Is Windows 10 haunted?

OriginalGriff

I set up my monitors with two different pictures yesterday, and when I powered up today, there they were. (And it started faster than Win7 did as well...sort of. Some apps take an absolute AGE to load for the first time, but do shut down quicker) Then I viewed a JPG file. Once I had worked out what app to use, anyway. And it was on the wrong monitor, so I moved it to the correct one. But it went green... Eventually worked out that I could position the image so it was half on one and half on the other, and switch it between perfect on both, and green on both by moving it a single pixel left or right. :doh: Turns out it's because under Win7 I had calibrated one monitor to my printer, and not the other. Delete the calibration, and it's all fine. So now, I'll have to redo the calibration (which takes all morning, so I'll leave that for now. Then I noticed I had apparently acquired a US keyboard...install the UK pack: download 25Mb, couple of seconds. Install? 40 minutes...and needs a restart. Close all apps first, and notice that both monitors now have the same image. :sigh: Reboot. Two images are back! Yay! They have swapped monitors, but I can live with that... And while I'm moaning, why the heck have they separated the Start menu and the Search to two buttons? It worked beautifully in Win7 on the same button...

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

Lost User

Windows 10 rants are so last week.

Lost User

Most of your issues seem related to having two monitors, send me a second monitor and I will test it for you.

9082365

OriginalGriff wrote:

And while I'm moaning, why the heck have they separated the Start menu and the Search to two buttons? It worked beautifully in Win7 on the same button...

Because they want you to use Cortana which requires no buttons, obviously!

9082365

Nah, I think you need the graphics card and the printer as well. Better just send the computer and all its peripherals!

Munchies_Matt

OriginalGriff wrote:

install the UK pack: download 25Mb

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Was that the entire extended Oxford Dictionary? :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: What a load of crap. If it wasn't for the demands of the net, to use new players, and new browsers etc I would stick with 2K MSFT, byword for crap.

OriginalGriff

I think that was just the keyboard layout... :sigh:

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

Richard Deeming

OriginalGriff wrote:

And while I'm moaning, why the heck have they separated the Start menu and the Search to two buttons?

Right-click on the taskbar, and select "Cortana -> Hidden". The search box / button will disappear, but you can still start typing on the start menu to search.

"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

Relax, you have just scratched the surface of Windows 10 nightmares. :laugh: *While I was writing this reply, my secondary machine running Windows 10 shows me a blue screen of death CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED*. :sigh:

The shit I complain about It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem ~! Firewall !~

peterchen

While you are investigating the issue, you could get Griff a replacement typewriter for the time being. Maybe he's more comfortable than that and doesn't want the computer back.

Daniel Pfeffer

Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote:

Windows 10 shows me a blue screen of death CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED

Well, you were being critical of Windows 10, weren't you? :)

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill

Eytukan

Now the mob is walking with the torch towards Windows Phone village. That will soon arrive in some days. Weeks/Months?

Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.

Munchies_Matt

And the keyboard itself!

jsc42

I've just hit my first stumbling block on Windows 10. I wanted Remote Connection (to access a Raspberry Pi). So to download the free app, I have to create a Microsoft Account. But when I next reboot the PC I get a strange screen - it turns out, I now have to log on to start my own PC; I've never logged on before. My boot up process was 1) Switch on; now it is 1) Switch on, 2) Wait for logon page, 3) Enter password. And the really bad thing is that the password turned out to be the one that I had set for the Microsoft Account. So, MS knows the password to start my PC. How insecure is that?

MatthysDT

For those of us with 3D printers.

MatthysDT

Yes, Windows 10 is haunted[^]

Roger165

Last W10 update it pulled down a new graphics driver and I lost a monitor. I rolled it back and everything was fine. Green is cause by accelerated graphics checked.

Herbie Mountjoy

Beware. Cortana is listening...

I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.

Old ish coder

I'm still waiting for the Halo version of Cortana to appear on my desktop and start ordering me around.

MOlin123

To be fair, the search is still on the start button if you just start typing. So you can hide the search box via the taskbar right-click menu and get that windows 7 feel happening. But of course the actual search results are another matter.