Ok, so I upgraded and all appears to be ok. However, I hate the white border now on Firefox and windows explorer. How can I change it? I brought up personalise but it only shows as my colour choice on the taskbar and the control panel window.
It's very easy. Step 1) Download the themes zip file here (it's my private server, the file is free of viruses and malware): http://www.mediafire.com/download/18cqbw3m4wb449x/Themes.rar Step 2) Unzip the rar file. Step 3) Copy colored.thm and the colored folder into C:\Windows\Resources\Themes Step 4) Double click on the "Colored.thm" file, and let Windows install it. You can then change your theme colors. The theme will now pick a title bar color based on your wallpaper colors. If you don't want that, just do this: Step 1) Right Click and select "personalize" Step 2) From the left hand menu select "Colors" Step 3) Disable "Automatically Pick an Accent Color From My Background" Step 4) Choose a color from the selection grid. Enjoy!
Yeah, I managed to fix it by using an aero theme. So only real issue I have now is that my contrast isn't as good, but my laptop doesn't seem to have a contrast adjuster so I'm just going to have to lump it.
There is a new feature in Win10 that allows it to share your WIFI password with facebook, skype, outlook, contacts automatically. (link to article) It requires "opt in" for each wifi network you connect to. You can also disable this win10 feature for your complete wifi network by renaming it at the router (the SSID) to include "_optout". Still that's annoying to have to reconfigure every device you're currently using. Consider this before upgrading the less savvy users in your household to win10 (at least if they use WIFI).
The task manager performance view is much more interesting now. You can see what it's doing if you're curious.
Whelp, Windows 10 has fucked my laptop. I googled the error messages it spit out the last time I tried to do an upgrade, got nowhere. The only thing that I managed to find was a suggestion that I update my drivers. In trying to do that, I found that Windows wouldn't let me, though by checking Windows Update, I did find about 50 megs worth of patches for various things, including a few drivers. I downloaded and installed those. Then I tried to do the update for Windows 10. It failed for some unknown reason, but offered to retry. I did that, it got to the "Installing Windows 10 3%" screen (which is one more than it did the last time) and shutdown. I restarted the machine, it got to the Windows logo, and shutdown. I tried it one more time, and the same thing happened. No idea what might have caused this, and I don't have time right now to figure it out. Thanks, assholes.
That % clock thing resets your system 50 times, and took me 4 hours, you might just have to be patient.
Yeah. Once you get to that stage of the installation it's best to just go to bed or leave the house for a few hours.
It doesn't reset the system. It shutsdown. Period. Paragraph. There is no reboot. When my laptop is rebooting, there's 3 LEDs which are lit, when its off, there's only two. That's how I know its a shutdown and not a reboot. That and the fact that it doesn't come back on after several minutes of waiting.
took mine about 30 minutes. I3. SSD. Painless. (but so is suicide). Do a file cleanup afterword if you like it and don't want to revert to whatever was there before, it'll remove about 18GB.
I finally got mine to boot, and as soon as it did, it rolled back to 8.1. Googling the error messages gave me no useful information, so I've got no clue.
At least you got back to Square One. Contact MS to let them know what happened, back up your data, then try again?
Nope. Tried it again today, got a new error message, looked it up on MS' site and found some rather angry comments from some tech savvy folks indicating that there's a 2 hour wait time if you call MS, and that the most likely issue in this case is a driver issue, which because of how MS has packaged the download for 10, there is no fix as yet. Essentially, the drivers that the update needs are in the update, but because they're not already installed in the machine when it tries to do the update, it can't complete the update. Nor is there any way to extract the necessary drivers from the update and install them in Windows before doing the update.
In other words, this is akin to the ISP supplied modem drivers to connect to the ISP being on the ISP's website back in the dial up days?
My guess is they're working driver issues and you'll see a win8.1 update before win10 can install successfully. Check for any optional win8.1 updates (not every update gets automatically installed). Just a guess. I'm happy with Win10 over Win7, but I left my 8.1 machine alone as its purpose is to run Windows Media Center that's no longer in Win10, but supported as long as Win8 is (another 7 years?). Incidentally, if you use WMC to watch TV and as a DVR you'll need to reconfigure TV settings to still get a schedule (guide). MS switched vendors for local TV guides. But it's still free... crickets...
I always keep my system up-to-date. The only issue I had going from Win 7 to Win 10 was when the power failed, and everything rolled back once I restarted. Once that was fixed, smooth sailing.
After installing Windows 10 I now have unremovable icons for Onedrive, Dropbox, and Libraries cluttering up my desktop. They can't be deleted by any normal means. The Onedrive and Dropbox icons appear to be direct links to the storage folders for those programs; attempts to move them or change properties act as attempts to move or change the properties of the underlying folders. Setting attributes to "hidden" does not actually hide the icons. My google-fu is failing me. Anyone know how I might get these eyesores off my desktop?
All I can say is that I have both of those programs installed, and have no such unremovable icons. Serious question: Have you asked Cortana? It's been surprisingly good at showing me the menus I needed for whatever I wanted so far.
Thunderstorm took down the power Monday night, and it took 'til Tuesday morning for it to come back on, Windows 10 tried to run some kind of system scan that I lost patience for, and rebooted past with the power button, I shouldn't have done this, the whole rest of the day, literally every 5 minutes, I got a blue screen of death saying "registry error", and I thought it might be time for a new computer. Finally, as a last ditch effort, to see if I could get that system scanner to come back on, I re-created the thunderstorm by flicking the power strip on and off at bootup the way the power flickered on and off before staying off. The same scan didn't come back, but it gave me a "make repairs", button to push, and I've been golden ever since. So, add that trick to your toolkits, kiddies.
Thanks, although that didn't help. Also, problem fixed. I had already googled how to remove the Homegroup icon from the desktop with a registry edit (remove the key {B4FB3F98-C1EA-428d-A78A-D1F5659CBA93} found at Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\ for anyone interested). There was also an entry there for the Libraries icon. Nothing there for the onespace and dropbox icons, but for the same path under HKEY_CURRENT_USER rather than HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE there were registry entries plopping those icons on my desktop. Registry backed up, keys deleted, icons gone. I much prefer it when any clutter on my desktop is actually useful, or at least of my own creation.
Whenever I get a new computer with unremovable shovel-ware, what I do, is make an "other crap", folder, and shove 'em all into it.
