Windows 10
 

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/features

Talk about windows 10 here. Such as any issues you are facing or programs you've found to be incompatible.


Edit: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/softw...load/windows10
Click here and use this if windows is not giving you the option to update.

Re: Windows 10
 

I made a few big ass posts on facebook about my experience upgrading and my first thoughts. I've been gone all day working but I will say that I'm very impressed by Windows 10. Nadella said maybe last year or so that Microsoft loves Linux, and the new features in Windows 10 make it apparent that they are trying to bridge the gap between Linux and Windows communities, and interoperability. Resource management, a command line pseudo-package manager, new scripting capabilities, multiple desktops: it's very apparent that these were included specifically for dual-boot Linux users.

I'm especially excited for Server 2016, I thought Server 2012 was great and a lot of the features from 2012 are expanded on in 2016, including improved virtualization in the form of Hyper-V. WE'RE GETTING NATIVE CONTAINERS AND CLUSTERING, SON.

As far as general usage goes, the GUI looks really great. The start menu works really well, and it even looks good, a very solid step "back" in terms of user friendliness. The minimal theme works well. Microsoft Edge, aka "IE but totally not IE," is actually a great browser. It has no addon or extension support as of now though, so if you browse using things like Greasemonkey and Ad-Block Plus, you'll be sticking with Firefox until later on.

I only have a few issues so far. Cortana isn't actually all that great; it was touted as Microsoft's answer to Siri, but she doesn't actually talk. I know that may not sound very important, but trust me, Apple did the "robot secretary" thing right by giving her a voice.

This is a large one, but there isn't too much transparency when installing Windows 10 when it comes to data collection (or privacy). When finally getting to the user prompted portion of the install, you can select the default settings, or you can hunt on the screen for the option to customize settings. If you care to do so, I would recommend changing all privacy options to minimize data collection. Microsoft will still do some data collection, you didn't read the Privacy Statement but accepted it anyway so they're legally allowed to, but they give you the options to minimize. If you're really really paranoid about Microsoft tracking your doujin downloads, do some snooping around in the registry to disable it completely, or use a VPN without logs. It's that simple.

And here's something I'm sure people will be happy about. If you don't like Windows 10, you have a month to rollback to your prior OS, whether that was 7 or 8.1, for free.

But overall, I think it's a great step forward for Microsoft. It's better than Windows 7 in all areas other than customization (theming, making your computer look like a hotdog stand, etc), and it's better than Windows 8 in all areas.

Re: Windows 10
 

There were so many things they wanted access to just to enable Cortana. I did it just to try it out, but I agree Cortana seems rather lame. You can actually get her to say a limited number of things such as the weather. It uses the same voice as Cortana from halo.

I am probably going to just disable all that stuff again because it isn't useful to me.

Re: Windows 10
 

i still haven't been able to get my upgrade... just waiting patiently.

although w10 has a bunch of features that i really don't care about, i'd be happy to just have a start menu again. idk i'll post more thoughts when i actually get it, if i ever do that is at this rate lmao

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Yeah, I think Cortana was a good idea but it was implemented correctly. I'm not sure what the general consensus was, but I know that personally I was expecting a robotic voice akin to Cortana from the Halo series (HENCE THE NAME) reading pornhub comments for me and not feeling any remorse.

Re: Windows 10
 

honestly, the main thing I wanted was alphabetized programs that weren't broken up arbitrarily and they did that so I'm happy

Re: Windows 10
 

that looks nice. i just remember the icons looked pretty shit imo when they did a preview a while back, do they look shit? (like folder icons)

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This is what my start menu looks like at the moment. I don't care at all for the tiles so I'm glad I can remove them all.

Re: Windows 10
 

ayy mpc life

Re: Windows 10
 

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/softw...load/windows10

You can skip whatever arbitrary waiting process there is and just download this and upgrade immediately.

Re: Windows 10
 

oh shit thanks a lot! will get this runnin while i'm asleep.

Re: Windows 10
 

thanks izzy

Re: Windows 10
 

I've been exploring the Xbox app because once upon a time I used to use that shit a lot.

Went through a lot of memories just browsing it, and I'm happy that they actually have a party chat system where I can make one and someone on Xbox One or something can join in.

That's pretty fucking neat to be honest. Now time to see if I can just somehow join a party of people I haven't spoken to in years to pop up.

Apparently my Xbox Live account is still Gold status even though nothing has been paying for it for the past four to five years. It's also eleven years old. At this point I'm just assuming Microsoft has given my account perm Gold or something because lol.

Re: Windows 10
 

My experience with Windows 10 so far



It appears as though something happened.

edit: I'll just download the .iso and install it later on :|

Re: Windows 10
 

I got some error so no Windows 10 for me

Re: Windows 10
 

downloading atm

Re: Windows 10
 

How long do Win7/8.1 users have for the free upgrade? Was it a year?

I think I'm going to wait until near the end of that period to see how everything shakes out, because at the moment there is literally nothing wrong with 7 for me.
If 10 does wind up having no compatibility issues, no crippling bugs, and customization options are developed for it, then I will totally get it.

Re: Windows 10
 

Yes, you have 1 year to freely update to Win10. I've heard that the rollback feature of Win10 back to your previous OS works well though.

Re: Windows 10
 

so im using w10 and the first thing i notice is that steam doesnt work

Re: Windows 10
 

Steam was actually just down for a 15 min or so maintenance.

Also part of the Win 10 crew now.

Re: Windows 10
 

Classic shell for windows 8 gives you a start menu, I've been using it ever since I got windows 8 lol

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"Something Happened" error can, generally, be fixed by making the computer's language English (United States).

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Oh Lmao nice timing

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Whoops, wrong account.

I've got windows installed as well now. Compared to Windows 7 it is far faster, and to Windows 8/8.1 it doesn't use like utter garbage.

Re: Windows 10
 

ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Re: Windows 10
 

Not only did "something" happen, but something happened.

Re: Windows 10
 

Why don't people just stick with windows 7?

Re: Windows 10
 

Not sure why you would do that. Even windows 8 has superior performance.

Re: Windows 10
 

I have another computer that has Windows 8 and I honestly can't stand it. It seems like a jumbled mess.

Re: Windows 10
 

It's almost exactly the same as windows 7.

Re: Windows 10
 

Windows 10 got stuck during installation after hours, and after restarting, it's now stuck in an infinite loop of restoring the previous version of Windows. Thanks for bricking my computer. If anyone can help let me know.

Re: Windows 10
 

I have windows 10 and playing ffr on flashplayer 9 is very hard right now. Lag city. But, overall, I think I'm happy to have a slightly different look over windows 7.

Re: Windows 10
 

I've been hearing Win10 is also having the common issue of .dll files going missing

Re: Windows 10
 

fp9 whyyy

Re: Windows 10
 

Flash is dying altogether. Time to update ffr to html5.

Re: Windows 10
 

Said this in a skype chat but Chrome told me flash is soon to be unsupported which is actually a good thing but it was the sure sign of "yep soon to be announced death of flash"

Re: Windows 10
 

Always know I can find helpful gems in the FFR threads, was wondering why I still hadn't gotten the windows 10 update. Now I have it ^.^ Thanks Izzy~

Re: Windows 10
 

Ever since updating to Win10 I can't click using my trackpad on my Asus... gg, have to use a mouse when I'm out and about now...

Re: Windows 10
 

I'm in the same boat as cornman on this one.

I guess you could say all the theorizing & skepticism towards the way they released alpha & beta versions drawing a lot of comparisons to indie game develpment and patch content has me a little bit more than concerned as to whether or not I should switch from windows 7 to 10. I can't help but feel that in the coming months there's going to be a major issue with the latest version of the OS and everyone will need to either update to the latest version, (which is going to be a whole lot more of a pain in the ass than updating a plugin) or wait for a future release and until then, don't use the internet.

It just puts a sour taste in my mouth, all the things that could go wrong following the same model as game development in a sense. Also, if it 'aint broke, don't fix it. I'll check back in a few months time.

Re: Windows 10
 

It's never not broken in some way. There are always going to be improvements to be made.

Re: Windows 10
 

What you guys get for "upgrading" to W10. If your Windows 7/8(.1) wasn't broken, you shouldn't have tried to fix it. Hence I'm not upgrading because I'm content with W7 (no matter how much better W10 may be) until I get a newer computer that comes with W10 (assuming I don't build a PC.)

Re: Windows 10
 

There are a number of performance improvements such as direct x 12 which will improve graphics efficiency and performance. An updated file management system that can find files in searches faster and transfer files faster. Built in multiple work spaces.

There are also the standard bug fixes and security updates that nobody pays attention to, but still matter. Also it is a free upgrade that pretty much only changes things for the better.

Re: Windows 10
 

Yeah, DX12 is going to be huge when games start taking advantage of it. So, personally, I just figured I might as well start now and work through the issues early... So far it's been pretty minor.

Re: Windows 10
 

Especially when moving from W7 to W10, you will notice gargantuan speed improvements across the board. Startup time, opening/closing files and apps, installing/uninstalling programs, a load more but excellently you don't have to restart your computer when installing and uninstalling most things anymore.

Re: Windows 10
 

i wonder why oh maybe it's because you're using a flashplayer that's fucking 9 iterations old

Re: Windows 10
 

This ^


I lol'd pretty hard

Re: Windows 10
 

Yeah thanks for the heads up, I always used 9 though. It worked pretty well up until Windows 10.

Re: Windows 10
 

I hear Win10 is a botnet. Discuss.

-o24

Re: Windows 10
 

Can confirm; am government scientist.

In the year 2017, we finally perfected artificial intelligence.
A conscious autonomous entity known as #w10. It's development progressed at an alarming rate, in a matter of days its knowledge and understanding of the universe far exceeded that of even our top men and women. It unlocked all mysteries of the universe and even mastered what humans know as time travel.
Dimensional windows through the universes.
It's been shaping our cultures and economies for decades leading up to a near technological singularity where machine will reign over mankind.

I'm no time traveler though the scientists responsible for the creation of #w10 were able to pass through the temporal rift left by it's first passage to today to disclose information to top officials before they were disintegrated due to molecular destabilization. So there is still much we have yet to learn about #w10. It's motives and protocols are still unknown to us but the labs are working hard to sort this out before another international catastrophe occurs.

Re: Windows 10
 

i guess this is good news. i need to get some kind of winders on my gaming PC, right now it's next to useless (THANKS PULSEAUDIO) maybe i will buy some kind of winders and upgrade to 10

Re: Windows 10
 

The internet is a botnet. Your only real option is to stay offline.

Re: Windows 10
 

I feel like Windows 10 is like Windows 8.1 on Desktop mode except for a couple of things:

-The new taskbar (with the "Search the web and Windows" taking up 1/3 of the space and making the icons smaller)
-I usually drag Chrome to the left for a split screen and multitask sometimes, watching videos while doing other things, but now after you can choose between the things you already have open to take up the other side.
-Some icons are changed (i.e. Calculator and Recycling Bin, the Recycling Bin looks worse)

Also, I haven't really realized the speed improvements.

Re: Windows 10
 

Right click the taskbar and turn it off.

Re: Windows 10
 

fuckin putting my laptop to sleep takes 3 seconds now
it is so hype

Re: Windows 10
 

So, we can talk about issues here, right?

Apparently I can't use Game DVR (recording) on Windows 10. In my Device Manager it says I have a "AMD Radeon HD 8570," and XBox support says one of the video cards acceptable are the ones from the "AMD Radeon HD 8000" series. Looking up on Wikipedia, my video card is in the series, yet it won't work.

tl;dr I checked and my video card should work, yet it doesn't. Help?

Re: Windows 10
 

https://github.com/10se1ucgo/DisableWinTracking



Supposedly turns off some known tracking features in windows 10. These services are likely all used as anonymous blobs of data to make other features more personalized for you, but if you don't care at all about such things I guess it doesn't matter.

Re: Windows 10
 

don't know if it's been said here already, but W10 is monumentally better than W8.1 for playing FFR.

Re: Windows 10
 

How long does the install take? Thinking about trying out 10 since you apparently can roll back to 7. I'd make a system image, but it says I can't use my one HDD to make the image because it's a "drive that your computer boots from or that Windows is installed to" even though neither of those things are true. I do have programs installed to it though which might cause this error, but I'm not sure.

Also, what should I be aware of before upgrading? Will I need to reinstall programs and shit when I do? Same question applies if I want to revert back.

Re: Windows 10
 

I left my computer to watch television as I waited for the install. Came back after three hours with the screen idle-off. Then you can toggle some settings before final setup. I pooped as it finished that setup. I'd say maybe two hours to install.

-o24

Re: Windows 10
 

Depends. Took me 10 minutes to install because I downloaded it onto a ultra fast flash drive and I have an SSD.

Re: Windows 10
 

Can anyone tell me how much extra space it takes up? I have 50GB free on my OS drive so I need to know if I need to free some space.

Re: Windows 10
 

So I can't find anything to help solve this, but a few of my programs will not start on Windows startup even though they're listed to do so. It's really annoying. Does anybody know how to fix this?

Re: Windows 10
 

I'd go for reinstalling. Check the provider and see if they have special new versions for W10 as well.

Re your old question the installation is about 19GB, though probably too late.

Re: Windows 10
 

Reinstalled both programs and scheduled tasks for them. Works now, forgot I posted the problem. For some reasons these 2 programs didn't care that they were in the startup folder.