Windows 10 upgrade notification

[StressedEric]

8bit said:

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.

It may be worth asking your question on a Windows 10 forum.

Like this one:

http://www.tenforums.com/

[furtive]

Since the last update, auto logon no longer works. Anyone else experienced this? It doesn't seem possible to re-enable it

[Funk]

blueg33 said:

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.

If you're on Pro you can turn them off.

[Sheepshanks]

Funk said:

blueg33 said:

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.

If you're on Pro you can turn them off.

Remove the mains power and it'll shut down without doing the updates.

[mygoldfishbowl]

ash73 said:

Damn spoke to soon, popped the PC back in the cinema room and it won't display the projector native resolution (selectable but corrupted) and S/PDIF sound output is silent. Radeon HD4600 and Soundblaster XFI Xtreme Audio are the culprits.

I found a Win 10 driver for the sound card and analogue output works but not digital (knew that would be a bd). No Win 10 driver for the video card and it won't install in compatibility mode so far. Hours of fun ahead. Any suggestions?

That's pretty much why I dumped 10. I had a 22" screen for my lappy itself & a 50" tv connected through HDMI. I couldn't get either to display as they did when on W7.

[blueg33]

Sheepshanks said:

Funk said:

blueg33 said:

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.

If you're on Pro you can turn them off.

Remove the mains power and it'll shut down without doing the updates.

No it does the updates on battery.

[8bit]

I was having trouble with the 1511 update that came recently. I found a post online that suggested going into C:\windows\software update\download\ or something like that and deleting the contents, rebooting and trying the updates again. That worked for me.

I am not at my Win 10 machine just now to verify the location of the folder and I can't find the post online again but I'll have a look this evening and confirm the folder location.

[snuffy]

8bit said:

I was having trouble with the 1511 update that came recently. I found a post online that suggested going into C:\windows\software update\download\ or something like that and deleting the contents, rebooting and trying the updates again. That worked for me.

I had that on one of my machines; it just kept failing to update and saying something like "we'll try again later" and it just failed again. But of you delete teh folder you mention and restart it then updated okay.

[Tigerite]

Try this: http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/45005-Sim...

[Cobnapint]

PW said:

The simple solution to one part of an operating system not working correctly is to install a completely new one?

How about no?

The simple solution would be NOT fkING BREAK IT IN THE FIRST PLACE.

Agree, 7 is good, but 10 is too.

Do it...!

[Max M4X WW]

ash73 said:

There is no reason to stay on 7. The upgrade is free and relatively painless, meanwhile we get less new functionality on 10 because they have to support luddites on a legacy platform

Hmm, My Acer Revo goes through the whole process and seems to boot into Win 10 then it fails and restores to 7!

I'm not willing to try it on my main PC until I have tried it on my rarely used Media PC!

[grumbledoak]

Max M4X WW said:

I'm not willing to try it on my main PC until I have tried it on my rarely used Media PC!

Er? You will lose Media Centre if you upgrade to Win10. That's the PC you should leave alone. Everything else about Win10 is good news.

[sooty61]

Tried upgrading my Win 7 VMWare VM a few times but whatever I try it doesn't work with well documented errors. I will stick with Win 7, not that I use it much anyway.

[Max M4X WW]

grumbledoak said:

Max M4X WW said:

I'm not willing to try it on my main PC until I have tried it on my rarely used Media PC!

Er? You will lose Media Centre if you upgrade to Win10. That's the PC you should leave alone. Everything else about Win10 is good news.

It has Windows 7, I use it with my TV.

[ArsE92]

Has anyone looked at joining a Windows 10 device to an Azure AD (Office 365)? There's very little online about this, but it would be very useful for us if it delivers what I hope it will (group policy of sorts; SSO etc).

I'm just building a Win10 VM now so I'll have a play.

[Jonesy23]

ash73 said:

There is no reason to stay on 7. The upgrade is free and relatively painless, meanwhile we get less new functionality on 10 because they have to support luddites on a legacy platform

They should just force the upgrade and be done with it, imo.

How much wrong can you get in such a small number of words?! I wonder sometimes if people are paid evangelists for 10...

[randlemarcus]

ArsE92 said:

Has anyone looked at joining a Windows 10 device to an Azure AD (Office 365)? There's very little online about this, but it would be very useful for us if it delivers what I hope it will (group policy of sorts; SSO etc).

I'm just building a Win10 VM now so I'll have a play.

If you want Group Policy, you'll be wildly disappointed. Azure AD doesn't do it, Azure Active Directory Domain Services doesn't do it.

[Zod]

grumbledoak said:

Max M4X WW said:

I'm not willing to try it on my main PC until I have tried it on my rarely used Media PC!

Er? You will lose Media Centre if you upgrade to Win10. That's the PC you should leave alone. Everything else about Win10 is good news.

Yes, don't do it with a MediaCentre. I did it a few months ago, tried and failed to replicate MediaCentre with Kodi and reverted to 8.1 last weekend. Interestingly, in the restore options it tells you that the option to restore to the previous OS is available for just one month. I waited several months and it worked perfectly.

On any non MediaCentre PC, you should just upgrade. Windows 10 is quicker than Windows 7.

[Richyvrlimited]

ash73 said:

There is no reason to stay on 7. The upgrade is free and relatively painless, meanwhile we get less new functionality on 10 because they have to support luddites on a legacy platform

They should just force the upgrade and be done with it, imo.

Balls to that.

I'm a big Win10 fan - on my desktop.

But on my Surface3, it's bobbins in comparison to Win8.1, I updated as soon as possible, and roleld back within a few days. Windows10 needs a lot more touch development before I update to Windows10

[8bit]

ash73 said:

There is no reason to stay on 7.

How about the significant privacy sacrifices you have to make (even with all the settings turned down/off it's still worse than 7), you really cool with all of that?

ash73 said:

The upgrade is free and relatively painless,

Free yes. Painless for some, sure, for many (including me) definitely not painless.

ash73 said:

meanwhile we get less new functionality on 10 because they have to support luddites on a legacy platform

Terribly sorry for the inconvenience...

ash73 said:

They should just force the upgrade and be done with it, imo.

I'm sure if they thought they'd get away with it they would have done. They'd have lost a lot of users though.