Windows 10

[Cyclonesrule91]

Installed Windows 10 on my work laptop that was running 8.1 before. I like the new layout and everything appears to be working fine with one exception......

We have a Dell 3115 printer/scanner that is set up as a network printer/scanner in our office. I scan a lot of documents to my laptop with that scanner and since the update, I can't get the scanning part to work for anything. I can use the printer just fine, it's just the scanning to my computer that is all jacked up for whatever reason. Keep getting the Dell 16-781 error which I've had in the past on 8.1 but could fix by uninstalling the printer and reinstalling it. Now not so lucky...

Any of you computer gurus know what I could do to fix the issue??

 

[jdoggivjc]

Installed Windows 10 on my work laptop that was running 8.1 before. I like the new layout and everything appears to be working fine with one exception......

We have a Dell 3115 printer/scanner that is set up as a network printer/scanner in our office. I scan a lot of documents to my laptop with that scanner and since the update, I can't get the scanning part to work for anything. I can use the printer just fine, it's just the scanning to my computer that is all jacked up for whatever reason. Keep getting the Dell 16-781 error which I've had in the past on 8.1 but could fix by uninstalling the printer and reinstalling it. Now not so lucky...

Any of you computer gurus know what I could do to fix the issue??

yeah.....

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[CYdTracked]

Started my upgrade tonight before 8pm, still stuck on the "preparing upgrade" for awhile now. Hope this is not a bad sign of things to come. May have to let this thing go overnight if it doesn't get past it soon

 

[Goothrey]

Started my upgrade tonight before 8pm, still stuck on the "preparing upgrade" for awhile now. Hope this is not a bad sign of things to come. May have to let this thing go overnight if it doesn't get past it soon

I had heard it took 15-30 minutes to install. It ended up taking me ~6 hrs and was exceptionally slow once finished. Did a reboot and I haven't had an issue since.

 

[CueTheMusic]

Started my upgrade tonight before 8pm, still stuck on the "preparing upgrade" for awhile now. Hope this is not a bad sign of things to come. May have to let this thing go overnight if it doesn't get past it soon

I've done the upgrade on two computers. My wife's core i3 with a 5200rpm hard drive and my daughters amd a6 processor with a 256 ssd. Wife's computer took about 4 hours to just install. Daughters took 40 minutes to download the update fully and install. I'm pretty sure it is dependent on the speed of you disk drive as technically the wife's processor should be a bit better. Got sick of how long stuff took on the i3, and ordered an ssd immediately. Stick with it, it will get there and probably run fine once it is installed, but if it is taking this long to install I'm pretty sure you aren't on an SSD, and you might want to consider upgrading to one... it is the best upgrade you can do on a computer right now, and prices are getting much more reasonable.

 

[SerenityNow]

Got my upgrade this weekend. Like it so far; however, it's now requiring me to sign in with my MSN email ID and password every time my computer is restarted. I've searched all over the net, gone through all of the User ID/password/etc sections, and I can't seem to get it to stop using my email and stop it from requiring a password.

It's a minor inconvenience, and I know I can set up a new ID, give it admin privileges, but I wish I could figure out how to get back my regular admin ID, set that as my default and stop having to mess with a password.

Other than that, I don't have any issues with it. Especially like how much faster it is on start up and shut down.

 

[keepngoal]

I've done the upgrade on two computers. My wife's core i3 with a 5200rpm hard drive and my daughters amd a6 processor with a 256 ssd. Wife's computer took about 4 hours to just install. Daughters took 40 minutes to download the update fully and install. I'm pretty sure it is dependent on the speed of you disk drive as technically the wife's processor should be a bit better. Got sick of how long stuff took on the i3, and ordered an ssd immediately. Stick with it, it will get there and probably run fine once it is installed, but if it is taking this long to install I'm pretty sure you aren't on an SSD, and you might want to consider upgrading to one... it is the best upgrade you can do on a computer right now, and prices are getting much more reasonable.

any recommendations for the SSD?

 

[Mr Janny]

Got my upgrade this weekend. Like it so far; however, it's now requiring me to sign in with my MSN email ID and password every time my computer is restarted. I've searched all over the net, gone through all of the User ID/password/etc sections, and I can't seem to get it to stop using my email and stop it from requiring a password.

It's a minor inconvenience, and I know I can set up a new ID, give it admin privileges, but I wish I could figure out how to get back my regular admin ID, set that as my default and stop having to mess with a password.

Other than that, I don't have any issues with it. Especially like how much faster it is on start up and shut down.

It should be right there in the settings when you manage your account. I accidentally connected my login with my MSN account, but it was very easy to disable. I think it was just a checkbox.

 

[zarnold56]

How has gaming been with Windows 10? Been reading some stuff that AMD drivers for win 10 aren't the best. Been waiting to upgrade my machine due to this.

 

[Mr Janny]

How has gaming been with Windows 10? Been reading some stuff that AMD drivers for win 10 aren't the best. Been waiting to upgrade my machine due to this.

I had some driver issues initially. NVIDIA. Grabbed newest drivers and installed them. No issues since then. I haven't hit it with anything too hard, gamingwise, but I've not run into any problems. The feature I've used the most has been streaming my Xbox One to my laptop. That's friggin brilliant. My daughter wants to watch Sofia the First? No problem. I can just stream to my laptop. It's great.

 

[MeowingCows]

How has gaming been with Windows 10? Been reading some stuff that AMD drivers for win 10 aren't the best. Been waiting to upgrade my machine due to this.

Have an old AMD laptop here. It's supposed to have AMD Catalyst and such on it, but it currently doesn't. It's been working fine with the built-in display drivers, actually better in some ways on 10.

Friend of mine just built a new monster gaming PC, with 10 on it from the beginning. It's gone very well for him thus far.

 

[CYdTracked]

So an update on my install, checked it the next morning it was still stuck on the preparing for install screen. I killed it and rebooted. Went back through the Windows 10 icon and it downloaded the install once again (so I would have to guess that maybe the reason it got hung up last time is because my download never fully finished?) After the download it took less than 2 hours total to install. I have an i7 PC just over a year old, so pretty new hardware it was working with. Initial thoughts so far it it's not too much different than Windows 8.1 other than the start menu is back and got rid of the annoying tiles that I had already done some work arounds in the settings to turn off in Windows8. I haven't had too much time to play around with it yet and go through all the settings and features but seems to boot up and run as fast as Windows 8 did for me. Took another look around on it for about 10 minutes this morning and noticed my hard drive was pegged out at 99%, found it was apparently installing some updates so hopefully that was just a temporary thing.

 

[jdoggivjc]

Backing up my files on my new 2TB external drive in preparation to hopefully do a clean install on my laptop tomorrow night. Biggie is the iTunes library.

 

[CueTheMusic]

any recommendations for the SSD?

crucial mx100 is really good for the price. Samsungs are nice (850 evo).

 

[Pitt_Clone]

Got my upgrade this weekend. Like it so far; however, it's now requiring me to sign in with my MSN email ID and password every time my computer is restarted. I've searched all over the net, gone through all of the User ID/password/etc sections, and I can't seem to get it to stop using my email and stop it from requiring a password.

It's a minor inconvenience, and I know I can set up a new ID, give it admin privileges, but I wish I could figure out how to get back my regular admin ID, set that as my default and stop having to mess with a password.

Other than that, I don't have any issues with it. Especially like how much faster it is on start up and shut down.

I just went into Settings > Accounts, and there was some text I could click on that said "Sign in with a local account instead". It had me put in a Username and password and created a new account separate from my Microsoft account. Or is that not what you're talking about?

 

[SerenityNow]

I just went into Settings > Accounts, and there was some text I could click on that said "Sign in with a local account instead". It had me put in a Username and password and created a new account separate from my Microsoft account. Or is that not what you're talking about?

Yeah, I know that's there, but for some reason I'm now attached to my msn email with the password required. I'm sure I did something, but the life of me I can't seem to get it back where it just automatically logged me on as admin...no email, no password.

i don't want to have to create a new local ID and password, as that would be the same issue.

 

[Mr Janny]

Yeah, I know that's there, but for some reason I'm now attached to my msn email with the password required. I'm sure I did something, but the life of me I can't seem to get it back where it just automatically logged me on as admin...no email, no password.

i don't want to have to create a new local ID and password, as that would be the same issue.

that's what I was talking about, too. It's just renaming your user profile and making it a local account. You don't lose anything.

 

[Pitt_Clone]

Yeah, I know that's there, but for some reason I'm now attached to my msn email with the password required. I'm sure I did something, but the life of me I can't seem to get it back where it just automatically logged me on as admin...no email, no password.

i don't want to have to create a new local ID and password, as that would be the same issue.

Did you try this?

http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-automatically-login-in-windows-10/

You have to enter your password once during the setup but after that you automatically get logged on after a restart. You should be able to do this with either a local account or microsoft account. I prefer using a local account personally. I actually didn't know this was possible. I have mine set up to only enter a password on restart, and not when it wakes up from sleep. But I guess I rarely shut down my computer.

 

[SerenityNow]

Did you try this?

http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-automatically-login-in-windows-10/

You have to enter your password once during the setup but after that you automatically get logged on after a restart. You should be able to do this with either a local account or microsoft account. I prefer using a local account personally. I actually didn't know this was possible. I have mine set up to only enter a password on restart, and not when it wakes up from sleep. But I guess I rarely shut down my computer.

Thanks, everyone - I'll have to try this out tonight.

 

[cc1091]

So if the pattern for Microsoft's operating systems continue, the new OS should be successful and popular. It's been an almost perfect trend since Windows 98.

98-Good
ME-Badn
XP-Good
Vista-Bad
7-Good
8-Bad

Windows 3.0 Bad, but since it was huge improvement over 2.x, it was great.
Windows 3.11 Best of the early versions, quite good for the times.
Windows NT (4.0). First of the Windows Network Servers.
Windows 95. Quirky, but a huge jump since it more readily allowed for multiple programs to run on the desktop.
Windows 98. Vast improvement on 95.
Windows Millennium Edition. Buggy and crash prone like no other.
Windows ME. The first attempted fix of Millennium Edition, STILL buggy and crash prone..
Windows XP. The jump back to 98 but with improvements.
Windows Vista. Parts of ME raises its ugly head again (principally in network permission issues). FYI - I like and still run Vista, but now and then run into odd permission issues).
Windows 7. A return to 98 with many of the advantages of Vista and none of the drawbaecks.
Windows 8. The most unnecessary POS ever built.
Windows 8.1 The second most unnecessary POS ever built. Quite a bit improved with a piece of freeware called Windows Classic Shell and with settings to not boot to the stupid 'Start Screen'.
Windows 10. Early read: Windows 8.1, with factory Windows Classic Shell and Start Screen bleed. Also has Windows Vista phobia in such a way that it has become a problem by allowing too much access to your system.

In my years of using Windows (and other programs), I've nearly always found that 'new version' usually means that all the old features are still available, you only need to hunt for how it has been repackaged. Quite a frustrating thing when you have a deadline and you're working with a completely different interface. Quite frankly, if my usual programs that I use in my profession, qould run on Linux (or would run on Linux with the WINE emulator), I would have headed that direction at about the time of the introduction of Vista. Unfortunately, Linux is still a 'wild west' when it comes to hardware compatibility.

(typed using Windows 8.1 floating keyboard, not responsible for random misspellings).