Windows 10 upgrade notification
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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.
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
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.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
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?Have Microsoft found a big hole in Win 10 they hurriedly needed to close up, or what?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/25/windows_10...
and originally this:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/12/microsofts...
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)Have Microsoft found a big hole in Win 10 they hurriedly needed to close up, or what?
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...
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...
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.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.Have Microsoft found a big hole in Win 10 they hurriedly needed to close up, or what?
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..?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...
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.
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.
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...
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
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
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. 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...
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.
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...
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