- BACKUP your data.
- BACKUP your whole computer.
- UPDATE every driver & the MB bios
So far I am not a fan of Windows 10. Maybe I'm just to old to get-it? That said, it's running and I'm going to try to deal with it. Two desktop PCs have been upgraded.
Computer One is a PowerSpec 720 from Microcenter: [specs later] Upgrade was allowed to install with defaults. (BIG mistake)
Computer Two is a home build [specs later] Upgrade began unattended and was interrupted by a hard Power-Off. On restart I chose the tiny little "custom" on the lower left side of the Welcome screen.
PROBLEMS
Computer Two
At first everything seemed to work. Printers, check; internet, check; couple of lightweight programs, check.Then I went through the settings. I'm really not liking the bright white
I'm one of those people with many things open at once. All these white tabs are confusing & it's hard to tell where to grab a window to move it.
Shut it down. Go to lunch.
Turn it on - Updates!!! Yay. not
Updates the Intel Ethernet & breaks the connection. Brilliant no? Here's a fix. Don't freak out about this one just yet, but do write it down so you'll have it in case you need it.
UNKNOWN Internet Connection showing a warning triangle over the internet connection icon.
First: Restart the computer.That may be all it takes. But if that doesn't work follow the 6 easy steps below:
- Shut down.
- Unplug the ethernet cable
- Turn all the way on. Let it sit for a minute. Ignore the red X over the internet icon.
- Shut down.
- Plug in ethernet cable.
- Turn on.
I was assured by several geeks that 10 would play well with SSD. Not so. I have not yet revisited my entire SSD Start-Up checklist, but I will be.
Check that the following are OFF / UNCHECKED
- DEFRAG on the SSD drive(s)
- Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed in addition to file properties
Where is it?
Search for " defrag " or " optimize drives " without the quotes. If only web content is displayed select the My Stuff folder.Open File Explorer / This PC / select the properties from the context menu of the SSD drive / General tab
Almost everything else is on the context menu of the Start Button. Yep. That was a surprise.
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That's it for now. 2015, Sep 01
Update:
Annoying Bugs:
Number Lock state is OFF at LOGINall kinds of recommendations regarding editing the registry. The registry keys in question are
- HKEY_Current_User\ControlPanel\Keyboard\InitialkeyboardIndicators:2147483648
- HKEY_User\.Default\ControlPanel\Keyboard\InitialkeyboardIndicators\2147483648
Open regedit thru the search tool, and choose Run as Administrator.
Go to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Keyboard: InitialKeyboardIndicators value was "2" (left as-is)
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Keyboard: InitialKeyboardIndicators value was "2147483648" (changed to 2147483650)
Below this are several more users 4 are listed & I am the only user of this machine? Anyway if the number is "1" I change it to "2", if "2147483648" change it to "2147483650"
2147483650 = 80000002 (hex) = 2
Sources:
http://answers.microsoft.com/
toggle-keys-startup.html
