Poll: Are you happy with Windows 10?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Had that, the problem seemed to be Windows Update, and solved by running the Windows Update diagnostic.

The real fun with Windows 10 was getting a NAS backup drive working; a series of random and rare Windows errors with no rhyme or reason.

I'll check back in a few decades to see if they cleared that up. Meanwhile I'll keep my Win7 install disks close and safe.

 

[El Greco]

Currently I'm very happy with Windows 10. That's because I haven't logged in it for weeks.

 

[Manger Douse]

Quite the opposite of problems: Got the problem of Win 7 USB installs not recognising USB 3.0 ports despite me plugging the key into a USB 3.0 port to starting the damn instillation. About to burn the install ISO onto a ROM then fit the drive into this new build when it occurred to me there might be a Win 10 ISO. There was and it worked a treat

 

[Wudang]

I upgraded my Lenovo laptop fairly early on as it was on Win 8 - loathsome beast. A few problems but it worked. Just upgraded my desktop from Win 7 and it's been fine. I pinned the Control Panel to my start menu, fiddled with the privacy settings and pretty much it.

 

[Blue Mountain]

I had to go with the option "No, not happy at all, can't uninstall" because there isn't an option for "It's all right, but there are some defects I'd like to see fixed."

The two defects I'm seeing are:

• No more Safe Mode. Until I can figure out how to reliably get Windows starting in Recovery mode this is a major impediment to fixing problems.
• I went to create recovery media the other day. It works ONLY with a USB FLASH DRIVE! W. T. F.?? What about external USB hard drives? Nope, they don't work--has to be a FLASH drive. What about DVDs? No option. Network share? No option. SD card? No option. An old firewire drive? No option. Thou shalt use a USB flash drive, and only USB flash drive shalt thou use.

It appears the more Windows matures, the more options they take away from their users. General users may appreciate the simplicity, but it's a royal pain for power users or people who have to fix broken installations.

 

[ComfySlippers]

Safe mode:
At the login screen, SHIFT plus POWER, RESTART
Take it from there.

Recovery Disk:
No idea what the problem is.
I'm using four as drinks coasters.

Burn the .iso to a disk.

Or, (from memory-I'm Mac'ing atm):
Backup & Restore,
Create a system repair disk,
Create disk,
Done.

 

[Woolgatherer]

So far, no problems. I do have 8.1 on a separate HD as backup.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

So far, no problems. I do have 8.1 on a separate HD as backup.

That's rather like having an anchor as a spare life vest.

 

[Woolgatherer]

That's rather like having an anchor as a spare life vest.

My life vest would be online storage, unattached HD's and DVD's I keep my important files on. My OS hard drive files are replaceable.

 

[Blue Mountain]

Safe mode:
At the login screen, SHIFT plus POWER, RESTART
Take it from there.

Thanks for the tip. Now, what do you do if Windows can't get as far as a login screen?

This is one area where Linux has a huge edge over Windows. Linux boot loaders pause just before starting the kernel and give you the ability to pass options to it. The kernel and some of the user land utilities can use these options to change how Linux initializes its environment.

Recovery Disk:
No idea what the problem is.
I'm using four as drinks coasters.

There is no recovery disk. If the HDD suddenly dies on me, currently I'd have nothing from which I can set up a Windows environment again if I had no other computer in the house.

Burn the .iso to a disk.

What ISO? Windows came pre-installed on the computer. The only option available to create off-line recovery media absolutely insists on using a flash drive.

Or, (from memory-I'm Mac'ing atm):
Backup & Restore,
Create a system repair disk,
Create disk,
Done.

What part of there is no option to write a DVD did you miss?

 

[paulhutch]

The ISO file and a utility to make a four DVD set or flash drive for system install/re-install are available here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

To get to recovery mode, where safe mode now resides, you must make a bootable USB recovery drive, instructions are here:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/create-a-recovery-drive

 

[ComfySlippers]

...
What part of there is no option to write a DVD did you miss?

You said you'd tried to create a recovery disk.
This indicates you'd got past the login screen.

You make a recovery disk as I described. It lets you create a DVD.
(If there's none in the drive you just get the Flash option)

The .iso file, should you not have it, is available as paulhutch described.
It doesn't need four discs though. Just one.
You can download it on any machine regardless of O.S.
It's a full copy of Windows.

Here's my DVD in my MBPs drive:

Some Stuff

To get to recovery mode, where safe mode now resides, you must make a bootable USB recovery drive,

Or Boot from the DVD you've just created.

 

[paulhutch]

The .iso file, should you not have it, is available as paulhutch described.
It doesn't need four discs though. Just one.

I realized after I posted that it was the four disk HP Win10 recovery disk set I'd made with HPs recovery disk tool I was looking at in my DVD file box.

 

[funk de fino]

Broken Start menu and Cortana error reoccurred. I have finally resorted to removing Avast and all seems to be stable at the moment.

 

[El Greco]

Not directly related to Windows 10 but it's Microsoft and it shows they are now officially living in a separate universe:

"We want to let you know about some upcoming changes to OneDrive. On 6/29/2016, the amount of storage that comes with OneDrive will change from 15 GB to 5 GB."

Why not 640 KB; After all, that should be enough for everyone.

 

[ComfySlippers]

Not directly related to Windows 10 but it's Microsoft and it shows they are now officially living in a separate universe:

"We want to let you know about some upcoming changes to OneDrive. On 6/29/2016, the amount of storage that comes with OneDrive will change from 15 GB to 5 GB."

Why not 640 KB; After all, that should be enough for everyone.

They announced this in November 2015.
They then said you could keep your 15Gb (plus 15Gb Camera-Roll) if you asked nicely. Which I did.

Linky

 

[El Greco]

They announced this in November 2015.
They then said you could keep your 15Gb (plus 15Gb Camera-Roll) if you asked nicely. Which I did.

Linky

This is the first time I get such an email myself and I'm not affected anyway since I don't use OneDrive. But it's kind of ridiculous for such a huge company to reduce its free space, especially when Google Drive continues to give 15GB.

The main implication in my case is that I have started thinking about moving away from Outlook.com email because I can't trust them they won't decide to drastically reduce the available space for email accounts as well.

 

[ComfySlippers]

This is the first time I get such an email myself and I'm not affected anyway since I don't use OneDrive. But it's kind of ridiculous for such a huge company to reduce its free space, especially when Google Drive continues to give 15GB.

The main implication in my case is that I have started thinking about moving away from Outlook.com email because I can't trust them they won't decide to drastically reduce the available space for email accounts as well.

People were abusing the free'ness.
They gave the opportunity to keep your 15Gb if you ticked a box.
I did.
Next option up is £1.99/month for 50Gb
There are still craploads of free alternatives out there also.

No idea why the email accounts storage size should matter.
Unless you're keeping large attachments there.
Which would be silly.

 

[Tero]

Finally found the command prompt. It's hidden under an app that is windows something. Then you right click it to run as admin. I was able to add my CD / DVD that Windows lost.

 

[Rat]

Finally found the command prompt. It's hidden under an app that is windows something. Then you right click it to run as admin. I was able to add my CD / DVD that Windows lost.

Right-click Start for the command prompt, or the command prompt as admin. And lots of other things.