Windows 10

sticker wrote: »

I still have no resolution to this - anyone help me?

See video below. Thanks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39DF...ature=youtu.be

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Are you aligning items to grid? Right click on desktop;


It probably shouldn't do that even if you aren't but it might be a quick fix.

Have you fences installed by any chance?

Can you not change it in display settings from the desktop?
Shouldn't need to go swapping cables around

Hi All,

I've 2 quick questions:

1) On my old PC I had a ton (I mean a ton!) of fonts insatalled and I use a lot of them on a saved graphics app for quick use but they would be burried in the fonts folder in my old drive and it would be a lot of time to dig them out one by one...

If I copied the entire font directory in the old machine and moved it by USB drive to my new fonts folder would it be a resource killer for the new Rig? I've a latest spec gaming/work setup so I'm not sure if my mind is still in windows 95 mode(!) Is this still a considertation with modern PC specs to have a large font archive in the system?

2) Do you guys shut down your PCs every night after use? I work from home so use it a lot, but again - I might be old school with this! Is it needed to give the machine a breather every night?

Thanks!

sticker wrote: »

2) Do you guys shut down your PCs every night after use? I work from home so use it a lot, but again - I might be old school with this! Is it needed to give the machine a breather every night?

Thanks!

Outside of the odd restart I haven't turned my PC off for 4 years.

philstar wrote: »

i'm using a xp laptop (don't snigger)

i'm thinking of getting a new laptop with windows 10.. is there a steep learning curve??

or is it basically the same set up?

I hated the thought of upgrading windows 7 to windows 10. I just like win 7 and find it handy.
But I realised that if you are doing banking etc or using credit and debit card you are leaving yourself very vulnerable as there are no longer windows updates for windows 7.
Techie heads would have a meltdown altogether to know you are still using windows xp!

With extreme reluctance I upgraded to windows 10 for free a few days ago




Then I made the changes to settings recommended once I downloaded it



I messed around with it. But I still missed the windows 7 aspect of it. Especially the windows 7 start menu in particular.

So I was delighted when I found you could still run windows 10 but could create a 'windows 7 shell' to make the start menu look like windows 7.
It is not a microsoft product though it is independently made - it is free!

I just followed these instructions below -




I did have a bit of difficulty getting the start button image to look decent.

You have to use an image with three orbs.

I messed around with photoshop and made two transparent background versions.

Windows Classic orb -



Windows Black orb -


I found that when you mess with the windows 7 shell settings that 85% size suited my laptop.
Once I twigged that I was grand.
I could be different depending to the device you are using.





Eventually I got taskbar to look like this picked black colour in the win 7 shell settings and black orb.



To get this look I picked storm colour from the windows 10 settings and black background.


You can mess around with it for your own personal preferences.

For example I did not like the look of the 'metro' skin in the win 7 shell settings so I picked 'midnight' instead.






It gave the start menu a bit of darker background.



So when you get your windows 10 pc you can give it more of a familiar look - windows 7 is not that far off xp.

degsie wrote: »

Can you get Windows 10 to look like Windows 95?

I found a fella on you tube who created a windows 95 theme for windows 10 and instructed on how to do it.





Also there is this link in the description.
I have not tried it out.


https://newagesoldier.com/windows-95-theme-for-windows-10/

It'll be another Microsoft browser disaster. They've been trying for 25 years and its always been shíte.

I was watching the Windows Central podcast episode 214 on Youtube earlier tonight. The video link is above if you want to watch it.

Zac Bowden has given some interesting news tonight about Sun Valley in the podcast telling us about the big details for the new UI release of Windows 10. Microsoft are to do a very big launch to market this new update to their new & current users when it gets released in the autumn. MS are in the process of releasing some exciting new builds to it's users in the Windows Insider Program which will begin in the Spring. Zac had also said that this new launch for the Sun Valley update will be a much bigger launch than Windows 10X which will have it's major launch penned for next year.

Now what is actually contained in these details is uncertain for the moment because no new screenshots have released to Zac so far about how this new Sun Valley update will look to it's users. There are apparently some big changes being planned for the Start menu in this new update. People are going to have the option of choosing 2 start menus to use in this new update if they wish. I think one option is to have the traditional menu with the rounded corners in the new UI. The other option is that there will be a floating Start Menu with the hamburger menu on the side of the current menu being replaced with a new graphics template which will be placed at the bottom of the start menu. The options in this new menu can be selected from left to right instead of top to bottom.

Zac was also mentioning in the Q&A of the video podcast that there will be some new UI updates given to the Microsoft Store apps once Sun Valley is released in the autumn. No details have been given about what apps will be updated with Sun Valley. There is also no word yet if the MS store App is to be included in the Sun Valley update. I guess MS will release that information in due course when it is appropriate.

I think the details about Sun Valley are mentioned in the 20/25 minute mark of this podcast. The UI changes to the apps are mentioned somewhere near the end of it. It goes on for about 1 hr & 40 minutes for tonight's episode. It has a lot of good stuff in there for any new information regarding updates for Windows.

Satya Nadella and Panos Panay are to host a new Windows event online to showcase "The next generation of Windows" (either Sun Valley or Windows 11) on Thursday the 24th of June. It will be held at 11am ET/4pm Irish time. The world's media have been sent invites from Microsoft to view to this event. It is being touted as something that could be very big news from Microsoft's point of view.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/25/22453222/microsoft-windows-next-generation-announcement-sun-valley-build-2021-keynote

Well Hello Windows 11. Even though you're not finished yet. You're looking good so far.



In more serious mode now; even though this preview is not a final version of Windows 11 as it was a leak given out somewhere on the internet. There is still some things to be ironed out before it's worldwide launch which will happen on Thursday of next week.

But other than that. It's not a bad looking OS at all. It looks like it's a big improvement over Windows 10.

Enabled svm in the bios and now I’m greeted with the Windows Setup on boot. Is there a way to get back my installation of windows or am I going to have to reinstall it?

I still have one desktop running Windows 7 and since the HSE fiasco I was going to update it to Windows 10 but I am wondering now if I should hold off until the arrival of Windows 11. When might we see the arrival of Windows 11 to the market?

It is a pretty powerful machine with an i5-6600K and 16GB of RAM machine plus a 512GB SSD. I built it back in 2016 and went with Windows 7 since Windows 8 was horrid at the time and Windows 10 was still in its infancy and everyone was criticizing it.

The rollout is planned for late 2021 into 2022 afaik.

Unless your desktop has secure boot and TPM 2.0 it won't run 11 anyway.

You can download the PC health check app from this page and it will tell you.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-11

I wonder will MS back down on the TPM and UEFI requirements? It's sad to see such a huge amount of tech being made obsolete by software simply not supporting it even though it's more than capable of running it.

Don't get me wrong - phone manufacturers have been guilty of this for years. Apple has done it with Mac systems - but one of the perks of windows was that you could keep your 10 year old computer going strong with just a small upgrade here and there.

If they don't back down on these requirements I at least hope they give Windows 10 users a decent Fall 2021 update and introduce some of the visual spectacle. Kind of like how they did with Windows Phone 7 users on models that weren't getting 8.

I plan on using this comp until it dies.

This happened me too and it wasn't a recent previous password but one from a few years ago, probably from when I installed windows 10 first.