STEVE BURNS
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As it says on the tin
Any tips or pointers as struggling
Any tips or pointers as struggling
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Window 10 anybody using it
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Aceman
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Using it fine.. Now it's started to get some fixes/updates through (the initial version was a bit hit and miss, but the updates have fixed most problems with it) I quite like it.
Way, way, way better than Windows 8.1, and I'd say (personally) now pretty much on par with 7 for reliability (as a home PC - I don't p*ss around more than web surfing, few games, emails, home media server etc).
Way, way, way better than Windows 8.1, and I'd say (personally) now pretty much on par with 7 for reliability (as a home PC - I don't p*ss around more than web surfing, few games, emails, home media server etc).
STEVE BURNS
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Getting easier the more I play with it
johnymd
Club Member
I was using it until 5 mins ago, now it's broke. Since upgrading!!! From Windows 7, I've had a problem where I can't save anything to my documents and pictures folders. I can access the stuff that's in there but can't put anything new in it. I have to instead save everything to the root of the c drive. I've been getting fed up with this so thought I'd have a quick check on the net to see if it's common. Turns out it's really common when you do the free upgrade as it screws all your permissions up. There are a few suggested fixes and one is to take ownership of your profile. It's pretty simple to do so that's what I did. All appeared to work so I moved all the folders and pictures from the root of c into the correct place and it all copied fine. Now when I try to open a picture the Windows 10 viewer pops up then disappears. Tried right click and open with the old windows picture viewer and it works fine. How odd. So, another check on the web. Tried going on the net with Windows 10's browser from the task bar and it tries to open then closes again. It's really not looking good now so I had a little dig around and found the old ie11 exe file and got on the net with that. Another suggestion that everyone seams to like is taking ownership at the root of the c drive so as it pretty broken anyway I may as well. This suggestion was to change ownership to the administrators group and not the user so I that I did. This is where things started to get worse. Now the start button doesn't work.
Time to back up my stuff and a fresh install I think. At least I can get on line with my iPad. What would I do without apple.
Time to back up my stuff and a fresh install I think. At least I can get on line with my iPad. What would I do without apple.
GTR-240Z
Well-Known Forum User
If your going to reinstall you might want to try the Reset this PC in Settings\Update & Security\Recovery. I think there is even an option to reset without removing your data.
Wouldn't do it without a backup but would love to know the results?
johnymd
Club Member
Faffed around with ownership permissions for a while and managed to get some of windows 10 working again. Now have the start menu and the anitvirus working. Can still use the old ie and explorer looks to be functioning and giving my full permissions to the files I want. Library's are also working fine (although I dislike them) but still cant use some of the windows 10 apps like edge, calculator, mail, ect. I can live with this.
I love progress.
I love progress.
GTR-240Z
Well-Known Forum User
lol yeah I suppose non functioning start menu might make a reset difficult.
Always been curious how successful the reset option would be.
johnymd
Club Member
The problem is fixing an OS without altering the user profile and all the hidden program associated, sorry, App associated stuff that makes up the profile. Trusting your data to Microsoft is a little like installing backup software and allowing it to decide what to back up. There is a chance it will be OK but that chance is very slim.