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Re: Windows 10 - The Eagle has landed!
« Reply #144 on: Monday 10 August 15 20:45 BST (UK) »
Tip...

Win 10 allows you to access the startup menu from the Task manager. No more msconfig to view startup.

Click on the startup tab to see what progams/apps start when you boot the pc. 

I had one just called progam  ::) ::)  right clicking, the properties was greyed out.

To find out what a program is right click on any of the column headings and select command line.  Those of you who are familiar with the old style startup list will recognise the this as the path to the program location.  You can then decide whether its safe to disable it or leave it running.

In my case... the "program" was windows sidebar!?!  why? as far as I knew Windows sidebar had been retired and no longer needed in Win 10. Its now disabled and MS informed.

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Re: Windows 10 - The Eagle has landed!
« Reply #145 on: Monday 10 August 15 20:54 BST (UK) »
For those of you who have "lost" the sleep option after upgrading to Win 10

Please check through the power options as described in this MS community article

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01fta/
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Re: Windows 10 - The Eagle has landed!
« Reply #146 on: Tuesday 11 August 15 08:41 BST (UK) »
yes that was the first thing I did! Unfortunately the sleep option doesn't appear on this page either!
I am now convinced it is because my graphics card is over 4 years old and the appropriate drivers aren't available, so I am reconciled to having to remember to log off. I suppose it is good practice anyway.
Thanks for advice anyway.
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Re: Windows 10 - The Eagle has landed!
« Reply #147 on: Tuesday 11 August 15 09:13 BST (UK) »
Bottom toolbar, left of date and "Eng", click on square, click on "all settings" scroll down to "power & sleep", click on, then click on "additional power settings" then click on "change plan settings".

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Re: Windows 10 - The Eagle has landed!
« Reply #148 on: Tuesday 11 August 15 09:40 BST (UK) »
Ruth - If you do  right click on Microsoft logo left hand side of taskbar, click on Power Options, then click on "Change Power Settings that are currently unavailable", you should get 4 more options.  If you click them all, then when you right click to shut down the computer, you should get the option "Shut down or sign out", click on that and you'll find Sign Out, Sleep, Hibernate, Shutdown and Restart.  At least that's what I've now got.

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Re: Windows 10 - The Eagle has landed!
« Reply #149 on: Tuesday 11 August 15 15:47 BST (UK) »
Oh dear ... spent a couple of days personalizing and investigating wrinkles - one being why it wants to take a System Image of -2- drives in my WIN 10 PC .... and earlier, after some minor feature settings and an attempted re-boot - it wouldnt ! Total vegetable !

Checked both SSDs from the WIN 10 box back on my old WIN7 & the Boot Disk had MFT errors ... sigh, why now - I hadnt yet backed it up ...... cos of the afore mentioned anomaly !

Gets worse , decided to reinstall and it wouldnt accept either of the SSDs   .... of course I had 'repaired' them, so no longer had a WIN 10 disk in the PC, so the INSTALL realises and refuses to provide a free upgrade to effectively a virgin PC  - but why not give a sensible error message instead of summat about MBRs and GPT disks ...

Just finished the saga of installing VISTA, then the WIN 7 upgrade to it .... downloading WIN 7 updates to make it a candidate for WIN 10 upgrade -  and now failing to activate it with the original Product Key / Code ...

Sigh ...... 

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Re: Windows 10 - The Eagle has landed!
« Reply #150 on: Tuesday 11 August 15 22:19 BST (UK) »
Not sure if this is much help, or even if I've understood it properly, but I believe that once you have had Win 10 running on a device the device will be registered with M/S and will not need an activation code if you re-install Win 10.

If there is any way you can download the ISO to burn a DVD, maybe you can install from that?

Best of luck with whatever you try next.

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Re: Windows 10 - The Eagle has landed!
« Reply #151 on: Tuesday 11 August 15 22:34 BST (UK) »
Quote from: mike175 on Tuesday 11 August 15 22:19 BST (UK)
Not sure if this is much help, or even if I've understood it properly, but I believe that once you have had Win 10 running on a device the device will be registered with M/S and will not need an activation code if you re-install Win 10.

If there is any way you can download the ISO to burn a DVD, maybe you can install from that?

Best of luck with whatever you try next.

Mike.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=728030.msg5726094#msg5726094

The W10 download tool is also the tool which will create an ISO or DVD for you (or create a bootable memory stick) - the choices you get are update this PC which starts the W10 process immediately or create (take your choice from the menu) for another PC. Handy if you want to do a clean install at some time

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Re: Windows 10 - The Eagle has landed!
« Reply #152 on: Wednesday 12 August 15 08:46 BST (UK) »
you can only use the created Install media to do a 'clean install' AFTER you have done the 'Free Upgrade' ... ie your WIN 10 has been activated ... the Media can then check you're good to go ...

Well, I'm back to where I was 24 hours ago ... and this time WIN 10 has decided that my old SATA drive with a few Pics and Docs on it is also part of System Image creation !

There must be something on it that WIN thinks constitutes a SYSTEM component .... but quite what I have no idea !

Hopefully they will release a new BACKUP facilty to replace this archaic WIN 7 feature they've migrated in !
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