Windows... 10?!?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Xilor
  • 1,473 comments
  • 105,928 views
HP Pavilion, fairly old, but it does have a 64 bit CPU (i5 2.4 Ghz). It's was a clean install of 7, no factory HP crap on it.
Should be fine then. The only 64 bit processors that had trouble accessing over 3 GB of RAM were the early Core 2 Duos installed on the Intel 945 chipsets. Any i5 is at least a generation newer than that.
 
Yay..... "notify me when ready". Okay.

Also, again if you have NVidia, halt until next fix arrived.
I wonder if the Nvidia problem is only for certain cards. I had no problem updating my 660ti. Definitely good advice until it gets figured out though.
 
Weird problem:

My windows 10 at my Laptop has a notification like this:
Downloading.png

Screenshot not mine. But the Get windows app is looking exactly like this.

However, my PC is still this:
Screenshot (256).png


All of them has the W10 downloaded already and all updates installed.
 
Resisted the urge, decided to manually download them...and they're now in both of my computers. Although there's a bit of an issue in regards to trying to set up different backgrounds for different monitors in a multi-monitor setup...
 
I have a question.
I installed Windows 8 on a computer with a retail disc. If I upgrade to 10, will I still be able to transfer the licence to a new computer?
 
Wow just wow, 10 minutes and I already can't stand the thing! Windows 10 SUCKS on tablets.

Windows 8.1 was excellent on Surface, the whole OS was basically designed for it and it was totally touch oriented and slick to use. This is a buggy fiddly mess and I've already come across many issues.

They are going to have to update the hell out of this over the next few months IMO.
 
This is a buggy fiddly mess and I've already come across many issues

Such as?
Can't say I've come across any yet although tbh I haven't used it much so far.
Out of interest do you also use the keyboard? So far that's all I've used and haven't even tried it in tablet mode yet.
 
Upgraded my desktop a few hours ago by manually downloading Windows 10 Pro. Works like a charm as far as I can tell. Launched the upgrade, walked away, came back and everything's running well. Probably the first time upgrading an OS was actually as easy as advertised. Seems like all my drivers have either been upgraded by the WX setup or are coincidentally working with WX, don't know (or care, for that matter). Dunno about any problems with NVIDIA, though. Stuff just works for me.

As for Windows 10 itself, I'll obviously need a few days to make up my mind about it. Can't say much after a few hours of (very superficial) use. The design's good, that's for sure. Simple, sleek, elegant. Functional, too. I feel right at home coming from W7, certainly feels a lot better than moving from W7 to W8 or W8.1. Give me a few weeks and I'll be able to tell whether this is actually as good as it seems on first glance. There's gotta something wrong with it, it all went too well for a Microsoft product. Even their new Edge browser seems quite good. Scary.
 
My Windows 10 installation sudden changed language to Japanese. I am currently running Windows 7 and trying to upgrade. itself changed language to Japanese while installing.... I must to missing something. Hmm.

Any solution for this?
 
I have a question.
I installed Windows 8 on a computer with a retail disc. If I upgrade to 10, will I still be able to transfer the licence to a new computer?
They give you a new license automatically for upgrading. I upgraded from Windows 7 and Microsoft did all of the licensing work for me.
 
Such as?
Can't say I've come across any yet although tbh I haven't used it much so far.
Out of interest do you also use the keyboard? So far that's all I've used and haven't even tried it in tablet mode yet.

I've already downgraded back to 8.1.. I just couldn't live with it, trust me it's terrible in tablet mode. I do have the Surface keyboard but rarely use it. In pleasing the desktop crowd they have totally ruined the touch experience. Maybe in a few months they will have fixed the issues but I used to fly through doing things and now it's just frustrating.

A few examples,

You can't slide control the brightness in tablet mode.
You can't run Edge browser in full screen.
You can't get rid of the taskbar.
They have moved many of the controls to the left (like the charm bar) which is stupid if your right handed.
Tablet mode forces all desktop apps to run maximised and there is no way of actually seeing the desktop.
At 100% screen scaling everything is ridiculously small, at 150% or 175% everything is blurry and the worst thing is modern UI no longer scales independently.
They have made it so you can only have two tiles wide in each section instead of 3 there is a ton of wasted space in the start screen view.
The stock apps have been ruined, now things like the News app take you to a webpage instead of having the article appear in app.
When you swipe in from the left instead of listing the apps in the line it shows huge thumbnails which just takes longer to close.
Explorer.exe has crashed multiple times especially in the settings menu.
The keyboard sometimes doesn't pop up.
Taping on things doesn't always register.
Automatic updates are annoying.

There was absolutely nothing wrong with the modern UI in Windows 8 IF you only used touch.
 
Last edited:
What part of the installation are you on? Can you still boot to Windows 7?

Yes, I am still on Win7.. I use MediaCreationToolx64 from Microsoft. While installation messages: "Downloading" then "Create a media." then sudden changed language to Japanese, and I stopping the installation.
 
Yes, I am still on Win7.. I use MediaCreationToolx64 from Microsoft. While installation messages: "Downloading" then "Create a media." then sudden changed language to Japanese, and I stopping the installation.
You can change the language on the second page in the media creation tool. Perhaps you forgot to do that.
 
Does anybody have issues with NVIDIA graphics cards in regards to Windows 10?

A lot of people are, There is a whole bunch saying that Nvidia is crashing Windows 10 due to a beta driver or some other thing, but yea, It's a common problem that I thought they would of had it fixed by now.
 
A lot of people are, There is a whole bunch saying that Nvidia is crashing Windows 10 due to a beta driver or some other thing, but yea, It's a common problem that I thought they would of had it fixed by now.

I'm having stuttering issues whenever I play Project CARS. What?!
 
A lot of people are, There is a whole bunch saying that Nvidia is crashing Windows 10 due to a beta driver or some other thing, but yea, It's a common problem that I thought they would of had it fixed by now.
Some are blaming Geforce Experience. Might be worth a try. And I'd advise against using that PoS regardless.
 
Weird problem:

...

All of them has the W10 downloaded already and all updates installed.
You're probably getting error 80240020 on your computer. There's two methods to fix this:

Method 1

  1. Delete everything you find in C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download

  2. Open command prompt with administrator rights and enter "wuauclt.exe /updatenow" (without " ")

  3. Windows Update will redownload the files and then it should work.

Method 2

  1. Download the media creation tool from this site: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

  2. Use the option to upgrade your system (do not directly go for a clean install!).
 
Back