Windows 10

Aastii said:
Yep same here, drivers seem pretty solid to me, games are performing just as well under 10 as they were on 7 and no crashes or dodgy behaviour yet
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I completely agree, although i'm on nividia, but I have no issues since the launch of win 10. Had some issues with the RTM build prior to official launch, but they seem to have been fixed in the final version.

I'm starting to like it more than windows 10.

Ran several games/programs etc with little to no issues. The issues I have had were application specific and prob would have been present on 7.

Only thing I seem to be running into is errors stating I am running out of memory when using sli, yet plenty of memory is available, seems to be most prevalent in farcry 4.
 
I think a solid solution for the multi control or tool panels is Windows GodMode. I used it in Windows 7 to quickly access features and tools I needed or used regularly.

For those who don't know, create a new folder and rename it to this: GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
 
Cant believe you guys are using windows 10 with all those privacy invasion,Forced windows updates and other crap..im sticking with windows 8.1.
 
I'm loving the ui over windows 7, find it hard to go back.
Wish win 10 home had full bitlocker support tho, it lets me unlock drives already encrypted but doesn't seem to let me encrypt stuff, unless I'm missing something.
 
Waking from sleep takes about as long as it does to boot up from being completely off. Which is about 5 seconds. So I guess that's good or bad depending how you look at it. This started within the past week or so, and is only on my desktop. I had zero issues with installing my AMD drivers or my NVIDIA drivers on their respective machines. NVIDIA ones were even up to date with a driver released three days prior on first boot on a clean install. That impressed me.

I'm having some issues with my audio drivers pertaining to my Logitech Webcam. Camera function is fine but I frequently get Micky Mouse voice in Skype and have to mess around with the driver a bit before it magically works again. I haven't really troubleshooted this though.

My laptop had some audio enhancement software get installed automatically and defaulted to music, which consequently made everything super tinny and god awful. My roommate had the same issue, but his laptop is also identical. I couldn't find the actual software on his machine, but he did an upgrade while I did a clean install. I was able to override it by applying an equalizer though and setting it to flat. For mine I just uninstalled the software.

Other than those small things, I've had nothing but positive results from switching both of my machines. 5 second boot up is heaven on my desktop. Now just have to wait for an Android release. :D
 
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Shane said:
Cant believe you guys are using windows 10 with all those privacy invasion,Forced windows updates and other crap..im sticking with windows 8.1.
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You mean all the stuff that can be turned off?

Plus you are on the Internet, you are being incredibly naïve if you think that you are not already being tracked just by being online ;)


I have done a bit of very unscientific benchmarking and have actually found a degredation in gaming performance. I am chalking it down to young drivers for the platform still, but it is definitely there. In older games it seems to be worse, which I guess may be understandable given that they were not designed for this environment, CoD4 and Fallout 3/NV I have noticed either moments of lag, or in the case of CoD 4 which I have capped at 250FPS, I have seen drops to 180 at times
 
The stuff they track is no more revealing than getting on the buss with your electronic pass...... TWITCH windows weekly discuss this in their latest podcast.
 
Okedokey said:
The stuff they track is no more revealing than getting on the buss with your electronic pass...... TWITCH windows weekly discuss this in their latest podcast.
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Or over here even when you fill your car up with fuel, Tesco (one of our major supermarket chains) has facial scanners at the pumps. People aren't going to stop driving now because of it.

You aren't going to stop it, which doesn't make it right, but makes losing sleep over it completely pointless
 
All but one PC in my house is running Windows 10 Pro x64 now. All are running fine! Four were completely clean installed with Windows 10 Pro installation media and the other two were upgraded from 8.1 Pro using the 'Get Windows 10' update. The PC which is still on 8.1 Pro (with Media Centre) will be upgraded soon. Not too bothered about losing Windows Media Centre, we were going to use it when we built the HTPC and installed 8.1 Pro with Media Centre on it but actually never did and there are alternatives out there we could use instead.

I agree with what Aastii and Okedokey are saying above regarding the privacy. Sometimes these things can get blown out of proportion by the media and if you really are concerned there are lots of sites online and videos on YouTube telling you what to turn off.
 
I finally caved and started using my laptop to take notes in class and holy crap can I say that Microsoft really got their game together for touchpads. I downright HATED touchpads for years and years and would adamantly prefer a mouse in every situation. I got my laptop last year with 8.1 and the built in Asus gesture software worked alright. Two fingers to scroll, and pinch to zoom (bit clunky), were used regularly. Now I'm using my laptop more and frequently using multiple Windows with a Powerpoint open, Blackboard open, Word open, and Outlook open, I can still easily use a trackpad. 3 finger swipe up will instantly bring up all my windows and I can click to switch easily. Swipe down with three fingers pulls up the desktop and three finger swipe side to side flips to the next windows open. Once I got used to it, which took about 10 mins, I was able to navigate almost as well as I can with my mouse and dual screen set up at home.

I'm unsure how much of that functionality is purely built in, or just improvement on Asus' part. I know some generic touchpad drivers were installed automatically, and I think that's where the gesture support comes from as it feels much smoother and "lower level" than the Asus software I had on 8.1. I sit in classes surrounded by Macs with their super smooth UI's and fancy animations. My Windows machine used to always stick out like a sore thumb, but now the whole "smoothness" advantage of OS X is nonexistent and even eclipsed in speed by W10 features.

Windows Defender still has almost zero options though, which is annoying as I can't schedule scans or anything really except turning it off completely. And even that is just temporary.
 
For taking notes in class I use Microsoft OneNote and whilst OneNote 2013 (which is part of Office 2013/365) is absolutely fine, the 'OneNote app' that was included with Windows 8.1 was better than the OneNote app that's included with Windows 10. In Windows 8.1 the OneNote app was full screen which was ideal for using the Surface Pen (I use my Surface Pro) but the Windows 10 app doesn't go full screen which is a shame and annoying because when I place my palm on my tablet it starts opening up other stuff. The app in 8.1 also made it much easier to use tabbed sections in notebooks than the app in 10 does. I think that the OneNote app is a bit of a downgrade to be honest and one issue I forgot to mention in my previous post is that in tablet mode on my Surface Pro sometimes ink in OneNote disappears and there is some odd behaviour. This issue is apparently well-documented so I'm waiting for a fix, but in desktop mode apparently it works fine.

Other than that issue with OneNote and me not liking the Windows 10 OneNote app as much, it's running fine on my first generation Surface Pro, too. I'm not using the OneNote app at the moment, I'm using the desktop OneNote 2013.
 
I have free Office 2013 from school. I should try out OneNote. Totally forgot about that program, would probably be useful.
 
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