The blank page option features a search bar that defaults to your favourite browser, although I'm not sure whether it pulls its autocomplete options from Google or Bing. (Not that I use Edge!) Since most browsers allow you to search directly from the address bar using your favourite search provider (including autocomplete options) it can be quicker to have new tabs open on a blank page. This means that the browser doesn't have to request the Google home page each time you open a new tab. And since the address bar is already active when you open a tab there's no need to move the cursor - you can just start typing. ..Although most people I know insist on hitting the backspace button first to clear the highlighted text.

Opening a new tab in Edge won't go to a site that I've typed in in the settings. I've just tried. If that's what's being said.

My son and I both have 32gb in our PC's, don't know if it makes much difference over 16gb to be honest. My lad is a serious gamer so the graphics card is just as important as the ram, he just got a Ge Force something or other and it cost about £800, I run an 'old' GTX275 IIRC and it does for me.

Amiga days

some software came with my motherboard that gives a ram disk, but i have not installed it since changing to Windows 8.1, so I am, not sure if it will work.

I will paste a post I put on the other Windows 10 thread to see if anyone can help


Also on a second PC (new so didn't have Adobe on it yet ) I am trying to download Adobe Reader it goes so far and then instead of Save or Run as it used to it has save or open , I click save then it still says save or Open and if you click open it asks which app to open it with ? Or if I go to downloads and click the download it still goes back to save or open and the same circle again . Any ideas.

EDIT

Ignore the second question, it would appear that Windows 10 will give the old Run box if you download via Microsoft Edge if you use another browser such as IE 11 it asks for an App

http://m.theinquirer.net/inquirer/ne...t-windows-back

Im not starting a new thread on this but the multi Linux and IOS devices are maybe creating a major problem for Microsoft's OS and Office prospects.

'Vignoli adds that returning to Microsoft is not the solution - it represents the entire problem: "In fact, every version of Microsoft Office, since forever, has supported a different file format - although the extension has always been the same - which has forced users to reformat documents even when switching from a DOC to another DOC file.""

Yes, I recall those days when the time to upgrade Office was near the same day your main customer upgraded Office.

That's an interesting experiment with possibilities. After XP and Windows 7 Starter, Microsoft then lost out on getting their operating systems on netbooks and low end laptops which seem to mostly have Chrome OS or Android installed as standard these days. Perhaps Microsoft ought to look into the possibility of competing in that market again with the arrival of Windows 10.


It's difficult to say because many people have found Win 10 to be fast and efficient while other people have had system/driver incompatibilities which fouls things up. You can try but if you do please do make back ups as discussed in this and other threads.


LibreOffice and Open Office aren't the only options there and perhaps the Munich city authorities ought perhaps to try out the relevant versions of FreeOffice and Kingsoft Office which has now been apparently rebranded as WPS Office. They are both available at no cost.

They should be beyond trying out, they need a working solution. But I think it's more about lobbying from both sides than about big problems. One does not want to lose a big project and the other wants back to Windows.

For those who want to get rid of the 'Get Windows 10' icon and the reminders, run this from an Administrator Command Prompt (cmd):

REG.EXE ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Gwx" /v DisableGwx /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

It works great for me on those PCs I don't want Windows 10 on yet.

Yep, that works, I had to reinstall my computer from a image and I had the pop up again, I was just going to ignore it, but your reg hack works. Well at the moment it does, GWX is still in it's folder, so it may come back.

Thanks for that, we will see what happens.

Well, some of the potential solutions weren't available to try out when the Limux system was adopted for the Munich city administration but they are now and they're free too. The logical thing to do is to try out both WPS Office and FreeOffice as a replacement for LibreOffice.

Which reminds me; many new users of Windows 10 will have a juicy offer of an ongoing Office 365 subscription with their shiny new operating system involving the payment of £££ a month to Microsoft. It might indeed be a good product but I think it's worth suggesting to people that they try out the no cost alternatives first:

WPS Office

FreeOffice

OpenOffice

LibreOffice

No you are correct and the other poster misunderstood.

It's a fact that Edge does not let you open a new tab to homepage like every other browser allows you to do.

EDIT: It has occurred to me that personal users of the free version of WPS Office (formerly Kingsoft Office) might be better off getting the less commercialised 2013 9.1.0.4550 free edition of the software and trying it out:

http://filehippo.com/download_kingso...ce_suite_free/

Alternatively, scroll down here http://www.kingsoftstore.com/kingsof...-freeware.html until you see this lot and then try downloading:


Again, it's the 9.1.0.4550 edition to look for.

i tried this WPS office thing a while back, I thought it looked good until I accessed the menus and everything was in Chinese.

Because you downloaded the wrong version. Hardly their fault....

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Quick question on the Mail app in Windows 10.

I have set up the Mail app to work with Gmail however, I have noticed that if I read an email within the app, it does NOT mark it as read on my iPhone 6 - which also has the default Mail app to use with Gmail.

This would defeat the object of using Mail in Windows 10 because I would then have to re-read the same emails on my iPhone, in order to mark them as 'read' on my phone?!

The thing is, is that if I read my emails on the web, by logging into mail.google.com, it does indeed show the same emails as 'read' on my iPhone. It just doesn't seem to work like this from the Mail app in Windows 10?!

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For me the application menus were fine (and in English). What I hated was that it inserted a Context menu option into the Windows file system, and no matter what you download THAT is in Chinese. Even if it was harmless (I'm not so sure) it reeked of sloppiness (because it was clearly an English language install), and THAT made me nervous.

Nope it was the English version, maybe they had the links mixed around. I did also try it on Linux, but it seemed to be sloppy, things that should have worked just would not or it worked slow.

Shame really as the UI looked nice

I hadn't checked until I read your post, but you are absolutely right. The W10 mail app doesn't seem to sync with IOS at all, but IOS does sync with Windows 10.

I marked as read one email and deleted another in the W10 app. Both are still showing unchanged on the IOS mail app. Ironically Microsoft's own Outlook for IOS app doesn't change either.

Doing things the other way round, I deleted an email on my iPad and it was instantly reflected in Windows 10.

I agree with you. It makes the Windows 10 app less than useful.

PS. I should have added that it is not Gmail specific. My Outlook emails don't behave either.

I just disabled the W10 mail app completely and still on the windows live mail (easier for me)

Try pressing the sync button in W10 app. On my phone it works a lazy way. It uses push notifications, but it writes anything back only when another email comes or you sync manually,

Ah right. That works. It didn't occur to me to refresh the out going app. Lazy is a good description.

Probably a 980 Ti or more likely a Titan X. As the Titan X is in the £800 range.

new updates today:

Update for Windows 10 for x64-based Systems (KB3081449).
Update for Windows 10 for x64-based Systems (KB3081452).

Apparently there's a "1448" update too, but I didn't get it. No idea why, but the Internet in general says it exists.

EDIT - Okay this is odd. I just went BACK into the WinUpdate tool and KB3081448 is now there and being applied. It seems like (in my case) the other updates simply had to be installed first.

Microsoft has no knowledgebase articles for any of these updates at the time I am posting this.

EDIT 2: KB3081448 seems to be a big update (a cumulative one) and is a big download. It also requires a scheduled reboot.