Windows 10 upgrade notification

[grumbledoak]

S6PNJ said:

My wife's tablet (Linx 10) has now been updated to Win 10 but the inbuilt mail app only shows her mail back to 29 July 2015 (Win 10 day?). To see older emails she has to go to the web version of her email (outlook.com) and log in. Is there any way to get the older emails showing on the built in app prior to 29 July?

Yes. Under Settings (the cog), Accounts, click the account name, then "Change Mailbox sync settings" then select under "Download email from". For Outlook accounts the only one bigger than one month is "any time", oddly.

[S6PNJ]

Thanks grumble! That sorted it, the one setting I couldn't find! Much appreciated, I now have a happy wife once again!

[GlenMH]

andymc said:

thanks, its showing 162 updates ans when i say update it craps out midway, could running norton on the machine be a conflict

I read somewhere that doing huge groups isn't great - you might want to do them 30 at a time.

[andymc]

techiedave said:

andymc said:

thanks, its showing 162 updates ans when i say update it craps out midway, could running norton on the machine be a conflict

That first update I alluded to is important as it needs to be installed to enable win 8.1

YOU GET win 8.1 by finding the apps tile on the start menu clicking it then clicking on the Update to 8.1 "tile"
NOT via the windows update option

The windows 8.1 update thing looks like this in the apps option:



You then just click on it and it err installs though sometimes it needs a few clicks

Edited by techiedave on Monday 7th September 21:07

I understand that Dave, when I click on the tile it tells me there are patches that need installing first, hence me looking for the updates

[westtra]

So tried updating. Thankfully I had a spare drive that I cloned my main hard drive to prior to upgrade so easy swap back and transfer data.

All drivers etc are the latest windows 7 and even tried updating once win 10 installed.

The 2 issues are

1. Can't turn on the wifi adapter(intel dual band wireless ac-7260). Have no VPN software etc. on laptop and couldn't get it to work updating etc.ethernet cable works ok.

2. Grapphics driver will now display to laptop screen unless I dissable it.

The laptop has nvida GT555m graphics card. Latest nvida drivers etc. and also intel HD3000 graphics. If I plug in an HDMI lead it will output 1080p to a TV no problem but no laptop screen until I dissable the intel HD graphic driver in device manager. oly problem then is graphic quality is crap 1024 as oppesed to 1366 x 768.

Has anyone any ideas on how to fix the above?

My spare crap many years old laptop upgraded with zero issues.

[Graham]

anyone having trouble with flash player and anything that communicates bluetooth

[cirian75]

well windows 10 has been on my dads laptop for 3 weeks now

100% full legal install of win8, updated to 8.1 and then to 10 via windows update its self

jumped through all the hoops, even a pointless near 1 hour phone call to MS

And it still won't activate.

[jingars]

Graham said:

anyone having trouble with flash player and anything that communicates bluetooth

I waffled on about my flash woes on the previous page - now sorted by removing the Catalyst Control Centre stuff for the video driver, and installing an 8.1 video driver.

[jingars]

Have now updated five laptops and one desktop to Windows 10.

The flash problem I mentioned earlier. Despite all my efforts in downloading the bolt-on to enable the hiding of updates, and telling Windows 10 not to install device drivers, it still upgrades the video driver on my wife's PC. This causes flash player problems and stops inbound video working on Skype. If I roll back the driver then all is fine - but it is a pain.

My desktop is definitely running a little quicker than when it was on Windows 7. One little niggle; cannot start any pinned folders from the right-click list on the taskbar's file explorer. The taskbar's file explorer start on a normal right click. Anyone else had this?

[WinstonWolf]

Just bit the bullet and upgraded my domain joined machine, it went smoothly *but* you lose Windows Remote Server Administration Tools, a bugger if you use your workstation to manage WSUS.

[zippy3x]

WinstonWolf said:

Just bit the bullet and upgraded my domain joined machine, it went smoothly *but* you lose Windows Remote Server Administration Tools, a bugger if you use your workstation to manage WSUS.

You do know mail is worse than 8 don't you

[WinstonWolf]

zippy3x said:

WinstonWolf said:

Just bit the bullet and upgraded my domain joined machine, it went smoothly *but* you lose Windows Remote Server Administration Tools, a bugger if you use your workstation to manage WSUS.

You do know mail is worse than 8 don't you

It seems my reputation precedes me It seemed OK at first glance tonight, not really played with it yet.

[_dobbo_]

WinstonWolf said:

It seems my reputation precedes me It seemed OK at first glance tonight, not really played with it yet.

The mail app is better (as in nicer to use), but buggy as hell. Constant, constant crashes for me.

[V8A*ndy]

Just upgraded yesterday from 7.

Had to use a partition tool to increase the size of the data partition.

After that nightmare it updated flawlessly on this Sandybridge Dell.

Very happy and everything seems to be working for now.

[AndrewEH1]

I'm sure it's in this thread somewhere, but searching here and online has proved fruitless.

Anyway, how can I stop the bloody upgrade notification appearing in the task bar permanently?

I'm on Win7 and don't really plan on upgrading, maybe ever.

[GreigM]

AndrewEH1 said:

I'm sure it's in this thread somewhere, but searching here and online has proved fruitless.

Anyway, how can I stop the bloody upgrade notification appearing in the task bar permanently?

I'm on Win7 and don't really plan on upgrading, maybe ever.

http://microsoft-news.com/how-to-remove-windows-10-upgrade-notification-on-windows-7-and-windows-8/

just remove that update and stop it coming back - looks fairly simple

[MarkRSi]

Not sure if this is a Windows 10 problem or not, but I've noticed one the machines I've upgraded from 7 is unable to play audio over the HDMI cable, using a (admittedly rather elderly) 8600GT card. I'm quite certain this worked without using an SP/DIF cable from the motherboard to the card but can get one made up if all else fails.

Tried using latest Nvidia drivers and ensuring the Nvidia settings have enabled audio to the TV but no dice, only audio devices that appear in the Windows playback devices are the on-board audio ports.

ETA just plugged in a SP/DIF cable I had lying round connecting motherboard to the graphics card and all is fine now

Edited by MarkRSi on Friday 25th September 00:13

[69 coupe]

WinstonWolf said:

Just bit the bullet and upgraded my domain joined machine, it went smoothly *but* you lose Windows Remote Server Administration Tools, a bugger if you use your workstation to manage WSUS.

Was your lappy 8.1 pro? I've upped from 8.1 home premium to pro to get RSAT for adminning, with the eventual move to win10 and hope that win10 has RSAT tools.

[WinstonWolf]

69 coupe said:

WinstonWolf said:

Just bit the bullet and upgraded my domain joined machine, it went smoothly *but* you lose Windows Remote Server Administration Tools, a bugger if you use your workstation to manage WSUS.

Was your lappy 8.1 pro? I've upped from 8.1 home premium to pro to get RSAT for adminning, with the eventual move to win10 and hope that win10 has RSAT tools.

It currently has a very reduced set or RSAT tools, if you're wanting a console to monitor WSUS etc stick to 8.1 for the time being.

[69 coupe]

Thanks, exact info I needed. I'll stick with 8.1 pro for a good while yet.