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So how are you liking Win10 so far?

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Ramses said:
I was surprised to see full on AMD Catalyst drivers installed out of the box on my desktop.
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I wasn't. AMD was very serious about releasing and updating engineering sample drivers for the preview builds. While Win7/8.1 users were all asking for real, meaningful, non-beta updates beyond 14.12 omega, Win10 insiders were getting what eventually became 15.7. AMD was updating that driver on a month-by-month basis, too. Well, almost.

Sadly, something as simple as an old Realtek 802.11ac nic from 2013 or so is not supported out of the box (RTL8812ae). Still poking around for drivers for that.
 
Scooby Doo said:
Had a weird problem last night. The system would go to sleep, but wake up some random time later only to go back to sleep, as if it had insomnia.
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My main rig has taken to restarting 3-4 seconds after it shuts down on command. I've checked BIOS settings, turned off the "automatic restart on crash" incase it was crashing as it shut down, and I disabled a certain registry key in an attempt to fix it.

Quite annoying. Might be a chipset driver, my gut says.
 
The video player default setting doesn't seem to take. I had set it to open everything with Windows Media Player, but it doesn't. It still opens with that new video player that ships with Windows 10.

So for each file I have to tell it specifically to open with Windows Media Player.

Why do I use Windows Media Player? Because there is better MKV video compatibility with it, presumably because it's still using the ac3filter and Haali Media Splitter add-ons I installed when I was using it on Windows 7. Plus on lower end hardware it plays smoother than the new Windows 10 application.

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Also, I can't seem to choose a new search engine for Edge. It seems to be locked to Bing. I want to use Google but the options settings for this is greyed out.
 
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Eug said:
The video player default setting doesn't seem to take. I had set it to open everything with Windows Media Player, but it doesn't. It still opens with that new video player that ships with Windows 10.

So for each file I have to tell it specifically to open with Windows Media Player.

Why do I use Windows Media Player? Because there is better MKV video compatibility with it, presumably because it's still using the ac3filter and Haali Media Splitter add-ons I installed when I was using it on Windows 7. Plus on lower end hardware it plays smoother than the new Windows 10 application.

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Also, I can't seem to choose a new search engine for Edge. It seems to be locked to Bing. I want to use Google but the options settings for this is greyed out.
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First display the page www.google.com in the Edge browser.
Then go into Edges advanced settings / search the address bar with....click ADD NEW....an you'll then be able to add Google search as default.
 
quikah said:
Visit google.com in edge then it should be an option. But might be bugged for you if it is greyed out, works in my VM.

Big update released today.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3081424
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MTDEW said:
First display the page www.google.com in the Edge browser.
Then go into Edges advanced settings / search the address bar with....click ADD NEW....an you'll then be able to add Google search as default.
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Ah I see. Thanks. I'll try that when I get home.

I was trying to manually add it but there were no options. I wasn't on the Google page though.
 
How do I stop Windows Update from downloading and installing Nvidia drivers in Win 10 Pro? I've already set it so that it doesn't check Windows Update for drivers in Advanced Settings, but still, today, it downloaded and installed Nvidia drivers again.

I disabled all Windows Update related scheduled tasks, set group policy to "Notify for download, notify for install", and I also set it up to defer installation. Still, when I run Windows Update it will always download and automatically install these blasted Nvidia drivers.

I don't want Windows Update to install device drivers at all for anything, EVER.
 
Download DDU (display driver uninstaller) and run that (will reboot to safe mode for you) and it'll disable WU driver updates after that.

It's really annoying, I had the same problem too.
 
I have a question: my technical preview needs me logged onto my online account to get new builds. Normal Windows updates come through fine without it.

I have one computer in the house upgraded to 10, and I plan to leave it with just the local account. Will the next official build come through, without me having to sign in to my online account?
 
CZroe said:
Paste it into Notepad. Be sure to save using "Save As," set "File Type" to "All Files," and give it a file name with a .reg file extension like "ithehappy.reg" (quotes included).

Run ithehappy.reg
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Thanks a lot mate. Worked, hurrah!

Now I just need to figure out the direct Win+E thing, and at least two nuisances of Win 10 will be taken care of.
 
AdamK47 said:
How do I stop Windows Update from downloading and installing Nvidia drivers in Win 10 Pro? I've already set it so that it doesn't check Windows Update for drivers in Advanced Settings, but still, today, it downloaded and installed Nvidia drivers again.

I disabled all Windows Update related scheduled tasks, set group policy to "Notify for download, notify for install", and I also set it up to defer installation. Still, when I run Windows Update it will always download and automatically install these blasted Nvidia drivers.

I don't want Windows Update to install device drivers at all for anything, EVER.
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Hey Adam,

Did you try this?

http://betanews.com/2015/07/27/how-to-stop-windows-10-installing-automatic-updates/
 
Sabrewings said:
My main rig has taken to restarting 3-4 seconds after it shuts down on command. I've checked BIOS settings, turned off the "automatic restart on crash" incase it was crashing as it shut down, and I disabled a certain registry key in an attempt to fix it.

Quite annoying. Might be a chipset driver, my gut says.
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No crashing here, just simply waking up... sitting for a few minutes and going back to sleep repeatedly over the course of the night.

What's weird is powercfg /lastewake reports nothing woke it up.
Looking at the event viewer it's done it quite a few times already... and Kernel-General is reporting "Change Reason: System time synchronized with the hardware clock."
 
Scooby Doo said:
No crashing here, just simply waking up... sitting for a few minutes and going back to sleep repeatedly over the course of the night.

What's weird is powercfg /lastewake reports nothing woke it up.
Looking at the event viewer it's done it quite a few times already... and Kernel-General is reporting "Change Reason: System time synchronized with the hardware clock."
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I've noticed the same behavior machine will wake up on its own then go back to sleep on its own.
 
gus6464 said:
Edge works with nothing at work. Microsoft has a long way to go in front of them with this new browser.
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It's pretty beta, IE11 I still in there at least. I don't use either really but Edge was fun to poke around with a bit. I'm sure it'll improve. It's almost like a really early Chrome.
 
anyone else have a issue where windows will suddenly start to lag like crazy? this just started today.

I'm not running anything but chrome. its rather weird
 
cmdrdredd said:
I still use Firefox over chrome. Mostly since chrome changed the way certain fonts are rendered and I had an easier time reading those sites on Firefox.
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I miss firefox sorta, I quit using it after many years when I had a crossfire setup and it insisted on waking up the second card from 0 clock fan off state and nobody had any clue why. I could probably go back now, but it just felt clunky last time I tried it. Maybe I'll check it out again.
 
Ramses said:
I miss firefox sorta, I quit using it after many years when I had a crossfire setup and it insisted on waking up the second card from 0 clock fan off state and nobody had any clue why. I could probably go back now, but it just felt clunky last time I tried it. Maybe I'll check it out again.
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I'd use chrome over Firefox for the better html5 compatibility if it rendered fonts the same way. Maybe the newer version is different I don't know ill try it. I just remember on these forums the fonts changed and didn't render the same as before and I switched so I had an easier time reading.
 
TeknoBug said:
Download DDU (display driver uninstaller) and run that (will reboot to safe mode for you) and it'll disable WU driver updates after that.

It's really annoying, I had the same problem too.
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I did this thinking it was my drivers causing issues but found out that it is only SC2 that is causing alt-tab crashes. All other games are fine. Uff.
 
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