Windows 10

astonaidan · 31-08-2015 12:36am

My search bar on taskbar doesnt work, any ideas on how to sort this out

Copper_pipe · 31-08-2015 3:37pm

Whats the easiest way to wipe my laptop so that I'll still have windows 10 on it. Upgraded from 8.1?

Back to College next week and want to delete everything thats not needed.

degsie · 31-08-2015 5:01pm

Copper_pipe wrote: »

Whats the easiest way to wipe my laptop so that I'll still have windows 10 on it. Upgraded from 8.1?

Back to College next week and want to delete everything thats not needed.

Perform a windows system reset and remove windows.old folder.

31-08-2015 6:39pm

ressem wrote: »

Definitely.

There is an optional troubleshooter application.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3073930

That allows problem updates to be hidden.

But that's only reducing the problem from recurring until the next update.

It seemed to work for me for a short while but it wasn't long before my laptop's video was screwed up again. Another option to try is the PSWindowsUpdate module for PowerShell, there's a Hide-WUUpdate cmdlet in there. It probably just does the same thing.

ressem wrote: »

There's an entry in Control Panel which you can search for called
"device installation settings"
to never install driver software from windows update.
You have to select No, and then never. The other options reset to the default.

So on machines that we need to be reliable we've to choose never.
In a sensible design, you should be able to select No, then Ask.

This is often peddled online as a solution to the forced driver updates - in fact it just prevents Windows from searching Windows Update for drivers when the device is first detected. The same option is present in Windows 7, possibly Vista too. But it's still worth disabling anyway.

ED E · 31-08-2015 8:37pm

Anyone seen 10 trying to log itself in? As in its locked, screen wakes up, it goes to the "Welcome" spinner for about 4 seconds, then goes back to the regular locked screen. Kind of disconcerting.

ressem · 31-08-2015 8:47pm

Karsini wrote: »

This is often peddled online as a solution to the forced driver updates - in fact it just prevents Windows from searching Windows Update for drivers when the device is first detected. The same option is present in Windows 7, possibly Vista too. But it's still worth disabling anyway.

So the next thing to try would be disabling the Device Setup Manager service maybe?
(On this machine I've got a HP printer driver update malfunctioning, so it's not behaving like yours; and the external monitor reloads the correct driver after unplugging and replugging the VGA lead).

Enables the detection, download and installation of device-related software. If this service is disabled, devices may be configured with outdated software, and may not work correctly.

Squiggle · 01-09-2015 1:39pm

theteal wrote: »

Does the touchpad not work at all?

I'm messing about with a clean install of Win10 on a spare disk I have before I decide to update my main build. The touch pad wouldn't scroll originally. I had to get the latest updated driver from synaptics and then had to alter settings to turn off 2 finger scroll (not resposive, don't see the benefit of it) and enable the old side/bottom of touchpad scroll.

Tried a few fixes but problem recurred every time I hibernated the machine and then turned it on again - really got pisséd off with the inconvenience of it all :mad:. Gave up on it and went back to Windows 8 - lesser of two evils.

_Kaiser_ · 03-09-2015 8:24pm

They're really pushing this upgrade - Windows Update in 8.1 wanting to install it again tonight despite me having already denied/hidden the update previously. It's a Domain joined laptop too!

CrowdedHouse · 03-09-2015 8:39pm

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

They're really pushing this upgrade - Windows Update in 8.1 wanting to install it again tonight despite me having already denied/hidden the update previously.

Same here about a week ago, I've decided to leave it sitting on the HD.

A person told me his machine - Win7 - updated while unattended without asking although I'm not sure if he's right.

EDIT: Just checked my update history and showing failed Windows 10 update every day since it downloaded (27/8)

03-09-2015 8:53pm

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

They're really pushing this upgrade - Windows Update in 8.1 wanting to install it again tonight despite me having already denied/hidden the update previously. It's a Domain joined laptop too!

Have you tried hiding it using the Hide-WUUpdate cmdlet in PowerShell? Seems to have worked for me.

https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/2d191bcd-3308-4edd-9de2-88dff796b0bc

d31b0y · 04-09-2015 7:47am

This "GWX Stopper" application will supposedly take any technical aspect of blocking WinX out of the equation. For those who aren't very technical.
http://blog.ultimateoutsider.com/2015/08/using-gwx-stopper-to-permanently-remove.html

droidman123 · 04-09-2015 6:24pm

can anyone tell me how to "unsync" my android zenfone 2 from my laptop running windows 10? I assume I synced my phone, although I don't remember doing it. I get reminder and alarm notifications popping up on my laptop and I cant for the life of me figure out how to stop these notifications.i think they are interfering with the alarms on my phone as well because all my reminder apps on my phone have stopped going off since these notifications started popping up on my laptop. any help greatly appreciated

Copper_pipe · 05-09-2015 4:37pm

degsie wrote: »

Perform a windows system reset and remove windows.old folder.

Did this and now I'm having problems.

I'm getting the Inaccessible Boot Device error and I'm having a constant restart loop

I have an Asus X501a if that matters.

I downloaded the windows 10 iso and made a bootable USB using Rufus. I then get into the Bios and try boot from the USB but I can't find ay option to? Any ideas please. I'm back to college Monday and really can't afford a new laptop

degsie · 05-09-2015 5:58pm

Copper_pipe wrote: »

Did this and now I'm having problems.

I'm getting the Inaccessible Boot Device error and I'm having a constant restart loop

I have an Asus X501a if that matters.

I downloaded the windows 10 iso and made a bootable USB using Rufus. I then get into the Bios and try boot from the USB but I can't find ay option to? Any ideas please. I'm back to college Monday and really can't afford a new laptop

1) Place a bootable copy of Wndows 10 onto the USB drive in question

2) Access the bios during bootup using F2

3) Enable CSM under the Boot tab and Save

4) Re-boot and re-access the bios again using F2

5) Select the USB option (the one without a prefix of UEFI) as Boot #1 option and Save

6) Re-boot and Windows 10 will commence it's install from the USB drive

Copper_pipe · 05-09-2015 6:41pm

degsie wrote: »

1) Place a bootable copy of Wndows 10 onto the USB drive in question

2) Access the bios during bootup using F2

3) Enable CSM under the Boot tab and Save

4) Re-boot and re-access the bios again using F2

5) Select the USB option (the one without a prefix of UEFI) as Boot #1 option and Save

6) Re-boot and Windows 10 will commence it's install from the USB drive

No joy.

I click on enable CSM and when I reboot it goes back to saying it's disabled..

05-09-2015 6:43pm

If you want to enable CSM you generally have to disable Secure Boot first.

Copper_pipe · 05-09-2015 6:46pm

Karsini wrote: »

If you want to enable CSM you generally have to disable Secure Boot first.

That's the one.

Tis going now. Sound

EDIT: Spoke too soon. The blue windows logo comes on but same story again. Inaccessible Boot Device....

05-09-2015 6:51pm

Is this when you're booting from USB?

Copper_pipe · 05-09-2015 6:55pm

Karsini wrote: »

Is this when you're booting from USB?

Yeah. When I take the USB Out it still happens..

05-09-2015 6:59pm

Inaccessible Boot Device usually means that there's no driver for the disk controller. Maybe try playing around with the SATA operation mode in the BIOS and see if that helps? Try AHCI if it's not already set to that.

Copper_pipe · 05-09-2015 9:56pm

Karsini wrote: »

Inaccessible Boot Device usually means that there's no driver for the disk controller. Maybe try playing around with the SATA operation mode in the BIOS and see if that helps? Try AHCI if it's not already set to that.

Working now. Sound lads

Firefox11 · 06-09-2015 1:51pm

ED E wrote: »

Anyone seen 10 trying to log itself in? As in its locked, screen wakes up, it goes to the "Welcome" spinner for about 4 seconds, then goes back to the regular locked screen. Kind of disconcerting.

the amount of 'call home' spyware in windows 10 is quite shocking and it's all switched on by default. I suppose that's what you get for a 'free' upgrade.

_Kaiser_ · 07-09-2015 12:17am

Firefox11 wrote: »

the amount of 'call home' spyware in windows 10 is quite shocking and it's all switched on by default. I suppose that's what you get for a 'free' upgrade.

As the saying goes, If You're Not Paying for It; You're the Product

Whatever about all the phone-home stuff being in there at all post-RTM, the fact that it's all enabled by default and buried in different sub-menus is the bigger issue.. as well as the point that the same "telemetry" stuff has been pushed to Win 7 and 8 now as well.

PropJoe10 · 07-09-2015 10:45am

Firefox11 wrote: »

the amount of 'call home' spyware in windows 10 is quite shocking and it's all switched on by default. I suppose that's what you get for a 'free' upgrade.

Microsoft have been collecting usage data for years. As I've said before, it quite amuses me when you see all the uproar about this, while people are quite happy to share their entire lives on Facebook without a second's thought.

Not saying I condone Microsoft collecting data, by the way. Its one of the reasons why I use Debian these days.

Amalgam · 09-09-2015 12:23pm

Anyone wanting to have Peerblock start automatically when Windows 10 boots, this Vista/Windows 7 guide is still valid:

http://www.peerblock.com/userguide/how_to_use/htu-useraccountcontrol

The process involves setting up a Task Scheduler event. Quick and easy.

Jhcx · 10-09-2015 1:34pm

not sure if any of ye could help me. but i was messing around with homegroups one day in order to get a wireless printer to work. but i must of hit something in user profiles and now everytime i start up the computer it shows two profiles and chooses to log into the wrong account saying the user name is invalid. both profiles are the same person ie me. one looks like a local account or something so you have
JHCX
email@email.com
&
JHCX

How do i remove this second profile thats not attached to my email address. i cant find it anywhere because it really doesnt exist as its the same user as the first one and in my settings all there is is admin and myself the user(admin)

any help appreciated as its slowing down my start up time when it fails to log in

14-09-2015 11:29am

Was setting up a WSUS group policy on a server in work when I noticed a new entry to block Windows 10 installs. It's under "Computer Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows Update"

ED E · 15-09-2015 10:52am

It may be that windows update tried to forcibly update a driver. Are you using an nVidia GPU?

Ceist_Beag · 16-09-2015 9:18am

Slutmonkey57b wrote: »

A further interesting bit of behaviour observed today regarding automatic updates and the "my computer's running slow" users. Windows updated graphics drivers today: all well and good, right? But, being a clever system, it uninstalled the previous driver, going back to the Windows generic one, which bumped back the resolution to the minimum and didn't understand the monitor could support higher resolutions. So you come back to the pc, the screen it's different, and you can't fix it.

This is the same thing I noticed and could not figure out how to fix it back to the optimal resolution for my monitor. I tried contacting Microsoft Support for help but might as well have asked the local postman! Has anyone figured out how to resolve this (I tried reinstalling the monitor driver but this didn't seem to make any difference).
I reverted back the upgrade for now and won't be reattempting it unless I can find a way around this. If it helps, my question to Microsoft (on which I got no reply from Microsoft) is below.

Monitor: Dell SP2390W monitor
Device manager shows this correctly as the monitor.
However the display adapter shown is Microsoft Basic Display Adapter although my graphics card is an AMD ATI Fire card.
When I try to change the screen resolution the largest resolution available is 1256 * 1024, however the monitor optimum resolution is 2048 * 1152.

Amalgam · 17-09-2015 9:14pm

I was missing Windows Media Center this evening. I found the following:

Free.

If you need a straightforward PVR in Windows 10, try Sichbo PVR (http://sichbopvr.com/).

I downloaded my driver for a Hauppauge! Nova-T stick, installed Sichbo PVR and after ticking 3 or 4 boxes relating to my location within Ireland, I had Saorview after a 5 minute scan..

Stick is plugged into a USB port on an Asus X205TA Netbook (Quad Atom Z3735F) and it is running fine. Windows 10 Home 32bit.

Jay Dee · 21-09-2015 6:28pm

Hi<

I'm still waiting for mine...
The info box tells me "We are validating your PC for W10...."

Still ..... ????

Are other people in the same boat..

What to do ???

Thanks

Jay.

Darren 83 · 21-09-2015 8:35pm

Upgraded to win10, then waited for it to activate and did clean install but it keeps looping to the upgrade install and custom install screen can not even put win 8 back on as recovery disks won't work

unkel · 22-09-2015 9:34am

If you're sure the upgrade activated, reboot from the DVD / USB with the W10 installation on it, and make sure you do a proper fresh install - choose new install and delete all partitions before you let it install into the single unallocated space on your hard disk (this obviously kills off any recovery from your old Windows 8 system - make sure all your data is backed up too)

Darren 83 · 22-09-2015 9:38am

unkel wrote: »

If you're sure the upgrade activated, reboot from the DVD / USB with the W10 installation on it, and make sure you do a proper fresh install - choose new install and delete all partitions before you let it install into the single unallocated space on your hard disk (this obviously kills off any recovery from your old Windows 8 system - make sure all your data is backed up too)

I can delete all but two partions I think this is why it keep looping on me. How can I delete these partions? Thanks for the reply

22-09-2015 9:41am

Darren 83 wrote: »

I can delete all but two partions I think this is why it keep looping on me. How can I delete these partions? Thanks for the reply

If you want to wipe the entire disk you can press shift+F10 and run diskpart from the command prompt. If you only have one disk connected it should be disk 0 but check first:

List disk
Select disk x (replace x with the disk number from the list command)
Clean

That will wipe every partition. Personally I'd advise disconecting all other disks or flash drives and external drives before running it.

unkel · 22-09-2015 9:48am

You should be able to wipe all partitions at the start of the Windows 10 installation. But only if you boot up from Windows 10 bootable installation media (DVD / USB)!

What Karsini said about disk part is good advice but it's a little bit tricky if you don't know what you're at. Good idea though to disconnect any drive that you don't want wiped though

Darren 83 · 22-09-2015 10:30am

Karsini wrote: »

If you want to wipe the entire disk you can press shift+F10 and run diskpart from the command prompt. If you only have one disk connected it should be disk 0 but check first:

List disk
Select disk x (replace x with the disk number from the list command)
Clean

That will wipe every partition. Personally I'd advise disconecting all other disks or flash drives and external drives before running it.

Can I still do this as I have no os on the PC

22-09-2015 10:35am

Darren 83 wrote: »

Can I still do this as I have no os on the PC

You can do it from the Windows install disc or drive if you have one, press Shift and F10 when the setup finishes loading, but you should be able to remove the partitions without needing diskpart in most cases.

Darren 83 · 22-09-2015 12:01pm

Karsini wrote: »

You can do it from the Windows install disc or drive if you have one, press Shift and F10 when the setup finishes loading, but you should be able to remove the partitions without needing diskpart in most cases.

Is there a link that I could follow on YouTube ?

unkel · 22-09-2015 12:27pm

Why can't you just delete the partitions during normal W10 install (from boot media)?

You getting any error messages?

Wanna put up some screenshots - we might be able to helo you the easy way!

Darren 83 · 22-09-2015 12:47pm

unkel wrote: »

Why can't you just delete the partitions during normal W10 install (from boot media)?

You getting any error messages?

Wanna put up some screenshots - we might be able to helo you the easy way!

Im not given the option to delete it, all I get is this partion is too small for windows. At work so can't send any screen shots

unkel · 22-09-2015 12:53pm

You're either deleting the wrong partition (recovery partition, EFI system partition), or you have a small disk capacity tablet which had a compressed install of Windows 8.1 with Bing?

Anyway, post up some screenshots when you get a chance and I'm sure we'll get you going

Darren 83 · 22-09-2015 1:06pm

unkel wrote: »

You're either deleting the wrong partition (recovery partition, EFI system partition), or you have a small disk capacity tablet which had a compressed install of Windows 8.1 with Bing?

Anyway, post up some screenshots when you get a chance and I'm sure we'll get you going

I was following a clean install vid on which showed deleting all the partions so I assumed I could also?

tinofapples · 08-10-2015 9:46pm

I allowed my Laptop to be upgraded to Windows 10 awhile ago but Start Menu hasn't worked since (I can right click on the start button), I believe it's not an option to revert back to Windows 7 once 30 days from the upgrade has passed, anyone help out ? I would probably prefer to go back to my previous OP as the laptop was only purchased 6 months ago

2forjoy · 08-10-2015 9:49pm

tinofapples wrote: »

I allowed my Laptop to be upgraded to Windows 10 awhile ago but Start Menu hasn't worked since (I can right click on the start button), I believe it's not an option to revert back to Windows 7 once 30 days from the upgrade has passed, anyone help out ? I would probably prefer to go back to my previous OP as the laptop was only purchased 6 months ago

If you have the godmode folder on your desktop , the option is there to revert to W7.

If you dont have godmode folder , then set it up now .

unkel · 08-10-2015 10:13pm

tinofapples wrote: »

I allowed my Laptop to be upgraded to Windows 10 awhile ago but Start Menu hasn't worked since (I can right click on the start button), I believe it's not an option to revert back to Windows 7 once 30 days from the upgrade has passed, anyone help out ? I would probably prefer to go back to my previous OP as the laptop was only purchased 6 months ago

If your Windows 10 upgrade is activated, you can wipe your hard drive and install Windows 10 from scratch. It won't ask for any license key and it will activate automatically. Your start menu will be working fine when you do that, I would bet a lot of money on it

I wouldn't go back to Windows 7 at this stage. Windows 10 is where it is at now...

_Kaiser_ · 09-10-2015 6:08pm

Alternative option.. get Start10 and use that.. it's far better anyway IMO and includes the native-style Win 10 Start Menu too

tinofapples · 09-10-2015 6:31pm

2forjoy wrote: »

If you have the godmode folder on your desktop , the option is there to revert to W7.

If you dont have godmode folder , then set it up now .

Don't see any such folder and search isn't available :mad:

If your Windows 10 upgrade is activated, you can wipe your hard drive and install Windows 10 from scratch. It won't ask for any license key and it will activate automatically. Your start menu will be working fine when you do that, I would bet a lot of money on it

I wouldn't go back to Windows 7 at this stage. Windows 10 is where it is at now...

How do you mean activated ? I've been using it for awhile now but it's been sh1t, no start button/menu, no search feature. I know it's not working anywhere near the way it should and the laptop is only 6 months old. This would probably be my preferred option but wiping my hd and installing from where ?

Alternative option.. get Start10 and use that.. it's far better anyway IMO and includes the native-style Win 10 Start Menu too

Thanks but I'd prefer a Windows solution for now rather than a third party.

5uspect · 09-10-2015 6:40pm

You shouldn't need to wipe it. You can do a repair install:
http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/16397-repair-install-windows-10-place-upgrade.html

Of course back up all your important files to another volume first.

unkel · 09-10-2015 7:14pm

If the repair install works, that's fine. Mind, that's just a repair of the upgraded system. There's nothing better than a clean install though. Upgrades are always compromises!

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