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Windows 10

Used Media Creation Tool to download W10 to my Surface Pro 3
1/2 hour later- working like a champ!

Lucky I guess.....
Rick
 
Bingo W10 finally. The Orbx forum issue and trick did it. Now how do I shut up that female tramp voice thing lol.
 
manfredc3 said:
Well the upgrade from W7 on the laptop went smooth.

I looked at Edge, but quickly went back to Chrome. Can't even get to internet options without searching for it, so that you can change the home page. It's not letting you load a new tab with the home page either.

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Open MS Edge
Click on the three dots (...) on the top right of the window
Click on settings
Select: open with (specific page or pages)
Type in the web address in the box below
Click on the PLUS sign to the right of the web address box to add it
Your done!

Took me several try's before I realized I had to add the address by clicking the PLUS sign...

Rick
 
It's baaaack....

After reading a variety of posts on different forums, I canceled my Win10 reservation and decided to wait awhile. My win8.1 is running just fine, as is FSX and FS9.

After Tuesday's release, I noticed on the icon missing from my taskbar. I thought great, no more reminder.

This morning the icon is back once again to remind me to "Get Windows 10." Sigh. Guess its going to stay there for awhile.
 
I should have cancelled too. Updated and am having problems with fsx. It won't work in full screen. The aircraft pic doesn't show up in the free flight setup. I can live with those but NVidia inspector doesn't seem to work in winx. I can't live with the shimmering. If I don't find a solution, it's back to win7.
 
Bjoern said:
How big is the "Windows" folder after installing 10?
I fear that 7 and all its accumulated junk will be kept, while 10 will occupy another 20GB or so of disk space.
It doesn't make it any better that my SSD is almost full.
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Not a problem Bjoern, Samsung have just added a 2TB drive to the 850Evo SSD line.
:encouragement:
 
Well, curiosity got the better of me. Upgraded to Windows 10 last night, took about 2 1/2 hours. Shouldn't have bothered, FSX doesn't work! So this morning I've gone back to Windows 8.1 and all is well again. Upgrade if you so desire, but be prepared for the end result to be something less than perfect.
Cheers...
:ernaehrung004:
Old MSgt
 
My FSX/SE and Prepar3D both work so far no issue's under window mode and AMD/ATI released W10 driver's.
 
papab said:
Open MS Edge
Click on the three dots (...) on the top right of the window
Click on settings
Select: open with (specific page or pages)
Type in the web address in the box below
Click on the PLUS sign to the right of the web address box to add it
Your done!

Took me several try's before I realized I had to add the address by clicking the PLUS sign...

Rick
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I did try that, but every time I started Edge, it just went to a page stating "where to go next", or something like that. then I typed "Internet Options" in the search bar, and... wow, there was the known window to set the home page. Hence why I went back to Chrome.
 
According to everything i have found, the problems lay in Directx 12 itself. Seems to be causing problems with the flight sims. I will continue to use Windows 10 because my computers and there setups aren't just for flight sims. I use these machines for other things as well.

Until Directx issues are solved i will run in Windows mode. I will get use to those menus up there. Graphics are still just as good.
 
This has been discussed before. W10 is and will only be a platform for other things to make money with. Like cloud based storage service or apps sold through the store.
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We are so ignorant of modern day society. I Guess MS has done something that no government agency could ever hope to do, the largest private information gathering system the world has ever seeing

MS$ motives,

catch there is always a catch

http://thenextweb.co...07/29/wind-nos/
 
Went for the plunge today.

Installation was smooth. Was done within an hour, including downloading updates (and drivers) during installation.
Chose to go for a clean slate (no programs and settings) and ended up with a 13 GB folder for Win 10. Not bad!
Also switched off anything I don't need, including all the settings for sending usage data to MS.

My shell replacement of choice, BBLean, runs, but does not display wallpapers. Will take this to the dev.

Reinstalling Steam and adding the libraries from other drives (including FSXSE) went without a hitch.

FSXSE suffers from the black menu screen problem (when in full screen) though. According to the Steam forums, this is a rather common bug in W10.
Might have something to do with a missing dependency or erroneously installed video card driver.

I like W10 so far. It doesn't matter if some programs won't run just yet, it really looks like a keeper..



wombat666 said:
Not a problem Bjoern, Samsung have just added a 2TB drive to the 850Evo SSD line.
:encouragement:
Click to expand...

Are you gonna buy me one? :D



ncooper said:
17.7GB.

Nick.
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Thanks. Ultimately, concern was ultimately unfounded though (see above).
 
mjrhealth said:
We are so ignorant of modern day society. I Guess MS has done something that no government agency could ever hope to do, the largest private information gathering system the world has ever seeing

MS$ motives,

catch there is always a catch

http://thenextweb.co...07/29/wind-nos/
Click to expand...

Anyone spending ten minutes within the settings menu will be able to find such items (and hopefully turn them off). This is not just particular to MS and Win 10, but any other tool incorporating the gathering of usage statistics. Or any social network like Facebook or LinkedIn. Or Google.

The basic equation is that services cost money. Either you pay for them directly or let others pay for them by shoving targeted advertisements in your face.
This is acceptable (I am getting something for free in return) as long as you're free to opt out at any time or reduce said gathered data to an anonymized minimum.
And it should be every user's primary task to find and turn off such settings after subscribing to a new service (OS or social or similar), just like you constantly need to beware of tricksters or suspicious fine print in the real world.

Btw: The world champion in unwarranted data gathering without any chance for resistance has been exposed a few years ago. It wasn't an international, private company.
 
Found the culprit for the black screen when not in windowed mode. It's Win 10's Desktop Window Manager.


There is a workaround, but it only works when using a window manager other than Win10's (like Blackbox), otherwise you will end up with no choice but to hard reboot your PC.
Trust me when I say that the hassle simply isn't worth it. Keep FSX windowed until there's an official or better fix and you'll be fine.
 
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While you're turning off 'unwanted' features of the Win 10 'update' you might also want to turn off the quaint trick that sees MS using YOUR upload bandwidth to torrent the download/install process for others.

Neat trick...considering they don't actually make a point of seeking your permission first....

...oh, that's right....**** the EULA ...and be the first one on your block to do so...;)
 
A small tip for people who're having performance issues:

- open up the command prompt
- type "winsat formal" and hit enter.
- let it run and when it is finished reboot.

Winsat is a built in assessment and optimization tool. Just had it run on my laptop and it works quite a bit better now. Winsat also forces your SSD to be recognized as such and will permit you to optimize the disk without resorting to defrag which you should never do with an SSD.

Hope this helps!

Johan
 
mjrhealth said:
We are so ignorant of modern day society. I Guess MS has done something that no government agency could ever hope to do, the largest private information gathering system the world has ever seeing

MS$ motives,

catch there is always a catch

http://thenextweb.co...07/29/wind-nos/
Click to expand...

If you go to settings and select privacy, you will be able to disable all of those nasties. Another thing that helps is installing Win10 with a local account instead of a Microsoft account.

Windows 10 is the future people. There is no way around it. Support for windows 7 will end in 2020 and Windows 8.1 in 2023.

We're entering the era of "Windows as a service".

To me personally, these are hugely interesting times!

Johan
 
Here are a few usefull links on tweaking the new Windows:

http://www.windowscentral.com/5-settings-tips-make-your-windows-10-experience-more-enjoyable
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/7-quick-tips-hacks-optimize-windows-10-experience/

All things that used to be present in 7 and XP are still there, just in other places. And 10 offers a lot of other possibilities as well.

Some of you already know that I'm not a big fan of M$ as a firm, but this new OS is very promising indeed. There are still some things that need to be sorted out, but look at it as a new toy!

Johan
 
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