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MikusR posted:Well it had a much better taskbar. What exactly don't you like about the current Windows 10 taskbar?
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Im_Special posted:Does anyone actually have a clean error free Event Log? I get that error as well. I have no idea what it is, but it doesn't seem to hurt anything.
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Jul 1, 2016 16:44
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Windows 10: I have no idea what that error is
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Jul 1, 2016 16:47
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MikusR posted:Well it had a much better taskbar. Do you have a screenshot? I love the current taskbar+start menu so just curious.
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Jul 1, 2016 16:57
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I'm getting a new cpu/mobo etc. next week. my current pc was upgraded to win10 from win7. is the win10 license still tied to the current system or did they change that? am i going to be able to just upgrade the new one to win10 with that win7 key, or am i going to have to buy win10?
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Jul 1, 2016 17:04
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PerrineClostermann posted:Windows 10: I have no idea what that error is Something happened.
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Jul 1, 2016 17:07
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Roman posted:I'm getting a new cpu/mobo etc. next week. my current pc was upgraded to win10 from win7. is the win10 license still tied to the current system or did they change that? am i going to be able to just upgrade the new one to win10 with that win7 key, or am i going to have to buy win10? It's still tied to the hardware (but your Windows 7 key can be used on another computer). If you want to not worry about things for the next whatever many years, buy a copy of Windows 10 now. If you're ok with maybe needing to buy a copy in the future, then do the upgrade from Windows 7 on the new hardware setup and it'll be good for the new hardware as well.
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Jul 1, 2016 17:10
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Im_Special posted:Does anyone actually have a clean error free Event Log? No idea, but CLSID {D63B10C5-BB46-4990-A94F-E40B9D520160} resides in C\Windows\System32\RuntimeBroker.exe, and does reference that APPID. What the Runtime Broker is exactly, no clue. However the full log message is a bit more interesting: quote:The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID In my case, the event seems to get logged when I put the machine into sleep mode.
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Jul 1, 2016 17:14
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fishmech posted:What exactly don't you like about the current Windows 10 taskbar? Having the entries from the Start Menu show up by default (ever since they expanded All Programs by default) is absolutely useless to me and just contributes to screen clutter. They need to hide that away again; or at the very least don't use the Start Menu as its data source since that's been a dumping ground for garbage for over a decade.
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Jul 1, 2016 17:42
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fishmech posted:What exactly don't you like about the current Windows 10 taskbar? Mainly icons. Now they look squished.  Rurutia posted:Do you have a screenshot? I love the current taskbar+start menu so just curious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bULsgyliru4 CatHorse fucked around with this message at 17:58 on Jul 1, 2016 |
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Jul 1, 2016 17:51
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biznatchio posted:Having the entries from the Start Menu show up by default (ever since they expanded All Programs by default) is absolutely useless to me and just contributes to screen clutter. They need to hide that away again; or at the very least don't use the Start Menu as its data source since that's been a dumping ground for garbage for over a decade. That's not the taskbar. MikusR posted:Mainly icons. Now they look squished. Those look about the same, except one has worse artifacting and has been scaled differently?
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Jul 1, 2016 18:06
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fishmech posted:That's not the taskbar. Yeah I'm pretty confused. This is how mine looks, it looks great to me?  edit Full size version is 2x bigger than it appears to me in use, so it's actually as crisp as it looks using the larger timg scaled version.
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Jul 1, 2016 18:14
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Rurutia posted:Yeah I'm pretty confused. This is how mine looks, it looks great to me? Your image is a better illustration of what i don't like. Look at start button - it's a small icon in a middle of large square. The empty space around icon is almost the size of icon itself. In Windows 8.1 the icons were larger and whitespace on top and bottom smaller.
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Jul 1, 2016 18:28
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MikusR posted:Your image is a better illustration of what i don't like. Look at start button - it's a small icon in a middle of large square. The empty space around icon is almost the size of icon itself. This is such a small thing, idk it's weird to me that this is something people get pissy about enough that they bring it up specifically. As if MS did some great harm to this current iteration compared to before. In any case, personally, it works for me as the taskbar takes up very little screen real estate on my screen and the ratios all match and work out. 
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Jul 1, 2016 18:33
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nielsm posted:No idea, but CLSID {D63B10C5-BB46-4990-A94F-E40B9D520160} resides in C\Windows\System32\RuntimeBroker.exe, and does reference that APPID.
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Jul 1, 2016 18:44
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MikusR posted:Your image is a better illustration of what i don't like. Look at start button - it's a small icon in a middle of large square. The empty space around icon is almost the size of icon itself. I, like a lot of people, think you're REALLY over the top if this is a legit concern of yours. Also, mine doesn't look like that: 
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Jul 1, 2016 19:54
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How difficult is it to convince Microsoft to let me reuse a Windows 7 OEM key for a new computer? Looking around, while it seems you're not supposed to, if you call them up, they'll often let you do it anyway.
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Jul 1, 2016 20:41
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Meat Recital posted:How difficult is it to convince Microsoft to let me reuse a Windows 7 OEM key for a new computer? Looking around, while it seems you're not supposed to, if you call them up, they'll often let you do it anyway. Just did it a couple of weeks ago, and it upgraded to Win10 just fine. The phone activation can send a link to your cellphone and you never have to talk to an actual person in most cases.
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Jul 1, 2016 20:46
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AlexDeGruven posted:I, like a lot of people, think you're REALLY over the top if this is a legit concern of yours. Meat Recital posted:How difficult is it to convince Microsoft to let me reuse a Windows 7 OEM key for a new computer? Looking around, while it seems you're not supposed to, if you call them up, they'll often let you do it anyway.
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Jul 1, 2016 21:12
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Just switched from OS X to Win10, and while windows 10 is pretty awesome I miss the ability to lock apps to specific virtual desktops. Is there a tweak or setting to be able to do this on Windows10? So every time I launch app X, it would always load on desktop 3. Hate having to do this every single time I start an app.
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Jul 1, 2016 21:33
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I'm on my work PC right now, and it has something called nVidia nView which has an option in every window's title bar context menu to open on a specific display. Maybe in Windows 10 it works with virtual desktops. Do you have an nVidia card? I have never used it, so I'm not sure how well it works.
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Jul 1, 2016 21:38
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Have an Intel HD 520 in this thing, but I'll take a look at nview. Hopefully I can use it with any video card. e: Looks like nview isn't available for w10?
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Jul 1, 2016 21:48
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So I am building a decent gaming PC for my nephew out of leftover computer parts I have and so I guess I need a Windows 10 license for it. Is there anyway to get the free Windows 10 upgrade for this system? Since I am using my windows license on my current system I don't have anything I could apply to the upgrade.
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Jul 1, 2016 22:39
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Aquila posted:So I am building a decent gaming PC for my nephew out of leftover computer parts I have and so I guess I need a Windows 10 license for it. Is there anyway to get the free Windows 10 upgrade for this system? Since I am using my windows license on my current system I don't have anything I could apply to the upgrade. People have been posting about getting win7 keys from kinguin.net I had my coworker get one there and everything went fine.
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Jul 1, 2016 22:45
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Meat Recital posted:How difficult is it to convince Microsoft to let me reuse a Windows 7 OEM key for a new computer? Looking around, while it seems you're not supposed to, if you call them up, they'll often let you do it anyway. I just did this last week. It's reassigning a Win10 OEM license that's the issue, not using a previous version OEM license in the first place. (They made the terms more restrictive with Win10.) Just install Win10 on the new machine and input the Win7 key. Aquila posted:So I am building a decent gaming PC for my nephew out of leftover computer parts I have and so I guess I need a Windows 10 license for it. Is there anyway to get the free Windows 10 upgrade for this system? Since I am using my windows license on my current system I don't have anything I could apply to the upgrade. You can get the free upgrade from a version of Win7 or 8. Do your "leftover parts" include a Windows license? If not then you have nothing to upgrade.
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Jul 2, 2016 06:26
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Khablam posted:there is functionally no reason to hold off on the upgrade ftfy
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Jul 2, 2016 08:17
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Atomizer posted:I just did this last week. It's reassigning a Win10 OEM license that's the issue, not using a previous version OEM license in the first place. (They made the terms more restrictive with Win10.) Just install Win10 on the new machine and input the Win7 key. This is what I ended up doing. Had no trouble at all with the Windows 7 key. I did have a problem where Windows 10 would boot, but I would get nothing but my monitor would be nothing but a black screen. I had an HDMI cable running from my PC to my tv, and Windows thought the tv was the main display. Easy fix once after I googled around and figured out what was going on.
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Jul 2, 2016 09:37
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Aquila posted:So I am building a decent gaming PC for my nephew out of leftover computer parts I have and so I guess I need a Windows 10 license for it. Is there anyway to get the free Windows 10 upgrade for this system? Since I am using my windows license on my current system I don't have anything I could apply to the upgrade. Sign him up as an insider?
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Jul 2, 2016 12:02
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Rusty! posted:Sign him up as an insider? Insiders need a valid Windows 10 licence.
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Atomizer posted:I just did this last week. It's reassigning a Win10 OEM license that's the issue, not using a previous version OEM license in the first place. (They made the terms more restrictive with Win10.) Just install Win10 on the new machine and input the Win7 key. You keep saying this, it isn't true. You do not get a Windows 10 OEM license from the free upgrade! And so far people who actually bought Windows 10 OEM licenses do not report it being more restrictive than Windows 8 OEM licenses. Where do you get this idea?
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Jul 2, 2016 14:05
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Does a Win 8.1 installation need to be fully up to date before it offers to upgrade to 10? I have a PC that hasn't been used in a while and has like 2gb of updates pending. If possible I'd rather skip all this bullshit and go directly for the upgrade but it doesn't offer me anything so far.
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Jul 2, 2016 15:07
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mobby_6kl posted:Does a Win 8.1 installation need to be fully up to date before it offers to upgrade to 10? I have a PC that hasn't been used in a while and has like 2gb of updates pending. If possible I'd rather skip all this bullshit and go directly for the upgrade but it doesn't offer me anything so far. The generic answer is...it depends. In your case, with 2GB pending, yes.
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Jul 2, 2016 15:16
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mobby_6kl posted:Does a Win 8.1 installation need to be fully up to date before it offers to upgrade to 10? I have a PC that hasn't been used in a while and has like 2gb of updates pending. If possible I'd rather skip all this bullshit and go directly for the upgrade but it doesn't offer me anything so far. No, in fact you can upgrade a computer fresh out of a box with no internet conneciton.
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Jul 2, 2016 15:18
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redeyes posted:No, in fact you can upgrade a computer fresh out of a box with no internet conneciton. You can, but you have to go download the installation media and all of that. To be offered the upgrade he needs to have one of at least five updates installed.
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Jul 2, 2016 15:44
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So my Windows 10 reinstall messed up my name, now my dir is C:\Users\ufar. Anywhere I can change this dumbness?
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Jul 2, 2016 16:29
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ufarn posted:So my Windows 10 reinstall messed up my name, now my dir is C:\Users\ufar. Anywhere I can change this dumbness? Windows does that if you use a Microsoft Account. As far as I know, there is no way to change this behavior without going through a bit of pain: Create a local admin account and login with that account. Delete your Microsoft Account Create a new Administrative User with the user name you want Login to the new user. Link your Microsoft Account through the Settings App. As a note: If you use the Microsoft family filtering thing (Microsoft Safety?) it completely messes up everyones linked profile if you unlink the owning Microsoft Account.
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Jul 2, 2016 16:42
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ufarn posted:So my Windows 10 reinstall messed up my name, now my dir is C:\Users\ufar. Anywhere I can change this dumbness? Safest is to create a new (temporary) local-only user, log in with that, delete your badly named profile, then create a new profile (also local-only) with the right name, then log in with the new one, and then delete the temporary profile. After confirming your new user profile has the right profile folder name, you can then link it to an MS account if you prefer that. It may be possible to hackishly rename your user profile folder, but it's very likely all kinds of things will break. Create a temporary user account. Reboot computer, log in with temporary account. Rename badly named user profile folder. Open Regedit, find your main user under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList, update the ProfileImagePath value. Reboot again, log in with your main user. Enjoy breakage.
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Jul 2, 2016 16:49
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Well, this is interesting. Apparently Gigabyte motherboards are notorious for having problems booting from a USB, which means my Windows 10 installation stick is going to be less-than-useful. I don't have an optical burner anymore, either. Getting Windows 10 might take a little longer than anticipated.
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Jul 2, 2016 17:01
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This is a bit of a hack but if you have a hard drive enclosure or dock and a spare internal drive, you can totally copy the install files to it just like a flash drive on a working machine and then remove it from the enclosure and attach internally to the new machine to use as an install disk without needing USB. I did this to install Windows 7 to a mini-ITX home server that only came with USB 3.0 ports. The suggested method was to slipstream drivers into the 7 image, but that didn't work for some reason so I had to either dig up an optical drive to use outside the case temporarily or use the above trick. If that doesn't work and optical and USB both aren't options... set up a PXE server I guess, I don't know anything else. That's weird that you would have issues though, I have a Gigabyte X58 motherboard from 2008 and never had a problem with USB booting. Eletriarnation fucked around with this message at 17:12 on Jul 2, 2016 |
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Aranan posted:Well, this is interesting. Apparently Gigabyte motherboards are notorious for having problems booting from a USB, which means my Windows 10 installation stick is going to be less-than-useful. I don't have an optical burner anymore, either. They work fine. Try this. When you get to the screen that says put in a device driver to be able to load from USB (or something close to that). Just remove the USB stick, and then put back in the computer. Hit the X to close the installer which drops you back to the first Install screen and continue on. It should read the USB stick now. The issue is the USB controller is reset or somthing similar during the initial boot. Ejecting the stick and putting it back in gets it back online. Post if it works because I've seen this hundreds of times at this point.
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