Windows 10

[Superfly Guy]

http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/174021-startisback-rc/

The start menu is back with this tweak (that we used on W8 - 8.1).

[Superfly Guy]

There is no fix as yet and it is very easy to end up with over 512 entries in the start menu. .

Run "Get-StartApps | measure" in the powershell and it will tell you, I had 256.
If you have lost them from the Start Panel don't worry, they haven't been deleted, just use one of the growing number of alternate Start progs, il be going with Start 10 once its released.
https://www.stardock.com/products/start10/download.asp

[Superfly Guy]

Anybody having issues starting games from STEAM, just run the DX End-User Runtimes (June 2010) from the link below.
Save it to somewhere you can find then run the Setup app.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/down...s.aspx?id=8109

[Gazski66]

Not being computer savvy my laptop has just told me that 10 is ready to download, is it worth waiting a while before I do it?

[Oli]

FYI AVG isn't currently working on Windows 10, so don't upgrade if you have that

[Superfly Guy]

Not being computer savvy my laptop has just told me that 10 is ready to download, is it worth waiting a while before I do it?

If you are running W8.1 then I would wait, if you are running W7 then I would still wait.

FYI AVG isn't currently working on Windows 10, so don't upgrade if you have that

I think it is giving false positives, Malwarebytes is working fine.

[Oli]

If you are running W8.1 then I would wait, if you are running W7 then I would still wait.


I think it is giving false positives, Malwarebytes is working fine.

I can see that a few off our customers have upgraded and the Anti Virus is disabled, won't let me enabled it again, so it definatly doesn't work.

[Superfly Guy]

I can see that a few off our customers have upgraded and the Anti Virus is disabled, won't let me enabled it again, so it definatly doesn't work.

Ive just disabled Explorer in order to sort a minor boot issue that appeared once id disabled a lot of stuff in the shell and registry. Ive got rid of the one-drive and all the tiles.

[Gazski66]

If you are running W8.1 then I would wait, if you are running W7 then I would still wait.


I think it is giving false positives, Malwarebytes is working fine.

Ok thanks,what will I be waiting for? updates?

[Superfly Guy]

Ok thanks,what will I be waiting for? updates?

Unless you like to get under the bonnet then id wait, I'm finding little things but nothing that I couldn't fix easily.

[Gazski66]

Ok thanks SFG

[Superfly Guy]

be warned, there is already quite a major bug in win10. If you have more than 512 items in your start menu before upgrading (this includes all sub menus) then after the upgrade all items will be missing with no way to restore them. Currently you would have to roll your system back to pre-win10 and remove some items or wait until microsoft, who are working on a fix, releases an update. Check various forums to find workarounds and tests for the 512 limit.

This is now fixed

[Superfly Guy]

Ive spent a bit more time on this and also spoken to various geeks I know and to be honest, if you want an Operating System that is modern and easy to use then W10 fits the bill. Yes there are some legacy function left in but for ease of use and minimal maintenance then it works well. However this is also its Achilles heel if you want your PC for another purpose, its needs some serious tweaking. Some will love that it does all those laborious tasks for you, it takes care of syncing your data, of updating and installing any drivers, progs or apps, all behind the scenes, however we don't all want the latest cos the latest isn't always the greatest.

Ive installed it on three machines, my gaming laptop has been left vanilla, my media server has had W10 stripped back for the purpose of storing my music and film library plus backups of my docs (9TB of data) and it works fine, my gaming PC has also been stripped back to facilitate providing maximum ingame performance and works similarly well. However the changes I have made are vastly different, almost like we had to with XP which is both good and bad.

If you want the best of W7 functionality but would like W8.1 efficiency then W10 is a good choice, you may need to spend a days tweaking to get there though.

[Gazski66]

Ive spent a bit more time on this and also spoken to various geeks I know and to be honest, if you want an Operating System that is modern and easy to use then W10 fits the bill. Yes there are some legacy function left in but for ease of use and minimal maintenance then it works well. However this is also its Achilles heel if you want your PC for another purpose, its needs some serious tweaking. Some will love that it does all those laborious tasks for you, it takes care of syncing your data, of updating and installing any drivers, progs or apps, all behind the scenes, however we don't all want the latest cos the latest isn't always the greatest.

Ive installed it on three machines, my gaming laptop has been left vanilla, my media server has had W10 stripped back for the purpose of storing my music and film library plus backups of my docs (9TB of data) and it works fine, my gaming PC has also been stripped back to facilitate providing maximum ingame performance and works similarly well. However the changes I have made are vastly different, almost like we had to with XP which is both good and bad.

If you want the best of W7 functionality but would like W8.1 efficiency then W10 is a good choice, you may need to spend a days tweaking to get there though.

Thanks SFG but I am not good enough to tweak programmes, will wait as you said for a few weeks and let the updates take effect

[robbo51]

Now fully installed .......with no problems whatsoever