you an ISO installer.
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Jan 2, 2016 22:26
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Ok I have a Win 7 Pro device with an old style rotational drive, and want to upgrade to a CLEAN install of Win 10 Pro on an SSD drive. I'm thinking that I just do the Win 10 Media Creation Tool on to a USB 3.0 thumb drive, power down the machine, swap in the new SSD drive, and boot from the USB 3.0 thumb drive and plug in my Win 10 Pro upgrade key - right? Or will the hard drive swap cause an issue?
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Jan 2, 2016 23:18
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Phoenixan posted:I've had this issue before and turning off the fast startup option fixed all of it. It's buried under the power settings. 
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Jan 3, 2016 00:50
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Hadlock posted:Ok I have a Win 7 Pro device with an old style rotational drive, and want to upgrade to a CLEAN install of Win 10 Pro on an SSD drive. This should be how you do it: HappyCapybaraFamily posted:Based on my hardware upgrade experience, here's what I'd do: I used those steps to do a clean install on my child's old laptop that I now own, skipping the replacement part of Step 3, and all of Step 6.
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Jan 3, 2016 01:18
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Installing Win10 on the old spinner drive can take hours though. Faster method that I've done on piles of work laptops: 1) Install Produkey on your old hard drive to find the Windows 7/8 25-character key 2) Write it down, switch the old hard drive with the new SSD 3) Boot with the creation tool and clean install Win10 4) Get the PC online, go to the activation wizard and punch in your old Win7/8 key and it'll activate instantly
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Jan 3, 2016 01:54
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I'm thinking of taking the leap and jumping from windows 8.1 to 10 Tonight, is windows 10 still a buggy nightmare? is there a risk of losing everything? or is it safe to upgrade nowadays?
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Jan 3, 2016 02:13
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Al-Saqr posted:I'm thinking of taking the leap and jumping from windows 8.1 to 10 Tonight, is windows 10 still a buggy nightmare? is there a risk of losing everything? or is it safe to upgrade nowadays? It's safe, I'd just do it. Backup your important poo poo first just to make sure but it's probably not needed.
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Jan 3, 2016 02:16
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Yeah just make sure to get the November 1511 version. Its great
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Jan 3, 2016 12:43
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Upgraded, made sure to use custom install to get rid of blatant Microsoft creepy spying, works great, thanks!
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Jan 3, 2016 17:20
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Is there a trusted source for the SHA1 checksum of the November 1511 ISO's? It's so much easier and quicker to get an ISO over bittorrent and then check it hasn't been altered before use.
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Jan 3, 2016 17:21
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DeaconBlues posted:Is there a trusted source for the SHA1 checksum of the November 1511 ISO's? The Media Creation Tool maxes out my connection when I download the ISOs. Does it not use all your bandwidth or something?
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Jan 3, 2016 17:49
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My daily OS is Linux. I could fire up a windows VM I suppose. Edit: Some checksums in this post, for the threshold 2 (1511 editions): http://www.edugeek.net/forums/downloads/161880-windows-10-threshold-2-iso-links.html#post1385719 DeaconBlues fucked around with this message at 17:59 on Jan 3, 2016 |
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Jan 3, 2016 17:57
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Zero VGS posted:Installing Win10 on the old spinner drive can take hours though. Faster method that I've done on piles of work laptops: Yeah, this works well and if you're using USB install media you can just save a text file with the key straight from the old 7/8 install to USB. Once you boot up into the installer, hit Shift-F10 to call up a command prompt and "type <file>" to print the contents of the file to the command prompt. You can then just copy the key and paste it in when the installer asks to be done with activation. A couple other things I've noticed: The installer may give you an error at the partitioning step if you have the removable install media set as the first boot device. Set the install target as the first boot device and use the one-time boot menu to boot from the removable drive to avoid this. BIOS systems (that is, not EFI) may need some space on whatever the partitioning step sees as "Disk 0" to write an MBR, even if you're using another disk as the target. You should be able to temporarily remove or disable this disk to get around it if you need to.
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Jan 3, 2016 18:43
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Anyone knows what happens when you pull the rug from under the Insider Preview? I.e. swapping mainboard and CPU? Will it keep on working or will it deactivate or something?
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Jan 3, 2016 20:37
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Finally got updated to the current build, works a treat, Edge still not got the features it needs to be my daily driver. Cortana being completely unable to search for anything hasn't happened yet, so I assume that got fixed, which was my number one complaint.
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Jan 3, 2016 21:31
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Jeoh posted:
Did you ever get an update on this Jeoh? I just did an in-place reinstall and it's all still busted. The one thing it fixed was the app names in the start menu now show up (rather than resource id's or w/e) but they still don't actually work.
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Jan 3, 2016 21:37
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Factor Mystic posted:Did you ever get an update on this Jeoh? I just did an in-place reinstall and it's all still busted. The one thing it fixed was the app names in the start menu now show up (rather than resource id's or w/e) but they still don't actually work. Nope, they're basically saying the same thing: Recreate the profile.
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Jan 3, 2016 21:51
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DeaconBlues posted:Is there a trusted source for the SHA1 checksum of the November 1511 ISO's? DeaconBlues posted:My daily OS is Linux. I could fire up a windows VM I suppose. If you go to the media creation tool page on anything other than Win7-10 you can download the 1511 ISO directly from MS. And if you are on Win7-10, you can just fake your user agent.
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Jan 3, 2016 22:23
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Combat Pretzel posted:Anyone knows what happens when you pull the rug from under the Insider Preview? I.e. swapping mainboard and CPU? Will it keep on working or will it deactivate or something? It will deactivate (but it keeps working). Source: Just did this. You might be able to beg for a courtesy activation but this is less and less likely post build 1511.
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Jan 3, 2016 23:12
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astral posted:If you go to the media creation tool page on anything other than Win7-10 you can download the 1511 ISO directly from MS. And if you are on Win7-10, you can just fake your user agent. Both the standard and dev editions of FF give me this:  Also tried using Pale Moon. And running Firefox as root. Anyway, I grabbed a torrent and ran sha1sum on it.
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Jan 3, 2016 23:31
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Jeoh posted:Nope, they're basically saying the same thing: Recreate the profile. What do you mean? Would this give different results than creating a new user profile? Because I did that already and it fixed nothing.
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Jan 3, 2016 23:40
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Oh lovely. The December Intel graphics drivers still cause bluescreens if you have hardware acceleration enabled in firefox. Bluescreenview gives me this. Not sure how useful it is. 010316-6015-01.dmp 03/01/2016 00:06:20 DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE 0x0000009f 00000000`00000003 ffffe001`ce05d060 fffff803`f4dfc890 ffffe001`d2e49a50 ntoskrnl.exe ntoskrnl.exe+142760 NT Kernel & System Microsoft® Windows® Operating System Microsoft Corporation 10.0.10586.17 (th2_release.151121-2308) x64 ntoskrnl.exe+142760 C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\010316-6015-01.dmp 8 15 10586 769,404 03/01/2016 00:07:00
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Jan 4, 2016 03:28
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Lum posted:Oh lovely. The December Intel graphics drivers still cause bluescreens if you have hardware acceleration enabled in firefox. roughly translated this means: Windows is a real piece of poo poo
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Jan 4, 2016 18:43
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Ever since the November Update, I've been getting this popping up from time to time: This is Outlook 2010. This happens when I'm not trying to send an email intentionally, just when I'm doing other things. Is there any kind of log or whatever to check to figure out what thing is trying to send email through outlook, but not doing it right?
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Jan 5, 2016 00:27
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Lum posted:Oh lovely. The December Intel graphics drivers still cause bluescreens if you have hardware acceleration enabled in firefox. The failure is cited as part of a system component rather than a driver component (not authoritative without debug tools, but worth noting) and the current patch level is 10586.36 while that environment claims to be at .17.
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Jan 5, 2016 04:52
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Sir Unimaginative posted:The failure is cited as part of a system component rather than a driver component (not authoritative without debug tools, but worth noting) and the current patch level is 10586.36 while that environment claims to be at .17. There's no updates available, so I don't know how to fix that.
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Jan 6, 2016 15:54
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Is there something wrong with my Calculator app? Half the time it opens behind all the other windows, and even when it's the active window, 95% of the time I have to actively click the number display before it recognises me typing anything on my keyboard. It's the one app that I expect to be really snappy, since I only need to use it for like five seconds at a time, and it's anything but.
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Jan 6, 2016 20:08
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Is there something wrong with my Calculator app? Half the time it opens behind all the other windows, and even when it's the active window, 95% of the time I have to actively click the number display before it recognises me typing anything on my keyboard. It's the one app that I expect to be really snappy, since I only need to use it for like five seconds at a time, and it's anything but. Pretty sure Microsoft is just incompetent.
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Jan 6, 2016 21:40
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Is there something wrong with my Calculator app? Half the time it opens behind all the other windows, and even when it's the active window, 95% of the time I have to actively click the number display before it recognises me typing anything on my keyboard. It's the one app that I expect to be really snappy, since I only need to use it for like five seconds at a time, and it's anything but. They took the win7 version which loaded instantly and worked every time and replaced it with the win10 version. Which...doesn't do either of those things. ( are you current? That sounds like the pre-release calc, which honest to god sucked. The release version was almost usable and shouldn't be having the issues you mentioned)
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Jan 7, 2016 00:32
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Yeah, I just updated to the current build a few days ago and it's still a problem. I might check out one of the other calculators in the store.
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Jan 7, 2016 00:55
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Can you not just type Calculator in your search window and bring up the old-school calc? Or does that only work for W8?
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Jan 7, 2016 01:41
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slidebite posted:Can you not just type Calculator in your search window and bring up the old-school calc? Or does that only work for W8? Yeah they 'fixed' that in 10 so now you have to use the crummy modern version.
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Jan 7, 2016 02:08
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Old Calculator for Windows 10 from Windows 7 or Windows 8. That is, by far, the worst change in Windows 10.
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Jan 7, 2016 02:36
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It's even better when you're on a domain PC where they've broken Windows Store apps somehow via Group Policy. No more calculator.  I mean, typing it into Cortana works, but I keep hitting the dumb calculator button on my keyboard.
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Jan 7, 2016 02:49
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Is there something wrong with my Calculator app? Half the time it opens behind all the other windows, and even when it's the active window, 95% of the time I have to actively click the number display before it recognises me typing anything on my keyboard. It's the one app that I expect to be really snappy, since I only need to use it for like five seconds at a time, and it's anything but. I had this same problem with Gimp on Win8/8.1
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If your keyboard is an MS keyboard, try installing the latest MS keyboard software. Or alternatively, uninstall the software altogether if you don't need it. That should fix it.
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