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Anyone else having issues upgrading your "care" levels in order to accommodate installing a new Windows OS on an aging "gaming rig" you have lying around? I find mine are pretty low and I don't really feel like doing it.
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I say if you rely on the machine in order to make a living, I would hold off until Windows 10 is really completely out of beta and a few patches come through. You aren't missing out on anything big, unless you consider being a Microsoft Honorary QA Team Member a big deal.
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Aug 22, 2015 22:55
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Inverness posted:That "spying bullshit" is itself mostly bullshit conjured by people that can't see past their tinfoil hats. Yeah. In fact, remove yourself from the Windows ecosystem all together, you'll be much happier for it.
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Sep 1, 2015 13:46
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Volcott posted:You can't buy Office 365 you dingus. ??? is this some kind of Microsoft doublespeak?
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Sep 5, 2015 06:49
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biznatchio posted:Except for the start menu and search randomly breaking. Lmao. Microsoft
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Sep 25, 2015 20:34
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Potato Salad posted:How exactly does the use of a pin make a device and account more secure than the use of a full, strong password? I'm totally not following, sorry. The answer is that Microsoft is a group of visionless hacks who saw someone use a PIN on an ipad once and just rolled with it without thinking too much about how it works.
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Sep 26, 2015 18:33
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EoRaptor posted:It's going to deactivate, and while you can phone MS and try to convince them to do a phone activation, the Windows 10 license you agreed to expressly bound that license to your then current hardware, and when you replace that hardware, you are obligated to buy a new license. lmao What a clusterfuck. Dumb dumb dumb.
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Oct 7, 2015 22:26
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Idk it just sounds confusing. If it's free updates forever then just make the thing free and be done with it. Or at least just loosen up activation restrictions in order to get more people on the platform forever.
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Oct 7, 2015 22:46
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Also, does free updates forever mean that MS has to support 32-bit Windows forever or is there a "cut off" support date for Windows 10.x around the corner in a few years?
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Oct 7, 2015 22:48
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Lum posted:Why? MS make most of their Windows money from OEM licences and Software Assurance. If they just made it free they'd have no money coming in for Windows at all. Yeah maybe free's too far? but I don't know it just seems complicated
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Oct 7, 2015 23:23
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EpicCodeMonkey posted:Thanks guys. I ended up just using an old Win7 Pro x64 ISO I had archived from MSDN during my Uni days, which accepted my key just fine. Strange, since the MS website said it was OEM (and it came with the laptop as a COA) but who cares, really. The point is that you're learning. Windows is an unmitigated disaster of poo poo and you're better off using almost anything else.
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Oct 19, 2015 21:32
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Solution to all Windows 10 issues / deferring the Win 10 update: just don't restart into your Bootcamp partition. No problems.
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Nov 3, 2015 00:40
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I'm having trouble figuring out which animal to sacrifice to ensure a clean W10 install. I was going to go with a goat, just because, well, tradition. But I'm worried about the mess. Will a smaller animal work?
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Nov 10, 2015 17:46
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WorkingStiff posted:Oh come on, enough with the victimization terminology. MS is not raping you. Just use a different OS. Oh boy.
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Dec 27, 2015 20:00
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Lum posted:Oh lovely. The December Intel graphics drivers still cause bluescreens if you have hardware acceleration enabled in firefox. roughly translated this means: Windows is a real piece of poo poo
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Jan 4, 2016 18:43
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hooah posted:I saw people upset about the new calculator before. What's the problem with it? It seems no better/worse than the old one. Just a different skin, really. Well, plus it also has some conversion stuff which could be handy. 
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Feb 11, 2016 18:26
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Is Windows 10 out of beta yet?
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Feb 11, 2016 23:27
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nimper posted:Windows 10 is different, therefore people think it's bad. Is it out of beta yet? I'm not talking about an official beta, but rather the loops Microsoft has put put their consumers through after firing their QA team.
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Mar 25, 2016 05:06
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The Milkman posted:I installed 10 on a machine with a q6600/2GB/Radeon 3100. Had to futz with the graphics drivers but that's it. For basic desktop stuff I doubt I could tell the difference between it and my x-treme gamer rig. It certainly runs better now than with the Vista that it came with. ah the q6600.. good memories with that cpu. I bought the Special Goon Deal Edition Dell in 2008 that had that cpu in it and just threw the fucker out this weekend because it was fried  R.I.P. old friend
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Apr 6, 2016 21:29
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You really do have to lower your expectations if you're using Windows, for sure. You're playing their game, not yours.
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Apr 14, 2016 19:28
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Cool, so the Windows 10 Beta is ending and the final release is due this summer then?
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May 5, 2016 20:44
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No, I'm pretty sure you're wrong. I mean they didn't call it a beta, but if it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, and shits the bed and irritates the gently caress out of early adopters like a duck...
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May 5, 2016 20:50
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Flipperwaldt posted:So download Win 10 install media to a usb stick, disconnect all drives, connect ssd, install Windows 10, plug in Windows 7 OEM key during, done. Check everything works, reconnect other drives, verify boot order, done again. wow this sounds like a lot of fun
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Jun 3, 2016 19:27
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Flipperwaldt posted:I don't think it is at all reasonable to expect it to be fun. No kidding.
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Jun 3, 2016 20:12
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Do the gods take the sacrifice of a lamb of any age for Win 10 to update correctly? Or is there a specific range I should shoot for?
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Jun 3, 2016 23:49
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Microsoft: It's time to update! Windows 10 is Free!** ** Not "free" free, but sort of free, sometimes, in certain cases. You guys will figure it out, you've been dealing with this bullshit for ages.
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Jun 15, 2016 14:54
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Is there a consistent solution for fixing the start button when it stops working (other than a reboot)?
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Jun 15, 2016 16:06
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AlexDeGruven posted:My start button has not stopped working even once since I upgraded last year. Not on any of my machines or those I'm responsible for. Anyway, sometimes it stops working right away after booting, sometimes it's after the machine has been running for a while.
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Jun 15, 2016 16:42
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edit: somehow i double posted?
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Jun 15, 2016 16:42
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AlexDeGruven posted:The problem is, his post is saying "Windows is broken because X" when it's obviously not because it would be all over the place and not just a couple of posters here. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/get-help-windows-start-menu Well I mean it is a problem MS admits exists, but I was just hoping there was something simple I could run to get the start menu going without rebooting. My only Windows machine is running on an older, slower laptop HDD and while Win 10 does start up pretty quickly, it's still a pain in my rear end to reboot it. No OEM software, it's an upgrade install but there's no way in hell I'm diving through clean installs, licensing and other bullshit. I've got things to do. Hopefully it'll be fixed when Windows 10 is out of beta at least.
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Jun 15, 2016 16:56
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Bing up Cortana's rear end
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Jun 16, 2016 04:52
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GreenNight posted:Microsoft released a tool to troubleshoot the Start Menu in Windows 10. Holy poo poo.
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Jun 21, 2016 22:26
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MS did fire their Windows QA team a while ago. That might've done it.
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Jun 22, 2016 13:52
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PerrineClostermann posted:Well, yes. This is why in my original post I wanted Vulkan to take over. nobody actually reads posts anymore, it's more important to be Right
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Jun 24, 2016 20:11
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xamphear posted:I think to truly be typical Microsoft Windows 10 fashion, it should go like this: j-j-john titor.. is that you?!
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Jun 27, 2016 17:47
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dud root posted:I never understood what this actually means. Windows 10: TYOOL2042 ? what?
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Jun 28, 2016 13:28
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Massasoit posted:I upgraded my laptop to 10 when it came out but I held off on my tower but I think I'm going to do it soon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7bHCs_iu9w
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Jun 29, 2016 01:25
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xamphear posted:Yes? And? Did you? What new computer did you decide to go with? lol
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Jul 6, 2016 00:24
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HMS Boromir posted:Is there a way to edit txt files or extract archives in protected places like Program Files without painstakingly opening notepad/7zip with admin privileges and then browsing to the file in question? Kind of a nuclear option, but can you set notepad/7zip up to always run as admin using the compatability settings? Alternatively, does dragging and dropping a file into an admin-running version of notepad work?
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Jul 8, 2016 19:27
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fishmech posted:Don't forget that if you hate having wide margins and all that stuff (I do), you can use the registry to shrink the size of window elements and get more space. I use this configuration: Plus it seems like a quick and clean fix, so that's a plus lol
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