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Win 10 Home.

Fearandloathing said:
I hate Windows 10.

The media player is dark ages,
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What media player? There is a video player and music player but no media player.

the system isn't slow switching between drives it's glacial before global warming. Every now and then I get "your computer has had a problem and Windows 10 needs to close" and then it does and sometimes it will restart itself,, sometimes not.
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Did you upgrade or clean install? I suspect upgrade, and that your previous windows installation was already a problem.
Firefox hates it, and closes itself at least once a day.
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Firefox works just fine here.

And not finally, but the last of this list, I cannot turn off the mandatory log in.
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Press Start and write CMD and press enter.

A black box pops open.. write netplwiz and press enter.

Tick off the "users must enter user...."

Write in your password twice and that should stop it from asking.

Make sure also Settings > Accounts > Sign-in Options > "If you have been away" is set correctly.
 
PeteEU said:
What media player? There is a video player and music player but no media player.



Did you upgrade or clean install? I suspect upgrade, and that your previous windows installation was already a problem.


Firefox works just fine here.



Press Start and write CMD and press enter.

A black box pops open.. write netplwiz and press enter.

Tick off the "users must enter user...."

Write in your password twice and that should stop it from asking.

Make sure also Settings > Accounts > Sign-in Options > "If you have been away" is set correctly.
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Thanks, will do.

I upgraded, but 'my guy' just did a free tune up just before; is why he recommended going then. Only he forgot to tell me to uninstall my malware program but I fixed that. It has been stable over a week now.
 
PeteEU said:
What media player? There is a video player and music player but no media player.



Did you upgrade or clean install? I suspect upgrade, and that your previous windows installation was already a problem.


Firefox works just fine here.



Press Start and write CMD and press enter.

A black box pops open.. write netplwiz and press enter.

Tick off the "users must enter user...."

Write in your password twice and that should stop it from asking.

Make sure also Settings > Accounts > Sign-in Options > "If you have been away" is set correctly.
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Thank you again. It has been over a decade since I had a 'C" prompt.
 
Fearandloathing said:
Thanks, will do.

I upgraded, but 'my guy' just did a free tune up just before; is why he recommended going then. Only he forgot to tell me to uninstall my malware program but I fixed that. It has been stable over a week now.
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What I always do and recommend is the following.

Make sure your Windows 7 or 8 is fully updated first.
Uninstall all anti-virus/malware programs as they can.. rarely do, but they can cause problems.
Make back up of all important files.
Then do the upgrade.

After the upgrade, install what is needed and see how stable it is. If there are too many "issues" then do a reset and that should fix 99% of problems. Of the 50+ upgrades I have done, about 5 or so have been problematic. And of these it was either my own fault (failing to uninstall anti-virus) or a broken Windows 7 or 8.
 
Fearandloathing said:
Thank you again. It has been over a decade since I had a 'C" prompt.
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actually come to think about it.. you dont need to do the CMD part. Just press Start and write netplwiz and it should be at the top of the results list.. it is old habit using command prompt from me..
 
PeteEU said:
What I always do and recommend is the following.

Make sure your Windows 7 or 8 is fully updated first.
Uninstall all anti-virus/malware programs as they can.. rarely do, but they can cause problems.
Make back up of all important files.
Then do the upgrade.

After the upgrade, install what is needed and see how stable it is. If there are too many "issues" then do a reset and that should fix 99% of problems. Of the 50+ upgrades I have done, about 5 or so have been problematic. And of these it was either my own fault (failing to uninstall anti-virus) or a broken Windows 7 or 8.
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That was all that I didn't do. I checked for updates on everything, ran anti spyware, C-cleaner.
 
Fearandloathing said:
That was all that I didn't do. I checked for updates on everything, ran anti spyware, C-cleaner.
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My point is that when a Windows 10 upgrade fails, then it is almost always down to the computer and whats on it, than it is to Windows 10. Sure there are bugs in Windows 10.. there are bugs in all OS, but none of the bugs I have seen since the latest release are computer breaking and cant be fixed. More than often it is due to you having some obscure hardware that there are no drivers too, or programs that need upgrading first and so on.

For example, I upgrade a really old machine.... 8 or so year old laptop. It came with Vista so I had to upgrade that first to Windows 7 to get the free Windows 10 upgrade. Once I had gotten Windows 10 on it, then it worked fine for a while but then it started to act up. Like saying it was not connected to the network wirelessly. Problem was I could go on the internet no problem. Also the sound went and came off randomly. So I did a reset.. and wupti everything worked fine after that.
 
Helix said:
the Mac has a 500 gig SSD. hopefully, it will last me for a while. i guess i could do the whole cloud thing, but i still don't trust it.
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No cloud for me!

I don't want my stuff archived on somebody's server forever.

Also, I don't know if I'll ever be charged down the line or even lose my stuff.

So no cloud.

And it's not a 'cloud'; it's someone's server somewhere. It's that simple.

So why would I want someone controlling my stuff?

I don't.
 
Chomsky said:
No cloud for me!

I don't want my stuff archived on somebody's server forever.

Also, I don't know if I'll ever be charged down the line or even lose my stuff.

So no cloud.

And it's not a 'cloud'; it's someone's server somewhere. It's that simple.

So why would I want someone controlling my stuff?

I don't.
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yep. my stuff is insecure enough on my own computer. i don't find it very likely that they'll ever make cloud storage secure enough that some random 14 year old in Germany won't successfully hack it looking for nudie pics and money. just give me a good hard drive, preferably solid state and fast.
 
Chomsky said:
I'm sticking with Win 7!

It does what I need it to, and nothing I don't want it to!

Why change?
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Same here. Although depending on what you do with your computer, at some point you will have to upgrade. For instance at some point they will create a new version of direct x that is only released for win 10 and a program that requires that direct x version that you want to use comes out.. well at that point you either don't use the program or you upgrade to win 10. This is common for games but also other things.
So I will keep win 7 until I'm forced to upgrade.
 
Kal'Stang said:
Thanks to a blue screen error that I have been receiving (critical_structure_corruption) I found out that at the moment the only way for me to get rid of it is to remove some win 10 updates. (all drivers are up to date) Removing updates is easy enough to do. The problem is that once you remove them you cannot block them so as to prevent them from coming back. You have no choice but to get them re-installed on your computer. Read on...

You Won’t Be Able to Disable (or Delay) Windows Updates on Windows 10 Home

In otherwords folks, all us lowly home users are just guinea pigs for businesses.
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I would suggest never using the home version of windows no matter if its 7, 8 , 10 or whatever. There are a lot of features stripped out. for instance home version of windows since vista have no remote assistance feature. you have to have a third party program. I was going to set up my moms computer so I could just remote to it and fix things for her but ran into that.
Get the pro version of windows.
 
PeteEU said:
Try doing a reset of Windows..fixes most problems.

Often the problems people get is because they upgraded, which is never a good idea with any OS. A clean install is best. But there is under Settings > Update & Security > Recovery a way to reset the PC without hurting your files. It works.
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Took a look at that. That's going to get rid of about 50 programs that I have, some of which I don't even have the discs for anymore. (joys of children) If I can i'd like to avoid this otherwise its going to be a chore and a half to get what I can back. Got another idea?
 
Chomsky said:
And decent SSDs can be had for a 100 bucks or so! :thumbs:
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I got one for under $70 for my parents computer. I'm kind of jealous because I spent that much on mine with half the capacity about a year ago
 
Kal'Stang said:
Took a look at that. That's going to get rid of about 50 programs that I have, some of which I don't even have the discs for anymore. (joys of children) If I can i'd like to avoid this otherwise its going to be a chore and a half to get what I can back. Got another idea?
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What kind of programs?
 
instagramsci said:
I got one for under $70 for my parents computer. I'm kind of jealous because I spent that much on mine with half the capacity about a year ago
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Yeah, with prices like this, there's no reason to get mechanical HDDs anymore IMO.
 
Kal'Stang said:
Mostly games, i'ma gamer. But a few others that are related to an old job that I had that I don't really want to get rid of.
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I'm guessing most of which aren't from something like steam?

I seem to remember something the last time I loaded windows on a computer. There are two options when you first try to boot. One that does a clean install and one for "repair" maybe look into that
 
Chomsky said:
Yeah, with prices like this, there's no reason to get mechanical HDDs anymore IMO.
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I think they're still the most cost effective for storing media, if you have a lot especially, but I think at some point they'll probably be phased out
 
instagramsci said:
I think they're still the most cost effective for storing media, if you have a lot especially, but I think at some point they'll probably be phased out
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Yes, agreed.

I should have qualified my statement as pertaining specifically to system discs.

My bad!
 
instagramsci said:
I'm guessing most of which aren't from something like steam?

I seem to remember something the last time I loaded windows on a computer. There are two options when you first try to boot. One that does a clean install and one for "repair" maybe look into that
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Yeah, I hate steam. I have a couple of games that require it but I haven't been playing those too much.

As for the repair, i'll look into it.
 
Kal'Stang said:
Took a look at that. That's going to get rid of about 50 programs that I have, some of which I don't even have the discs for anymore. (joys of children) If I can i'd like to avoid this otherwise its going to be a chore and a half to get what I can back. Got another idea?
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Well look at this way. One or more of those programs is most likely causing the problems you are having. Just today I had to reset a Windows 10 because of errors that made no sense. And doing so not only fixed the problems but speeded up the machine as lots of bloatware was removed.

I understand you not wanting to reinstall your programs...but how many of the 50 do you actually use?

The only alternative is figure each individual error and fix them... not easy.
 
PeteEU said:
Well look at this way. One or more of those programs is most likely causing the problems you are having.
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Yup, the name of that program is Win10.
 
PoS said:
Yup, the name of that program is Win10.
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Windows 10 is by far the best desktop OS out there.. it blows away OSX and Linux on most fronts including stability.
 
PeteEU said:
Windows 10 is by far the best desktop OS out there.. it blows away OSX and Linux on most fronts including stability.
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I had one problem with the new system and I'm not sure it was an OS problem.

While playing FO4 the game froze and all I got was an audio hiss. I couldn't Alt+Tab or Alt+f4 out of it. The Windows button didn't work either. I Ctrl+Alt+Del and got the task manager but couldn't access anything in the manager either by mouse or by arrow keys. I did a hard reset and the problem persisted on reboot. I unplugged the machine and the problem persisted. I finally rebooted in safe mode, shut down the processes and was able to reboot cleanly. The issue hasn't recurred but I've never had a crash like that before.
 
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