Windows 10 upgrade notification
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Chris Type R said:
Well, I'm not a fan of the "Start Menu", "All Apps" button - stuff is difficult to find and there's no horizontal resize that I can see. So despite having a 2560 wide monitor, my app captions are truncated.
You can resize your start menu both vertically and horizontally. This allows a quicker view of all apps that you have pinned to your start menu without scrolling.Basically - closer to Windows 8 start menu but still not taking over the entire screen.
I've found it quite useful to increase the size of the start menu to allow me to arrange my most commonly used apps and access them quickly, as with Win8.
Couple of backward steps regarding the Favourites Bar in Edge - to rename an icon you have to click on the hub icon before right clicking and renaming.
And, when you want to rearrange icons within the bar, dragging one sideways doesn't produce the small vertical line that lets you know it's in the exact right place.....wtf?
And, when you want to rearrange icons within the bar, dragging one sideways doesn't produce the small vertical line that lets you know it's in the exact right place.....wtf?
After doing a couple of flawless ones, I had some issues with my 160 quid lenovo laptop.
Touchpad stopped working. After some faffing about, uninstalled the ELAN driver, downloaded the latest one and everything is fine and dandy.
It's a very, very low spec machine, but it runs very smoothly on Win 10. I'm impressed!
Touchpad stopped working. After some faffing about, uninstalled the ELAN driver, downloaded the latest one and everything is fine and dandy.
It's a very, very low spec machine, but it runs very smoothly on Win 10. I'm impressed!
_dobbo_ said:
You can resize your start menu both vertically and horizontally. This allows a quicker view of all apps that you have pinned to your start menu without scrolling.
Basically - closer to Windows 8 start menu but still not taking over the entire screen.
I've found it quite useful to increase the size of the start menu to allow me to arrange my most commonly used apps and access them quickly, as with Win8.
I know you can resize the start menu - but if you click All Apps, you can't expand that list horizontally (vertically you can). So if you're looking for an app that you've forgotten the name of, you're looking in a very constrained area.Basically - closer to Windows 8 start menu but still not taking over the entire screen.
I've found it quite useful to increase the size of the start menu to allow me to arrange my most commonly used apps and access them quickly, as with Win8.
Is anyone having trouble with wireless connections since upgrading from win7?
Since the upgrade, on start-up (powered on after shutdown) my laptop can’t connect via wireless, it can see the wireless network id but wont/cant connect.
If I re boot, the wireless starts working. The same problem occurs if the laptop goes to sleep, I have to re-start to get it to connect. The wired connection works fine.
I have tried updating the wireless adapter drivers, which are all up to date.
I have seen the posts about problems with Cisco VPN’s when I have tried searching for a solution, however I’m not using a VPN (as far as I know anyway).
Any ideas???
Since the upgrade, on start-up (powered on after shutdown) my laptop can’t connect via wireless, it can see the wireless network id but wont/cant connect.
If I re boot, the wireless starts working. The same problem occurs if the laptop goes to sleep, I have to re-start to get it to connect. The wired connection works fine.
I have tried updating the wireless adapter drivers, which are all up to date.
I have seen the posts about problems with Cisco VPN’s when I have tried searching for a solution, however I’m not using a VPN (as far as I know anyway).
Any ideas???
Blue32 said:
Is anyone having trouble with wireless connections since upgrading from win7?
Since the upgrade, on start-up (powered on after shutdown) my laptop can’t connect via wireless, it can see the wireless network id but wont/cant connect.
If I re boot, the wireless starts working. The same problem occurs if the laptop goes to sleep, I have to re-start to get it to connect. The wired connection works fine.
I have tried updating the wireless adapter drivers, which are all up to date.
I have seen the posts about problems with Cisco VPN’s when I have tried searching for a solution, however I’m not using a VPN (as far as I know anyway).
Any ideas???
One of my machines does this - after reboot sometimes it just refuses to connect. It can see the networks and attempt to connect but just can't complete the connection. It is easily solved by restarting the machine and always connects ok on the restart. Since the upgrade, on start-up (powered on after shutdown) my laptop can’t connect via wireless, it can see the wireless network id but wont/cant connect.
If I re boot, the wireless starts working. The same problem occurs if the laptop goes to sleep, I have to re-start to get it to connect. The wired connection works fine.
I have tried updating the wireless adapter drivers, which are all up to date.
I have seen the posts about problems with Cisco VPN’s when I have tried searching for a solution, however I’m not using a VPN (as far as I know anyway).
Any ideas???
It is a very old machine however, it was originally a Vista machine upgraded to win7, so I put it down to flaky drivers for older hardware. Its not a big deal for me however as I installed a SSD when upgrading and the whole time to restart is way quicker than the old win7 startup time, I reckon I can cycle the machine in under 20s.
A strange one with an HP 250 laptop. Win 10 installed a generic Intel graphics driver, so I downloaded the latest driver direct from HP support, now the brightness hot-keys (F2/F3), and the brightness sliders in settings, work backwards, F2 brightens the screen, as does sliding left in power-plan settings, completely arse about face.
GreigM said:
One of my machines does this - after reboot sometimes it just refuses to connect. It can see the networks and attempt to connect but just can't complete the connection. It is easily solved by restarting the machine and always connects ok on the restart.
It is a very old machine however, it was originally a Vista machine upgraded to win7, so I put it down to flaky drivers for older hardware. Its not a big deal for me however as I installed a SSD when upgrading and the whole time to restart is way quicker than the old win7 startup time, I reckon I can cycle the machine in under 20s.
Exactly the same as meIt is a very old machine however, it was originally a Vista machine upgraded to win7, so I put it down to flaky drivers for older hardware. Its not a big deal for me however as I installed a SSD when upgrading and the whole time to restart is way quicker than the old win7 startup time, I reckon I can cycle the machine in under 20s.
, mine is a 2008 Dell XPS M1730 which started with Vista, which I changed to Win 7 and added a SSD.Looks like I might have to live with it or go back to Win7
I'm now on about the 10th time of trying to install Win 10 on my Dell XPS 27, I've even got Dell to send me the original Win 8.1 restore disc to knock everything back to basics, then whether I do an upgrade or a clean install the installation still falls over.
Luckily I took a good backup when I had 8.1 running ok so I'm just putting this back on now.
That's it for me now, no idea how Dell can say the system is Win 10 suitable?!
I'll revisit in 6 months, it's a shame as it runs perfectly on my XPS laptop that runs very similar hardware.
Luckily I took a good backup when I had 8.1 running ok so I'm just putting this back on now.
That's it for me now, no idea how Dell can say the system is Win 10 suitable?!
I'll revisit in 6 months, it's a shame as it runs perfectly on my XPS laptop that runs very similar hardware.
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The gent above with the DELL issue?
Daft as it seems is it a hard drive set up setting you need to make in the bios. I cant explain it but its something like legacy ?
The guy with the wi fi issue my Dell Latitude had an issue to do with flight mode over riding the wifi and effectively switching it off. By installing the latest driver it worked fine though.
The gent above with the DELL issue?
Daft as it seems is it a hard drive set up setting you need to make in the bios. I cant explain it but its something like legacy ?
The guy with the wi fi issue my Dell Latitude had an issue to do with flight mode over riding the wifi and effectively switching it off. By installing the latest driver it worked fine though.
I had the WiFi issue on a Dell XPS.
I think I fixed it by changing the driver...
If you go in to the device manager where you would update the driver, but instead choose to install a new one. There were 2 compatible drivers in the list, so I changed to the one it wasn't using. Seemed to work.
I think I fixed it by changing the driver...
If you go in to the device manager where you would update the driver, but instead choose to install a new one. There were 2 compatible drivers in the list, so I changed to the one it wasn't using. Seemed to work.
Chris Type R said:
I know you can resize the start menu - but if you click All Apps, you can't expand that list horizontally (vertically you can). So if you're looking for an app that you've forgotten the name of, you're looking in a very constrained area.
The other annoying thing (for me) with the start menu is that even thought it's sorted alphabetically (at least by default) you can't press a letter key to jump to apps/subfolders that start with that letter, like you can in the file explorer windows. That really wouldn't have been difficult to code in.LordGrover said:
If you click a Capital Letter you can jump to any letter. Not ideal but nice.
I guess because it assumes no keyboard this is the next best thing.
I just discovered that last night, but thanks all the same. It's fine but I am used to using the computer with one hand on the mouse and the other on the keyboard so would still rather the keyboard thing worked. I guess this is just another (admittedly fairly minor) concession that desktop users have to accept to keep tablet/touch users happy.I guess because it assumes no keyboard this is the next best thing.
Installed it on an old HP Stream 7 £50 tablet thing that was otherwise lying around. Just as an experiment. All went fine apart from screen autorotation not working without some additional drivers.
And it's great! Going to update the Surface that I use daily with OneNote - a "mission critical" machine for me. I use the desktop version of OneNote, so the problems with the Metro version shouldn't affect me...
Anyway, highlights for me are asking Cortana to sing me a lullaby (yes, really), the "Hey Cortana" function is is pretty good for opening apps (not so much for closing them), and also - surprisingly - the brilliant weather app.
And it's great! Going to update the Surface that I use daily with OneNote - a "mission critical" machine for me. I use the desktop version of OneNote, so the problems with the Metro version shouldn't affect me...
Anyway, highlights for me are asking Cortana to sing me a lullaby (yes, really), the "Hey Cortana" function is is pretty good for opening apps (not so much for closing them), and also - surprisingly - the brilliant weather app.
Well I found one problem...
Poking around in Settings last night, I went to Advanced, and found an option that essentially allows other computers on the internet to download Windows updates from your computer. In essence it turns your computer into a BitTorrent-type client! This would explain why Windows Update was consuming so much resource even when no updates were being downloaded. It's because it was serving them to other computers on the internet.
I didn't believe this at first, but some research confirmed it. Win10 uses your computer as a server to distribute updates to others, and the behaviour is on by default. Over a home network I could understand it, but over the internet...it strikes me as an extremely bad idea.
I turned it off and things are a bit better now.
Poking around in Settings last night, I went to Advanced, and found an option that essentially allows other computers on the internet to download Windows updates from your computer. In essence it turns your computer into a BitTorrent-type client! This would explain why Windows Update was consuming so much resource even when no updates were being downloaded. It's because it was serving them to other computers on the internet.
I didn't believe this at first, but some research confirmed it. Win10 uses your computer as a server to distribute updates to others, and the behaviour is on by default. Over a home network I could understand it, but over the internet...it strikes me as an extremely bad idea.
I turned it off and things are a bit better now.
AmitG said:
Well I found one problem...
Poking around in Settings last night, I went to Advanced, and found an option that essentially allows other computers on the internet to download Windows updates from your computer. In essence it turns your computer into a BitTorrent-type client! This would explain why Windows Update was consuming so much resource even when no updates were being downloaded. It's because it was serving them to other computers on the internet.
I didn't believe this at first, but some research confirmed it. Win10 uses your computer as a server to distribute updates to others, and the behaviour is on by default. Over a home network I could understand it, but over the internet...it strikes me as an extremely bad idea.
I turned it off and things are a bit better now.
Interesting !! see http://www.winbeta.org/news/windows-10-how-turn-wi...Poking around in Settings last night, I went to Advanced, and found an option that essentially allows other computers on the internet to download Windows updates from your computer. In essence it turns your computer into a BitTorrent-type client! This would explain why Windows Update was consuming so much resource even when no updates were being downloaded. It's because it was serving them to other computers on the internet.
I didn't believe this at first, but some research confirmed it. Win10 uses your computer as a server to distribute updates to others, and the behaviour is on by default. Over a home network I could understand it, but over the internet...it strikes me as an extremely bad idea.
I turned it off and things are a bit better now.
Spotted something last night. You can configure the lock screen to show info from certain installed apps, so I set the main one to be weather, then configured the weather app so it has my correct location etc. It still doesn't appear on the lock screen though. Am I missing something?
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