My download folder has appeared, only 140mb though. How long did it take to download the 6GB or whatever it is?
Windows 10
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Originally Posted by moox:
“RCT2 works fine for me on 10, and Theme Hospital for that matter”
“RCT2 works fine for me on 10, and Theme Hospital for that matter”
Alongside Microsoft's very own Jazz Jackrabbit and Minecraft. Seeing that Minecraft is owned by Microsoft nowadays.
Originally Posted by Old Endeavour:
“You can ask, but due to DS policy, I can't answer.”
“You can ask, but due to DS policy, I can't answer.”
Worth a try
Originally Posted by 1manonthebog:
“My download folder has appeared, only 140mb though. How long did it take to download the 6GB or whatever it is?”
“My download folder has appeared, only 140mb though. How long did it take to download the 6GB or whatever it is?”
Thats how mine started. It appeared about 1pm at 140mb, but didnt change until nearly 7pm when it said 2.6gb, it's now on 5.6gb
Originally Posted by 1manonthebog:
“My download folder has appeared, only 140mb though. How long did it take to download the 6GB or whatever it is?”
“My download folder has appeared, only 140mb though. How long did it take to download the 6GB or whatever it is?”
I turned my desktop on at around 5pm and shortly after I had the 140mb file. Came back to the machine just now to see it's now fully downloaded.
My Surface Pro 3 has got it too after turning it on from stand-by
Originally Posted by Eadfrith:
“Thats how mine started. It appeared about 1pm at 140mb, but didnt change until nearly 7pm when it said 2.6gb, it's now on 5.6gb”
“Thats how mine started. It appeared about 1pm at 140mb, but didnt change until nearly 7pm when it said 2.6gb, it's now on 5.6gb”
Mines been at 140mb all day, until I checked in the past hour. Someone has said that for some it stays at 140mb until it's fully downloaded (for some).
I suppose if it was region released, people in Asia would be installing it as we speak.
Originally Posted by 1manonthebog:
“My download folder has appeared, only 140mb though. How long did it take to download the 6GB or whatever it is?”
“My download folder has appeared, only 140mb though. How long did it take to download the 6GB or whatever it is?”
Mine appeared at 19:58. I wonder if the pushes are scheduled? Its shot up to 2.63 GB from 140MB in the last few minutes.
winbeta.org are reporting that its being released in Asia now.
So we might be good to go from midnight!
So we might be good to go from midnight!
Originally Posted by Old Endeavour:
“Why EST? Microsoft are on the west coast are they not?
So that's PST which is 8 hours behind us in the UK - So 8am tomorrow (29th)
And of course, not everyone will have their PCs on at whatever time is activates.”
“Why EST? Microsoft are on the west coast are they not?
So that's PST which is 8 hours behind us in the UK - So 8am tomorrow (29th)
And of course, not everyone will have their PCs on at whatever time is activates.”
The first downloads were in New Zealand at Midnight local. So it will be the same worldwide apparently as Midnight strikes.
Unless you are one of the lucky ones who have had it activate already!!!
Originally Posted by JordyD:
“winbeta.org are reporting that its being released in Asia now.
So we might be good to go from midnight!”
“winbeta.org are reporting that its being released in Asia now.
So we might be good to go from midnight!”
That would make sense for it to activate at midnight local to the country it's in. that way it's staggered across the world and it is doing what it promised the 29th!
I wonder if there is a big red ABORT button at Microsoft HQ - If people in Asia start finding their PCs not working, they hit the button and no one else's will fire up.
Sure as hell I would have such a button.
Originally Posted by RedOrDead36:
“People going for the 'free' upgrade are crazy imo. It's got disaster written all over it. Expect bugs, crashes, programmes not working, sluggish performance, nagware etc. Stay on Windows 7 (or 8.1 if you are happy with it) and if 10 proves a hit get it when you upgrade your machine next.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.”
“People going for the 'free' upgrade are crazy imo. It's got disaster written all over it. Expect bugs, crashes, programmes not working, sluggish performance, nagware etc. Stay on Windows 7 (or 8.1 if you are happy with it) and if 10 proves a hit get it when you upgrade your machine next.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.”
To be fair, the free upgrade for Win 7, 8 and 8.1 users will be available for a year and towards the end of that period, you'll invariably find that very many of the early bugs will have been ironed out and it will in all probability be a stable and secure operating system which is perfectly safe to download and use...
Spoiler
Originally Posted by Old Endeavour:
“That would make sense for it to activate at midnight local to the country it's in. that way it's staggered across the world and it is doing what it promised the 29th!
I wonder if there is a big red ABORT button at Microsoft HQ - If people in Asia start finding their PCs not working, they hit the button and no one else's will fire up.
Sure as hell I would have such a button.”
“That would make sense for it to activate at midnight local to the country it's in. that way it's staggered across the world and it is doing what it promised the 29th!
I wonder if there is a big red ABORT button at Microsoft HQ - If people in Asia start finding their PCs not working, they hit the button and no one else's will fire up.
Sure as hell I would have such a button.
”
Lol re big red abort button.
It's nice that the Asia Pacific region and the rest of us doesn't have to wait for America.
Originally Posted by call100:
“The first downloads were in New Zealand at Midnight local. So it will be the same worldwide apparently as Midnight strikes.
Unless you are one of the lucky ones who have had it activate already!!!”
“The first downloads were in New Zealand at Midnight local. So it will be the same worldwide apparently as Midnight strikes.
Unless you are one of the lucky ones who have had it activate already!!!
”
Mine didn't have activation problems and I've had it up and running for the past two days getting it how I want it. In fact I'm using it not to watch TV via my sat cards and type this post.
Basically, whilst interested, I'm not a part of this download/install/crash cycle.
They interesting thing is the activation as many are already getting it downloaded, but when will it start installing and saying "Hi" - (Yes sorry for the spoiler alert, but it does welcome you with a "Hi" as it finishes up installing and a few other HAL type disturbing comments.
)
Originally Posted by TelevisionUser:
“To be fair, the free upgrade for Win 7, 8 and 8.1 users will be available for a year and towards the end of that period, you'll invariably find that very many of the early bugs will have been ironed out and it will in all probability be a stable and secure operating system which is perfectly safe to download and use...
”
“To be fair, the free upgrade for Win 7, 8 and 8.1 users will be available for a year and towards the end of that period, you'll invariably find that very many of the early bugs will have been ironed out and it will in all probability be a stable and secure operating system which is perfectly safe to download and use...
Spoiler
OK so I've only been using it for two days, but I haven't found any major bugs at all.
It even used some old divers that I thought it might object to but it didn't. It seems a lot easier on drivers than past windows versions. - I even have an old WI-FI dongle that I don't use much do it worked fine on XP but wouldn't work on Windows 7. Then some bright spark actually wrote their own Windows 7 driver for it, which he let everyone have. I plugged it in to Windows 10 and it loaded up a working driver for it without me having to do anything. So it seems a lot better thought out than old Windows versions. Far less driver headaches.
The one thing I don't like is the white windows on every folder you open. The edge are not clear enough for my eyesight. I have found how to make the border a solid colour which helps with visibility, but apparently it does have an "Aero" setting that gives it transparent borders like windows 7, but I haven't found out how to turn that on yet. The task bar is transparent but the window frame are solid and ugly.
Originally Posted by Terry N:
“Someone got it at 9:39PM on the 28th. http://i.imgur.com/7K2V3t6.png”
“Someone got it at 9:39PM on the 28th. http://i.imgur.com/7K2V3t6.png”
9:40PM
Originally Posted by Old Endeavour:
“OK so I've only been using it for two days, but I haven't found any major bugs at all.
It even used some old divers that I thought it might object to but it didn't. It seems a lot easier on drivers than past windows versions. - I even have an old WI-FI dongle that I don't use much do it worked fine on XP but wouldn't work on Windows 7. Then some bright spark actually wrote their own Windows 7 driver for it, which he let everyone have. I plugged it in to Windows 10 and it loaded up a working driver for it without me having to do anything. So it seems a lot better thought out than old Windows versions. Far less driver headaches.
The one thing I don't like is the white windows on every folder you open. The edge are not clear enough for my eyesight. I have found how to make the border a solid colour which helps with visibility, but apparently it does have an "Aero" setting that gives it transparent borders like windows 7, but I haven't found out how to turn that on yet. The task bar is transparent but the window frame are solid and ugly.”
“OK so I've only been using it for two days, but I haven't found any major bugs at all.
It even used some old divers that I thought it might object to but it didn't. It seems a lot easier on drivers than past windows versions. - I even have an old WI-FI dongle that I don't use much do it worked fine on XP but wouldn't work on Windows 7. Then some bright spark actually wrote their own Windows 7 driver for it, which he let everyone have. I plugged it in to Windows 10 and it loaded up a working driver for it without me having to do anything. So it seems a lot better thought out than old Windows versions. Far less driver headaches.
The one thing I don't like is the white windows on every folder you open. The edge are not clear enough for my eyesight. I have found how to make the border a solid colour which helps with visibility, but apparently it does have an "Aero" setting that gives it transparent borders like windows 7, but I haven't found out how to turn that on yet. The task bar is transparent but the window frame are solid and ugly.”
In the preview (including 10240) there's no way that i know of to make the window borders transparent.
You can enable an 'aero glass' effect in the registry, but that just gives you an aero blur effect on the Menu background.
It also originally gave the taskbar a blur effect, but that seems to have been lost in 10240.
http://www.askvg.com/how-to-enable-a...in-windows-10/
No doubt Stardock (or other third parties) will come up with a version of Windowblinds suitable for Windows 10 before long, that will give you transparent window borders.
I use 'Windowblinds 8' on Windows 8, and it makes it look looks very Windows 7 like (using the Diamond skin).
It does install on the 10 preview, but doesn't play well with the taskbar, so a new version is probably needed.
Originally Posted by emptybox:
“In the preview (including 10240) there's no way that i know of to make the window borders transparent.
You can enable an 'aero glass' effect in the registry, but that just gives you an aero blur effect on the Menu background.
It also originally gave the taskbar a blur effect, but that seems to have been lost in 10240.
http://www.askvg.com/how-to-enable-a...in-windows-10/
No doubt Stardock (or other third parties) will come up with a version of Windowblinds suitable for Windows 10 before long, that will give you transparent window borders.
I use 'Windowblinds 8' on Windows 8, and it makes it look looks very Windows 7 like (using the Diamond skin).
It does install on the 10 preview, but doesn't play well with the taskbar, so a new version is probably needed.”
“In the preview (including 10240) there's no way that i know of to make the window borders transparent.
You can enable an 'aero glass' effect in the registry, but that just gives you an aero blur effect on the Menu background.
It also originally gave the taskbar a blur effect, but that seems to have been lost in 10240.
http://www.askvg.com/how-to-enable-a...in-windows-10/
No doubt Stardock (or other third parties) will come up with a version of Windowblinds suitable for Windows 10 before long, that will give you transparent window borders.
I use 'Windowblinds 8' on Windows 8, and it makes it look looks very Windows 7 like (using the Diamond skin).
It does install on the 10 preview, but doesn't play well with the taskbar, so a new version is probably needed.”
Ah! OK! Thanks for the info - I have found the Registry settings and no they don't make much difference - Still I now have the borders sky blue so I can at least see one window on top of another and getting more used to it by the day.
my download file is stuck on 5.99gb
maybe the file size is dependent on what Windows you are running (I'm on Windows 8.1)
maybe the file size is dependent on what Windows you are running (I'm on Windows 8.1)
I just had to reboot my PC for some other reason and even I got some updates and I've had it up and running for 2 days.
I don't feel left out now, even if because it's Windows 10, I have no idea what the updates were!
I don't feel left out now, even if because it's Windows 10, I have no idea what the updates were!
Mine seems to have stalled at 3.41 at 20:50 I can see a entry in Windows update at about that time saying update to Windows 10 Pro failed.
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