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Windows 10

RayG said:
Just finished the upgrade. Everything is fine.

I was a bit concerned because I have a dual-boot system and normally run Mint 17.2 as my main OS.

I didn't do any backup, just had to babysit my machine as it went through the upgrade process to make sure it didn't automatically reboot into Mint.
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You had better luck than I did. My multiboot (with Mint, Ubuntu, Debian, and Windows 7), downloaded Windows 10 completely then refused to continue. I unplugged the drives that contained the other OS's, and had to download everything from scratch. That's a lot of chugging, but then it finally worked.

This reminds me of when I had to reinstall Windows 7 on this machine recently due to a bad drive. I was finally at the point of installing the 200+ updates and it borked I guess because one of the updates didn't like GRUB, and I had to unplug the "enemy" drives and repeat those hours all over again.
 
Alphaba said:
I do encounter unexpected BSOD problems after having upgraded my Microsoft Surface Pro 3 tablet (which is my current backup computer until I've solved a major cooling issue in my DIY mainframe [i7 5960-X inside]).

Until now those problems are more an annoyance than anything more nefarious, but solving them isn't easy. At all.

And yes, I do -momentarily- blame Microsoft for having being unable to prevent those problems on one of their own high-end product.
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If it is a Firefox issue don't know why you would think it is a MS problem, MS can't force a company to fix bugs in their software.
 
Still waiting on my Win 7 pc to be 'validated'. Couldn't for the life of me figure out why it might be delayed so I took the silly step of installing it via the media creation tool. the tool itself worked a treat, painless but a failed installation.

First, didn't detect my second monitor. Well that isn't an issue, a quick check of device drivers showed the dreaded yellow triangle over my gfx card (GTX 670). Ran GeForce experience to download the Win10 driver which failed. A direct download of the driver failed also. So in true tech style, if it doesn't work try turning it off and on again. And promptly booted into tablet mode - presumably it wouldn't detect my keyboard. Boot back in to safe mode and rolled back easily enough.

So now the waiting game. I wonder what aspect of my pc is preventing MS from pulling the trigger. Not an old gfx card by any means, and the MS checklist reports everything is compatible.

Ah well.
 
So far my old Toshiba has been doing OK. It seems a lot slower to boot but thereafter runs pretty well. I have had one memory management failure which caused a (failed) reboot. I had to hard reboot after about 15 minutes.

Then again the Tosh is about 7 years old.
 
Darat said:
If it is a Firefox issue don't know why you would think it is a MS problem
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After having checked the logs, I realized I had 4 BSODs of 3 different kinds in 3 days (didn't notice one of them).

As their bug check codes are 'exotic' (i.e. not listed in Microsoft Bug Check Code Reference webpage) I can't easily identify the likely culprit/s.

But the more I think about it, the less I'm sure it was related to Firefox (as it just happens to be the most frequently running app on my system, among all possible scenarios the probability of Firefox running when the OS crashed -whatever the cause- is the highest). Could also be a video driver issue with my dual screen (I've seen that Intel has updated its HD Graphics driver for Win 10 last week, still to be implemented in the Surface) or FSM knows what other bug (there is a ton of errors and warnings in the logs, including a recurrent bug with the Bluetooth internal card which is then stopped, for instance).
 
Sciwoman said:
Has anyone else seen anything about the issue with Firefox opening blank tabs at the rate of two or more a second? I tried some of the fixes I found online - there was no way to try any of the ones that required opening another tab in Firefox since it would disappear in the plethora of blank tabs. None of my virus or malware scans found anything. Other than that, I've not had any issues since upgrading to Windows 10.
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If Firefox is your default browser, it of course may not be an issue with Firefox, but with another program trying to open particular sites. Short of any other means of testing, see if it happens in safe mode with networking.
 
Here's my upgrade experience for an older Dell XPS 8300...

I noticed about a dozen "Upgrade Failed" messages in my update history when I happened to check it on Friday. Different error codes were displayed each time and internet searches for the code didn't provide any useful info.

So, I downloaded the "Media Creation Tool" and used it. It failed, but provided a more useful error message which led me to determine that the "System Reserve Partition" did not have enough free space.

I followed some instructions that I found on the net to free up space in the partition.

I ran the install again and it failed due to something about a driver. I had updated drivers through Windows Update, so I tried running Dell's ststem check on their website. The only update it recommended was a BIOS update, so I installed it.

The next try was successful and my system seems to be running fine.

After all that, though, I am not sure if I am going to keep it. It annoyed me right off the bat with their being no option to use Google for the integrated search function. And, the user interface changes don't seem to be useful on a non-touchscreen monitor. But, I will play with it for a while.

-- Roger
 
With regards to the issue of having Firefox as the default browser...

Once everything updated and I was sitting with my pristine Win10 system, I immediately unpinned Edge from the taskbar, have not clicked on the 'Search the Web...' in the taskbar, nor have I run Edge at all.

Firefox ran from the taskbar, where it was located prior to the upgrade, did not ask me to make it the default browser, nor did it present any issue at all.

Could it be that the issues are being caused by running Edge and then trying to switch back to Firefox?

eerok said:
...because one of the updates didn't like GRUB...
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That was my biggest concern while the upgrade was underway. I kept expecting Windows 10 to complain about GRUB, and that I may lose the ability to run both Linux and Windows.

Thankfully that didn't happen.

RayG
 
Gawdzilla Sama said:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1062705
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I notice that a solution proposed in that link (with apparently some success) is the same that Rat suggested. Turning off hardware acceleration.

I'm one of the fortunate ones, I guess.

Not only has Firefox been performing just fine for me so far, running unstopped since I completed the upgrade, but it may actually been doing better.

Before, I would have to close down and reboot FF after a day or so of unabated operation because it would become slow to respond (even just scrolling) due to rude memory management.

So far everything is staying up to speed.

And I've had hardware acceleration on for most of the time since then.

Go figgur.

I tend to agree with Darat that FF's misbehavior, especially since it doesn't seem to apply to all (or even most?) machines, can rightly be put at the feet of Windows. They can't be expected to be able to support every possible combination of hardware and third party software flawlessly and without any tweaking whatsoever.

The job that they have done should be satisfactory for any but the most rabid of Windows bashers.
 
It looks as if I will switch eventually but first I want to make sure I can control where my personal data goes, where it is stored, who can access it and what it is used for. Why? Because I am paranoid. :p

Microsoft’s new small print – how your personal data is (ab)used

Microsoft’s deputy general counsel, Horacio Gutierrez, wrote in a blog post that Microsoft believes “that real transparency starts with straightforward terms and policies that people can clearly understand”. We copied and pasted the Microsoft Privacy Statement and the Services Agreement into a document editor and found that these “straightforward” terms are 22 and 23 pages long respectively. Summing up these 45 pages, one can say that Microsoft basically grants itself very broad rights to collect everything you do, say and write with and on your devices in order to sell more targeted advertising or to sell your data to third parties. The company appears to be granting itself the right to share your data either with your consent “or as necessary”.
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But Microsoft’s updated privacy policy is not only bad news for privacy. Your free speech rights can also be violated on an ad hoc basis as the company warns:

“We will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to”, for example, “protect their customers” or “enforce the terms governing the use of the services”.

So much for clearly understandable and straightforward terms of service.
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https://edri.org/microsofts-new-small-print-how-your-personal-data-abused/

I don't want this and I don't like this. :mad:
 
Gord_in_Toronto said:
It looks as if I will switch eventually but first I want to make sure I can control where my personal data goes, where it is stored, who can access it and what it is used for. Why? Because I am paranoid. :p
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I think that if you're not paranoid about things like this, you're not being careful enough. Just go through the settings and turn off what you don't like. In my case, I turned off pretty much every kind of information sharing. I don't even use a Microsoft account.

I'm not a typical user, though -- Windows is my tertiary OS (well, maybe more like secondary, lately).

Anyway, check the screenshots Childlike Empress posted upthread. You should find them useful in deciding what settings you might want to change.
 
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