Pressure to upgrade to Windows 10 ratchets up. AGAIN.
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Installed the anniversary update this morning, two bluescreens since. Both related to the display driver, I knew the card was a bit dodgy already
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@Jaloopa said in Pressure to upgrade to Windows 10 ratchets up. AGAIN.:
Installed the anniversary update this morning, two bluescreens since. Both related to the display driver, I knew the card was a bit dodgy already
Did it produce bluescreens before the update ?
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@TimeBandit no, but the video did die sometimes while playing Civ V in DX10/11 mode (9 always seemed fine). Might be that the drivers are dodgy and the update changed some undocumented stuff they were relying on, or I could be the victim of a big in the update
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@Jaloopa I had to reinstall my drivers after the upgrade - have you already tried that?
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@LB_ no, haven't had the chance yet.
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Just word of caution:
When you decide to update to the anniversary update, please don't do it over remote desktop connection. After the reboot, the OOBE-like thing that asks you whether you want to change a number of settings will block the remote desktop, so you have to be at the console again, click through the screens, in order to continue using it.
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@Jaloopa Graphics driver is up to date, confirmed via the Windows built in driver update and going to the site and running their tool.
It's happened once since my last post, all three times have been on waking from sleep. I'm now starting to wonder if my PSU isn't powerful enough to reliably wake the graphics card
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@cheong In my experience those settings are only presented if you use the manual upgrade tool, whereas upgrading through Windows Update doesn't present that screen. Not sure why.
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@LB_ Yeah, I didn't have to set any options, just rebooted a couple of times over about 20 minutes and I was done
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@LB_ Oh, I see. And I'm not sure why too.
I remote desktop-ed to home to test my App (the machines at work are all Win7 and cannot run UWP Apps), then see the Win10 Experience blog and try to download the manual update tool. Not aware there will be the settings thing that blocks me from connecting back, hence the caution.
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@Jaloopa said in Pressure to upgrade to Windows 10 ratchets up. AGAIN.:
Installed the anniversary update this morning
TIL: There's a lot of people celebrating the anniversary of when they became an idiot.
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@Lorne-Kates I forget, what makes you hate 10 so much again?
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@Erufael the permanent cold has sapped his mind.
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@Erufael said in Pressure to upgrade to Windows 10 ratchets up. AGAIN.:
@Lorne-Kates I forget, what makes you hate 10 so much again?
Start with Metro and go from there.
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@Lorne-Kates Ah, so everything.
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@Erufael said in Pressure to upgrade to Windows 10 ratchets up. AGAIN.:
@Lorne-Kates I forget, what makes you hate 10 so much again?
this is the same person who refuses to upgrade to Firefox greater than version 22 because they changed to a flat icon.
or some such reasoning like that anyway.
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@accalia I recall that. What can I say, I still have hope in people. xD
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@Erufael said in Pressure to upgrade to Windows 10 ratchets up. AGAIN.:
I still have hope in people
Idiot.
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@NedFodder I am confident I will learn given time.
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@Erufael said in Pressure to upgrade to Windows 10 ratchets up. AGAIN.:
@NedFodder I am confident I will learn given time.
What about if given money?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Pressure to upgrade to Windows 10 ratchets up. AGAIN.:
@Erufael said in Pressure to upgrade to Windows 10 ratchets up. AGAIN.:
@NedFodder I am confident I will learn given time.
What about if given money?
All I need is your account information so I can send you money.
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@Tsaukpaetra Well, if that's how it is... :P
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@abarker Do you want my SSN as well? Along with my credit card info?
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@Lorne-Kates said in Pressure to upgrade to Windows 10 ratchets up. AGAIN.:
@Jaloopa said in Pressure to upgrade to Windows 10 ratchets up. AGAIN.:
Installed the anniversary update this morning
TIL: There's a lot of people celebrating the anniversary of when they became an idiot.
What's the anniversary of you letting Ludditeism into your life? I want to get you a nice flat present
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@Erufael said in Pressure to upgrade to Windows 10 ratchets up. AGAIN.:
@abarker Do you want my SSN as well? Along with my credit card info?
Sure, why not?
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@Lorne-Kates said in Pressure to upgrade to Windows 10 ratchets up. AGAIN.:
@Erufael said in Pressure to upgrade to Windows 10 ratchets up. AGAIN.:
@Lorne-Kates I forget, what makes you hate 10 so much again?
Start with
Metroeverything that makes 10 different from 7 and go from there.FTFY.
Am I unfair in saying that? Did they make any good changes after 7?
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@Jaloopa said in Pressure to upgrade to Windows 10 ratchets up. AGAIN.:
What's the anniversary of you letting Ludditeism into your life?
There is no anniversary. That would acknowledge the passage of time.
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@anotherusername 10 is much faster, for one. And they finally made the Start Menu sane again in the Anniversary Update. They got rid of those stupid tiles.
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@Erufael said in Pressure to upgrade to Windows 10 ratchets up. AGAIN.:
10 is much faster, for one.
Booting? I can live with it taking a few seconds to boot up. I only reboot a few times a month anyway, to install updates.
@Erufael said in Pressure to upgrade to Windows 10 ratchets up. AGAIN.:
And they finally made the Start Menu sane again in the Anniversary Update. They got rid of those stupid tiles.
Two steps in the wrong direction and one step back doesn't count as a net positive.
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@anotherusername said in Pressure to upgrade to Windows 10 ratchets up. AGAIN.:
Booting? I can live with it taking a few seconds to boot up.
I mean all around, generally.
Also you can just right click the start button to get a nice menu of things to open such as the command prompt (admin and non-admin), control panel, device manager, and more.
If you're really curious, best bet is to look around on the web or Youtube.
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@Erufael said in Pressure to upgrade to Windows 10 ratchets up. AGAIN.:
10 is much faster, for one.
But not more stable, in my experience. I see far more "... is not responding" on my Win10 work laptop than I do on my home Win7 desktop. (That's not entirely true, but the unresponsive programs on my home machine are unresponsive for the well-known reason that they are very compute- and memory-intensive, and they're using more memory than the machine has, so they're swapping like mad (to spinning rust). They do respond eventually. OTOH, on my work laptop, I often see Office applications that I'm not even touching freeze for no apparent reason and have to be killed.) I'm not a big fan of the UI changes, but the (perception, at least, of) instability is my main reason for not updating my home machine.
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@anotherusername explorer and task manager are improved. The command prompt is apparently improved but I haven't really tried it to say.
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@Jaloopa said in Pressure to upgrade to Windows 10 ratchets up. AGAIN.:
The command prompt is apparently improved but I haven't really tried it to say.
copy/paste finally works right.
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@Erufael said in Pressure to upgrade to Windows 10 ratchets up. AGAIN.:
They got rid of those stupid tiles.
Huh? Live Tiles are all the "rage"
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@dcon said in Pressure to upgrade to Windows 10 ratchets up. AGAIN.:
@Erufael said in Pressure to upgrade to Windows 10 ratchets up. AGAIN.:
They got rid of those stupid tiles.
Huh? Live Tiles are all the "rage"
if you mean they cause rage until i can find them all and turn them off.... then yes.
i'm still trying to figure out how to turn off the live tile.....
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@dcon said in Pressure to upgrade to Windows 10 ratchets up. AGAIN.:
Live Tiles are all the "rage"
Live Tiles are just Active Desktop 2012. Didn't want it in Windows 98, don't want it now.
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@Lorne-Kates said in Pressure to upgrade to Windows 10 ratchets up. AGAIN.:
Start with Metro and go from there.
I hit F1 and typed Metro and got no results.
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@accalia said in Pressure to upgrade to Windows 10 ratchets up. AGAIN.:
this is the same person who refuses to upgrade to Firefox greater than version 22 because they changed to a flat icon.
Frankly, given that that he's a caveman living in Canada I'm surprised he hasn't already been frozen in a glacier while chasing a mammoth.
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@Erufael said in Pressure to upgrade to Windows 10 ratchets up. AGAIN.:
They got rid of those stupid tiles.
Ah, no.
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@FrostCat said in Pressure to upgrade to Windows 10 ratchets up. AGAIN.:
@Lorne-Kates said in Pressure to upgrade to Windows 10 ratchets up. AGAIN.:
Start with Metro and go from there.
I hit F1 and typed Metro and got no results.
try pressing ï…º then typing
with Metro
and seeing if you find anything
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Why would Lorne be upset about a train in Virginia, or a US phone company?
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@flabdablet said in Pressure to upgrade to Windows 10 ratchets up. AGAIN.:
Live Tiles are just Active Desktop 2012. Didn't want it in Windows 98, don't want it now.
You know, I once made a (shoddy) Active Desktop clone. It worked fairly well too, so long as you were fine with Embedded IE's "I force this site to be in compatibility mode because embedded" shenanigans. Link (possibly) available on request, it's here in the forums somewhere...
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@FrostCat said in Pressure to upgrade to Windows 10 ratchets up. AGAIN.:
Why would Lorne be upset about a train in Virginia, or a US phone company?
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@Tsaukpaetra Two examples. Clearly this demonstrates he's delusional.
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@FrostCat said in Pressure to upgrade to Windows 10 ratchets up. AGAIN.:
@Tsaukpaetra Two examples. Clearly this demonstrates he's delusional.
It's just proof that Microsoft has successfully covered Metro up! 
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@flabdablet said in Pressure to upgrade to Windows 10 ratchets up. AGAIN.:
@dcon said in Pressure to upgrade to Windows 10 ratchets up. AGAIN.:
Live Tiles are all the "rage"
Live Tiles are just Active Desktop 2012. Didn't want it in Windows 98, don't want it now.
A killer app someone could make? Turn off all live tiles. Right now, I have to right-click each and every fucking one. (And to be evil, it won't turn off it's own)
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Pressure to upgrade to Windows 10 ratchets up. AGAIN.:
@FrostCat said in Pressure to upgrade to Windows 10 ratchets up. AGAIN.:
@Tsaukpaetra Two examples. Clearly this demonstrates he's delusional.
It's just proof that Microsoft has successfully covered Metro up! 
Yeah, they shouldn't have let that internal code name out in the beginning. I'll always call them Metro. (But at least in w10 they can be windowed)
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@dcon said in Pressure to upgrade to Windows 10 ratchets up. AGAIN.:
A killer app someone could make?
Sure,
'Counter Strike: Source', was a game "played by nearly every known rampage killer"
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@dcon said in Pressure to upgrade to Windows 10 ratchets up. AGAIN.:
A killer app someone could make? Turn off all live tiles.
Some people might google "turn off live tiles in Windows 10" and find this:
http://www.askvg.com/how-to-disable-live-tiles-feature-for-all-apps-in-windows-8-and-later/
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@Lorne-Kates said in Pressure to upgrade to Windows 10 ratchets up. AGAIN.:
@Erufael said in Pressure to upgrade to Windows 10 ratchets up. AGAIN.:
@Lorne-Kates I forget, what makes you hate 10 so much again?
Start with Metro and go from there.
Which is much less present in 10 than in previous versions?