Brilliant, thanks for the info mate

I agree. Unlike Apple MS is mainly a software company with a hardware arm on the side. They don't want to piss off all their PC and laptop builders that buy Windows from them, so the Surface line is a halo product to get publicity and allow manufacturers to undercut them.I have a Linx 10 tablet that runs full Windows 8.1 and only cost £150, that's £250 less than the Surface 3 which is almost identical.

But I want that Surface Book. It looks fantastic. A proper laptop that you can take the screen to bed or sit on the sofa and leave the keyboard on the table.

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1327960
There is little need to feel sympathy for Microsoft, it has to be the manufacturers nearer crisis.

And if you believe some of that survey it might be worse for tablet manufacturers.

After Windows 10 BSOD'ed on me for the second time since release, they can shove it up their ar§e!

Yeah, so you said in the other thread.

It's going to be a driver issue, so the sensible solution would be to find out which driver is causing the problem and fix it.

When I try and drag my media player across onto my TV it bounces back onto my desktop causing it to go into multi-view - can't even remember what they call it, all apps windowed and you click on one then it goes full screen.

This a glitch or do I have something enabled. At the moment I can get half the player on the second screen and then drag it fully over. To further add to the mystery it doesn't happen 100% of the time, on a few occasions it just drags smoothly as before on Win 7.

What do you mean 'drag my media player across onto my TV'? If you take that literally it makes no sense.

Are you running 2 displays, one on your PC screen and another on the TV?

I'm sure MS are really worried now.................As that's not a universal problem with W10 it would make more sense to look to your machine and drivers as Stig suggests.

Funny how intolerant we are these days, back in the days of Windows 95/98 blue screens were almost a weekly occurence but we just laughed/sighed/sweared and carried on.

Your motto must be 'If at first you don't succeed, give up'.

We could possibly help if you were gracious enough to ask nicely.

I remember a nicer time before this conditioned instant society.

Of course.

Like a rubber band, bouncing back to my small monitor.

So only 2 BSODs? Lucky you. I upgraded my wife's laptop (used for work and her degree course) to 10 at the end of August. It seemed to be OK but then she told me it was restarting all the time, about every 10 minutes. Yes, it was the BSOD (kernel auto thing). It was to late to roll back but I had taken the precaution of taking an image of the hard drive before the upgrade.

On further investigation the BSOD was only on battery power not mains. Also a Dolby audio driver fault was popping up on start up. So I updated the drivers and deleted the Dolby audio program and all is well with the machine, no more BSOD on battery (so far). I think part of the problem was because she wouldn't let me do a clean install on her machine. The other two laptops where I have done this have had no problems at all.

So if 10 causes you a problem you should either fix it or roll back and stop complaining. Microsoft have made the upgrade and downgrade path very simple.

The odd time Windows 10 has shown me a blue screen after I've brought the computer out of sleep. It's been perfectly okay apart from that.

I am hopeful someone may be able to help me with a problem I am having.

I shut down my netbook this morning after working on a Word document. About 40 minutes later I went to switch it back on but every since trying to boot back up I am only getting a black screen, and no cursor.

I get the Windows logo with the circle dots loading at the bottom but then it goes to a black screen.

I have tried pressing Windows Key button+p and then down twice but nothing happened.

I have tried contacting it via a HDMI cable to my TV to see if that would work but I am still unable to see anything then. Is there anyway I can resolve this issue myself?

Looks like it was a hard drive issue. One that I am not entirely sure is fixed.

I could get Windows XP to install, but both Windows 7 & Windows 8.1 wouldn't install, they would get so far into the installation and fail.

Ended up having to use my 8.1 installation media to completely nuke the HDD, removing even the system reserve partition to get it to work.

Time for a new computer I think.

It wouldn't be so bad if when it BSOD'ed it didn't knack it up completely so it wouldn't load. Both times it just got stuck in an endless loop of error messages when booting up.

Turn it off completely by keeping your finger on the power button.
Try booting again. If it still happens, try Ctrl-Alt-Del. I have seen this work when Explorer fails and you never get presented with a desktop.

Tried this a couple of times but no luck. I read somewhere about quickly turning off and on allows an automatic repair set up so I done that.

In the automatic repair I tried to choose to continue to windows 10 start up but same thing happened with the black screen and no cursor. I tried it again and I've chosen to reset my PC option. Currently trying this just now

tried that and it still booted up to a screen saying either close windows or try to repair, whichever I click i end up back at windows 7 with an error screen telling me....

OXC1900101-OX20017
safe_OS phase error boot or

er...yeah

http://betanews.com/2015/10/15/micro...to-display-ads
"Is this the price we’re expected to pay for Windows 10 being free?"

'Suggested apps' for now, but it is was always easy to see where things are likely going, what with the near 100% forced updates.

The option has been turned off on mine since it came into being. Not sure what your point is. If you don't want to see them then you don't need to. The choice is entirely yours.
I guess that wouldn't be in line with your message that everything about W10 is evil....

Nought to do with being evil, it is the logical future, not that different to how Google makes its money.

Dumbing it down to 'for or against' helps no one.

No different to websites refusing to load if you have an adblocker on. MS at least give you the option to turn it off.

Besides your comment about Windows 10 being free is crap. Windows 10 is not free. MS are just running a promotion whereby upgrades are free for a limited period.

If you buy a licence, you still get the same options.

And what annoys me a bit is that you know this really, but choose to be deliberately provocative!

And your comment about it being my comment that 10 is free is deliberatively provacative crap.
It is a quote, not my comment, but one that likely reflects the aggressive free upgrade push from 7/8 to 10.

You do your wonderment and delight postings and we then get a balance somewhere in the middle, it certainly beats having us all being dum dums.

Yawn.