Windows 10 upgrade notification

Windows 10 upgrade notification

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Condi

17,086 posts

170 months

Sunday 15th November 2015
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AmitG said:
Even the PH homepage is better, although it is so full of crap that it still takes ages to load furious
Adblock and Ghostery on chrome means no crap at all.

Funk

26,254 posts

208 months

Sunday 15th November 2015
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PC''s just doing the update now, will see how it goes before doing the laptop...

grumbledoak

31,499 posts

232 months

Sunday 15th November 2015
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I've installed 1511. The "Safely Remove Hardware" icon in the System Tray has changed to match the others. Otherwise it appears to be exactly the same.

ETA - The Settings | Personalisation | Start to choose (i.e. remove all) folders and selecting Use Full Screen for it is nice, but it still isn't as good as Windows8's Start Screen or All Apps screens. Otherwise, still seeing very little difference.

Can't satisfactorily get rid of the fking Library folders in Explorer under "This PC" though.



Edited by grumbledoak on Sunday 15th November 16:32

anonymous-user

53 months

Sunday 15th November 2015
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I haven't gone back into this thread so if this has been mentioned then forgive me.
The "NEW" windows 10 upgrade can be downloaded and used on a USB stick etc.
One of its advantages is that if you have Windows 8 you can now go DIRECTLY from 8 to 10
Previously you had to have 8.1 on it

Zod

35,295 posts

257 months

Wednesday 18th November 2015
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techiedave said:
I haven't gone back into this thread so if this has been mentioned then forgive me.
The "NEW" windows 10 upgrade can be downloaded and used on a USB stick etc.
One of its advantages is that if you have Windows 8 you can now go DIRECTLY from 8 to 10
Previously you had to have 8.1 on it
This is a massive improvement. I built a new PC a week before and was furious at having to install 8.1 first. This last weekend, I reinstalled 10 Pro from scratch and activated it with a Windows 8 key. No old Windows folder. All nice and clean.

blueg33

35,575 posts

223 months

Wednesday 18th November 2015
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Upgraded my Surface Pro 3 to windows 10, and its better and faster in every respect. No issues with Bluetooth, drivers etc


Cobnapint

8,596 posts

150 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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So what's this catchily named Version 1511, build 10586 update all about then? It took about an hour to do mine and I've not noticed much difference.

Have Microsoft found a big hole in Win 10 they hurriedly needed to close up, or what?

Munter

31,319 posts

240 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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Cobnapint said:
So what's this catchily named Version 1511, build 10586 update all about then? It took about an hour to do mine and I've not noticed much difference.

Have Microsoft found a big hole in Win 10 they hurriedly needed to close up, or what?
Related to this?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/25/windows_10...

and originally this:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/12/microsofts...

zippy3x

1,308 posts

266 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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Cobnapint said:
So what's this catchily named Version 1511, build 10586 update all about then? It took about an hour to do mine and I've not noticed much difference.

Have Microsoft found a big hole in Win 10 they hurriedly needed to close up, or what?
It's the "fall update" (think service pack 0.5)

Arklight

891 posts

188 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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You'll be needing to make some changes to disable telemetry again.

The old way only part works

http://winaero.com/blog/how-to-disable-telemetry-a...

This link gives you the new service name you need to disable

https://tweakhound.com/2015/11/18/win10-diagnostic...

8bit

4,846 posts

154 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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Cobnapint said:
So what's this catchily named Version 1511, build 10586 update all about then?
1511 means year 2015, month 11 (November). They're not really doing service packs any more, just bundled updates every so often which will be numbered like this one. The build number is really just a software development thing, it won't normally be relevant to most end users. Urgent security/stability updates will still be issued as-and-when.

wolves_wanderer

12,356 posts

236 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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Cobnapint said:
So what's this catchily named Version 1511, build 10586 update all about then? It took about an hour to do mine and I've not noticed much difference.

Have Microsoft found a big hole in Win 10 they hurriedly needed to close up, or what?
It is just the way that they are keeping the OS up to date now. No new versions or service packs, just rolling updates.

Cobnapint

8,596 posts

150 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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Arklight said:
You'll be needing to make some changes to disable telemetry again.

The old way only part works

http://winaero.com/blog/how-to-disable-telemetry-a...

This link gives you the new service name you need to disable

https://tweakhound.com/2015/11/18/win10-diagnostic...
Mmmm. Interesting, but is it really a key logger as stated in that link..?

Eddh

4,656 posts

191 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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wolves_wanderer said:
It is just the way that they are keeping the OS up to date now. No new versions or service packs, just rolling updates.
That's correct, I went to a MS Operations Day yesterday for Windows 10 and they explained that they're going to be pushing a new release every 4-6 months instead of large service packs like previously.

There are a number of branches that are offset by a patch or two from each other too, went something like this:

Tech Preview, Customer Branch, Business Customer Branch, Long Term Support

each branch is offset by a patch version.

snuffy

9,660 posts

283 months

Friday 27th November 2015
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This update installed last night on 2 machines for me.

I see it cleverly changed my default pdf program to Edge - Oddly, I can't recall clicking anything that said "would you like us to change your setting back to using Microsoft ?"

robbocop33

1,184 posts

106 months

Friday 27th November 2015
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When i first installed Windows 10 my laptop really did go tits up,it just wasn't having it!!After lots of cursing and swearing and sytem restoring i got somewhere.I then read that after the second reset/restore i done i was then warned i could then never go back to Windows 7?That made my pucker twitch a bit but i bit the bullet and reset everything,Windows 10 since then has been fine,i particularly enjoy the fast boot up time.

Arklight

891 posts

188 months

Friday 27th November 2015
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Cobnapint said:
Mmmm. Interesting, but is it really a key logger as stated in that link..?
Pretty much, more info below.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/w...

daemon

35,724 posts

196 months

Saturday 28th November 2015
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I've upgraded several laptops to 10 with no issues - except this latest one.

Its a Lenovo s21e netbook, running 8.1

Straight out of the box it offered me an upgrade to 10, which I kicked off in the background - we have a VERY slow broadband speed so it took 4-5 hours. In the meantime, I set up windows cloud storage, and downloaded Office 365.

So Win10 downloads, try to run it - cant. Doesn't have 10.7GB of space free (32GB netbook).

So after much faffing about, I opted to do a factory reset. Did that last night, opted to download Win10 but did nothing else on the machine. It did that overnight.

Came down this morning, tried to update to Windows 10 - cant. Has to apply 81 updates to Windows 8.1 first. Kicked those off and left them to install.

Came home there, Win 8.1 up to date, kicked off update to Win10 - DOWNLOADING. WTF???? It has it downloaded from last night but is doing it again!!!!

bd of a ing thing

blueg33

35,575 posts

223 months

Saturday 28th November 2015
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ash73 said:
Have to say I agree with forced updates, every time someone asks me to look at their PC everything on it is hopelessly out of date and takes me hours to sort out before I get to the actual problem.

Disappointed Microsoft haven't embraced the PackagerManager in Windows 10 yet, I like this aspect of Linux because the OS updates everything including apps with a single button press.

http://www.howtogeek.com/224111/how-to-use-package...
I hate forced updates.

Just dashing to catch the train home, shut down Windows on the laptop to get "installing 1 of 30 updates do not switch off"

Effing annoying.

8bit

4,846 posts

154 months

Monday 30th November 2015
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Arklight said:
Cobnapint said:
Mmmm. Interesting, but is it really a key logger as stated in that link..?
Pretty much, more info below.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/w...
Is there some website that is kept up to date with all the stuff you should disable/uninstall/avoid etc. in order to stay private? It seems like every time a new update is pushed out, Microsoft have slipped some more data-farming stuff in under a cryptic but innocuous name.