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Windows 10

Yup.. it's an odd OS. I have a windows phone which is fine but I don't care for it much on the new laptop. It came with Win8.1 (only had it a couple of months) so we used it (tried to use it) for a week before cracking and accepting the upgrade to 10. During the upgrade, it asks if you want to keep this and keep that or accept this and accept that. Edge was one such thing. I didn't know what it was so de-selected the option. It went ahead and installed anyway:banghead: About 3 or 4 days later.. it came up with a message saying that Edge wasn't compatible with McAfee so would revert back to IE12. What a result!!:biggrin-new:

I still have problems with it though. SWMBO wanted a new game (Majhong) so I downloaded and installed it. We had a look and she was happy. I closed it down and she asked 'where will I find it'? It took another 5mins to find where it had gone!! I'm using the retro-look version too:( All in all.. it's not for me. I dislike it with a passion but feel stuck between a rock and a hard place. Accept it or accept it.
ATB
DaveB:)
 
I updated to Windows10 and had to go back to Windows 7 because my Hitachi external hard drive will not work. Windows see's the device and you can even open it and look at the folders, but it's so slow and transferring a small file off or onto it is an overnight job. I think it's a driver issue, but Hitachi don't offer driver for download, it's supposed to be with Windows. I contacted Microsoft Support and they wanted $99 to try and fix it, no thanks I'll re install 7.


Ian
 
,,WIN 10 still being devloped..While it will be the OS of the future, they still are going thru developments. Like many , I too will wait...Today my Win7 is flawless, I control it ,and it will not control me. No suprises pop up, No one over my shoulder I did Install Win 10 on my FS9 computer..works fine..EXCEPT could not use FS9..rolled back to Win 7?? No Problem...No, No Test Pilot me..will Wait and observe...Let them get their Bugs Out..I have none now..Thnx!
 
napacon said:
,,WIN 10 still being devloped..While it will be the OS of the future, they still are going thru developments. Like many , I too will wait...Today my Win7 is flawless, I control it ,and it will not control me. No suprises pop up, No one over my shoulder I did Install Win 10 on my FS9 computer..works fine..EXCEPT could not use FS9..rolled back to Win 7?? No Problem...No, No Test Pilot me..will Wait and observe...Let them get their Bugs Out..I have none now..Thnx!
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Excellent----+1
Mike
 
W10 and FSX seems to work ok except for the menu not working in full screen mode, only windowed mode and the bar showing the loading of scenery,planes etc only shows as a black screen until the sim screen for the simulation appears.
 
napacon said:
,,WIN 10 still being devloped..While it will be the OS of the future, they still are going thru developments. Like many , I too will wait...Today my Win7 is flawless, I control it ,and it will not control me. No suprises pop up, No one over my shoulder I did Install Win 10 on my FS9 computer..works fine..EXCEPT could not use FS9..rolled back to Win 7?? No Problem...No, No Test Pilot me..will Wait and observe...Let them get their Bugs Out..I have none now..Thnx!
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Agree 110%.
:encouragement:
 
I was satisfied with win10 until a couple of days ago: Without any changes whatever when I turned on the PC it demanded a password. I was lucky enough to have a Hotmail one. I do NOT want a password to boot my PC
#2 I have gone through the "Share" process several times...Folders say they are shared by "everyone w/full access" . But I still cannot open any of them from my other PC.
Still looking for solutions. Otherwise it seems like an improvement.
 
Maj Kong said:
I was satisfied with win10 until a couple of days ago: Without any changes whatever when I turned on the PC it demanded a password. I was lucky enough to have a Hotmail one. I do NOT want a password to boot my PC
#2 I have gone through the "Share" process several times...Folders say they are shared by "everyone w/full access" . But I still cannot open any of them from my other PC.
Still looking for solutions. Otherwise it seems like an improvement.
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I have not tried this solution about the password problem yet, but will be, later today:

http://www.windows10forums.com/threads/how-to-disable-login-screen-on-win-10.165/
 
Well this a.m. scunnered with the clunky unfriendly nature of 10, no Save-as, horrible favorites presentation amongst other things, I reverted back to W7 64 in about 10 mins. It all went smoothly and the only items I have that are having issues with are MS own things like the MS mouse now won't wheel scroll in any controllable fashion. It won't allow an update or reinstall of the s/w and won't allow a deletion either. I'm sure I will eventually find a solution to that. Otherwise glad to be back on familiar ground.
I will concede W10 was faster but that was about it..... :a1310:
 
I'm a happy Windows 10 user. I have not had any problems with FSX since installing it, and the OS does seem to work faster and smoother than Windows 8, IMHO. That being said, big-mike's signature image cracks me up every time I see it :mixed-smiley-010:
 
jimjones said:
W10 and FSX seems to work ok except for the menu not working in full screen mode, only windowed mode and the bar showing the loading of scenery,planes etc only shows as a black screen until the sim screen for the simulation appears.
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I was having that too, on Win10 Home 64-bit ( ..and then it became completely unusable after the big Win10 version 1511 update a couple of weeks ago) until I went here and here:

http://bullcreekstudio.com/commentary/how-to-install-fsx-under-windows-10/

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php?95031-Help!-FSX-not-working-on-Windows-10/page2 , which leads you to https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8109

Do this and then restart the PC.

I'm now running FSX Acceleration in fullscreen mode on the middle screen, and with new windows of the VC, showing the right and left side views on the respective side monitors.

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