Strangely "Disc Cleanup" Does not work without Internet. Can anyone confirm this? Disconnect internet, right click on any drive -> properties -> Disc Cleanup
Worked fine for me without internet. On fresh Windows installs, I do the installation without internet, do basic setup (which includes doing a Disk Cleanup), and then eventually connect to the internet.
Yes, thanks for the thumbnail...! I'm just a cynic sometimes, but it looks to me as if there are maybe just enough D3d 12 files (a whole two of them) to prompt a report of "DX12" from dxdiag. I mean, look at d3d12warp...it's only a few hundred k larger than d3d10warp, and the other file is only a tad larger than 420k. According to Microsoft, DX12 is supposed to be something radical as opposed to something minor (like D3d11 was compared to d3d10.) You know, d3d12 is supposed to be "much closer to the metal" and so on...(shades of AMD's Mantle)... As Win10 is still 6-8 months out, I'd be surprised if these files were anything except placeholders, more or less--designed to blunt the incessant "Where's DX12?" questions Microsoft certainly must've had with the previous builds (which did not have any d3d12 files in them.) I'm actually looking forward to D3d12 being something major instead of coming in with a whimper, so I hope I'm right about this...I'll be expecting quite a bit more from D3d12 than this. I'd be surprised if Microsoft has reached the D3d12 maturity level yet that would enable AMD & nVidia to start writing D3d12-supporting drivers. My current 14.12 Omega's (AMD) are compatible with the Preview D3d12 files, of course, without actually supporting any D3d12 features--which I'm not sure Microsoft has even announced yet, though I confess not to have been paying a lot of attention lately.
Does everyone use all of the programs that come with Windows? I constantly hear people, usually men-children, complaining about how they don't like a change or two about the new OS stuff. Sometimes ppl will complain because of a Wifi functionality or a start menu change. Other times people will complain because they don't like apps being added to Windows. So I ask a question, did you use even half of the programs that came with Win7? Seriously, go through your system32 folder and run some of the programs and tell me if you've ever seen half of them. An Operating System is expected to come with functionality programs, be backward compatible, and improve performance. Win10 is on track to be a great OS. Is it perfect? No. Neither is Win7 or was XP. My prediction is that if the graphics performance remains high, then gaming enthusiasts will adopt. If the productivity is good (reducing extra clicks and such without confusing people) the business crowd will eventually adopt. I understand the sentiment behind hating Windows Store apps. Honestly, for me, as long as they're inferior to win32 apps, I'll never like them. That being said, they're made to be cross-platform things that people can use on both their PC and phone. Just don't use them on Win8/10 if they bother you. MS has promised free upgrades for a year for even Win7 people. They're bending over backwards to try to appeal to everyone. If that's not good enough for you, then it's not possible to please you. I make this argument at a general naysayer, but I intend to sway opinions of neutrals. Give Win10 a chance. Lets not be whiners. If there's something you don't like, sign into the feedback app and let MS know.
Yea, it's not so much divulging my Microsoft account credentials--which Microsoft has anyway 'cause I gave 'em the info--it's being *forced* to do it that kind of chafes, if you know what I mean.... (Microsoft should surely understand the psychology of these things by now, you'd think.)
Know what you mean... My biggest gripe is hearing folks complain about this free-beta-preview-software-that-no-one-is-forced-to-install as if Win10 was already RTM and shipping and they were discussing a "final" version of it (although no software worth having is really ever 'final,' so to speak.) I actually like Win10 a lot, frankly, warts and all--but the warts are to be expected at this point, which some folks really don't seem to understand for some reason. Go figure. As for the rest of it--computer hounds remind me of a saying I recall from my distant Navy days: "That's what sailors do--we bitch!"...
Yes, i used a lot of programs that were preloaded on Windows 7 and earlier. But the Windows 8.1 -> 10 Metro Apps ... ew, hell no.
Absolutely! Apple is the poster child for wanna'-be-sheeple... But forcing everyone into the same sized shoe is kind of out-of-character for Microsoft, imo. Generally, the secret of Microsoft's popularity down through the years I would attribute to the company providing options for just about everything I want to do--forcing people into molds is the last thing Microsoft needs to do. Leave that to Apple. But, hey, now I'm waxing philosophical... This is really something very minor for me.
10 is the fastest MS OS I have ever run and to date I have only run it in VMWare as a guest. Actually, that's all I care about too, performance. I could care less what it looks like or what it has or doesn't have inside, anything I need I can get or add later. All the nonsense going on here is just that.
Has anyone figured out how to permanently remove selected Modern UI Applications such as Zune Music or Video? I've uninstalled these by right-clicking their icons in the Start Menu but they keep coming back! Where are the Start Menu links for the Modern UI Applications stored? I'd like to at least be able to remove their links in the Start Menu even if they refuse to uninstall.
Pretty much the only reason I'm using these builds Couldn't care less about Modern UI stuff or Cortana for the most part. As long as performance is nice or better, and app compatibility with my major stuff is good, I'll take it I was on Windows 7 on my desktop yesterday; I'm re-setting up 9926 atm on it, but I plan on doing some benchmark comparisons between it and 7 (with Geekbench and PerformanceTest) just out of curiosity.
Seriously. Idiots on here are complaining about the calculator being too big? Anyway. I totally don't like this Start Menu. I mean at least give us the same option like they did in the Start Screen where you can start typing inside it and it will display the app(s) you are typing.
Very well stated, I like that. As long as we can still customize everything the way that us power users like after the fact, whether by official customization or unofficial third party apps, having a base operating system which has increased in performance, security and stability is all that matters. That was similar with Windows 8 as well where they did a number of features for performance optimization and general increased performance under the hood as well as additional security features. I see the same happening with Windows 10 as well with increased performance and hopefully some more security features along with DirectX 12 for additional performance in games and more. I don't care much for Modern apps either, as most of us seem to agree upon. And we already know that they plan to continue support for traditional win32 apps. Although I do admit that they are blending modern and win32 apps in together a bit better now with the current theme. Performance of Modern apps has been a complaint as well, but I do know that Microsoft has stated publicly that performance of modern apps is a priority for them so we will have to see what happens there. Regardless of the pros and cons, I am keeping an open mind at the very least. Sometimes we can't really complain until we give certain features a try for at least a few days. But hey, we'll just have to see what happens.
Actually, the 64bit version of Windows XP Pro (OEM) which is based on Server 2003 is a faster desktop OS then anything else they have built, not including Server 2003 x64, which is a beast on the same hardware. I am speaking of ONLY desktop performance here, not the technology or its features. However, from Windows Vista SP2, 7, 8/8.1 and 10 are all far superior in many other ways, but not in sheer desktop performance. On my old hexa core Xeon (6C12T) Windows XP Pro 64 is just instant at everything (except browser performance). This could all change if software developers would take advantage of all the newer built in instruction sets, such as AVX and SSE5, that the processors now come included with, maybe just maybe computing would be faster then it is today. However, at present most of the newer faster extensions are not used for anything but by the most demanding of apps. With this said, most of our modern computers may not even allow something as old as 2003 to be installed. I am on x58 so I have intel drivers that go back to as far as 2003 and XP, but that may not be the case for many of you. Last year I had to install Server 2003 for a tech support reason (one of my clients in upper NM was having troubles and I needed a refresher) and I could not believe (or remember) how fast it was, much of it placebo from being a fresh install on bare metal Xeon, but it was MUCH faster then my Windows 7, my 8.1 and even this Windows 10. Not even remotely close. However, I believe by the time we get to Windows 12 or 13 and well into the newer Skylake platform we might be as fast again. Computational speed wise we blow 2003 out of the water as-is I think (I have not tested that theory and do not know if it can be tested). Anyway, my point is I think the fastest OS I have ever seen in front of my face with "hands on experience" was and is Server 2003, with Windows XP 64bit closely following it. This is my experience on my hardware though and will not be the same on different setups. By the way, has anyone seen a changelog for this newer Windows 10 kernel yet? Or did they just change the number to make it seem newer?