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[Limebeer]

I'm planning on upgrading to it, even though I love Windows 7. I never got Windows 8 as, from everything I saw from it, it was completely terrible for a PC. It looks like it was designed for tablets and touchscreens with the laptops and such given no thought to. However, as it has been mentioned by quite a few people, it seems that the issues with Windows 8 has been addressed and fixed.

Also, I did enjoy the promotion video they had on youtube when they where discribing the Windows 10 Beta you could get... it was hilariously honest xD
 

[TheLegend_njf]

I went with Windows 10. I like it so far, but here are a couple of things I don't like.

- They barely give you enough time before you are expected to give feedback. Which makes their entire "feedback" based entirely off first impressions alone. Seriously, I wasn't even using Windows 10 for half an hour before they started asking me what I thought of it. Give me some time to develop a real opinion..... :/

- I already found a bug. Apparently I can't get OBS to Record Google Chrome windows properly anymore. I used to use the poppet feature in twitch chat, then record the chat window using OBS. Now since I've gone with 10, OBS can't seem to align with any Chrome windows correctly.

- ZC doesn't seem to change its window size. Regardless what I set it to, it always opens in 640x480. I dunno if this is normal or not.

[Rambly]

I wish I would stop having Windows 10 FORCED upon me and shoved in my face. I hide the icon, just for it to change the setting from hiding it to showing it an hour later. Really? I don't want Windows 10; my aged computer is having enough problems just running Windows 7; it'll only be worse with Windows 10! That and I am getting sick of all the newer OS's being incompatible with older games. I don't want to get Windows 10 just to find out most of my games don't even work on it for whatever reason. Like with The Sims 1, it kept minimizing itself on me making it impossible to play. Some programs would just flat out crash, no matter what I made the compatibility settings. Maybe if I had a newer computer, I wouldn't mind it, but my laptop is over 5 years old and it's starting to run poorly with Windows 7. It won't be any better with a more demanding OS, that's for sure.

my computer is like 5 years old too and windows 10 actually feels quite a bit faster (lack of Aero prob helps).  you might actually find the same thing to be true for you.  i'll admit startup times take like 7 years now though

 

as for older games you can just windows XP or something in a VM maybe?  even if your computer is like 5 years old you should probably have the resources to run The Sims in an old version of windows in VirtualBox

[TheLegend_njf]

So, another minor issue I've been experiencing with Windows 10 is a process called "runtime broker" which would have an unnaturally high CPU usage. It seems for me that it was tied to Microsoft OneDrive, which is Microsoft's Cloud service. After disabling OneDrive, I seemed to have fixed the issue with the high CPU usage.

 

I thought the cloud was dead. Why are so many companies still trying to force these types of services on us? :/

[DCEnygma]

I thought the cloud was dead. Why are so many companies still trying to force these types of services on us? :/

 

Just to clarify, the cloud is not only not dead, it's far more alive than it ever has been before.

 

Dropbox is cloud storage, as is OneDrive. PlaystationNow exists by streaming content from the cloud. Cloud computing is being directly used for Crackdown 3 on Xbox One to provide greater physics capabilities than the system could handle by itself.

 

That said, several users have reported issues with OneDrive causing CPU spikes in Windows 10, but I'd be surprised if that's not going to be addressed in Microsoft's first patch drop.

[TheLegend_njf]

That said, several users have reported issues with OneDrive causing CPU spikes in Windows 10, but I'd be surprised if that's not going to be addressed in Microsoft's first patch drop.

 

In that case, I will consider enabling OneDrive in the future. But for now, I'd rather have it disabled. Like seriously, I'm using an FX 6300, and this process has literally been using around 20% to 30% of my CPU constantly. That's just unacceptable. But of course, when the issue is resolved, I'll be more than happy to re-enable the OneDrive and learn more about it. 

 

On another note, this video shows the problem I've been having trying to record Google Chrome windows using OBS on Windows 10. 

[DCEnygma]

On another note, this video shows the problem I've been having trying to record Google Chrome windows using OBS on Windows 10. 

 

Even on Windows 7 I've had tons of issues with getting Chrome to properly record. Usually I have to finagle with the subwindow settings forever. It was a nightmare for ZCast literally every week.

 

OBS has also stated Windows 10 functionality has not been fully tested, so expect some issues. I don't recall explicitly seeing this mentioned, but sounds like it'd fall in with that.

[TheLegend_njf]

Well, I can confirm, that this issue for me has been isolated only to Windows 10. I am reporting the issue with OBS right now.

 

Also, no amount of tweaking with the sub region is going to help with me here, because it seems to be tied right down with how OBS is recording Google Chrome in general right now. I at first thought it was a poor sub region, until some further testing where I realized OBS's inability to record this properly for me anymore.

 

Also, Runtime Broker seems to still be an issue and still seems to be eating a lot of my CPU, I guess I'll have to report this to Microsoft and live with it until future patches. 

[Nicholas Steel]

The problem with the Feedback App is that it provides no feed back to the people providing the feedback to Microsoft. It would've been better if it was a simpler way to access the relevant Technet forum and have people report feedback there than how it is currently handled. Then you could see other peoples feedback, comment on them, mark specific feedback to receive updates on that topic etc.

Edited by Nicholas Steel, 12 August 2015 - 09:32 AM.

[Nicholas Steel]

https://forums.gefor...splay-panels/1/

windows 10 official 353 62 drivers are allegedly killing Samsung and LG notebook LCD display panels.

Edited by Nicholas Steel, 12 August 2015 - 10:40 AM.

[Ben]

If you're concerned about Windows 10 and possible privacy violations, try using this hosts file. It goes in Windows\system32\drivers\etc if you're not familiar with this. This will block MS ads, tracking, Skype ads, diagnostics, and weird requests to Bing. It will also stop Cortana from working. I don't know if any of the local Cortana functions still work because I haven't tested it, but I doubt it.

 

For more tweaks you should grab the Winaero Tweaker; you can set Windows Update to manual again, change to the old Windows 8 "Aero Lite" theme, among other things. You could do this already through the Group Policy Editor (if you have Windows 10 Pro) or the registry, but this gives a friendly UI to it.

[Kite]

I don't know if any of the local Cortana functions still work because I haven't tested it, but I doubt it.

 

Cortana doesn't have local only functions. If you are not connected to the internet, I don't think it works. Voice commands have to be processed on Azure servers since there's basically no way a single computer would have the processing power to casually interpret voice commands to the degree and complexity Cortana does and do other things with no significant performance hit. It's also why things like the XBox required the Kinect for voice commands rather than putting them in the actual system. The Kinect did the actual processing for the commands rather than the XBox so that games wouldn't have significant resources taken away from them.

 

Honestly, I think some of the hosts file edits floating around the internet are far too paranoid because they basically cripple several of the new features.

[Ben]

Well, local language processing has been around (on consumer hardware, anyway) since the 90s in Mac OS 8.6, which could do simple things like open programs, tell the time, or tell jokes, even if its speech recognition was bad and required very specific commands (though a little variation was permitted.) Windows Vista had killer aunt double beep delete that. Even Siri does some local processing on iPhones and iPads these days (but will still refuse to run if there's no data connection). Cortana and Siri should ideally be able to function in some capacity even without Internet access, but I guess for some reason they just...don't. Hmmmmmmm.

[HavoX]

If you're concerned about Windows 10 and possible privacy violations, try using this hosts file. It goes in Windows\system32\drivers\etc if you're not familiar with this. This will block MS ads, tracking, Skype ads, diagnostics, and weird requests to Bing.

It's a good concept on paper, and there are many privacy tools out there that kill Win10's spying tactics (thank God I didn't upgrade!), but I'm a little worried that it could cause functionality issues (more importantly, how will this affect Windows Updates?), and so far, Microsoft themselves said to not use those tools.

Edited by HavoX, 14 August 2015 - 10:10 AM.

[Ben]

Windows Update works fine with those hosts blocked. None of the update servers are blocked and the only things that are are ads, diagnostic info, Cortana, and tracking data.

 

Microsoft also is trying to sell you their cloud services, so they don't want you to block their hosts. They also give that boilerplate recommendation about installing any third-party software at all because it could be an EVIL VIRUS OH NO