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quadraginta said:
That's working just fine for me. (Just checked, 'cause I don't use that very often.)

I'm using Windows Live Mail. Is that what's giving you the problem?
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At first I had it sync'd with just my Yahoo account. I tried adding my outlook.com and gmail accounts and now have a new problem - there are no messages showing up. I've tried removing the accounts and adding them back in, which all appear to work. I've also changed the sync settings to pull in everything, not just the last month. When it's done syncing it shows zero messages in any folder. And the messed up part is that if I send out from it, the sent messages don't show up in the app's sent folder, but they do show up if I access the accounts via web interface! And still unable to change the relative sizes of the different panes. You change the overall app window size and it decides how to allocate that space between the panes.

Less than impressed with the mail app so far. Time to see what else is out there I think.
 
Joe Random said:
Two minor media player app quibbles : you can't select different audio streams (at least for .mkvs, don't know about DVD or Blu Ray yet) and fullscreen playback hides my on screen volume meter when I change it.
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Windows 8 onwards haven't included a DVD player by default, and AFAIK no version has been able to play Blu-Rays natively, so multiple audio streams are the least of your problems there. There's a small exception - Microsoft offer a DVD player in the Store, and if you upgrade an eligible* computer you get a free copy (it will download automatically), but only for that computer. The DVD player is very bare-bones and goody-two-shoes (unless I'm unlucky and picked a test DVD with utterly unskippable intros), and it only plays DVDs, but it does look like you can switch audio languages if there's a DVD menu to do so.

*Eligible: Windows 7, and Windows 8/8.1 Pro with the Media Center pack
 
Yeah I'd been using PoweDVD 10 for Blu Ray, buy only because it came free with my Blu Ray burner. Damn is that thing ever bloated! So far video file playback via Media Player Classic (not the MS one) or VLC have been working just fine for me.
 
Dont write off an app just becausee it still have issues. Microsoft will be rollling out some updates of several "standard" apps as feedback comes in according to the Insider blog (I think it was there I read it anyhow). If I remember correctly Mail and DVD player were amongst them.
 
The_Fire said:
Dont write off an app just becausee it still have issues. Microsoft will be rollling out some updates of several "standard" apps as feedback comes in according to the Insider blog (I think it was there I read it anyhow). If I remember correctly Mail and DVD player were amongst them.
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Now I know why I decided to wait. You people who have already upgraded can fix these issues and when they are fixed will upgrade. Hopefully that would only be a month or two.
 
Darat said:
Was Windows installed by the manufacturer? If so if you still have the certificate and/or the sticker saying it is a genuine windows (which should have the key on it) you can reinstall that version of windows, activate it with the key and then do the upgrade.
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paulhutch said:
AFAIK, the free upgrade is only for Win7/8/8.1, Vista/XP and earlier users will have to buy it.
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So it looks like I'd have to reinstall XP anyway. I've already done it about 4 times for various reasons on that machine. The only reason I'm interested in reactivating it is that I have a slide scanner that as far as I know will only work with that. I can't find the proper drivers for windows 7 or 8 or a Mac.
 
uvar said:
Open Display Settings (either the 'modern' or old control panel version will do), select your main monitor, tick the checkbox 'Make this my main display'. If it's already your main display... uh, I guess try unlocking the taskbar (right-click menu) and try dragging it across?
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I already have the left-side as my "main display" (though it's labeled 2 for some reason). Dragging the task bar doesn't work.

paulhutch said:
There should be an option in display setting to change which monitor is considered #1 and #2 (at least there is in Win7). Swapping the numbering around should make the task bar move.
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There's an "identify" option, but it won't let me switch the numbers. It's not that big a deal, but a second task does take up space. It also bothers me that it's calling the left monitor "2" and the right monitor "1." Just another step closer to when these things murder us all.
 
Trebuchet said:
Kaspersky does that on my Win7 machine. I'm pretty sure they're just trying to sell me something.
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I've subsequently discovered a number of Internet Security 2015 services do not run under Windows 10.

Internet Security 2016 supports Windows 10, and is now available in the USA and Canada, but nowhere else as I write this. And it's not labeled as IS 2016 on Kaspersky's site.

On Kaspersky's download page, selecting the USA as my country I see no year in the product name, but do see Windows 10 listed as supported. Selecting the UK I do see the year 2015 in the product name, but no support for Windows 10.

Looks like you Yanks and Canucks are to be Europe's beta testers, which is only proper :D
 
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My laptop is occasionally suffering from the DPC Watchdog violation issue.

So far it has happened to me only on reaching the login screen after I have restarted Windows from the 'start' menu. On reaching the login screen the touchpad has crashed, and it looks like the keyboard also isn't working. It could be that the keyboard is working, but the login form can't grab focus.

When this happens, Win 10 seems to realise after about 15 seconds, compiles and shoots off an error report, restarts itself, and all is well again.

I don't have a touchpad on my desktop, so decided to upgrade this morning. So far no problems, apart from the aforementioned partial support on Kaspersky Internet Security 2015.

*******​

I like the Win 10 interface improvements a lot. And MS has managed to retain the snappy speed of Win 8.

Going from the speed of Win 8.1 at home, to the glacial Win 7 at work was already bad enough. Now it will be like getting out of a Lexus and hopping into a Morris Marina. On purpose! :jaw-dropp
 
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Cain said:
I already have the left-side as my "main display" (though it's labeled 2 for some reason). Dragging the task bar doesn't work.

There's an "identify" option, but it won't let me switch the numbers. It's not that big a deal, but a second task does take up space. It also bothers me that it's calling the left monitor "2" and the right monitor "1." Just another step closer to when these things murder us all.
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Oh, right. The numbers are effectively arbitrary from Windows' point of view; I don't know of a way to permanently change them. I did have a similar problem years ago, but solved it by just switching the monitor cables, which probably isn't a sure-fire fix if it's even an option. Trying now I can't reproduce your problem... guess it might just be a low-priority bug or something?
 
uvar said:
Oh, right. The numbers are effectively arbitrary from Windows' point of view; I don't know of a way to permanently change them. I did have a similar problem years ago, but solved it by just switching the monitor cables, which probably isn't a sure-fire fix if it's even an option. Trying now I can't reproduce your problem... guess it might just be a low-priority bug or something?
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The numbers in the display settings refer to you primary and secondary monitor and represent their physical real world layout.
So select number 1 and drag it to where it is with regard to real life, be that left of, right of, under or over number 2. Click apply. Same as previous versions of Windows.
 
marplots said:
The second surprise is the 20+ gigs of memory DISK they took in a new folder called, Windows.old - apparently in case I wanted to roll back to Win8. In my situation, that's a lot of memory to lose. Deleted it.
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Don't want you lookin' like a n00b, ya know. :D
 
SezMe said:
Could be. Both my desktop and laptop are 7 and I haven't gotten the go-ahead on either yet.
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I got the invitation to register for the upgrade on one laptop, running 8.1, but not on my desktop with 8.1 or the other laptop running 7. I just downloaded the installer and updated the PCs running 8.1. Not sure if it's worth updating the one running 7.
 
marplots said:
The second surprise is the 20+ gigs of memory disk they took in a new folder called, Windows.old - apparently in case I wanted to roll back to Win8. In my situation, that's a lot of memory to lose. Deleted it.
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SezMe said:
Don't want you lookin' like a n00b, ya know. :D
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I must be, 'cause I don't understand the correction. Does "memory" now just mean RAM?
 
SezMe said:
I think MS is in the process of ditching Silverlight which may explain why they didn't bother with Edge compatibility.
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They didn't bother with it for the "tile" interface (formerly known as Metro and Modern) Internet Explorer in Windows 8. In fact, they didn't bother with any plug-ins at all for it.

Funny thing is, if you encounter a missing plug-in there, it would not tell you that it cannot use plug-ins. Instead, it would throw you to the desktop and download and install the plug-in for the desktop Internet Explorer! And leave you there. And wouldn't tell you that you still cannot access the plug-in in the tile IE. In fact, it wouldn't even tell you that there are two separate Internet Explorers at all.
 
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