[Mikhail000]

After making the jump from xp to both win7 then win10 within the last three weeks I can categorically say I hate the file explorer in both, xp was so much easier for me, in win7/10 the mouse wheel scroll keeps losing focus and switches back to the folders / drive tree instead of staying constantly on the opened current folder to browse files, when I create a new folder it places it right at the end of my files list instead of next to the files i'm currently near that I drag into that new folder.
I also don't know narrow my files search to selected drives in xp you could just put C; D etc
Even paint is rubbish now for simple print screens the menu is cluttered to death, if this what it's like for desktops I hate to think how dreadfull it is for small tablet screens.

 

[Mikhail000]

The problem I have with there design choices is they seem to be going for the minimalist look cramming everything on the same screen with the least amount of categories and headings, I can understand that for small tablet screens and quick go to menu access but on desktops I prefer things to have a spread out layout, it's like all there apps have been ported from smartwatches.

 

[Mikhail000]

Still unable to get the upgrade on my thinkpad t420 still stalling at 32% overall and 6% on Installing drivers and features

Skip driver install and do them manually from device manager, it takes forever to auto install them alot of time it just hangs trying to retrieve driver updates from microsofts crappy servers skip and browse your computer for the drivers instead.

The win7 broadcom BCM92070MD bluetooth driver refuses to install, oddly it enables the green bluetooth led if you left it on in win7 but you can't activate/deactivate it in win10 using Fn+5 even with the hotkeys app installed it doesn't even open the app :-(

 

[Mikhail000]

Try running
SFC /SCANNOW
in Win7 before upgrading to Win10.

 

[Mikhail000]

That found 0 issues.

My only advice would be to do as I did and clean install on a new partition then use kmsauto to activate it and buy win10 once the trial period is over.
What would loose from a clean install on another partition anyway?, I can still access steam / games from the previous win7 partition under drive letter D:

 

[Mikhail000]

No room to do a fresh install is part of my problem. I need another external HDD to pull off a number of my file so I can do a fresh install of Windows 10. That or pick up a mSATA SSD which is what I have been thinking of doing. Your HDD is likely not nearly as full as mine since you got your thinkpad recently while I have made mind for quite a few months already and have been using it as my main pc since we moved into the rental so that I am not constantly stuck down in the basement every single day. Don't get me wrong I still use the desktop for gaming once in a while but I will be using it for more often once we get the new modular house in. Hence my reason for getting the laptop in the first place so I would have something I can lug up stairs every day so I wouldn't be stuck in the basement 24/7

I've got my eye on the 128gb BP4e should fully saturate msata II.

 

[Mikhail000]

I am thinking of something like this since my mSATA slot is empty http://www.amazon.com/ZTC-128GB-Bulwark-Enhanced-ZTC-MS001-128G/dp/B0118CIC2Q/ along with doubling the amount of ram that is in the system from 4gb to 8gb since chrome easily hits 90%+ ram usage by itself. Which of course cuases the whole system to slow to a crawl and stutter like crazy

I use FF with Ghostery, OneTab and NoScript, NoScript blocks all Javascript and Flash / html5 autoplay which is the usual cause oi ram hikes

 

[Mikhail000]

I was reading somewhere intel won't be releasing a driver update for win10 for older intergrated HD 3000 graphics
www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/CS-034343.htm

https://communities.intel.com/thread/61432?start=30&tstart=0

https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2015/07/14/intel-graphics-beta-driver-for-windows-10

 

[Mikhail000]

For me flash video content is crash happy with Firefox on Win10, np problem with Win7, the 64bit beta Firefox seems more stable though.

 

[Mikhail000]

Despite upgrading to a new version of the Windows 10 Insider program, my computer recently gave me a BSOD saying "EVALUATION PERIOD OVER". After restarting, it says my PC will shut down every 2 hours until I upgrade. Lovely.

My PC actually downloaded the update, but somehow refuses to install it. It tells me to restart to upgrade... And never installs it. This is the fourth time an Insider builds gives me this issue, but hey, those are test builds right? So fair enough.
So I do what I normally do, and go to Microsoft websites to download the ISO of the newest build to upgrade. But all of their pages for the download are just white. Nothing on them, they finish loading and are white. It's doing this on multiple device. So I can't even download their damn build.

And this brings me to a few gripes:
1) 2 hours to download an ISO through your browser is gonna cause an issue for some users with slower connections. You'll BSOD during the download which will cancel it.
2) A BSOD just isn't the best way to tell people to update. Especially when it's unexpected. Imagine someone working when this happens. There are gentler ways to push you off the PC, such as giving you 5 minutes to save your stuff before a forced shutdown. (Windows already does this when it wants to update without your permission anyway)
3) If me not getting a BSOD requires a copy of an update, please make SURE I can access it?

So now I'm using torrents from KickAssTorrents to get a recent copy of the iso. Gotta hope it's as "untouched" as they claim.

I got the bsod too when trying to update from the 1151 insider build on my parents comp, luckily you can dl,
then let it dl and update to 10.0.14385

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windowsinsiderpreviewadvanced

the insider build updates are weird though their full 3-4gb disc images of the newest build rather than the updated files from your build, so it takes ages to dl and reinstall windows each time, I think their .esd or something but they can be converted to .iso

 

[Mikhail000]

Actually Dolphin is running some games on the shield tv. Although that's not a snapdragon chip.

Mine and Lasnap laptop nvs4200m performs ever so slightly faster than the shield running android, just a shame there isn't a emulated vulkan driver for it yet, cause we have no hope of nvidia ever supporting fermi on windows or linux only nouveau :-( intel will probably make a vulkan driver for their hdgraphics chipsets though, here's hoping.
Older opengles 2.0 builds v4.0-4139??? that still worked of dolphin for android ran sunshine at about 16-20fps,
ppsspp, uoYabause, reicast ran more or less the same speed as their windows builds.

Also steam / valve put out a directx to opengl wrapper called ToGL for linux some time ago, microsoft will probably being something similair for their arm chipset support rather than full blown directx.
Google also has the software wrapper from swiftshader for dx9 and opengles 2.0

 

[Mikhail000]

Maybe the service didn't start after installing the driver?

 

[Mikhail000]

Apparently it spreads by people opening infected email attachments; just don't any attachments with executables etc.. It can then spread across networks by unpatched Windows Server Message Blocks, and email itself to further users.

Interestingly, it used an exploit thought to have been developed by the NSA: EternalBlue. presumably this is used to spread across networks, making it a "worm".

This is the message it brings up:

Gotta love their nicely worded messages.

 

[Mikhail000]

I gave up on VirtualBox in most cases dgvoodoo works better.

 

[Mikhail000]

I have to stop you guys right there. Virtualbox uses a modified version of WINE for 3d acceleration so only direct x9 games work and direct x 8 and lower does not work.

That's why I prefer dgvoodoo it supports dx7-9 as well as direct draw, custom res no upscaling bs + aspect ratio, filtering and runs games natively without any emulated os taking up more resources and memory.
The only downside is the filtering causes texture tiling when going past native game res on some 2d game screens. I'm glad GOG have seen it's worth and are now including it in future game releases.

 

[Mikhail000]

grrr my permissions are completely fck'd I can't install any updates or any installshield x-86 apps without it throwing up permission denied errors
SubInACL tool doesn't help at all, it still has 80,000+
RegSetKeySecurity Error: 5 Access is denied errors.

 

[Mikhail000]

Something broke when I cloned win7 and upgraded to win10, I no longer have permission to open the My shortcuts under My Documents on my previous win7 install, I have to create seperate shortcuts to access them via

C:\Users\user\Pictures
C:\Users\user\Music
C:\Users\user\Videos

 

[Mikhail000]

The SD slot on my Thinkpad T420 doesn't work with Windows 10 so NOT all hardware on newer laptops work.

Really??? i've never even used it not even on Win7, have a Kingston MobileLite G4 reader that I use instead plugged into either one of the usb 2.0 ports or the StarTech usb 3.0 expresscard both of which run Win10 on a drive or usb stick fine.
Only issuses i've had is Widi / Miracast casting / Allshare screencasting is no longer a option under Win10??? although it never really worked well under Win7 either and activating the onboard bluetooth.

 

[Mikhail000]

I brought out of storage a Win10 32-bit that had the initial freebie conversion from Win7 and had never been used since.

Connected to the internet, and it (very) slowly upgraded itself to build 1703 (Creator's update) and nothing broke! It took 2 days to download everything though.

Now, the next question is what useful things can Win10 do which Win7 cannot?

Vulkan, DirectX 12, memory compression???

 

[Mikhail000]

Yes but only if you need them
I don't have anything that need/can use them and I have plenty of free ram so just those things will not make me switch to win10 but the laptop came with it.

Personality for the 3 months I'm using win10,I still did not find anything that will make wanting to switch from win7 to 10(my pc is still with win7)

Me neither plus Nvidia lied about supporting Fermi on Vulkan so it's all but useless to me too.
Honestly I hate it just as much as Win8, it's too over simplified trying to be a multi system OS imo
XP was the best, but i'll use Win7 for as long as possible.