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Massive Windows 10 Update Has Three Nasty Surprises
location: winsecrets.com - date: November 14, 2015
I was in a hurry to get the update but now I'm afraid to turn on my win 10 laptop in case it does upgrade, LOL http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonke...rtner=yahootix Nasty Surprise #1: The 44% Bug Users have been reporting installation issues with Threshold 2 and a common topic spotted by InfoWorld is that it gets stuck at the 44% mark. User Waseemulla S asked about this in the official Windows Forum and Microsoft moderator Softie Anannya Podder explained it may be to do with SD card issues: “We’ve observed that some devices that have an SD bus with an SD card inserted while installing the Windows 10 November update will stop responding at 44%, and we are currently investigating the issue.” Until Microso
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Windows 10 update "successful" but laptop unuseable.
location: winsecrets.com - date: August 7, 2015
I updated my laptop (a Sony Vaio VPC CW2S1E/R) to Windows10 (from 8.1) yesterday. I started the process at about 18:30, and at about 20:00 it appeared to have installed without error messages and invited me to choose "let's go". I got to my usual lock screen, pressed a key talking me to the fancy new Windows 10 screen for entering the password, and it then took me to the desktop. (Oddly, perhaps, it was the desktop version - not the metro version or anything like it; no tiles, just icons for apps.) The screen flickered on and off, and the icons variously appeared as the proper icon, or just as document placeholder icons. The mouse moved the cursor - the rotating circle meaning busy (like the old hourglass). The only key combinatio
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Will windows 10 update provide a product key for clean install?
location: 8forums.com - date: July 28, 2015
Hi Guys A few questions.... Could someone please clarify, Will windows 10 update provide a product key for clean install? If so how/where? If not when performing a clean install, will skipping the product key prompt, then activating once desktop appears automatically activate and inject a product key? Lastly rather than extract the esd file, does anyone know where to get a genuine Microsoft iso's on release date? Any help appreciated. Kind Regards
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Microsoft has your Windows 10 encryption key
location: winsecrets.com - date: December 29, 2015
From Slashdot: Microsoft Has Your Encryption Key If You Use Windows 10http://tech.slashdot.org/story/15/12/29/0212222/microsoft-has-your-encryption-key-if-you-use-windows-10 From the post: An anonymous reader writes with this bit of news from the Intercept. If you login to Windows 10 using your Microsoft account, your computer automatically uploads a copy of your recovery key to a Microsoft servers. From the article: "The fact that new Windows devices require users to backup their recovery key on Microsoft's servers is remarkably similar to a key escrow system, but with an important difference. Users can choose to delete recovery keys from their Microsoft accounts – something that people never had the option to do with the Cl
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Windows 10 update, Nvidia Update, Automatic Repair loop
location: 8forums.com - date: August 12, 2015
Argh! Need help! Windows 10 installed and have an Nvidia grfx card which caused a problem with the driver which I managed to get round. Been using Windows 10 quite happily, until today. PC crashed not long after boot. Last thing I remember seeing was a notification from NVidia control panel saying new optimized settings had been downloaded for a game... a short time later the computer, which was sitting idle, encountered a critical error and rebooted. I am now stuck in a perpetual diagnosis/automatic repair loop. None of the safe boot options work and can't reset (keeping files) either. I am not a technical person and am at a loss as to what to do :-(
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What's the best Windows 10 web browser? The benchmarks are in
location: 8forums.com - date: January 15, 2016
In our tests of Chrome, Edge, Firefox, IE and Opera, the worst web browser for Windows 10 was easy to spot: Internet Explorer 11. But the best choice? That depends. On earlier versions of Windows, the best browser you can run today is clearly Google Chrome. But, what about Windows 10? There, it's a different story. With Windows 10, you have another choice: Microsoft's replacement for Internet Explorer (IE), Edge. For now Edge is only available on Windows 10. Since Microsoft recently open-sourced ChakraCore, Edge web browser JavaScript engine, it' possible we may yet see Edge running on Windows 7, 8, and 8.1. Indeed, Microsoft is porting ChakraCore to Ubuntu Linux! When last I looked at Windows 10's w
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How to disable ads on your Windows 10 Lock Screen
location: winsecrets.com - date: February 25, 2016
The HowToGeek posted an article called How to Disable Ads on Your Windows 10 Lock Screen a few days ago. I thought the article was very useful and thought about all the PC's and laptops I've updated so far and how many I still have to do for family and friends between here and July 29. Loads of them... To cut a long story short, I've started trying to list and automate all the myriad little tweaks I do to a new Windows 10 system. This HowToGeek article looked like a prime candidate so I used a registry/file comparison program (InCtrl5) to snapshot before and after the changes. It turned out that the following is all that is needed: Code: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current
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Windows 10 Update Bully
location: 7forums.com - date: December 6, 2015
I am one angry customer....! I have my PC set to remind me to regularly (manually) check for Windows Updates. I now have hidden several updates linked to Windows 10's bullying tactics. However, one tactic I cannot get rid of is as shown in this screen shot. Why my blood boils...? When I select the updates I want to install - just three - and hit OK, I get this screen. Touch anything and I fear I will begin installing Windows 10, which I definitely do not want. Can anyone help me stop this gross intrusion let alone it preventing me from updating. For Microsoft's benefit... I was about to buy a Surface Pro for my wife for Christmas. I bought her an IPad Air 2 instead. Why? Because you make me mad as hell...!!! googleta
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Microsoft confirms that Windows 10 upgrade will not be free after one
location: 8forums.com - date: May 20, 2015
Microsoft has been heavily promoting the fact that Windows 10 will be a free upgrade for consumers running Windows 7, 8 or Phone 8.1 when the OS is released later this year. While the company is clearly pushing this 'free upgrade' announcement to make sure they can hit their 1 billion users benchmark, in a post on the company's Australian Partner Network, they explicitly state that the free upgrade offer will expire after one year. The post says that after the one year free period elapses, upgrades will be obtained via paid boxed product (we suspect there will be a digital offer as well). The post, which you can read here, states the following: Microsoft will offer a free upgrad
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Any way to guarantee that the Windows 10 upgrade will NOT be offered?
location: winsecrets.com - date: August 8, 2015
For a charity I manage about 65 PCs in workgroups - not domain(s) - which have only fairly recently been converted to Windows 7 Pro. These all use the same Volume Licence Key. Having read this article about domain-based PCs being forcibly upgraded to Window 10, I wonder whether there is any mechanism which would prevent this happening for my cohort of PCs? They are set to install offered Windows Updates automatically. Recent versions of Internet Explorer had a registry setting which prevented the installation of the latest and greatest version of IE, so I wonder if anyone has come across such to prevent Windows 10 being installed. Or am I being excessively paranoid?
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