Windows 10 & Windows 10 Mobile

[Jabalous]

So I upgraded to Windows 10 through MS's Get Windows 10 launcher. When the laptop rebooted, it freezed on the boot screen with windows' icon shown on screen and there's nothing else. I kept it on and went asleep for like 8 hours hoping that it would load up, but nothing happened after I woke up.

 

What could be the problem?

 

 

[TheGodDamnMaster]

I keep having issues with shut-down. Without fail, every time I shut down my PC it freezes after cutting the connection to the monitor and I'm forced to do a manual shut-down.

 

Have any of you had this issue or know how to fix it?

[sivispacem]

Mine used to do thst, albeit not with W10. It was caused by an older version of some fan speed monitoring software which was preventing graceful shutdown. Driver issue is my guess.

[Not A Nice Person]

I just reserved Windows 10, but... I heard it scans for pirated content. I have San Andreas, IV, Saints Row 3, and jpop pirated. Now I'm holding off on it.

[TheMcSame]

I just reserved Windows 10, but... I heard it scans for pirated content. I have San Andreas, IV, Saints Row 3, and jpop pirated. Now I'm holding off on it.

See 0:23-1:17

 

 

[Not A Nice Person]

 

I just reserved Windows 10, but... I heard it scans for pirated content. I have San Andreas, IV, Saints Row 3, and jpop pirated. Now I'm holding off on it.

See 0:23-1:17

 

Phew, I won't be getting Minecraft anytime soon though...

Edited August 19, 2015 by Sayuri

[TheGodDamnMaster]

Hey for anyone who has trouble placing icons on the bottom row, I've found an easy fix.

 

1. Running at 1080p resolution, there should be 8 rows in which you can place icons. Place an icon (or create a temporary one) on the second row up, above where you want to put an icon on the bottom row.

2. Simply click and drag the icon to the space on the bottom row under the temporary icon and it will now stick in place.

3. Move back (or delete) the icon you used in step 1.

 

If you want to move a group of icons to the bottom row, simply use a group of temporary icons on the second row up.

[Flachbau]

Let's say I upgrade my motherboard, CPU, and GPU..(which I actually might do soon). People tell me Windows will be deactivated. Is this true? How would I reactivate it?

 

Everybody on Reddit speaks like there's no possible way to reactivate, so I'm just worried.. do I just go back to 8.1 now?

Edited August 20, 2015 by Android

[TJGM]

Let's say I upgrade my motherboard, CPU, and GPU..(which I actually might do soon). People tell me Windows will be deactivated. Is this true? How would I reactivate it?

 

Everybody on Reddit speaks like there's no possible way to reactivate, so I'm just worried.. do I just go back to 8.1 now?

Before you upgraded to Windows 10 what version of Windows 7/8 did you have? If it was an OEM version, then I believe your Windows 10 is tied to the motherboard. If it was a retail version then you should be able to swap out the parts with no problem.

[Flachbau]

I used my retail copy of 8, and then upgraded to 8.1. No OEM version at all. Can anyone else confirm? You'd be relieving my anxiety about the whole thing

[GTA3Rockstar]

Hey for anyone who has trouble placing icons on the bottom row, I've found an easy fix.

 

1. Running at 1080p resolution, there should be 8 rows in which you can place icons. Place an icon (or create a temporary one) on the second row up, above where you want to put an icon on the bottom row.

2. Simply click and drag the icon to the space on the bottom row under the temporary icon and it will now stick in place.

3. Move back (or delete) the icon you used in step 1.

 

If you want to move a group of icons to the bottom row, simply use a group of temporary icons on the second row up.

 

 

 

You do know you can stretch the Start menu to fit more tiles right?

[X S]

I used my retail copy of 8, and then upgraded to 8.1. No OEM version at all. Can anyone else confirm? You'd be relieving my anxiety about the whole thing

 

Windows is tied to your motherboard. You may just need to call Microsoft to have them transfer the license.

 

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-quietly-rewrites-its-activation-rules-for-windows-10/

 

 

The one exception is a motherboard replacement, which will inevitably cause the Software Licensing Management utility to recognize the device as a new PC and require reactivation, typically over the phone. A motherboard upgrade, even if you reuse storage, video, memory, and a case, is considered a new PC. In that case, if the underlying Windows license is from a retail copy, that license can be transferred. If you are upgrading (and not replacing) a motherboard on an OEM PC that was sold with Windows preinstalled, the license agreement prevents the license from being transferred.

 

So unless you bought a PC with a previous copy of Windows pre-installed, you should be fine transferring the license.

[Flachbau]

Dope. Thanks guys for the help

[sivispacem]

It probably won't be a problem though. I changed motherboard, CPU and added an SSD in one go and didn't need to reactivate.

[RyanBurnsRed]

For as long as I've used computers I have never been prompted to reactivate my key when changing out parts. From Windows ME up to Windows 10.

[Andreaz1]

As far as I know there are still huge questionmarks regarding transferring a retail 7/8.1 license to 10. There was a lot of confusion as some said their retail licences were seemingly turned into OEM ones. Not sure if this has been officially addressed by Microsoft.

 

I had a OEM XP a few years ago that bricked itself when upgrading my PC so it definitely happens.

[ghost of delete key]

I used my retail copy of 8, and then upgraded to 8.1. No OEM version at all. Can anyone else confirm? You'd be relieving my anxiety about the whole thing

Confirmed.

Posting this from my Dad's old Acer, it shipped 6 years ago with Win7 x64, was upgraded first to 8, then to 8.1

<<EDIT re-read your question... this was OEM Win7 - but the version change does present a new unique product key internally - the million flavors of Win are encoded in key, OEM, retail, etc.>>

He then went ahead and reserved 10 on it before giving it to me.

EVERY freaking day I boot up, it happily announces the availability of the upgrade and begs me to JUSS DOO EET.

So yes, the actual upgrade trail does not matter, so long as you have a qualifying version level to upgrade from.

 

My XPS17 is currently down, but I've had the engineering sample on VM's on it... however lots of it was incomplete.

 

Now...

I see lots of OMG IT BRICKED MY WARHORSE

and this is exactly why I haven't permitted the upgrade yet - it is STILL not finished (documented ad nauseum), as per Microsoft Tradition.

As of this writing certain portions of networking components are not yet implemented (!!! though relatively few users will need such functions, they are expected within the next few update cycles), and lots of nagging little issues with what should be straightforward and generic drivers are being reported throughout cyberspace.

 

Also, studying many reports from 3rd-party software providers that the current upgrade build is breaking their applications. Most notably, I've seen many reports of Win10 refusing to play nice with a host of nVidia cards, drivers, and specific configurations. Seems they still haven't got a handle on actually handling Optimus technology, for one aspect. Seems it can't yet be relied upon to handle an acceptible majority of extant machines. We're not even talking legacy machines.

Not surprising for MS; I anticipated this.

 

I'm not doing the upgrade until I get my hands on a spare 1TB hdd to clone my system image, so I can easily fall back in case it really does bork this machine.

 

Also, I'm designing an experiment - I want to see if any of my (legit) 7, 8, and 8.1 VMs can be auto-upgraded to 10, or if MS will be able to detect the installed OS as being virtual.

Not sure exactly how important that is, because as always, Windows creates a "thumbprint hash" of your machine's identity via firmware ID's, though the upgrade to 10 is reserved through the indication of a legitimate Product Key (only? So far as I know).

I think it may be a telling experiment, to see if the upgrade reservation can be made for a VM-installed OS using a key already used on another hard machine (though only on ONE machine at a time, of course).

 

 

For as long as I've used computers I have never been prompted to reactivate my key when changing out parts. From Windows ME up to Windows 10.

Weird... maybe you don't use computers as much as you think?

I say that because I and many others I know have experienced this many times through upgrading and re-configuring hard machines.

Funny story - when they introduced that "phone home activation" crap with XP, the EULA states that your key may only be used on one machine, at any one time. Also, if you changed hardware too radically or migrated the OS to a new machine, you may be prompted to re-activate.

Fine, I thought.

One day, (right after Vista was squeezed out Microsoft's colon) I went to perform the usual activation, and was denied.

Hey wait! One key, one machine, no other restrictions besides re-activation?!

I was curtly robo-informed that my copy of XP had literally been "activated too many times", and is no longer considered Legitimate. My product key was blacklisted. That, after I paid $250 US for the product at a brick-and-mortar retailer and had dutifully obeyed the TOS and EULA.

I tried furiously for weeks to get a live human on the customer support line so I could explain the situation and have it fixed...

What's your guess as to my success there?

 

NOWHERE in the EULA or any other MS legal writing does it state that this is even a possibility. Surprise, surprise.

Just something for you all to think about... Yes, we're all stuck living in a Windows World, but don't jump the bandwagon too soon, hold back, watch, and listen.

 

You never know what MS is capable of until it happens in daylight.

Edited August 24, 2015 by ghost of delete key

[Ai®a©ob®a]

So I upgraded to Windows 10 through MS's Get Windows 10 launcher. When the laptop rebooted, it freezed on the boot screen with windows' icon shown on screen and there's nothing else. I kept it on and went asleep for like 8 hours hoping that it would load up, but nothing happened after I woke up.

 

What could be the problem?

 

 

Do you happen to have two GPU installed such as Intel Intergraded Graphics Card & an AMD or Navidia Graphics Card?

 

If so that's your issue you need to disable your Intel GC and activate the secondary GC you have and then retry the install.

 

I had the same issue i killed my Intel GC and made my Nividia GC primary and had no problem installing after that.

[X S]

Just did a motherboard and CPU upgrade for my father's PC. He had Win 7 Ultimate, so when I booted up, it lost activation. I decided to reactivate it before upgrading to Windows 10, did that, and it worked.

 

I think Win 10 activation may be tied to your Live account for those that upgraded hardware on Win 10. Maybe that explains why some here did not have to re-activate?

[Indy007]

I still have yet to upgrade...

[Slam_Jones]

Been trying to upgrade for about a week at this point.

 

- Downloaded and upgraded from Win 7 to Win 10. Worked for for about 24 hours, then the HDD failed

- Ordered a new HDD

- Attempted to burn Win10 boot disc to a DVD... didn't work

- Tried again, realized the file is 5.5gB, while DVD's can only hold 4.7gB. Woulda been nice if they told me that before downloading it (twice)

 

- Now, downloading it for the fourth time and putting it on a USB flash drive. If this doesn't work, I don't even know what I'm going to do.

[TheMcSame]

Now, downloading it for the fourth time and putting it on a USB flash drive. If this doesn't work, I don't even know what I'm going to do.

Honestly you should've done it on a flash drive anyway

 

It's strange that it needs 5.5GB though, you can make a bootable drive on a 4GB flash drive with no problem. Maybe you were trying to make a boot disk for x86 and x64 instead of just one of them?

Edited September 22, 2015 by TheMcSame

[Slam_Jones]

 

Now, downloading it for the fourth time and putting it on a USB flash drive. If this doesn't work, I don't even know what I'm going to do.

Honestly you should've done it on a flash drive anyway

 

It's strange that it needs 5.5GB though, you can make a bootable drive on a 4GB flash drive with no problem. Maybe you were trying to make a boot disk for x86 and x64 instead of just one of them?

 

 

I really should've... but as it stood, I had tons of blank DVD's and no extra flash drives. Woulda saved me a ton of time lol

[RyanBurnsRed]

Doesn't the CMD method work anymore?

[DEALUX]

After the latest Windows 10 update some programs can get automatically removed due to "icompatibility with this Windows version". Obviously this "feature" was put there intentionally since you get that message after the program has been removed but it has to be the most useless feature ever. Let me remove programs that don't work you f*cking sh*t. And the one that got removed for me (CPU-Z) works perfectly fine but it gets removed every time I shut down my PC.

 

Edit: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-11/24/windows-10-update-removing-software

Edited November 30, 2015 by Kristian.

[GTA3Rockstar]

Ok, so I wasn't the only one that walked into the upgrading screen like the first time.

[X S]

Just discovered a bug that had been annoying me for quite some time. If you have more than 512 programs in your Start menu, you cannot add pins or programs to your Start menu. Even if you install new software, the new programs will not show. Only when you start reducing the number of apps do the new ones begin to show.

 

To find out how many you have, go to PowerShell and type "Get-StartApps | measure".

[TJGM]

Just discovered a bug that had been annoying me for quite some time. If you have more than 512 programs in your Start menu, you cannot add pins or programs to your Start menu. Even if you install new software, the new programs will not show. Only when you start reducing the number of apps do the new ones begin to show.

 

To find out how many you have, go to PowerShell and type "Get-StartApps | measure".

Pretty sure this was increased to around 2000 in the Threshold 2 update last month.

Edited December 9, 2015 by TJGM

[X S]

Odd, because I still had the problem. Was annoying me for the longest time.

[65536]

Someone to has actually found a way to disable completely UPDATES in Windows 10?!? Separately, Microsoft has put spyware sending information to what you does in Windows and what programs you're using using. But seems, in Windows 10, users have absolutely NO WAY TO CONTROL automatic updates the OS downloads and spying and appears they CANNOT BE STOPPED / blocked in any way in Windows 10... I'm bothered by fact pretty much people was not happy with Windows 10 and are reverted back to Windows 7 / 8.1 because Windows 10 was terrible bugged on their machines. Separately, the thing I'm bothered is this many people installed Windows 10 said it various programs / hardware they owned was stopped working because the OS was automatically installed buggy updates WITHOUT THEIR PERMISSION and they doesn't have option to disable them. Some people even got their Windows 10 screwed and crashing with BSODs because of faulty updates they couln't cancel at all... How to be sure I won't get same issue???

 

My issue is, I'm currently on Windows 7 SP1 and I have disabled all Windows updates on my machine and it's OK for now. I'm not going to migrate to Windows 10 if I can't disable that sh*t called spying Cortana and those pesky updates because I'm sure they that might break (or even remove) my older games / programs I'm using no my computer! I don't want MS to follow me what I'm using on my computer and change the programs / drivers on MY OWN MACHINE without my permission!!! I'm sure that is the main reason many people do not want Windows 10 at all...

Edited February 15, 2016 by 65536