discostig Manual mode ________________________ All day, erryday Donating Members 13,798 Member For: 17y 19d Gender: Male Location: Probably above atmospheric pressure Posted 04/08/15 02:30 PM Share Posted 04/08/15 02:30 PM General musings about my Windows 10 Experience so far, some tips for those trying to install or post installation..Got bored again tonight, ended up finding two temporary installation folders in the root of C drive, one presumably from the proper system tray "Get Windows 10" app and another from the attempted forced install I'd done using the EXE you can download from the MS site. Browsed the folders and found what looked like the setup disc contents in a (hidden) folder "C:\$Windows.~BT\Sources\Windows" and ran setup.exe...voila it's now installed , took about 30 minutes on my 8GB RAM/SSD/hex core AMD CPU system. Got in OK, had to reinstall video card (second LCD not detected...grabbed latest nVidia for Win10, installed over the top) and wifi card drivers (old Win7 installer from DLink site, removed first then reinstalled as driver update failed to find it online), Foobar music player program needed to be told again which sound card to use. I grabbed Produkey from nirsoft website and saved my Windows10 license code by emailing it to myself in case I feel like trying a fresh install (need key to do it from scratch, can't get key until you upgrade existing or buy it).Things I recommend reading to avoid crap happeningThings you probably want to switch off:http://windows.wonderhowto.com/inspiration/everything-you-need-disable-windows-10-0163552/-I liked the ability to get updates from PCs on your local network but I disabled the sending of them back to other random PCs...this will only waste precious monthly Internet quota.Was annoyed at the limited options in the wallpaper settings widget so googled and found thishttps://www.reddit.com/r/wallpapers/comments/3fec2g/windows_10_random_wallpaper_slideshow/ the command:control /name Microsoft.Personalization /page pageWallpaper I seem to have an issue with windows not appearing on top when they launch, for example browsing folders and highlighting one and pressing delete...the confirmation dialog appears BEHIND the explorer window...wasn't doing it before, will try a reboot... Overall the OS seems OK so far though. Just lots of crap to turn off, generally based around cloud sharing of your settings and files across all the Microsoft devices you may or may not own. One drive automatically launching and wanting to upload all your files etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzMahoony Hench, but no longer shredded or tanned. Member 3,343 Member For: 17y 8m 15d Gender: Male Location: Canning Vale, W.A Posted 04/08/15 09:28 PM Share Posted 04/08/15 09:28 PM that's.. sorta annoying, gotta love how everything's automatically set ON by default. Im upgrading the PC later this week with a few go fast bits and a fresh install of 10 so I'll see how it goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OZYWALKER XR50T Gold Donating Members 2,795 Member For: 11y 7m 12d Gender: Male Location: Western Sydney Posted 04/08/15 10:06 PM Share Posted 04/08/15 10:06 PM Did try the installer but something happened......So ran a fresh install from USB, only took 25min.Everything works as it used to, just got to get rid of that one drive crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzMahoony Hench, but no longer shredded or tanned. Member 3,343 Member For: 17y 8m 15d Gender: Male Location: Canning Vale, W.A Posted 04/08/15 10:33 PM Share Posted 04/08/15 10:33 PM Thanks for the heads up, why they'd think anyone would constantly want their files uploaded is anyones guess. If I wanted files uploaded id go and do it myself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rab WOT? Moderating Team 10,981 Member For: 11y 9m 18d Gender: Male Location: Frankston, 3199 Posted 05/08/15 12:13 AM Share Posted 05/08/15 12:13 AM Installed on 3 Surface Pro's and my desktop PC last week.MacBook and sons lappy to goNot a single issue yet.Even fixed up a couple of issues I was having with some hardware under 8.1Onedrive - Love it. I know there's other ways to keep files synced, but no matter where I am now, or what PC/Lappy/Tablet/Phone I'm on the files I NEED access to are right there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawlass Silver Donating Members 1,161 Member For: 17y 1m 4d Gender: Male Location: left right out Posted 05/08/15 07:31 AM Share Posted 05/08/15 07:31 AM (edited) I ran the precheck on my 7 year old w7 lappy , cpu wasnt supported.Pefect reason for a new machine so now surfing on the new lappy with lotsa go fast stuff. W10 download was silky smooth.Off to check out stever's links. Edited 05/08/15 07:41 AM by hawlass 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discostig Manual mode ________________________ All day, erryday Donating Members 13,798 Member For: 17y 19d Gender: Male Location: Probably above atmospheric pressure Posted 05/08/15 01:23 PM Author Share Posted 05/08/15 01:23 PM Re One DriveDid a job the other week where the net was shockingly bad (ADSL) but it seemed to come and go. Eventually narrowed it down to OneDrive on a laptop trying to upload gigs of pictures through a tiny upload pipe, thus killing the web surfing ability of everything in the house. No rate limiting option in the home version the lady had (enterprise does, I think).LaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaameAlso lame coz Australian "broadband" speedsI like the Win10 ability to auto colour your taskbar and whatnot based on the colour of your desktop wallpaper image, bit cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tocchi Sandtrap Motorsport Donating Members 2,055 Member For: 16y 19d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 05/08/15 01:37 PM Share Posted 05/08/15 01:37 PM My trend micro password manager has stopped on W10 - worked fine on W8.1Haven't played on it much - but already hating all the installed apps. I don't care for Xbox apps etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discostig Manual mode ________________________ All day, erryday Donating Members 13,798 Member For: 17y 19d Gender: Male Location: Probably above atmospheric pressure Posted 05/08/15 03:25 PM Author Share Posted 05/08/15 03:25 PM Yeah I switched off the background loading of pretty much everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralph Wiggum Moar Powar Babeh Lifetime Members 19,323 Member For: 19y 2m 20d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 06/08/15 01:50 AM Share Posted 06/08/15 01:50 AM Yeah I switched off the background loading of pretty much everything.This is relevant to my interests. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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