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Irritated Goat posted:Think it was just your box. I ran 7-Zip and never once had an issue. I was just talking about file associations (as in 'I told Windows nine times to use 7-zip for zip files but it still opens them in Explorer'), by the way. Of course opening zip files if you're already in 7-zip or use Open With is going to go flawlessly. ThermoPhysical posted:Anyone know what's up with this? I did some Googling and it looks like it's some problem with how Windows updated...but I can't find any fixes that's not "unplug all the drives, reinstall Windows". That's because the fix is to unplug all the drives and reinstall Windows. Unless you want to lose access to Windows if your platter drive ever kicks it (and that's sort of what platter drives do, so...) Or, you know, figure out which port on your motherboard is actually the first SATA port Windows will look at (not necessarily the port the motherboard's screenprinting says it is) and plugging the drive you want Windows on into it. And still unplug all other drives and reinstall Windows. Unless you want to build the recovery/system/EFI protective partition on the SSD by yourself...
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# ? Sep 1, 2015 22:47 |
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Sir Unimaginative posted:Unless you want to build the recovery/system/EFI protective partition on the SSD by yourself... Which is not that big of a deal. You should be able to use bcdedit to clone your existing config. Or maybe just disconnect the drives and boot to the recovery partition and let it automatically figure it out. Probably don't need to reinstall.
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 00:20 |
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xylo posted:"System" process growing in ram is 99% likely to be the compressed store which is normal. If it was using a bunch but the system was sluggish you might have really been out of all mappable ram (page file, compressed store, and physical) at which point things get really message as the system juggles what to do. The latter I've had happen when something was running away in a Firefox process (something flash related in the plugin container I think) which chewed up ram. The VMM then compressed what it could but it started to choke from ram starvation over time (until I killed the plugin container and everything magic zipped to normal). Possibly. All I know for certain now is that a refresh fixed it, and was eventually filling up most of my 16GB ram over the course of 24 hours or so until I rebooted which started the process again.
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 00:29 |
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Sir Unimaginative posted:That's because the fix is to unplug all the drives and reinstall Windows. Unless you want to lose access to Windows if your platter drive ever kicks it (and that's sort of what platter drives do, so...) Factor Mystic posted:Which is not that big of a deal. You should be able to use bcdedit to clone your existing config. Or maybe just disconnect the drives and boot to the recovery partition and let it automatically figure it out. Probably don't need to reinstall. How would I get to the Recovery Partition in 10? I found a bunch of sites but I don't know which has decent advice. http://www.eightforums.com/installation-setup/14703-system-reserved-wrong-drive.html https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/the-wrong-drive-is-marked-as-system.109617/ https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...6a-11fe7de027e5 I'd really, really prefer not to go and reinstall the OS just to fix this problem that Windows 10 apparently created because this was not the case on 7, 8, or 8.1.
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Lum posted:Just don't use it over a network Latepost.. Why is this? Speed?
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 01:46 |
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ThermoPhysical posted:How would I get to the Recovery Partition in 10? Either boot to your installation usb stick, or click on Setting -> Update & Security -> Recovery, then do the "Advanced startup" thing. Once youre in there, you can probably either use the GUI to restore bootability or open a command prompt and run bcdboot. You may be able to use bcdedit to clone your current config to another partition, but I'm not sure how to do that off the top of my head. Heck, if you're able to disconnect the drive with the boot config, you may be able to run bcdboot without needing to get into the recovery environment.
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 02:40 |
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Factor Mystic posted:Either boot to your installation usb stick, or click on Setting -> Update & Security -> Recovery, then do the "Advanced startup" thing. Once youre in there, you can probably either use the GUI to restore bootability or open a command prompt and run bcdboot. You may be able to use bcdedit to clone your current config to another partition, but I'm not sure how to do that off the top of my head. Heck, if you're able to disconnect the drive with the boot config, you may be able to run bcdboot without needing to get into the recovery environment. Would I have to do this before or after disconnecting the HDD?
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 02:59 |
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For some reason Win10 has Groove Music open M3U files when you click on a link for an online radio station, but Groove Music doesn't know what to do with an M3U. Right click on the M3U, and change it back to Windows Media Player, and you can again listen to your local Public Radio station. Repo Man fucked around with this message at 04:29 on Sep 2, 2015 |
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Something I've noticed since the betas is that if Win10 downloads a new insider build through windows update, and the install fails for whatever reason, it decides to download the entire new build again, instead of just retrying. Surely they are checking the hashes of the downloaded updates before applying them, so the update that failed to install should be a valid file. For someone with a limited bandwidth cap, it gets pretty frustrating.
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 05:58 |
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All of a sudden Windows 10 has decided it can't restart automatically for updates. I've scheduled it at multiple times in the past couple of days but I always come back to find "Whoops, we couldn't install updates please schedule updates" and it hasn't restarted. All I can find in Event Viewer is "The description for Event ID 0 from source gupdate cannot be found." at the right timestamp, and of course searching Google just gives me results of people complaining they can't stop it restarting. I am too lazy to restart for you Microsoft.
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 07:09 |
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In a few days I will be upgrading my mobo and CPU. What is the least painful way of reinstalling Windows 10 on my, by Microsoft standards, new PC? Reinstall Windows 8, reactivate through support and upgrade to 10 again? Or just buy OEM Win 10 and throw money at it since chances are you'll have to do it eventually?
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 08:01 |
Storm- posted:In a few days I will be upgrading my mobo and CPU. What is the least painful way of reinstalling Windows 10 on my, by Microsoft standards, new PC? Reinstall Windows 8, reactivate through support and upgrade to 10 again? Or just buy OEM Win 10 and throw money at it since chances are you'll have to do it eventually? Are you running with old-style PC BIOS boot right now, and the new mobo would be UEFI boot? If that's the same, definitely reinstall. Going Win 8 install -> ensure activated -> Win 10 upgrade should work fine for that. If you're already using UEFI boot, first try just booting back into your existing install, see if that's possible. If not, try if you can do a boot recovery. You might need a bootable Win 10 DVD or USB for that. If you manage to boot into your existing install, see if it will activate. If it does, awesome. Report back! If not, see if you can phone Microsoft and get them to activate, also report that back I think lots of people want to know how that kind of hardware upgrade gets handled. If you can't get your existing upgraded install activated again, just do the Win 8 install -> ensure activated -> Win 10 upgrade dance. That ought to work.
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 09:31 |
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nielsm posted:Are you running with old-style PC BIOS boot right now, and the new mobo would be UEFI boot? If that's the same, definitely reinstall. Going Win 8 install -> ensure activated -> Win 10 upgrade should work fine for that. Yep, currently on good ol' BIOS, new one will have UEFI. I guess I'll try to boot with a Win 10 USB and try to patch things up, have a feeling it won't work but it doesn't hurt to try. Not a lot of info out there, reports say support won't let you reactivate but I guess it doesn't hurt to try. Gonna be weird in a year when the free period is over and people decide to upgrade their hardware. Wouldn't mind spending money on Windows 10, served me well so far. I do dislike how the Media Tool forces me to install it in my native language instead of EN-US even after changing my locale/location during the upgrade. Been using Windows in English for so long even native OS language is pretty much moonspeak. Storm- fucked around with this message at 09:53 on Sep 2, 2015 |
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Storm- posted:I do dislike how the Media Tool forces me to install it in my native language instead of EN-US even after changing my locale/location during the upgrade. Been using Windows in English for so long even native OS language is pretty much moonspeak. If you have it make an ISO you can choose language. If you're on Windows 8 or up you can then mount the ISO directly and just start the installer from that. If not, use WinRAR or something to unpack it and start the installer.
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 10:26 |
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EasyEW posted:Just to be clear, is this mainly a combination of the lack of transparency thing and the whole "being Microsoft for the past 25 years" thing? Or is that redundant? My issue is the lack of transparency. "Being Microsoft" isn't, really. I've been using their products forever, and in the last 5 years they've been getting *a lot* better, so it's not like Microsoft is a bad thing by default or anything. I, however, do not understand why I don't have full access to the data they would like to keep about me. It just seems like a stupid decision to me. I don't give a poo poo if everything about me is public knowledge, I'm cool with everything google/internet/social media/etc does. Privacy is, for all intents and purposes, dead. Any way you spin it, it's just gone. But then why does Microsoft feel like it has to hide what they're collecting about me? Why do they keep their data about me secret unless I go extreme lengths to retrieve it? Privacy kinda goes both ways. If they're not playing, I won't either. Simple as that. I'm probably biased cause I'm from Eastern Europe and the memory of lovely secret data collection for all kinds of bullshit is still too recent, but it is what it is. When I can log into my Microsoft (or google or whatever other ~evil corp~ is on the top of the list today) account and browse/edit the same data about me they can, then I'll be totally cool with what they do. Until then, they're getting what I'm getting Speaking of opting out, google search is so much more useful when it can't give you "targeted results". Just because I searched for various Linux docs all last week doesn't mean I want my loving results populated exclusively with useless ask ubuntu results when I google "ctrl caps lock remote desktop", you idiot search engine. I'm sorry, I'll stop now.
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 13:20 |
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Truga posted:When I can log into my Microsoft (or google or whatever other ~evil corp~ is on the top of the list today) account and browse/edit the same data about me they can, then I'll be totally cool with what they do. Until then, they're getting what I'm getting https://history.google.com/history/ I don't know if that's what you're looking, but it allows you to see your text search history, location history, and you can even listen to your voice searches for whatever. My voice sounds terrible.
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 14:00 |
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Tapedump posted:Latepost.. Why is this? Speed? Old old sh/sc joke that came about after someone's rant thread.
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 14:44 |
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Ia anyone else here having that system process memory leak issue? My process is hovering around 2gb right now. Reading around, it seems to be affecting people that upgraded from 8.1/7 to 10. No one can decide if it's a driver issue or a malware issue or a registry issue. Maybe none of those.
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Truga posted:I'm sorry, I'll stop now. Don't apologize. I asked an honest question, you gave me an honest answer. But it does kind of underline the type of weirdness that's going on right now with Win10, when MS takes a look at Google/Android and they decide they want to be a little of that, but still mostly Windows, with all the baggage that implies. It feels like they're trying to jam the two cultures together and so far it's a rough transition. It's obvious from the way they're pushing Office 365 that they've fallen in love with software by subscription, though. Considering the free upgrades, that's expected. Gotta subsidize it somehow.
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 18:47 |
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EasyEW posted:Don't apologize. I asked an honest question, you gave me an honest answer. I am pretty happy with the privacy controls in Windows 10 but I'd like to see the telemetry setting be user controllable and I'd like to see users get more information on updates being delivered by Microsoft. For what its worth the only way I was able to block the telemetry data was at the router level. There was an Arstechnica article that also noted some functions not working properly even with privacy settings toggled so those should be adjusted. I don't think any of those requests is unreasonable or justifies a bunch of tinfoil hat hyperbole, not that you personally did but some people here have this silly all or nothing approach to this.
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 19:35 |
ViggyNash posted:Ia anyone else here having that system process memory leak issue? My process is hovering around 2gb right now. Reading around, it seems to be affecting people that upgraded from 8.1/7 to 10. No one can decide if it's a driver issue or a malware issue or a registry issue. Maybe none of those. quote:Memory Manager Improvements:
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 20:45 |
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Is there a way to remove an entire Start tile group without removing every entry individually?
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 21:07 |
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Are people still running into the eternal reboot problem? I really liked what I saw of Windows 10 for the four hours it was working, but then everything poo poo the bed and I had to downgrade.
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 22:04 |
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The windows 10 email app while looking and functioning well is loving useless. It simply cannot consistently download and notify me of messages. Unreal. How loving hard is this Microsoft?! HUH?!
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 22:26 |
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xylo posted:
Or alternatively if it's degrading your performance, ignore xylo's post and do a refresh to make it clean Win10. I upgraded from 8.1, had that issue, ended up doing the reset and now instead of System just continually growing and using most/all my CPU/RAM (i5 2500k OC'd/16GB ram) it's now using about what it was pre-upgrade. Just make sure you've got your motherboard/lan/etc drivers downloaded and are on the latest bios. I had an Asrock Z68 and finding an ethernet driver for it that wouldn't cut out every 30-60 seconds was a pain in the rear end.
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redeyes posted:The windows 10 email app while looking and functioning well is loving useless. It simply cannot consistently download and notify me of messages. Unreal. How loving hard is this Microsoft?! HUH?! I basically get notified of new emails these days by my iPad's notification bell - and I'm using the Outlook app there. Always notifies, push seems to always work.
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# ? Sep 2, 2015 23:19 |
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On the insider build and just got this notification.quote:Hi everyone,
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# ? Sep 3, 2015 00:12 |
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Happy_Misanthrope posted:I've always had a problem with Outlook and push email - across Win8.1 with the older mail app, Outlook 2013, and now W10 + the universal mail app. Really don't know wtf, it will be immediate and provide notifications for several hours a day or work for several days in a row, then just...stop. This is really just solidifying my choice to switch from Windows to android for my personal computers. Basic functionality in Windows just plain sucks.
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BattleCattle posted:
I think you meant to say BSD.
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# ? Sep 3, 2015 00:54 |
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So people on the insider build can now do "hey cortana, please do the needful?"
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# ? Sep 3, 2015 01:56 |
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She's still sulking at me, so
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Lum posted:So people on the insider build can now do "hey cortana, please do the needful?" No they can now say "Crickey! Put another shrimp on the barbie Cortana!" or "Hey Cortana aboot that!"
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# ? Sep 3, 2015 03:59 |
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Lowtechs posted:On the insider build and just got this notification. Yep, Cortana now works for me. Right now my biggest issues with it are commands not being understood about 25% of the time I say them. Like, they render in the search bar right, then the characters just switch into jiberish and it fails. Don't quite get that. Second is that I can't get my apps to use my ja-jp XML Voice commands. They work for the other supported languages, just not Japanese. I'll put that up with it being an Insider issue, and maybe it requires an updated SDK . Also instead of "Hey Cortana", you have to say "Cortana-San" . Not worth getting the insider build just for it (I wanted to build apps against it, but like I said, it's not working for me ) but still nice I guess.
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# ? Sep 3, 2015 04:01 |
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/09/02/windows-10-updates-u-turn/ Looks like MS has been listening for more transparency in updates...for Enterprise users?
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Wow, so I guess it's true that Avril is big in Japan.
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# ? Sep 3, 2015 05:14 |
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Stanley Pain posted:I think you meant to say BSD. Not on the desktop.
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Does anyone know if Windows 10 Home can backup to UNC paths (network paths, specifically) like Windows 7 (and newer) Pro can? It's the one major feature that's always been lacking in Windows 7 Home.Stanley Pain posted:I think you meant to say BSD.
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D. Ebdrup posted:Does anyone know if Windows 10 Home can backup to UNC paths (network paths, specifically) like Windows 7 (and newer) Pro can? It's the one major feature that's always been lacking in Windows 7 Home. That's a great idea! I should do that!
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# ? Sep 3, 2015 17:37 |
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Windows 10 has been fine so far but Edge is loving painfully slow at times. It keeps crashing on facebook and when paying bills the new tabs that pop open for secure pages take forever to load. Also the search that's default on the bar is painfully slow. I am running 8GB RAM and have relatively new I3, so why is this a problem? Also, is there a way for the NUMLOCK to stay on once logged into windows? I have seen all the regedits to make it on during boot and on the login screen, but nothing once logged in. Doomsday Jesus fucked around with this message at 01:40 on Sep 4, 2015 |
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Doomsday Jesus posted:Also, is there a way for the NUMLOCK to stay on once logged into windows? I have seen all the regedits to make it on during boot and on the login screen, but nothing once logged in. I'm not sure I understand. Are you saying your num lock turns itself off? Or that you don't want it to be possible to turn off, even if you hit the key?
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# ? Sep 4, 2015 02:27 |