So how are you liking Win10 so far?

[Ichinisan]

Because it wasn't an outright "broken" issue - it was a bug that effected certain keyboard drivers or specific ICs in the keyboards or the combo of the system's USB driver + the keyboard driver... etc etc etc.

Thus why many reported no problems, while others reported problems.

For the longest while, I didn't have to worry about it on Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 with my Razer Blackwidow Ultimate Stealth. Then after a complete format and a fresh install of 8.1, it stopped working correctly until I found that registry fix.

No idea if it'll remain fixed in Windows 10, or if the fix will be removed and it will work.. or it won't work for whatever reason.

I was fairly certain the behavior was intentional.

The reasoning:
Condensed keyboards (especially laptops) have the numpad keys over-layed on the normal keyboard keys. If you didn't know your numlock key was accidentally turned-on, and you typed your normal password, you might get it wrong repeatedly until you're locked-out of your PC / workstation. WinXP defaulted to an off state, but remembered the state you left it in.

I just wish there was a normal GUI option on the login screen to set the default state. Still, someone will forget and connect a condensed keyboard, and businesses will have disasters as important people get locked-out of their PCs. Yeah, it's such an obscure problem, even an IT admin type could get screwed by it.

 

[Ketchup]

Photo Viewer - I still have not figured out why I get it in some installs, but not others. For these who aren't seeing it, someone put together click and done reg file for this:
http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-enable-windows-photo-viewer-in-windows-10/

 

[RampantAndroid]

Photo Viewer - I still have not figured out why I get it in some installs, but not others. For these who aren't seeing it, someone put together click and done reg file for this:
http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-enable-windows-photo-viewer-in-windows-10/

I would NEVER download a .reg file

At least, not without checking it first.

 

[Ichinisan]

I would NEVER download a .reg file

At least, not without checking it first.

Easy enough to view in Notepad and see exactly what it changes.

 

[crashtech]

Aw, c'mon, live a little... hehe

 

[OlyAR15]

I've got one for you all:

Has anyone tried this:
-Upgrade 7 to get your key for 10
-Proceed to do a fresh install of 10
-Attempt to active Windows before all hardware has been detected

Does it work? I have read people saying that Windows 10 OEM is more specific about hardware detection than previous OSs, so I am wondering if trying to activate too early messes things up. And the reason I didn't ask about 8 is because, since 10 will be using the key in the BIOS (if you have a machine built that way), it may not be as picky.

I've done it. I have a home server running OEM version of W7 Pro. Upgraded to 10Pro, activated, then decided to upgrade the CPU and MB. Tried booting with the same drive and OS, but wouldn't boot properly, so did a clean install but wouldn't activate. Ended up buying another license.

With the old CPU and MB, using different drives, video card, and RAM, doing a clean install of W10 worked fine and activated. So it looks like the license is tied to the CPU and MB.

 

[escrow4]

Photo Viewer - I still have not figured out why I get it in some installs, but not others. For these who aren't seeing it, someone put together click and done reg file for this:
http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-enable-windows-photo-viewer-in-windows-10/

Irfanview, is faster and has a pile of options to fiddle with images if needed.

 

[Ramses]

Irfanview, is faster and has a pile of options to fiddle with images if needed.

Absolutely, haven't used anything else in years.

 

[biostud]

Irfanview, is faster and has a pile of options to fiddle with images if needed.

or XnView

 

[Eug]

Irfanview is flexible and powerful, but the interface looks like it's from 1995.

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And WTF?!? I was emailing myself some desktop screengrabs via Mail in Windows, with my Yahoo account, from my desktop and from my laptop. For the first time, the Yahoo has locked down my account for suspicious email behaviour. Sure, it was from two different computers, but it was literally just one email per computer. A grand total of two.

Either Yahoo is being to anal about this, or else it just doesn't like Windows 10 Mail.

 

[MTDEW]

I don't know if this has been posted in this thread yet, so just in case it hasn't, here goes.

How to disable Automatic updates in Windows 10.
LINK
Scroll down to the section labeled
Use Group Policy to Disable Automatic Updates — Professional Editions Only


It only works in Win10 Pro, Enterprise and Education editions.

I set mine to Notify for Download and Notify for Install.

 

[postmortemIA]

Photo Viewer - I still have not figured out why I get it in some installs, but not others. For these who aren't seeing it, someone put together click and done reg file for this:
http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-enable-windows-photo-viewer-in-windows-10/

it os on every install, but as a dll. So you cannnot associate any extension to it without some hook using 'run dll as exe'. by default that is set only for tiff extension.

Microsoft is trying to push the metro version.

 

[Ichinisan]

Irfanview, is faster and has a pile of options to fiddle with images if needed.

IrvanView is a great tool.

If a viewer is all you want, IrfanView is not user-friendly.

 

[ashetos]

I don't know if this has been posted in this thread yet, so just in case it hasn't, here goes.

How to disable Automatic updates in Windows 10.
LINK
Scroll down to the section labeled
Use Group Policy to Disable Automatic Updates — Professional Editions Only


It only works in Win10 Pro, Enterprise and Education editions.

I set mine to Notify for Download and Notify for Install.

That's cool and all but it's a hack. It also only works for WiFi. Microsoft needs to fix this ASAP and provide the options for the power users.

 

[Mem]

Irfanview is flexible and powerful, but the interface looks like it's from 1995.

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And WTF?!? I was emailing myself some desktop screengrabs via Mail in Windows, with my Yahoo account, from my desktop and from my laptop. For the first time, the Yahoo has locked down my account for suspicious email behaviour. Sure, it was from two different computers, but it was literally just one email per computer. A grand total of two.

Either Yahoo is being to anal about this, or else it just doesn't like Windows 10 Mail.

I had one weird issue this morning on my laptop, my Win10 Start menu would not open at all, my HD was not busy and the laptop was on for two hours or so on mains power.

The Win+X menu was fine however, in the end I had to do a full reboot which solved the issue.

The laptop was already full updated, ie Win10 updates, Flash, FF, Adobe air etc....

 

[Ketchup]

I would NEVER download a .reg file

At least, not without checking it first.

Simple just to check these in notepad after the download.

Plus you could, you know, show a lifer a little trust (I did test it before posting), but that may not be your thing, and that is fine. I think you already went in and found another way to bring it back, so don't worry about it RampantAndroid.

 

[Ketchup]

... I was emailing myself some desktop screengrabs via Mail in Windows, with my Yahoo account, from my desktop and from my laptop. For the first time, the Yahoo has locked down my account for suspicious email behaviour. Sure, it was from two different computers, but it was literally just one email per computer. A grand total of two.

Either Yahoo is being to anal about this, or else it just doesn't like Windows 10 Mail.

They had some hacker issues last week, so it may be related:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2441864

Or, like you said, it REALLY doesn't like Windows 10.

 

[destrekor]

Simple just to check these in notepad after the download.

Plus you could, you know, show a lifer a little trust (I did test it before posting), but that may not be your thing, and that is fine. I think you already went in and found another way to bring it back, so don't worry about it RampantAndroid.

That might not be realistic. Just because people post here often, that doesn't dictate their hobbies or goals in life. If they are heavily into the security world, they may remain nefarious, or perhaps do things out of fun and/or for research but reveal things latter.

I'll weigh in and say if I don't truly know you, I won't truly trust you. Knowing someone has 10000 posts on an internet technology forum doesn't indicate trustworthiness, not for me at least.

Plus, someone could have easily found something that actually worked, but also had more nefarious things happening in the background to which they were aloof, and then passed it on because it fixed their original problem. For some people, something doing the original requested task is enough to assert the software or patch is good.

 

[Ketchup]

That might not be realistic....

I know, I know.

Edit: I do have a pretty good idea of folks that hang around the tech side of the forums though. So depending on the poster, and the site they are directing me to, I could probably make a decision on that alone as to whether or not to run something like that.

 

[Eug]

Edge locks up every time I try to click Run from within Edge for a downloaded .exe file. For example, the last time was the IrfanView installer, from c|net, which is the official download site linked by IrfanView.

The program launches, and I get the sound indicating Windows 10 wants user intervention to confirm I want to run the file, but the User Account Control dialogue box doesn't actually show up. And Edge then is totally dead. It's still on screen but accepts no user input, and cannot be moved or closed either.

If I go to the Task Manager it shows that Edge is still active (and does not indicate that it is not responding), but it does allow me to kill the Edge process. However, I also will see the process running for the Consent for that UAC dialogue box, even though it isn't visible on screen. So I kill that too, and relaunch the application from the Windows browser instead of from Edge.

So, this isn't really a purely Windows 10 bug I guess since it only happens when I try to launch a downloaded application from within Edge. However, it seems there is a significant Windows 10 bug component as well, since the UAC dialogue box never shows up even though the UAC user consent request process (or whatever it's called) actually runs.

 

[Eug]

How do I just the font size for the Settings Menu? For some reason it's defaulted to a size that is bigger than normal, so a lot of the settings are off screen, and I have to scroll down. I can't figure out how to change it. The weird part is that if I switch to a different user account on the same computer, the font size is normal, and if I use a different computer, the font size is also normal.

Here are two different computers, with virtually the same size screen. One is 1366x768. The other is 1360x768. The text size setting is set at 100%, as it is in the other accounts and on the other computer.


How I expect to see the settings (on my net top):

The font for these settings is big so, menus are partially off screen (on my laptop):

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EDIT: I have the answer.

Even though the Setting menu said 100%, it was actually 125%, buried in a custom setting in the advanced menu.

I think I had set it there in the Windows 7 days, but Windows 10 didn't see it as 125%. IOW, it just chose to accept 125% as the new baseline for this account's "100%".

Now when I use the Settings menu and choose 125%, it looks like how it was before at 100%.

I consider this a bug. They have different ways to set 125%, but they don't communicate with one another, so you get different results.

Actually overall, I prefer 125% on this small screen, but I don't want 125% for the Settings menu because the font size is big to begin with. However, it seems you can't adjust the font size of the Settings independently.

 

[CZroe]

How do I just the font size for the Settings Menu? For some reason it's defaulted to a size that is bigger than normal, so a lot of the settings are off screen, and I have to scroll down. I can't figure out how to change it. The weird part is that if I switch to a different user account on the same computer, the font size is normal, and if I use a different computer, the font size is also normal.

Here are two different computers, with virtually the same size screen. One is 1366x768. The other is 1360x768. The text size setting is set at 100%, as it is in the other accounts and on the other computer.


How I expect to see the settings (on my net top):

The font for these settings is big so, menus are partially off screen (on my laptop):

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EDIT: I have the answer.

Even though the Setting menu said 100%, it was actually 125%, buried in a custom setting in the advanced menu.

I think I had set it there in the Windows 7 days, but Windows 10 didn't see it as 125%. IOW, it just chose to accept 125% as the new baseline for this account's "100%".

Now when I use the Settings menu and choose 125%, it looks like how it was before at 100%.

I consider this a bug. They have different ways to set 125%, but they don't communicate with one another, so you get different results.

Actually overall, I prefer 125% on this small screen, but I don't want 125% for the Settings menu because the font size is big to begin with. However, it seems you can't adjust the font size of the Settings independently.

Reminds me of Win98SE and the gradient title bars. A fresh install would show one setting and the display properties would show a default theme with a different setting. Applying the already-applied "default" would actually change it!

 

[Ketchup]

...EDIT: I have the answer.

Even though the Setting menu said 100%, it was actually 125%, buried in a custom setting in the advanced menu....

Can you tell me where this other setting is? My menus have always seemed too large (this is going back several preview builds), even though the main Display page says that I am at 100%.

 

[Ramses]

IrvanView is a great tool.

If a viewer is all you want, IrfanView is not user-friendly.

How so? I forget what the setting is but I adjust it to open any photo in a maximized window and not scale the image unless it's larger than the screen, and I navigate with the arrow keys. It's pretty dated for sure but it's worked well for ages for me. Everything else seems fluffy.

 

[readymix]

How I expect to see the settings (on my net top):

Is that a 3 dimensional image. Where did that come from, a different firm? Looks like ceiling duct. LOL. Yes, I do dislike the new windows.