Windows 10 upgrade notification
Discussion
Smollet said:
Ray Singh said:
Smollet said:
Like you I was waiting for notification. Last night I clicked on the Windows icon just to see where I was in the queue and it said it was ready to upload so I'm in the process of doing so atm. You might find it's already there.
Dunce cap firmly in place.I have managed to backup my laptop and create a system disc - all be it on a DVD.
I now want to install Win 10. I clicked on the four box flag thing in the icon tray and it just takes me to the confirmation page. I am offered a notify me when ready tab.
Any ideas?
In lf recent posts highlighting the speed of Windows 10 I am given to wonder if it will make accessing my floppy discs any quicker ?
I'd like to thank the many useful contributors to the thread especially the gent who addressed my query some time ago.
Having installed it on my desktop and Dell E7240 Laptop/Utrabook thingey I would say it seems somewhat faster on boot (both use SSD's) I personally get on with it quite well and think the edge browser in particular is very good. It seems to deal with flash hungry sites much more efficiently.
I have however a rather embarrassing problem :
In the frequent folders on the deskop I have an entry that relates to something called "porn" No idea how it got there ahem but I could summise that maybe another user of the machine may have popped some of his favourite clips into a folder and called it by that name. then same person may have deleted the folder.
However the folder entry is still in the frequent folders err folder even though the original folder has been deleted. I have googled to find an answer to how to remove that folder entry from the frequent folders list but to no avail. I cannot find how you edit the frequent folder to remove entries etc.
This is causing some considerable mirth by the other half.
Help ?
I'd like to thank the many useful contributors to the thread especially the gent who addressed my query some time ago.
Having installed it on my desktop and Dell E7240 Laptop/Utrabook thingey I would say it seems somewhat faster on boot (both use SSD's) I personally get on with it quite well and think the edge browser in particular is very good. It seems to deal with flash hungry sites much more efficiently.
I have however a rather embarrassing problem :
In the frequent folders on the deskop I have an entry that relates to something called "porn" No idea how it got there ahem but I could summise that maybe another user of the machine may have popped some of his favourite clips into a folder and called it by that name. then same person may have deleted the folder.
However the folder entry is still in the frequent folders err folder even though the original folder has been deleted. I have googled to find an answer to how to remove that folder entry from the frequent folders list but to no avail. I cannot find how you edit the frequent folder to remove entries etc.
This is causing some considerable mirth by the other half.
Help ?
One of the cumulative updates would not load and every time I logged on it would go through the whole procedure again, and still fail to upload. 30 mins of my day gone.
Going back to 7. It is my desktop and it is essential for work.
My laptop, running 8.1 before the upgrade, has no problems and I'll stick with that, at least for the time being.
I've been advised to do a clean install of win7 and then upgrade to 10, but I feel certain I'll lose some programmes. I'm on my last Office reload, but I assume they'll be a bit sympathetic when the reason is told to them.
So good news and bad.
Going back to 7. It is my desktop and it is essential for work.
My laptop, running 8.1 before the upgrade, has no problems and I'll stick with that, at least for the time being.
I've been advised to do a clean install of win7 and then upgrade to 10, but I feel certain I'll lose some programmes. I'm on my last Office reload, but I assume they'll be a bit sympathetic when the reason is told to them.
So good news and bad.
I've just rolled back to 7 last night although I'm going to format and reinstall 7 from scratch anyway.
I loved 10. Really nice OS but first noticed that my printer didn't work with it. Wasn't too concerned as the manufacturers website stated they were working on windows 10 drivers to be released shortly. I noticed last night that my camera wouldn't work right either (Nikon D7000). Win10 can see the camera but you can't access the files on the SD card. The card appears blank through the camera. I googled and seems lots of people are having the same issue with Nikon cameras and there is a work around which involves installing the Nikon software (Capture NX 2) that came with the camera to transfer the pics off that way but after going up the loft to get the camera box down to dig out the software CD, I realised that the DVD drive on the PC isn't recognised by Win10 and no longer works... Again, I googled and seems it's quite common.
Such a shame, I really liked Windows 10 but it isn't going to work for me at the moment. Might give it a go in 6 months and hopefully it will be up to scratch.
I loved 10. Really nice OS but first noticed that my printer didn't work with it. Wasn't too concerned as the manufacturers website stated they were working on windows 10 drivers to be released shortly. I noticed last night that my camera wouldn't work right either (Nikon D7000). Win10 can see the camera but you can't access the files on the SD card. The card appears blank through the camera. I googled and seems lots of people are having the same issue with Nikon cameras and there is a work around which involves installing the Nikon software (Capture NX 2) that came with the camera to transfer the pics off that way but after going up the loft to get the camera box down to dig out the software CD, I realised that the DVD drive on the PC isn't recognised by Win10 and no longer works... Again, I googled and seems it's quite common.
Such a shame, I really liked Windows 10 but it isn't going to work for me at the moment. Might give it a go in 6 months and hopefully it will be up to scratch.
Teppic said:
AmitG said:
Is anyone out there running Windows 10 on what by modern standards is a low-spec machine? If so, I would appreciate details. I'm thinking of buying something very cheap/low end (e.g. an Intel Atom based NUC) and running Windows 10 on it.
My needs these days are limited to email, web, lightweight office tasks and remote desktop on the office network (via Citrix). No games and no other content creation. A lot of the modern stuff seems like overkill for that...
I've got Windows 10 running quite nicely on a Samsung NC10 netbook, and that has a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom N270 processor in it. It has has the memory increased to 2Gb though.My needs these days are limited to email, web, lightweight office tasks and remote desktop on the office network (via Citrix). No games and no other content creation. A lot of the modern stuff seems like overkill for that...
The NUC in question uses a 1.5GHZ Atom I believe. I'm hoping that with 4GB of memory, an SSD and no bloatware I'll be OK.MysteryLemon said:
I've just rolled back to 7 last night although I'm going to format and reinstall 7 from scratch anyway.
I loved 10. Really nice OS but first noticed that my printer didn't work with it. Wasn't too concerned as the manufacturers website stated they were working on windows 10 drivers to be released shortly. I noticed last night that my camera wouldn't work right either (Nikon D7000). Win10 can see the camera but you can't access the files on the SD card. The card appears blank through the camera. I googled and seems lots of people are having the same issue with Nikon cameras and there is a work around which involves installing the Nikon software (Capture NX 2) that came with the camera to transfer the pics off that way but after going up the loft to get the camera box down to dig out the software CD, I realised that the DVD drive on the PC isn't recognised by Win10 and no longer works... Again, I googled and seems it's quite common.
Such a shame, I really liked Windows 10 but it isn't going to work for me at the moment. Might give it a go in 6 months and hopefully it will be up to scratch.
I had problems with the software for a Sony video camera I use for my rugby club. All it meant was removing the memory card and plugging it into the computer, but still a waste of time. I loved 10. Really nice OS but first noticed that my printer didn't work with it. Wasn't too concerned as the manufacturers website stated they were working on windows 10 drivers to be released shortly. I noticed last night that my camera wouldn't work right either (Nikon D7000). Win10 can see the camera but you can't access the files on the SD card. The card appears blank through the camera. I googled and seems lots of people are having the same issue with Nikon cameras and there is a work around which involves installing the Nikon software (Capture NX 2) that came with the camera to transfer the pics off that way but after going up the loft to get the camera box down to dig out the software CD, I realised that the DVD drive on the PC isn't recognised by Win10 and no longer works... Again, I googled and seems it's quite common.
Such a shame, I really liked Windows 10 but it isn't going to work for me at the moment. Might give it a go in 6 months and hopefully it will be up to scratch.
Win 7 came back, although some of the programmes, possibly all, that I disabled in task manager came back as enabled.
I notice no real difference once running a programme.
I had problems with my nVidia card and dual screen display on Win 10 but once I downloaded an updated driver it cleared.
I run a clean install every year so will probably wait until April 2016 and then try Win 10 again. That's if I have no probs with my laptop.
All that jazz said:
I get that but what is the boot time of your W7 machine that you reckon you've halved with W10? If you're still on a disk drive then you make a valid point as the difference in time is probably quite noticeable but W7 (and more so 8.1) on an SSD boots up so fast anyway that a 50% time saving is never going to be more than a few seconds difference.
It is a 500GB 5400rpm disk with about 22GB free space, yes. so admittedly that skews the time to a degree.It was taking around 3 minutes to boot to a stage that it was at full performance (if that makes sense - you know how they're a bit sluggish although the desktop is showing).
But everything else is quicker. Opening windows and copying files and other things. It used to get hot and sluggish after a while running (not unbearable but still) and it just doesn't under W10. This is the part I'm really enjoying.
I was thinking of replacing it because of this but it's just better than it was when it was brand new in 2010.
I did the reserve thing
Then later I got the windows thing at the bottom for my screen.
When I clicked that, a blue box came up, saying WINDOWS 10 IS DOWNLOADING
And a green circle with an arrow in, pointing to "Download in Progress, (Have 50MB fibre)
When I click the box, "View download Progress"
I get the white box "Windows update has stopped working"
1, Check online
2, Close program.
Its done this 4 times now, and I am getting rather dissappointed
Then later I got the windows thing at the bottom for my screen.
When I clicked that, a blue box came up, saying WINDOWS 10 IS DOWNLOADING
And a green circle with an arrow in, pointing to "Download in Progress, (Have 50MB fibre)
When I click the box, "View download Progress"
I get the white box "Windows update has stopped working"
1, Check online
2, Close program.
Its done this 4 times now, and I am getting rather dissappointed
uk_vette said:
I did the reserve thing
Then later I got the windows thing at the bottom for my screen.
When I clicked that, a blue box came up, saying WINDOWS 10 IS DOWNLOADING
And a green circle with an arrow in, pointing to "Download in Progress, (Have 50MB fibre)
When I click the box, "View download Progress"
I get the white box "Windows update has stopped working"
1, Check online
2, Close program.
Its done this 4 times now, and I am getting rather dissappointed
use the media creation tool as above, at least you don't re-download it....Then later I got the windows thing at the bottom for my screen.
When I clicked that, a blue box came up, saying WINDOWS 10 IS DOWNLOADING
And a green circle with an arrow in, pointing to "Download in Progress, (Have 50MB fibre)
When I click the box, "View download Progress"
I get the white box "Windows update has stopped working"
1, Check online
2, Close program.
Its done this 4 times now, and I am getting rather dissappointed
techiedave said:
In lf recent posts highlighting the speed of Windows 10 I am given to wonder if it will make accessing my floppy discs any quicker ?
I'd like to thank the many useful contributors to the thread especially the gent who addressed my query some time ago.
Having installed it on my desktop and Dell E7240 Laptop/Utrabook thingey I would say it seems somewhat faster on boot (both use SSD's) I personally get on with it quite well and think the edge browser in particular is very good. It seems to deal with flash hungry sites much more efficiently.
I have however a rather embarrassing problem :
In the frequent folders on the deskop I have an entry that relates to something called "porn" No idea how it got there ahem but I could summise that maybe another user of the machine may have popped some of his favourite clips into a folder and called it by that name. then same person may have deleted the folder.
However the folder entry is still in the frequent folders err folder even though the original folder has been deleted. I have googled to find an answer to how to remove that folder entry from the frequent folders list but to no avail. I cannot find how you edit the frequent folder to remove entries etc.
This is causing some considerable mirth by the other half.
Help ?
Ccleaner should sort this out. Website states it works in Windows 10.I'd like to thank the many useful contributors to the thread especially the gent who addressed my query some time ago.
Having installed it on my desktop and Dell E7240 Laptop/Utrabook thingey I would say it seems somewhat faster on boot (both use SSD's) I personally get on with it quite well and think the edge browser in particular is very good. It seems to deal with flash hungry sites much more efficiently.
I have however a rather embarrassing problem :
In the frequent folders on the deskop I have an entry that relates to something called "porn" No idea how it got there ahem but I could summise that maybe another user of the machine may have popped some of his favourite clips into a folder and called it by that name. then same person may have deleted the folder.
However the folder entry is still in the frequent folders err folder even though the original folder has been deleted. I have googled to find an answer to how to remove that folder entry from the frequent folders list but to no avail. I cannot find how you edit the frequent folder to remove entries etc.
This is causing some considerable mirth by the other half.
Help ?
You want the free version:
https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download
AmitG said:
Teppic said:
I've got Windows 10 running quite nicely on a Samsung NC10 netbook, and that has a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom N270 processor in it. It has has the memory increased to 2Gb though.
Thanks The NUC in question uses a 1.5GHZ Atom I believe. I'm hoping that with 4GB of memory, an SSD and no bloatware I'll be OK.Patrick Bateman said:
7 does everything I want, there are no issues and I like the layout. I'm not going to risk this.
Me too. Going nowhere near this update. Learned my lesson with my nexus 7 tablet when i got an android upgrade which effectively ruined it and made the tablet unuseable.4737 Carlin said:
If I install Win10 and don't like it (I didn't like 8.1) how does one roll back to W7?
Don't think I can be bothered to reinstall everything.
Thanks.
On the assumption that you upgraded directly from W7, open the Windows upgrade programme (app) and you will find a Restore 7 button. Mine went off without significant problem, apart from my trackball not working initially but a reboot sorted that.Don't think I can be bothered to reinstall everything.
Thanks.
Derek Smith said:
On the assumption that you upgraded directly from W7, open the Windows upgrade programme (app) and you will find a Restore 7 button. Mine went off without significant problem, apart from my trackball not working initially but a reboot sorted that.
Where should the Windows Upgrade prog/app be? I can't see it and I want to go back to 7 because 10 has lost all my passwords, various hard wares are not working and I'm pissed off with it.ch108 said:
Me too. Going nowhere near this update. Learned my lesson with my nexus 7 tablet when i got an android upgrade which effectively ruined it and made the tablet unuseable.
I'll probably wait 4 months, primarily so 3rd party vendors have time to get there hit together. already have used the tech preview on a laptop for 4 months and it worked fine on itGassing Station | Computers, Gadgets & Stuff | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff