Windows 10

legowarrior · 2015-11-05T09:05:02.000Z

Microsoft Work and Play Bundle is available for 149.

A year of Office 365 Home, Xbox Live Gold, Skype and $60 Gift Card, all for $149.99. It might be US only. Even without Xbox, it’s a pretty good.

stusser · 2015-11-05T09:28:16.000Z

Jason Becker:

The mid tier paid service is now half the GB of Google too.

Horrible job from a PR perspective for Microsoft.

They simply don’t care about Skydrive as a separate service, that’s the only explanation. They don’t want to compete with Dropbox, Amazon Cloud Drive, and Google Drive.

And that’s fine; the way they’re pulling back isn’t so terrible, giving everybody a full year.

legowarrior · 2015-11-05T09:36:58.000Z

So, with 365, the Home Plan allows for 5 subscribers for 100 dollars a year, and each gets a 1 TB. Getting the 5 subscribers is the hard part, but if I can do it, it brings the price down to 20 dollars per participant. That’s not bad. With Microsoft Work and Play, I get Xbox Gold unlimited Skype and a $60 dollar gift card.

It’s all very tempting.

Neal_Stevens · 2015-11-05T16:45:58.000Z

So far, after 5 days I have had 3 BSOD. Something I almost never got with Win 7.

Also, if you are like me, and you have a severely limited amount of bandwidth to use each month, you do not want Windows burning through it for you with updates, and even worse, I discovered that Windows 10 uses your bandwidth to help other PC users update.

Here are details and how to put a stop to it.

Lifehacker

Windows 10 Uses Your Bandwidth to Distribute Updates, Disable It Here

Every time Microsoft releases a new version of Windows, its servers get slammed. To help alleviate this burden, Windows 10 can download updates from other users’ computers. The problem is, it can use up your bandwidth and data caps to do so. Here’s...

The Next Web – 30 Jul 15

Windows 10 uses your bandwidth to share updates

Windows 10 launched on July 29 to much fanfare — it’s a free upgrade for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 users — but along with the privacy issues, there’s another small thing you should check: by default, Windows 10 uses your internet connection to share...

Sheesh, no wonder I am 4GB over my limit this month. That cost me $60.

legowarrior · 2015-11-05T16:50:37.000Z

Neal Stevens:

So far, after 5 days I have had 3 BSOD. Something I almost never got with Win 7.

Also, if you are like me, and you have a severely limited amount of bandwidth to use each month, you do not want Windows burning through it for you with updates, and even worse, I discovered that Windows 10 uses your bandwidth to help other PC users update.

Here are details and how to put a stop to it.

http://lifehacker.com/windows-10-uses-your-bandwidth-to-distribute-updates-d-1721091469

http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2015/07/30/windows-10-steals-your-bandwidth-to-send-other-people-updates/

Sheesh, no wonder I am 4GB over my limit this month. That cost me $60.

That feature should be useful when I update the rest of my computers.

Sucks that you have a data cap though.

LMN8R · 2015-11-05T17:14:23.000Z

Sorry, but that feature isn’t even enabled yet. While the setting lets you enable or disable it, from the service side it’s absolutely not being used. So there’s something else using your bandwidth.

Daagar · 2015-11-05T19:15:40.000Z

And as several have recommended, keep ShutUp10 up to date. It already has the switch to turn off p2p updates.

Neal_Stevens · 2015-11-06T08:05:47.000Z

LMN8R:

Sorry, but that feature isn’t even enabled yet. While the setting lets you enable or disable it, from the service side it’s absolutely not being used. So there’s something else using your bandwidth.

Maybe that feature is not causing the bleeding, but something is. Something Win10 related, because I did not have this problem until last week. I don’t know this with 100% certainty, not yet, but I’m pretty sure there has been a change since I laid my Win7 laptop to rest and started using Win10.

Yes, it does suck to be limited to 30GB a month. I miss my days of Comcast, but living in the countryside, not many options.

Thanks for the tip about Shutup, I will check that out.

LMN8R · 2015-11-06T10:15:25.000Z

Sure, I’m just saying to keep searching because that feature is absolutely not what’s causing it.

mono · 2015-11-06T12:29:32.000Z

I still have the problem where the Win 10 UI Modern/Metro/Whatever will become totally unresponsive to mouse clicks. The start menu, taskbar icons & jump menus, etc. For some reason if I Ctrl-Alt-Delete and use the keyboard to select the task manager ( I can’t click on it w/ the mouse) I can then mouse-click close the task manager and everything’s back to normal. This is happening to me on three computers of all different hardware builds, not off any image, two fresh installs, and one a Win 8.1 upgrade.

Frustrating.

legowarrior · 2015-11-06T14:00:02.000Z

Thats unique. I wonder what could cause that on 3 separate computers. I wonder what the connection is? Different mouse in each case? Any software you installed on all three?

Tortilla · 2015-11-09T12:29:03.000Z

legowarrior:

Thats unique. I wonder what could cause that on 3 separate computers. I wonder what the connection is? Different mouse in each case? Any software you installed on all three?

I’m assuming he’s logging in with a microsoft account and some server-side settings on his profile are borked. So the problem follows him from PC to PC.

I still have no ability to use MS logins for Win 10 successfully. I do everything on local accounts. If I try to sign in with my outlook.com account it just errors out. Been that way ever since I got the first real non-beta build of Win10. I’m not too worried about it since I use my PC as a PC and am fine with a local account. But there’s definitely still some major bugginess in Win10.

mono · 2015-11-09T13:27:38.000Z

Yeah, I’m guessing it’s a MS account profile problem as well. I’ve gotten accustomed to the ctrl-alt-delete / task manager ‘fix’ and it doesn’t happenall that often, but I’ll get around to creating a new MS profile to see if that clears things up.

Woolen_Horde · 2015-11-09T14:21:39.000Z

The big November update should release tomorrow. This was the one that was developed as a first new build number since RTM.

Chris_Nahr · 2015-11-09T14:24:42.000Z

The one with a resizable window for environment variables and a list view for %PATH% fragments?

stusser · 2015-11-09T14:50:41.000Z

Yeah. You can make your titlebars colored too. That’s about it.

Oh, and it can be activated with windows 7 or 8 keys now, so you don’t need to actually install Windows 7/8 first, which was hella-annoying.

LMN8R · 2015-11-09T14:57:34.000Z

There aren’t many big features, but Thurrott compiled a good list here:

Thurrott.com – 8 Nov 15

Here's What's New in the Windows 10 Fall Update - Thurrott.com

Microsoft will soon release the Windows 10 Fall Update, incrementing the OS to version 1511 and providing users with a number of new and improved features.

Also, thousands upon thousands of bug fixes of course.

inactive_user · 2015-11-09T14:58:55.000Z

Oh, really? I wouldn’t mind doing a clean install of 10. If I can just do that with my existing 7 or 8 key, that would be fantastic.

ineffablebob · 2015-11-09T15:04:57.000Z

stusser:

Oh, and it can be activated with windows 7 or 8 keys now, so you don’t need to actually install Windows 7/8 first, which was hella-annoying.

That’s mostly what I’ve been waiting for. I have no interest in an upgrade, clean install all the way. I’ll give it a few more weeks just on general principles, for the inevitable wave of fixes-to-the-patch, then it might be about time to finally do this.

Shieldwolf · 2015-11-09T18:36:51.000Z

mono:

I still have the problem where the Win 10 UI Modern/Metro/Whatever will become totally unresponsive to mouse clicks. The start menu, taskbar icons & jump menus, etc. For some reason if I Ctrl-Alt-Delete and use the keyboard to select the task manager ( I can’t click on it w/ the mouse) I can then mouse-click close the task manager and everything’s back to normal. This is happening to me on three computers of all different hardware builds, not off any image, two fresh installs, and one a Win 8.1 upgrade.

Frustrating.

I’ve had a similar issue with the keyboard. I’ll type something in and the keyboard completely doesn’t register.