Does anyone know if Plex works? My buddy installed the new preview and says it doesn't work for him, I'm not sure if it's a Windows 10 issue or if he's an idiot.
Okay I know voice commands on a desktop is cheesy but goddamn Cortana works great and the personalized news and weather items are so cool. It's a perfect compliment to the live tiles on the Start screen and the voice recognition is great
[QUOTE=FFStudios;46999528]Okay I know voice commands on a desktop is cheesy but goddamn Cortana works great and the personalized news and weather items are so cool. It's a perfect compliment to the live tiles on the Start screen and the voice recognition is great[/QUOTE]
Welcome to being a Windows Phone user, circa one year ago :v:
Well I installed it, Plex does work. Not sure how I feel about it yet. I really don't like a lot the UI changes.
The icons for the large taskbar look terrible, most icons looked good at 32x32 (size from 7-8.1) this 28x28 shit looks terrible. All the icons looked jagged and pixelated.
The start menu on the first preview was perfect, I really hope it's closer to that on the final. I miss being able to resize and the search results from cortana aren't as accurate as 7.
The new folder icons look just bad, they're more fitting for sure and I guess I would rather have them then that ones from 7 but they're too simple even for this "modern" ui, they look like they were thrown together in ms paint.
This is dumb knit picky stuff but if I'm going to be looking at this thing all the time I want it to look nice. Microsoft seriously needs to get some people on their UI team that know what they're doing.
I got it!
Set your windows account location to US and your language priority to English and it works.
[QUOTE=LegndNikko;46999591]Welcome to being a Windows Phone user, circa one year ago :v:[/QUOTE]
google now mostly sated my appetite for quick hit news/weather (is there a term for the service Cortana, Google Now, etc provides? i'm inclined to create the acronym but i dunno) especially because Windows Phone is practically useless to me in every other aspect and i would never buy one with the OS. i'm glad that Cortana has made the jump to desktop though because it's cool
Man, wish I had another HDD to install Win10 on. :/ Has anyone had issues with games or driver support? I heard it was pretty good on driver support.
[QUOTE=FFStudios;47001888]google now mostly sated my appetite for quick hit news/weather (is there a term for the service Cortana, Google Now, etc provides? i'm inclined to create the acronym but i dunno) especially because Windows Phone is practically useless to me in every other aspect and i would never buy one with the OS. i'm glad that Cortana has made the jump to desktop though because it's cool[/QUOTE]
this is made up term, but contextual surfacing?
idk
So...
Right now, I have a laptop with seven on it, but I kinda want to upgrade to ten.
Should I wait, or should I install it? Is it stable enough for everyday uses? Stable for gaming, more importantly?
Edit :
Never mind, i'll do it virtual machine style, so even if it's broken, It's not really a problem.
it's very stable for gaming, although I did have CS:GO freeze my entire computer in the middle of a competitive match last night. I've been running the TP since the first build on my desktop and that has been one of maybe two or three major crashes that I've noticed while playing games
[QUOTE=Sodisna;47002248]Man, wish I had another HDD to install Win10 on. :/ Has anyone had issues with games or driver support? I heard it was pretty good on driver support.[/QUOTE]
Even when there are no Windows 10 drivers available yet, the Windows 8, 7, or even earlier are bound to work thanks to reverse compatibility anyway.
[QUOTE=Sodisna;47002248]Man, wish I had another HDD to install Win10 on. :/ Has anyone had issues with games or driver support? I heard it was pretty good on driver support.[/QUOTE]
I upgraded from 7 a while ago (Switched back to 7 because explorer crash, might update again because fuck it). And all i really had to do was update some drivers to Win8 / 8.1 if something was broken.
I did a clean install (burned the iso to a dvd and stuck it in my newly built PC) 30 days ago, and have found this to be pretty stable for what I do (mainly games/scripting). Only one question:
In the new build, is content downloading for source games fixed? Or is there some fix?
Can you have Cortana open Media Player, and start playing songs or perhaps browse files to open a movie?
[QUOTE=Daemon White;47003161]Can you have Cortana open Media Player, and start playing songs or perhaps browse files to open a movie?[/QUOTE]
Asked it to open Chrome. Told me she can't do that yet and to check back for future updates. We'll see I suppose.
Edit:
Asking her to play music opens the media player yeah.
Cant get the virtual box to work. When I load the .iso it says I have to restart the computer but how do I do that?
Did I not assign enough hard drive space or ram or something?
[QUOTE=Dalto11;47004074]Asked it to open Chrome. Told me she can't do that yet and to check back for future updates. We'll see I suppose.
Edit:
Asking her to play music opens the media player yeah.[/QUOTE]
How'd you say it? "play <bandname>" only opens a Bing tab for me
Has there been any word on whether Spartan will use the same hardware acceleration IE11 uses?
Because IE11 renders way faster than any other browser on the market at the moment and is a joy to use on a 120hz screen.
[QUOTE=paul simon;47006423]Has there been any word on whether Spartan will use the same hardware acceleration IE11 uses?
Because IE11 renders way faster than any other browser on the market at the moment and is a joy to use on a 120hz screen.[/QUOTE]
I haven't seen anything on it, but I doubt they'd get rid of the best thing going for it. Then again, you never know.
My dvd drive is aparently broken, hasn't used it for ages. It says power calibration error when trying to burn the windows 10 iso in imgburn. Tried allmost everything but can't get it to work.
My question is: is it possible to simply mount the windows 10 iso and install it on another HDD while in windows 8? I have 2tb HDD where windows 8 is installed, but i want to install it to my 1tb where windows 7 is installed, so i still have windows 8.
[QUOTE=mrpirate;47006460]My dvd drive is aparently broken, hasn't used it for ages. It says power calibration error when trying to burn the windows 10 iso in imgburn. Tried allmost everything but can't get it to work.
My question is: is it possible to simply mount the windows 10 iso and install it on another HDD while in windows 8? I have 2tb HDD where windows 8 is installed, but i want to install it to my 1tb where windows 7 is installed, so i still have windows 8.[/QUOTE]
Can't you just use a USB drive?
Wish I could install it on my laptop, but I don't have any DVDs, and when I try to install it from my server running Windows Server 2008 I get a prompt saying the files are corrupted before it completes the installation.
Another problem is I don't have any functionable USB drive that can format as NTFS to make a bootable.
[QUOTE=Merijnwitje;47006472]Wish I could install it on my laptop, but I don't have any DVDs and when I try to install it from my server running Windows Server 2008 I get a prompt saying the files are corrupted when it finishes installing.
Damnit.[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=Levelog;47006469]Can't you just use a USB drive?[/QUOTE]
Don't have any with enough space. I'm in the setup now and can choose whether i want to keep my files and stuff, but i can't choose which hdd to install it to. It seems when you install while you are in windows you can only upgrade the current OS that is running.
[QUOTE=paul simon;47006423]Has there been any word on whether Spartan will use the same hardware acceleration IE11 uses?
Because IE11 renders way faster than any other browser on the market at the moment and is a joy to use on a 120hz screen.[/QUOTE]
It has a new rendering engine, so we'll see
[QUOTE=gooooooooooogle;47006476][url]http://rufus.akeo.ie/[/url][/QUOTE]
Yeah that's just what I was thinking about, but all of our USB drives are whiny as fuck and can't format as NTFS for some reason.
Guess I'm gonna have to look for a DVD after all.
[editline]25th January 2015[/editline]
Oh, turns out we did have just one blank DVD.
Apparently atleast with installing windows 8, you can copy the stuff from the iso file onto your other hdd and make it bootable, so you can install it on a different hdd without using a dvd or usb.
Anyone know if this works with windows 10, and how?
Edit:
Offcause you need to format the hdd first before copying the files.
Anyone's search bar is not working? mine isn't.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/8MmsUyg.png[/t]
The new aero snap option is fucking brilliant, especially on dual monitors. I'd normally have to do the Win + arrows to get something on the left half of my second monitor but in 10 its a click.
I'm sorry, this probably has been asked before, but where do you guys download the latest build? I logged in on the windows insider page and it only says that W10 mobile is coming soon, nothing else.
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