http://www.ghacks.net/2015/11/24/beware-latest-windows-10-update-may-remove-programs-automatically/ unclear to me what it means by removing program... as cpuz doesn't really need installation?
sure it does. it still run most of british telecom's email. despite yahoo having had a huge data leak a few years back, bt has been bodging its migration away from that email provider.
that only makes sense as a (1 month) delaying tactic XD http://www.ghacks.net/2015/11/22/microsoft-makes-windows-10-version-1511-a-windows-update-exclusive/ speculation of there being a key glitch not giving right version
good thing i burnt the dvd...... and have the iso XD it's idiotic. the best thing for me with threshold 2 is that i can clean install win10 with win 7 key without messing about with upgrading 1st. afaik, trying to install win 7 on skylake requires a bit of fiddling. i guess they are trying to get people to buy win10 instead of using their old win7 retails keys when getting a new machine? whilst one can understand why recent win10 rtm installer
well. i was posting a big wall of text about the new machine and somehow it didn't go through. forgot how to fix it. (allow stardock.net in noscript did the trick) suffice to say. just did a win10 clean install with win 7 key. painless, aside from choices i made, like doing it offline (just in case ms moans about having a win 7 machine connected to the net and installing a win10 machine with the same key.. just in cases installation goes wonky and i need to use the
system should be arriving today, got question regarding drivers. should i let win 10 find/update drivers or go d/l them myself?
yes. as mentioned before (top of this page). threshold 2 allows people to clean install with win 7/8 keys. ... i wonder how that'll go when i try to do a clean install on my new machine (whenever it arrives). might end up having to phone ms or something XD
the november update (threshold 2) allows people to clean install (w/o upgrading 1st) with a win 7/8 key. or at least that's the theory... hence my comment (hey.. could have sworn i didn't see your reply there XD) ps... supposedly win10 newcomers (that is.. those who upgraded before threshold 2 came out) won't get threshold 2 until 30 days (or was it 31?) after their upgrade (as it'll wipe their restore to win 7->8 thingy).
if you did it yesterday, couldn't you have just done a clean intall directly using win7/8 key with the latest win10 from this month? you don't need multiple licenses for multiboots?
it's not the hdd/ssd that was the issue with clean install. it's mostly the motherboard (maybe cpu too... no idea really)... so if you upgraded to win 10 with basically the same machine before aside from the storage, then it was already activated, hence why the clean install works. i'm assuming you are not using the insider versions, because i think some of the more recent ones allow people to clean install with win7/8 keys without going through the upgrade/activation thin
... eh.. you don't need the product key for clean install. unless you are talking about the retail key. bit more details http://www.ghacks.net/2015/09/29/microsofts-official-windows-10-activation-guide/
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/microsoft-reveals-windows-10-activation,30188.html
1280x800 ftw! (that said.. i don't play galciv3)
look at the software and manual the drive comes with.. usually something there. eg http://www.seagate.com/gb/en/support/downloads/beyond-2tb/ https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-performance/i-have-a-3-tb-drive-windows-7-ultimate-wont-format/b1cc3811-f25f-e011-8dfc-68b599b31bf5?auth=1
just downloaded and installed it. well... the npapi (firefox) version anyway... seems the activex (ie) version autoupdated itself but not npapi. weird. (saw the auto-updater/installer deemed safe in my security suite.) noticed that there's no tickbox to select/deselect the mcafee crap seen previously in the d/l page. nothing in the installation process. haven't seen any toolbars or whatever it was. don't see nothing in plugins/addons page once installation w
was going to mention this when i 1st read it a while back (only just figured out why i can't post replies here XD eff privacy badger blocked something) https://boingboing.net/2015/08/10/windows-10.html
if all fails, just install linux via virtualbox or some other virtual machine. a lot slower with older machines, less fiddly, and pretty much guaranteed not to screw up your windows. you can also mess with all the different linux flavours you want, not just *buntu obviously i'm assuming win10 will log everything you do in the vm as opposed to dualbooted... so that's a downside.
[quote who="WOM" reply="3" id="3580865"] Hehe, yeap and I'll stick with W7 as long as I can. [/quote] it's going to be more and more difficult to install older os on new machines... pfft.. eg skylake has no native usb 2 support whilst win 7 installation disc has no usb 3 support.. .so you need to stick the win 7 iso into a usb drive and eh... use some driver disc to load the usb via usb 3 or something to install (... eh.. basically mod the installati
nah. not malware i don't think. ran malwarebytes and it got rid of some pup. think it's part of the bloatware that came with the machine. because it got changed again later on (think after some bloatware update) and malwarebytes didn't find anything. not on the same scale, but essentially the same crap. oems installing all sorts of rubbish and trying their best to make sure you can't get rid of them. this one uses ms anti-theft measures to do it. <p
... i don't think browser is the problem if your connection manager says there are problems. as for 2 - eh. so you have absolutely no access to the router and your machine + router do not have ethernet ports?
heh. my uncle had an acer.. and something in there keeps changing homepages to some websearch rubbish
no idea. i would imagine it should say 12.. though....are you using nvidia hardware? it says... disable mfaa to see dx12. XD https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/860540/geforce-900-series/windows-10-dxdiag-show-directx11-3-on-gtx-970-please-help-/ http://www.tenforums.com/software-apps/9709-direct-x-11-3-overwrote-12-a.html
[quote who="a0152570" reply="1" id="3577453"] been running W10 for days now, 2 2idderent machines, no issues with SK. Dx12 - good question, thought it was automatic, but says i am running Dx 11 [/quote] games (and other programs) will only use dx whatever that they've been written for. win 10 comes with dx12, but if games are written for.... dx9 or 11, then they'll be using 9 or 11. i seriously doubt they'll do a dx12 version.
i know what you are saying. just being paranoid because of that 30 day thing. (if you don't downgrade within 30 days, you are stuck with win 10 and your win 8 key invalidated. don't know how they define downgrade aside from using the rollback from within win 10) and like i mention earlier, the article above basically says you don't need a cdkey if you are re-installing on the same hardware because somehow ms knows... [quote]quote from that article off
when you say it's the cd key used to upgrade to win 10... that means it's the win 8 cdkey? i have a feeling you don't need the cd key at all during the clean install.... if your machine has been activated already with win 10. it should reactivate itself again. http://www.ghacks.net/2015/07/29/how-to-do-a-clean-install-of-windows-10/ (around middle of the page) as for wiping it and installing win 8. you might encounter license p