Looked at my machine this morning and there was a thing on the screen asking me if I wanted to upgrade now or later. I said “later” and it proceeded to set up the upgrade and then asked me now or when, where when was any time in the next few days. No option to just go away that I could see (I guess the free upgrade expires this year or something?) so I said, whatever, and told it to upgrade at 11 today, while I’m out. We’ll see what happens I guess!
I actually just went ahead and upgraded, rather than wait like I said I was above. Went ok, I guess. Had to disable one of the weird sound options to get my sound back–it had turned on some SP/DF digital sound port in the back which has nothing hooked to it. Other than that, the only thing weird is that I keep getting the little circle/thinking cursor and sometimes stuff hitches or seems to stall, even when browsing system stuff. I wonder what that is, and will it go away? I mean, every few seconds I get the circle cursor.
Could well be the initial indexing process.
Seems legit. I came back from errands and the circles of waitness seem to be gone.
Just updated my main gamin rig to Windows 10. It went really smooth and quick.
Now, I just have to remove a lot of old files from when my original main account became corrupted by AVG.
Strange. This evening something new has occurred on my Win10 laptop, in Settings/Windows Update, it has gone ahead and tried to download the Nov update, Upgrade to Windows 10 Home, version 1511, 10586
I had the settings Metered Connection ON, but found it has switched off. The download seems stuck at 82%.And now I am seeing “Some settings are managed by your organization” under Advance Options, and in Privacy settings.
God damn, whose computer is this?
It’s now Theirs, obviously.
Haha I just fixed that on my computer about 5 minutes ago. Here’s what you have to do!
Step 1: Launch Start Menu by hitting the Windows Key. Type in gpedit.msc and right-click the app from the search results. Choose Run as Administrator from the context menu.
Step 2: In the Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc), go to Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/Data Collection and Preview Builds.
Step 3: Find the Allow Telemetry item and double-click it to edit the policies.
Step 4: Change the setting to Enabled. Change the drop-down menu entry to 3-Full and click Apply.
Step 5: Now open the item again and change its Setting to Not configured and hit the Save button.
I did it because I wanted to stop receiving Insider Builds, but unfortunately Microsoft is telling me that in order to do that I need to reinstall Windows 10 from image. What. In. The. Fuck.
Thanks but I found that earlier in a web search, word for word. Problem seems to be with Windows Home, there is no group policy editor.
stusser
1850
The corresponding registry entry is in this link. You may need to log-off and log back on in between resetting it.
I tried upgrading to build 1511 again, this time disconnecting my external USB drive and updating my m/b firmware. The update still gets stuck at 22% for hours and I have to force a reboot. Here’s the error code:
0xC1900101 - 0x20004
The installation failed in the SAFE_OS phase with an error during INSTALL_RECOVERY_ENVIRONMENT operation
Best as I can tell from my Internet sleuthing, it’s because I have too many internal SATA drives (two SSD’s, two hard drives, DVD drive). I’m supposed to crack open my PC and disconnect all but the OS drive. That might not work since my Users folder is mapped to one of the data drives. I might have to bite the bullet and do a fresh install.
I’m also no longer seeing the update in Windows Update. It’s gone again. Either MS took it down or decided to give me a break from all the failed attempts. I’ll be on version 10240 forever.
Stusser, thanks for the tip.
My biggest concern is privacy. I’m really annoyed by the fact that on any given day Microsoft can check into my OS and change settings and remove sections, without any warning or notice. I bought this laptop in Oct, and during the month I have gone through a lot of settings and menus, and I am pretty familiar with them, but now I am not so certain.
In several PC Settings menus, mainly Privacy and Update & Security/Windows Update/Advanced Options there are options that were previously present that are no longer visible. Such as Defer Upgrade. It used to look like this:
Now it has that damn message Some settings are managed by your organization and Defer Upgrade is not visible at all.
Apparently after messing with the ShutUp app, this is causing the Some settings are managed by your organization message…
That’s real BS. Now from day to day, I will wonder what has been screwed with, am I remembering a setting correctly? I would give real money for a reliable program like McAfee or Norton to offer a setting that would cockblock Microsoft from any access to my OS.
Stusser, everything I read says Windows 10 Home does not have a group policy editor, what do you think about this?
http://www.askvg.com/how-to-change-windows-update-settings-when-managed-or-disabled-by-system-administrator/
Is there are harm/foul to trying Method 2? What do you think?
I think I bought every 10 cent app and game on sale. Well, most of them. Not the puzzle games. Still, some looked like they might be interesting.
The music though is really hit or miss.
“That guy must be a moron if he had any troubles with the move. Perhaps he should get himself an etch-a sketch instead.”
Comments from a Win 10 user.
Demorve
1856
I’m not sure that having too many sata drives is your problem. I have 2 ssd’s and 3 hdd’s and the 1511 build went fine for me. You might want to check your current version of windows by pressing the windows+r key and then typing in winver. Is your dvd player an ide device? If it is you may only need to disconnect it. You might try disconnecting the dvd drive even if it is a sata drive. I quit using internal dvd drives along time ago because most of my installs are download and I only use an external dvd drive now.
Editer
1857
Relearning the desktop interface? What, looking a little more to the right on the Start menu?
That complaint was 100% applicable to Win 8/8.1. But I would think anyone who’s used Win 95 or later would be pretty comfortable with Win 10. The only real difference in basic program launching is the movement of Start menu items from the list to the icons to the right of the list. The UI for moving windows, using the taskbar, switching between apps, etc. all is the same as it’s been for 20 years.
I ended up disconnecting all internal drives except C, and the update went smoothly. It may have been just the DVD drive (SATA) causing the issue, or the update didn’t like the way I set up folder locations (documents, pictures, video, etc) on other drives, who knows. Once I disconnected the drives, the update took mere minutes to complete.
One change I noticed with this update: MS took away the ability to change the location of the Desktop folder. I wonder why.
To make things more confusing, there are two places to change user folder locations: the properties window of the individual folders themselves, and a System setting called “Storage”. Changing a setting in one location doesn’t change the other, which is rather disconcerting.
True enough, Denny. Bear in mind, PCs (like phones and tablets) are widely used by non-techies, many of whom do find it difficult to relearn UIs. I know it’s not a challenge for you and me, but the underlying issue is, why change what obviously works well? MS is always tweaking stuff that is fine, just for the sake of changing it. This PC used to be My Computer. What was wrong with My Computer? Yeah, one or two small pointless changes is not a problem, but when you throw a lot of small pointless changes in at once, a of users will struggle, and to what great purpose? Christ, this reminds me of a gf I had who had to rearrange the furniture every six months.
Demorve
1860
Glad to hear you got the update to work. Like you I have my documents, pictures, etc mapped to a different drive, however I used the system setting called storage instead of the properties window. As I understand it the difference between the to options are, Storage will not move any files from the old location to the new and the Properties option will move all the files to the new location.
Like I said I’m glad you got it to work, I’m just curious as to why my update worked smoothly and you had problems when it appears that our drive and folder configurations are similar.
