Windows... 10?!?

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Regarding phones, isn't there any date still for the W10 mobile? I thought it was going to arrive this fall.
 
JvM
Regarding phones, isn't there any date still for the W10 mobile? I thought it was going to arrive this fall.
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They have confirmed Windows 10 Mobile will roll out starting in December.
 
Couples weeks ago, i upgraded my dad's recently bought Laptop from Windows 8.1 up to 10. It's an improvement...but i just don't know the whole List of difference...

It feels like a windows 8.1 mixed with windows 7...i just seems to be too casual...:ouch:
 
So, I decided to give Windows 10 another whirl after immediately abandoning it on my first try a few months ago. My goal this attempt was to at least use it for one whole week and not boot up Windows 7 unless I really needed to. As of today, that one week has passed. Using Windows 10, I enjoyed the fast boot up times and the redesigned Start menu, but it was not enough to buy me over, unfortunately. To me, it just does not feel as if it was made for desktops (connected to a large screen) but more towards laptops and tablets. Windows 10 seems like it wants to be very personal with me, too personal for it's own good. I want a computer that does the job I tell it do; nothing more and nothing less. I most likely will be sticking to the mighty Windows 7 for a few more years.
 
So upgrading to W10 has effectively deleted about 80gbs of my files and programs and music. Go team.

When the upgrade was completed my desktop looked a bit bare - a quick search revealed that my original user profile had not been loaded, rather a "Temp" one. No probs, I moved my old desktop to the new profile and away we go.

This morning I log on and its the old desktop again. A quick search shows this is now Temp.Temp. The original Temp folder is pretty empty too. Screw this, reboot.

After reboot, I am now loaded into my User profile, but the original desktop is nowhere to be seen. All the shortcuts on my desktop to programs housed in folders attached to desktop locations are referencing locations that can no longer be accessed. The free HDD space is also a lot more then it should be.

An hour later it seems that every time i reboot i get switched between a Temp and User profile alternately. Seems like all my stuff is gone, a part from progs installed in Program Files too. 🤬 you Microsoft.
 
I backed my laptop up before doing anything with windows 10 and I'm glad I did after seeing some of the horror stories. In general though I really like what I'm seeing so far.

Mobile wise, I'm anticipating a mid November release for the new phones launching with 10 and early to mid December for 8.1 to 10 upgrades.

I for one am definitely going to buy the Lumia 950XL. Amazing specs on paper, great camera, beautiful screen and the fact the continuum is coming will change how I use all my devices so for me it's very exciting. Being able to use the Microsoft display port to use my phone as a full desktop windows 10 is just fantastic.
 
MildAshers
I for one am definitely going to buy the Lumia 950XL. Amazing specs on paper, great camera, beautiful screen and the fact the continuum is coming will change how I use all my devices so for me it's very exciting. Being able to use the Microsoft display port to use my phone as a full desktop windows 10 is just fantastic.
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Take note it isn't a full Windows 10 experience, at least from what I've read. Apps coded (Continuum apps)to work on the phone and on the desktop mode will work, but I believe it is still Windows Phone running due to hardware. I'm only aware of Microsoft products like Office and IE being apart of the Continuum but the developer tools are there so hopefully more companies will take advantage of it.

Still exciting to see someone pushing the direction of an all-in-one device that could replace the laptop/desktop aspect of personal computing.

Going to see what happens with Surface Pro 3 (SP3) prices once the SP4 begins to ship. Planning to buy one or the other before too long as they seem ideal for design work and the form factor is basically perfect.
 
Azuremen
Take note it isn't a full Windows 10 experience, at least from what I've read. Apps coded (Continuum apps)to work on the phone and on the desktop mode will work, but I believe it is still Windows Phone running due to hardware. I'm only aware of Microsoft products like Office and IE being apart of the Continuum but the developer tools are there so hopefully more companies will take advantage of it.
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Oh absolutely, even just having the Microsoft app compatibility with continuum is enough to get excited about. But I echo your thoughts on hoping more developers take advantage in the same way, say, Chromecast has for android.
 
Continuum was a bit of a lie from MS, everything only looks similar but Phone and Desktop will always be two distinct platforms (x86 & ARM) and there are still Phone apps, some even from MS themselves which have not come to desktop.

They promised pretty much all Store apps at 10's launch would be cross platform.... hasn't happened. They said they would make it easy to port Android apps and loads of the popular ones would come over.... hasn't happened. App dev's still aren't interested in 10.

In my opinion Windows Phone needs to go the way of Windows RT. Just have everything run full Windows 10 seeing as it's extremely scalable anyway.
 
Holy mother of headaches. Trying to upgrade from 8.1 but get this error:

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So apparently I need to add around 500mb to my system reserved partition, problem, how?

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Cannot mark C: as active partition either...

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Furinkazen
Holy mother of headaches. Trying to upgrade from 8.1 but get this error:

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So apparently I need to add around 500mb to my system reserved partition, problem, how?

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Cannot mark C: as active partition either...

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The disk part command line utility is more powerful than the disk management.

You don't want C: as active, you want system reserved was active as it has the boot configuration
 
Grayfox
The disk part command line utility is more powerful than the disk management.

You don't want C: as active, you want system reserved was active as it has the boot configuration
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Yeah.. how can I change that? :boggled:
 
I could give the commands but you run the risk of causing boot issues, and with all HDD/SSD partition modifications you should back up the HDD/SSD which is another thing altogether.
 
So what to do? Totally boggled here. Can I not create some kind of virtual memory for the program to run from?
 
I'm getting quite annoyed with Windows 10.

1. After a fresh reinstall, due to a small error on my part, I can no longer install my chipset drivers. It starts up, asking me to confirm the start of the setup, and then nothing. Tried it with all compatibility settings, nothing.

2. Even with auto driver updates turned off, it keeps on installing the latest Nvidia drivers for my graphics card.

3. With my known working WiFi driver it keeps on losing connection.

I'm >< this close to going back to Windows 7.

Edit.

I'm going back. This is ridiculous.
 
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I've got #3 as well on my main PC with an ASUS WiFi adapter. In the end that turned out to be some Asmedia Bridge USB 3.0 driver that was crapping out. Reverted that and now it works fine. On my laptop I have no issues whatsoever, same on my sons PC, also works great.
 
NLxAROSA
I've got #3 as well on my main PC with an ASUS WiFi adapter. In the end that turned out to be some Asmedia Bridge USB 3.0 driver that was crapping out. Reverted that and now it works fine. On my laptop I have no issues whatsoever, same on my sons PC, also works great.
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I've tried it with the original drivers from the Acer site, and with all the drivers I already had, most of them newer than the Acer ones.
I gave up and now it's purring on 7 again.
 
You'll never believe what happened to me.

I've sent an error report to Microsoft, yesterday, about the driver issue, and I just received an email with a Fixit program for me to try, apparently it's something caused by Windows update itself, and not something with the drivers or driver update. So they asked me to please reinstall 10 and give the fixit a go.

I'm so flabbergasted by the quick response that I am now reinstalling 10.

:lol:

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All my Vista drivers are working again, as they did. Nvidia is running a 2011 driver.
Yea Olde Laptop is running fine again on Windows 10.

👍
 
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Has any body had problems with the latest build installed mine on Thursday 12 November since then it has wiped out a lot of drivers so I reset windows and now have lost BOOTMGR so basically I'm left with a heavy paper weight does anybody know of any way to get back into windows all I get on boot up is BOOTMGR is missing and can't get any further. Beginning to wish I'd never taken the Windows 10 upgrade
 
mobilet727
Has any body had problems with the latest build installed mine on Thursday 12 November since then it has wiped out a lot of drivers so I reset windows and now have lost BOOTMGR so basically I'm left with a heavy paper weight does anybody know of any way to get back into windows all I get on boot up is BOOTMGR is missing and can't get any further. Beginning to wish I'd never taken the Windows 10 upgrade
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Use the windows 10 DVD.
Then use the automatic repair wizard to fix or use commands like bootrec fixmbr, bootrec fixboot
 
Dennisch
You'll never believe what happened to me.

I've sent an error report to Microsoft, yesterday, about the driver issue, and I just received an email with a Fixit program for me to try, apparently it's something caused by Windows update itself, and not something with the drivers or driver update. So they asked me to please reinstall 10 and give the fixit a go.

I'm so flabbergasted by the quick response that I am now reinstalling 10.

:lol:

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All my Vista drivers are working again, as they did. Nvidia is running a 2011 driver.
Yea Olde Laptop is running fine again on Windows 10.

👍
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They really really want 10 to be a success :lol:
 
So my mum installed windows 10 a few days ago and it worked for a few hours but then her laptop just shutdown on her without warning and she reverted back to Windows 8 and now she cant get online or anything, just a message saying 'connection problems' even though we are connected to the Internet

Any help welcome :)

Edit, she has solved the problem by literally turning the laptop on and off again, still on Windows 8 though, and why did it shutdown like that in the first place?, don't recall mine doing that when it upgraded...
 
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MUSC4EVER
So my mum installed windows 10 a few days ago and it worked for a few hours but then her laptop just shutdown on her without warning and she reverted back to Windows 8 and now she cant get online or anything, just a message saying 'connection problems' even though we are connected to the Internet

Any help welcome :)
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It might be that the drivers for the wireless/lan adaptor need reinstalling. Take a look in device manager and see if there are any yellow warning symbols next to the items. When going back it should have just reverted to an older restore point so there normally shouldn't be any issues. You could also right click the connection in the taskbar and select Troubleshoot Problems to see if Windows can self diagnose.
 
Just edited my post whilst you were posting that, she has solved it for now but still on windows 8...
 

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