Hey Cortana > "Open [APP]" > (hope it registers that command properly and opens the correct app) > Opens app after some delay I could either do that, or Windows Key > [Type part of app name] > Press Enter > Open app with smaller delay I could also just double-click an icon on the desktop, click a start menu shortcut, access it from Steam/Origin/etc library, etc. Sure, one of those is cooler if you want to show off I guess, but the rest of those work much more frequently/consistently In any case, Cortana is one of those things that just isn't for everyone. I would rather take the sure route and click/type things. I have both AMD CPU and GPU. My friend only has an AMD CPU (NVIDIA GPU) and also experiences this. If it were a memory leak, wouldn't the memory usage stay high and always climb? The memory for System fluctuates heavily (sometimes hundreds of MB, other times over a GB), and I can watch it go both up and down. That's assuming both the environment is ideal for voice to be heard clearly and that you speak clear enough for the app to hear you. A keyboard doesn't have such silly limitations though On that note though, if I had to use either Cortana vs a touchscreen keyboard on a small device (small being anything smaller than 7" or 8") for quick searching; I'd use Cortana. 9" and higher, or physical keyboard though; I'll stick with typing. Aside from AMD's graphics driver, the only other drivers involved are Realtek's Ethernet and Audio drivers. I've seen this happen with all-stock drivers from WU, and with updated versions downloaded elsewhere.
LOL, you are funny. Windows 10 is NOT a failure. It is totally awesome. You don't need to know why so many processes are running, maybe they help you do what you want to do. As for ISO size, I don't know if you mean the actual fie size on the version ISO, or the footprint on the disk. The footprint has decreased. Cortana is awesome. She does so many things for me.
To a normal person, sure. To a power user (or at the very least, myself), that's one of the worst phrases I've ever heard You probably want to know what your computer is doing in the background, especially when it takes more RAM than anything you could do normally.
Clean install on a Bay Trail tablet that was running all previous builds fine. Windows gets to "just a moment" and then reboots. Over and over. Quality this.
That wears thin when the final product is due to be finished within weeks now. Also, FYI? I happen to have been previously a QA tester FOR one of the largest publishers in the world, and have in the past personally been in contact with Steve Sinofsky over issues in Windows 7 and 8 during their development. So feel free to stop assuming people don't know what they're doing. Some of us do. And when an OS goes from working fine in all previous versions to failing like that on a clean install, guess what? That's an issue with the OS.
...are you supposed to stay silent and just hope broken features don't get fixed (especially this close to RTM)?
A clean install from another source is resulting in the same problem. Critical Error, start menu and Cortana aren't working. We'll try to fix it next time you sign in. (Endlessly shows up after initial setup every time.) This isn't some trivial issue either, this is the entire OS will not work as of this build. Dismiss that being a problem.
Encountered this on first install of Build 10166 on desktop. Had to format and reinstall. Second attempt was successful. Had no problems with install on laptop.
My second install and first were both to freshly formatted partitions. I was ready to put it down as a bad source the first time, but a second usb device install from another source seem to have settled it as simply non working. 10162 still works fine from the same install method. 10166 is fine on my main PC, but absolutely won't get past that point on the tablet. Interesting that it's happened to others.
no, you're supposed to report them but you aren't supposed to think there won't still be problems..there will after rtm too.
Yeah. About that... posting them publically, means finding how widespread an issue is or isn't. What I have learned from one post here is that someone else encountered the same issue. Given the small sample size posting here, this can be taken to show that it must be fairly common that it may occur or the odds are very against that happening. People should be talking about the OS. That is the point of discussion. Otherwise this thread would be empty and nothing would be known about it, or potentially how to solve problems.
I found that Windows 10 will NOT load with a dead battery.. I found this out by mistake and posted here resulting in finding out many other people were having the same issue. Information sharing in this forum is a must.. I founf that w
When is Microsoft going to make Cortana work for Australia region. With every build including 10176. Keeps saying "Cortana isn't supported in the region and language you've selected.". I mentioned this on Microsoft feedback but never got a replied back from Microsoft yet.