1561

Often, if you swap in SIM from a working phone, you can pop it in an unsupported phone on Verizon and it’ll just work. However if you go to Verizon w/ the new phone and no working SIM, you’re out of luck.

1562

Wow. As if I needed more reasons to despise Verizon…

1563

Anyone else have any problems with Cumulative Update for Windows 10 (KB3097617)?

I booted my machine when I got home last night. It booted up fine, did its normal thing–was clearly connect to the internet, as it updated Money and News to current date material. System said it had an update to install, so I let it. When it finished, it said it needed to reboot, so I let it again.

When the system came back up, it would not attach to Internet. It “says” it is connected, but nothing happens. Browsers don’t get anywhere, a new check for updates goes nowhere, etc. Checking Network connections claims my ethernet connection is fine, it says “Internet Access” for both IP4 and IP6 (not that 6 should matter), but it is clearly not working. I run Diagnose, and it tells me that “there might be something wrong with my ethernet drivers”. Okay, so I ask it to update drivers, and it tells me that the best drivers are already in place, and that they are working correctly. So I Diagnose again, it says “there might be something wrong with my Ethernet drivers.”

This time, I uninstall the drivers and re-install from a copy I keep on flash drive. Reboot, no help. Diagnose, “There might be…” again. Check the drivers, it says they are up to date and working fine.

I’m going in circles, and of course when you don’t have net access, it is damned hard to find help for not having net access.

My home network is working fine. I checked both my tablet and my laptop, both can access just fine. My conclusion is that something MS did with this update bricked my network stack, I’m guessing deep Layer stuff. But I don’t see anything on the web this morning (checking from work) about any problems with it.

I hate having to call MS–they are dunces on the phone. I’m hoping one of you have seen something about this.

EDIT: one more thing I thought of–I considered doing a rollback, but its telling me it can’t find any restore points, though I know damned well I set a restore point when I re-installed Win 10 a few weeks ago. I’d hate to go that path, since I’ll have to reinstall a bunch of software, but worst case, I can do a fresh install of Win10. I’m just trying to avoid that, since I have better things to do this weekend.

1564

I don’t have issues with my net, but after the update, ALL the programs I start are extra large, and I can’t seem to make them smaller again. So damn annoying!

1565

The new “PC Does What” ad campaign reeks of desperation. It’s also pretty lame.

1566

When I upgraded to the latest preview build, 10565, every time I wake the computer up from sleep I lose internet access. I have to reset the ethernet adapter to fix it.

1567

Probably not pertinent since I haven’t had any issues but one weird thing about that update: I typically open Windows Update once a day just to peek under the hood and see what’s going on with respect to what W10 is downloading and when my machine is rebooting. I noticed since around Tuesday morning Windows started saying “We just installed an update (the one we’re discussing) and we’ll reboot at a good time (3 AM tomorrow morning).” Thing is, every day when I checked Update it would say the same thing… so while it claimed it would reboot the next day at 3, it never did reboot (and the only programs I have up are Chrome and a budget app that won’t stop a shutdown/restart). So my machine has been claiming for about a week that it would reboot “tomorrow” but never did it. Which struck me as quite strange.

I finally rebooted manually this morning to get the message out of the way, and everything seems ok. But it was definitely strange.

Looking at my update history though, it appears this same update was applied on 10/13 AND on 10/16 (same ID). So that doesn’t seem kosher. Inbetween those two dates all I see are Windows Defender updates, so nothing substantive.

1568

Not sure if this is connected but I’ve just started having driver-related issues (and this update is the only thing that’s changed on my machine recently). I haven’t done any gaming for 3 or 4 days but now I’m getting direct 3d errors when trying to run some games (Diablo 3, Path of Exile). More research is required though.

1569

Not sure if you’re seeing what I’m seeing Charlatan, but I have to reinstall my nVidia drivers after every reboot. As you can imagine, I don’t reboot a lot.

1570

As it turns out, rebooting fixed my issue (which is strange, since I already rebooted once after the install). So things have cleared up. Thanks for the info, though.

1571

After another evening monkeying with it, I just gave up and reinstalled Win10. It doesn’t take that long, though of course then you have to reinstall non-app programs. But I’ve learned to keep a written list of what programs I have installed, along with keys/passwords, etc. So it is all back to normal now, but given what I’ve read, they sure to seem to be pushing out “not quite ready for prime time” updates.

1572

Just updated to build 10565 in the Slow Ring. It’s basically another in-place upgrade. If you’re doing this on an SSD, you’d better watch your disk space. Post-upgrade, the Disk Cleanup tool reported that 19.2GB of the C: drive was being taken up by an archival copy of the old version, plus another 3.5GB of temporary Windows installation files. And 2.12GB of Device driver packages. Then 200MB of upgrade log files, which seems like a lot of text. Grand total came out to 25GB.

1573

Microsoft announced that Edge extensions will not appear until 2016. Nothing more specific than that.

Edge will remain dead to me until 2016, then.

1574

I use Edge as my Flash browser. Anytime I encounter a site that requires Flash, I copy and paste the link from Firefox into Edge, since it has Flash built-in. That way I don’t need to install Flash, which is a security risk. Works great. Very few sites use Flash anymore, I mainly use it for Twitch.

1575

Your thinking is wrong Gordon. Edge uses the Flash Player installed into Windows and managed by Windows Update, which has fallen behind in the past when 0-day fixes get released.

1576

Which sucks, because most reports indicate that Edge is really fast and light compared to the competition.

1577

I’m not too concerned. Like I said, my main browser is Firefox, I use Edge mainly for watching Twitch. Once Twitch switches to HTML5, I’ll likely disable Flash for good.

1578

It does seem to be. Probably due to the lack of extensions :-P

1579

I’ve found that my Chrome is much more responsive these days when I switched from AdBlock Plus to uBlock Origin.

1580

Uhmm, just started using Win 10 tonight. Man, MS really uglied the hell out of this OS. All the menu components are white, title bars are white…really crude one-color icons… am I missing a setting here? What a departure from Win 7’s sleek Aero style menus.

I installed Classic Shell, it helps a little.