Yeah, no matter what I try, my last encounter with 10 always ends up to be explorer constantly crashing. I've tried an upgrade from 8.1 and clean install. I even had a blue screen trying to shut down on my latest clean install.
Just a thought here, could it be incapability with drivers, programs, and apps with the change from win 6.x to win 10 and how these programs read that bit of info from the OS? This is the first leaked or non leaked beta win OS that I have taken a wait and see attitude. I usually jump right in. My only concern is for my system is still being able to play wow and use battle.net. I am wondering if we can get a list of working/non working drivers, programs, and apps for this version?
I have had some issued getting 9901 activated also. Sometimes a re-boot or two does the trick and once it activated while I was doing something else, I am always connected to internet. Maybe if you do nothing for a while it will "call home" and get activated - ya' gotta love Beta OSes.
Actualy I had the same problem with the first install of build 9901 had to do one of those time consuming Phone call to microsoft for activation. The second install activated without a problem very strange
Build 9901 has had the most varying results of any beta build I have installed. I have not had to phone activate though. I call this build "Nutsy 99"
I sincerely hope this continues for you...! I reached a coupled of plateaus with this build where I thought the same thing only to have things collapse to the point where I couldn't boot into anything but another administrator account...and the main account where I wanted to be simply wouldn't boot at all in the end. After I tired of heroic measures I disconnected the ventilator and pulled the plug and reverted to a clean 8.1 install...I'm done with 10 for the moment...maybe until it gets released...and maybe not even then for awhile. 9901 is the buggiest mess I've ever seen... But like I say, I hope you fare much better...!
I too have had to reinstall this build more then once on one laptop. I get it working just right, then bang it crashes or just does not want to restart. But I have not given up on it yet.
Must say reading all the posts on crashing an so I'm thinking that it must be hardware related maybe the new kernel does not work well with older hardware
I noticed the detecthal Yes entry was missing from bcd store, that caused similar issues with software earlier for me. maybe it helps to set that value.
Yes it all has to do with hardware. Major problems with hardware. I sent MS posts about the crashes and problems, have gotten some info from them but not all. They seem to be a little slow with coming out with fixes. Not sure why. With the other builds I got response fast from MS.
nah, not old hardware, I have not had 1 crash, 1 bsod, nothing, just as stable as 8.1, no problems whatsoever! I'm using a phenom x4 960t cpu, asus m5a78 mb based on sb710 amd chipset, radeon 7750