Windows 10 & Windows 10 Mobile

[Red Hat]

I know people said you could revert back to an older Windows, so I'm guessing this is what this new partition is on my HDD. There's a new partition with 347MB on it.

 

Does anyone else have this?

 

 

I wanna get rid of it because I already made a clone of the original Win 7 boot partition, but I just wanna make sure before I change anything that this new partition is a backup of the old OS.

Don't format or delete that. I believe that to be the "System Reserved" partition, that's where your Boot Manager and Boot Configuration Data are stored.

Yes, everyone has a "System Reserved" partition, it's hidden.

Edited August 1, 2015 by Kevin3014

[Parik]

@Kevin , the reserved partition is of 100 MB. So ,that cannot be the system reserved partition

[TheMcSame]

@Kevin , the reserved partition is of 100 MB. So ,that cannot be the system reserved partition

Regardless of what it is, it's some partitions that've been created by the system itself. As I mentioned before, it's likely a recovery partition and an EFI partition. It's best not to mess with them imo, I mean, they're only taking up like 430mb.

 

On another note, shame on @X S for using a HDD as a boot drive.

 

Nah, not really, though I would really recommend an SSD, once you try it you'll never go back.

Edited August 1, 2015 by TheMcSame

[Creed Bratton]

Back to Windows 7.

 

This is not a finished OS. Dear lord so many bugs. We'll see how it goes in a few months.

Edited August 1, 2015 by The Yokel

[X S]

 

I know people said you could revert back to an older Windows, so I'm guessing this is what this new partition is on my HDD. There's a new partition with 347MB on it.

 

Does anyone else have this?

 

 

I wanna get rid of it because I already made a clone of the original Win 7 boot partition, but I just wanna make sure before I change anything that this new partition is a backup of the old OS.

Don't format or delete that. I believe that to be the "System Reserved" partition, that's where your Boot Manager and Boot Configuration Data are stored.

Yes, everyone has a "System Reserved" partition, it's hidden.

 

 

Right, as McSame said, I thought my 100MB partition was the hidden boot partition. I did not have the 347MB partition prior to upgrading.

 

 

 

@Kevin , the reserved partition is of 100 MB. So ,that cannot be the system reserved partition

Regardless of what it is, it's some partitions that've been created by the system itself. As I mentioned before, it's likely a recovery partition and an EFI partition. It's best not to mess with them imo, I mean, they're only taking up like 430mb.

 

On another note, shame on @X S for using a HDD as a boot drive.

 

Nah, not really, though I would really recommend an SSD, once you try it you'll never go back.

 

 

Also, I'm using a very old x58 motherboard, CSM legacy, so I don't have UEFI. I don't need a new mobo because I leave my PC on 24/7, and my 1st Gen i7 is running at 4.0GHz anyway.

 

As for SSD's, I'll be making that move once the price of a 1TB plummets. I don't feel the need to shell out $380 for a 1TB SSD.

[Kampret]

I know people said you could revert back to an older Windows, so I'm guessing this is what this new partition is on my HDD. There's a new partition with 347MB on it.

 

Does anyone else have this?

 

 

I wanna get rid of it because I already made a clone of the original Win 7 boot partition, but I just wanna make sure before I change anything that this new partition is a backup of the old OS.

 

That's because Windows 8/10 boot manager doesn't fit inside the 100 MB boot partition. That's why newer PCs and PCs that has been partitioned by the Windows 8/10 setup will have a 350-400 MB boot partition instead of 100 MB. You should be fine deleting the 100 MB one.

@Kevin , the reserved partition is of 100 MB. So ,that cannot be the system reserved partition

 

That's for Windows Vista/7. 8/10 increased the boot (System Reserved) partition size to 300-400 MB thanks to its boot GUI.

[Vik]

Sucks to see people having problems,I barely have any bugs and everything is running much more faster.

 

Hopefully more jump on board when the first service pack is released.

[X S]

I wanna get rid of it because I already made a clone of the original Win 7 boot partition, but I just wanna make sure before I change anything that this new partition is a backup of the old OS.

 

That's because Windows 8/10 boot manager doesn't fit inside the 100 MB boot partition. That's why newer PCs and PCs that has been partitioned by the Windows 8/10 setup will have a 350-400 MB boot partition instead of 100 MB. You should be fine deleting the 100 MB one.

@Kevin , the reserved partition is of 100 MB. So ,that cannot be the system reserved partition

 

That's for Windows Vista/7. 8/10 increased the boot (System Reserved) partition size to 300-400 MB thanks to its boot GUI.

 

 

Ohhhh, ok, that makes sense. But my disk image program is showing the "Win 7" partition as Active. Should I be concerned about that?

[Kampret]

 

I wanna get rid of it because I already made a clone of the original Win 7 boot partition, but I just wanna make sure before I change anything that this new partition is a backup of the old OS.

 

That's because Windows 8/10 boot manager doesn't fit inside the 100 MB boot partition. That's why newer PCs and PCs that has been partitioned by the Windows 8/10 setup will have a 350-400 MB boot partition instead of 100 MB. You should be fine deleting the 100 MB one.

 

 

Ohhhh, ok, that makes sense. But my disk image program is showing the "Win 7" partition as Active. Should I be concerned about that?

 

 

You probably should. That means it's still booting off the Windows 7 boot loader. I'd suggest leaving it intact or go with EasyBCD and move the boot loader to the 350 MB partition.

 

So basically currently your PC is booting off the 100 MB partition with the GUI assets from the 350 MB partition.

Edited August 1, 2015 by Kampret

[Ai®a©ob®a]

Anybody else getting a black screen while trying to watch gameplay playback?

 

My ShadowPlay playback works fine but my FRAPS playback is just a black screen as well as some of my movies.

[TheMcSame]

Anybody else getting a black screen while trying to watch gameplay playback?

 

My ShadowPlay playback works fine but my FRAPS playback is just a black screen as well as some of my movies.

Did you try using Windows Media Player instead of film and TV?

[Ai®a©ob®a]

 

Anybody else getting a black screen while trying to watch gameplay playback?

 

My ShadowPlay playback works fine but my FRAPS playback is just a black screen as well as some of my movies.

Did you try using Windows Media Player instead of film and TV?

 

Not DVD's but .mkv i've made using programs

Edited August 3, 2015 by Troubadour

[TJGM]

Since I use my PC practically everyday, I was thinking I'd buy a Windows phone and start making use of all these apps that are now on my PC and laptop. I tried Groove music and the only way I could sign in was via an Xbox account.. what a dumb and terrible thing.

 

Why would I need an Xbox account for a music app on PC? Why can't I just sign in via my Microsoft account? I sign into my PC with it every day, what makes this music app different? Stuff like this is extremely silly, I don't want an Xbox account because I don't have a God damn Xbox. I have absolutely no idea why they force stuff like this upon users.

 

In other news, the experience has been nice so far. I'm still having issues with System taking up too much RAM on both my laptop and PC and I have no idea what's causing it, tried all the tweaks out there for the issue and nothing resolves it. I'm also unable to change my avatar on my PC, the avatar is working fine on my laptop and Outlook account, but once I go onto my PC it's not there and changing it results in an error.

Edited August 4, 2015 by TJGM

[GTA3Rockstar]

 

Why would I need an Xbox account for a music app on PC? Why can't I just sign in via my Microsoft account? I sign into my PC with it every day, what makes this music app different? Stuff like this is extremely silly, I don't want an Xbox account because I don't have a God damn Xbox. I have absolutely no idea why they force stuff like this upon users.

 

You can sign in with your Live account. The only thing it does is add Xbox Live profile to your account, no biggie.

[TheMcSame]

Why would I need an Xbox account for a music app on PC? Why can't I just sign in via my Microsoft account?

They're the same thing... You're effectively complaining for the sake of complaining.

 

The RAM problem, that's probably a program you've installed on both computers, my RAM usage has actually dropped.

[Gouveia]

My RAM usage has dropped, even my disk usage (as in I/O) has dropped. I've had some issues with the auto-updated drivers, since I had to reinstall my HD7950 drivers. Everything else is going on fine.

[trip]

My RAM usage has dropped, even my disk usage (as in I/O) has dropped.

Same here. Although, I'm not sure how sh*tted up my Win 7 was to let me gauge any true difference - might just be a result of my clean 10 install.

 

I'm liking 10. I was on 7 since beta so it has been awhile for me and any big OS changes.

 

I kind of miss my transparent windows though. 10 seems so sterile.

[TJGM]

 

Why would I need an Xbox account for a music app on PC? Why can't I just sign in via my Microsoft account?

They're the same thing... You're effectively complaining for the sake of complaining.

 

The RAM problem, that's probably a program you've installed on both computers, my RAM usage has actually dropped.

 

Except they're not the same thing. You try signing into Groove Music with your Microsoft account and you'll be told to make an Xbox account.

[TheMcSame]

Except they're not the same thing. You try signing into Groove Music with your Microsoft account and you'll be told to make an Xbox account.

My XBL profile works for everything else Microsoft related... All it does is tie an XBL profile to your Microsoft account, you're complaining for the sake of complaining.

Edited August 4, 2015 by TheMcSame

[TJGM]

 

Except they're not the same thing. You try signing into Groove Music with your Microsoft account and you'll be told to make an Xbox account.

My XBL profile works for everything else Microsoft related... All it does is tie a XBL account to your Microsoft account

Which I haven't got. Why would I want an XBL account when I don't even own an Xbox? Why do I even need an XBL account for a music app?

[TheMcSame]

Which I haven't got.

I honestly give up with you... You've been told several times and you just can't seem to understand that all it does it ties a profile to your account... You're making this a much bigger problem than it really is. Don't want the profile tied to your account? Jog on then, use another media app.

[TJGM]

 

Which I haven't got.

I honestly give up with you... You've been told several times and you just can't seem to understand that all it does it ties a profile to your account... You're making this a much bigger problem than it really is. Don't want the profile tied to your account? Jog on then, use another media app.

 

You claim it just 'ties' in with my account, but I still need an XBL account to tie it into my Microsoft account anyway. Have you actually tried the app? If you don't have an XBL account linked with your Microsoft account it asks you to create an XBL account, which I'm not doing since I don't have an Xbox and I don't want an account for one.

 

Not all of us are willing to create accounts for useless things, it's messy and unnecessary. I didn't make a big deal out of this either, I just claimed it's fairly silly that I need an XBL account in order to sign into a music app and you took it way out of proportion as if I said the entire OS is terrible because of this one issue despite the fact that I praised it in my original post. Calm it down, there really isn't any need to get so defensive.

[X S]

Groove Music used to be Xbox Music. That's why. They probably haven't completely shifted focus away from the Xbox element of membership yet, so I would suggest just dealing with it for now, especially if you plan to buy a Windows Phone. Expect the Xbox element of their products to only increase, especially with mobile games.

 

Which I guess brings me to this topic: Windows 10 and gaming. I won't get into it much, but it's obvious that MSFT is trying to build an entire ecosystem around their products. Phil Spencer recently addressed this.

 

http://www.businessinsider.com/windows-10-games-2015-3

 

 

The way forward, then, is in changing how Microsoft thinks about its customers: They're not people who play games on Windows PCs, or tablets, or consoles. They're customers of the Xbox Live service. That means that games can and should work across multiple devices, with the same friends list and the same high scores, and people should be able to play each other no matter what device they're on.

 

"Xbox" no longer means consoles, said Spencer. It means "gaming with Microsoft."

Edited August 5, 2015 by X S

[gizmo]

It's like making a Youtube account meant you were tied to a Google+ account. Does that help clarify?

 

I had RAM problems but they seem to be fixed. When I first start my machine Cortana Background Task Host eats a TON of RAM though and it lasts about 5 minutes before disappearing.

 

That was when I had 6GB of RAM. Now with 16GB of RAM Cortana takes up about 60% of total memory when "doing its thing." It shoots up to almost 10,000MB being used for whatever the hell it does.

[GTA3Rockstar]

 

 

Which I haven't got.

I honestly give up with you... You've been told several times and you just can't seem to understand that all it does it ties a profile to your account... You're making this a much bigger problem than it really is. Don't want the profile tied to your account? Jog on then, use another media app.

 

You claim it just 'ties' in with my account, but I still need an XBL account to tie it into my Microsoft account anyway. Have you actually tried the app? If you don't have an XBL account linked with your Microsoft account it asks you to create an XBL account, which I'm not doing since I don't have an Xbox and I don't want an account for one.

 

I agree with McSame. lol

 

Just sign into your Live account, open the app and click continue. There is no extra step. I tested this out myself with a Live account that has no Xbox Gamertag tied to it(which you could change yourself later if your decide to get an Xbox).

 

 

Like I said before, it just adds an Xbox profile to your account.

 

 

 

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My ram % is usually around under 10%, I never saw that Cortana host task but everything on my end seems fine. Except the occasional problem I get with firefox, were it just lags and get all of these script errors, so I have to restart then. Though, not many times.

Edited August 6, 2015 by GTA3Rockstar

[Moving Idiot]

I switched over to Windows 10 this morning and it's been good to me so far. *Knocks on wood* Let's hope it stays that way.

Edited August 6, 2015 by TalkingPear

[Ryan]

Patiently waited to get the notification I could download Windows 10 but never got it so I went ahead and manually and downloaded it the other day. Been using it for about 48 hours now and I hate it. Everything just seems excessively complicated and rushed. Nothing is intuitive and you have to go through a million sub-menus to get somewhere. Going to revert back to my modded version of Windows 8.1.

[GTA3Rockstar]

Patiently waited to get the notification I could download Windows 10 but never got it so I went ahead and manually and downloaded it the other day. Been using it for about 48 hours now and I hate it. Everything just seems excessively complicated and rushed. Nothing is intuitive and you have to go through a million sub-menus to get somewhere. Going to revert back to my modded version of Windows 8.1.

 

Give it time.

 

Just set up your titles for your apps and what not, much smoother than any other Windows by far.

 

 

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Anyone figure out how to have it automatically log you on after restart/turning on? It always asks for my Live password and I just want it to automatically log me in.

[sivispacem]

I don't think you can without disabling the password completely because of the changes they've made to how the UAC works this time around.

[richard1997jones]

Just updated my laptop which had windows 8.1 on it to windows 10. Have to say its far more user freindly than windows 8 but because I hated windows 8 I had already changed the layout to bring back a start button using something called "windows shell" and although windows 10 is similar to this design it still seems a bit too much like windows 8 still. At least its not as buggy as using "windows shell" and it seems to be better but I'll wait and see how it goes.