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Windows Technical Preview (Windows 10) Bugs, Glitches and Good Things

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Has anyone used the built in Windows Backup Utility yet? I use it on my Windows 7 box and despite having it set to delete older backups when the disk gets full, it never does and I have to manually go in and delete the older backups myself.

This is a problem that I never have with Time Machine on OS X. I'm curious if this issue persists through Windows 8 and Windows 10.
 
I had my test bed Dell win 10 system utterly stop working at the weekend. My tester gang (kids) all naturally deny responsibility for the initial break but the only thing I could do to get it going was a full reset keeping the data.

Stable it most certainly isn't right now!
 
Gav Mack said:
I had my test bed Dell win 10 system utterly stop working at the weekend. My tester gang (kids) all naturally deny responsibility for the initial break but the only thing I could do to get it going was a full reset keeping the data.

Stable it most certainly isn't right now!
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Kids are great beta, and even production, testers! :D
 
SandboxGeneral said:
But they're still great at breaking things.
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Agreed.

Beta testing does not mean seeing how much spilt Kool-Aid it takes to break a new OS, especially when the spiller says they didn't even turn the computer on :D.

Windows 10 is PLENTY stable; stable for a Beta OS doesn't mean child proof!
 
You guys must be geezers. Come on, it's not simply that kids are 'good at breaking things'. They just know how to use the damn computer unlike most adults.

On a slightly less offensive note, I've had bad experiences running Beta software from Microsoft. It's more or less stable, sure, but on my Lumia 520, Windows Phone 8.1 preview turned my half-decent phone into a slow, buggy mess. My fault for installing beta software on my phone... Perhaps I should just wipe it and install a stable OS on it again.

Perhaps I've just forgotten how bad WP8 was in the first place..
 
joshlalonde said:
You guys must be geezers. Come on, it's not simply that kids are 'good at breaking things'. They just know how to use the damn computer unlike most adults......
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If that were the case, they'd have had it fixed before you booted it up. :D
 
TPadden said:
No they aren't; never heard of one that would admit to what they really did. :eek:
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I could have booted off a bootable winPE USB, read the event viewer logs and found the culprit.

Can't be bothered though, I am happy for them to brick the os if those bug fixes get back to Redmond. Dropping the dell on the other hand will get them in serious trouble :D

At the moment it's nowhere near what 7 was like in RC build which was almost rock like. A long way to go yet.
 
TPadden said:
If that were the case, they'd have had it fixed before you booted it up. :D
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I was more going along the lines that they actually use the OS how it was meant to be used. Sort of like, how adults stick to the way they are used to (use the desktop rather than modern interface, for example).

As per fixing it, it depends on their background. I was very quick to understand the process, however. After accidentally overwriting my bootloader while installing hackintosh. This was when I was 12, I think.
 
Gav Mack said:
I could have booted off a bootable winPE USB, read the event viewer logs and found the culprit.

Can't be bothered though, I am happy for them to brick the os if those bug fixes get back to Redmond. Dropping the dell on the other hand will get them in serious trouble :D
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I guess my point was: even an old geezer has had no trouble keeping Windows 10 Technical Preview as my primary OS on 4 different computers, 2 of which are Macs :apple:, booting from both internal and external drives.

We haven't had a single problem through 2 major builds, granted our children are grown and gone ......:cool:
 
TPadden said:
I guess my point was: even an old geezer has had no trouble keeping Windows 10 Technical Preview as my primary OS on 4 different computers, 2 of which are Macs :apple:, booting from both internal and external drives.

We haven't had a single problem through 2 major builds, granted our children are grown and gone ......:cool:
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Whoa - only 7 RC did I even dare to do that. Though this middle aged geezer has been burnt many times in the past with even full releases - windows 2000, OS X 10.0 to name two infamous ones. I have held off Yosemite till .1 time as I'm dealing with the bugs from the zero release with clients!

This dell has touch screen dual GPU so a fine complicated test bed but I will not dare install till RTM time.

Braver than me to replace it on one of my bootcamp setups which I use for work for sure!
 
Last build it's mostly stable for me, direct upgrade from 8.1 on my Pro 3. They changed OneDrive a lot.
 
Michael Goff said:
Last build it's mostly stable for me, direct upgrade from 8.1 on my Pro 3. They changed OneDrive a lot.
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I would imagine that with the surface pro 3's it should be more stable on that bit of hardware than almost anything else.

Getting a bit of slowness crop up on this dell, an occasional hang with nothing really showing in resource monitor. And the wifi drops on and off when not plugged into the mains - that's a very familiar beta windows feeling!
 
Gav Mack said:
I would imagine that with the surface pro 3's it should be more stable on that bit of hardware than almost anything else.

Getting a bit of slowness crop up on this dell, an occasional hang with nothing really showing in resource monitor. And the wifi drops on and off when not plugged into the mains - that's a very familiar beta windows feeling!
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Nope, from the getgo Microsoft has stated the primary initial focus of Technical Preview (Windows 10) was desktop PC's. It hasn't been anywhere near as "nice to use" or stable on my Surface Pro as my HP desktop or Mac Mini.
 
TPadden said:
Nope, from the getgo Microsoft has stated the primary initial focus of Technical Preview (Windows 10) was desktop PC's. It hasn't been anywhere near as "nice to use" or stable on my Surface Pro as my HP desktop or Mac Mini.
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Which is another reason why I'm still happy to leave it on that Dell for my kids to throughly test out - though they know next time to tell me how they broke it :D
 
Gav Mack said:
Which is another reason why I'm still happy to leave it on that Dell for my kids to throughly test out - though they know next time to tell me how they broke it :D
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..... as long as you let Microsoft know when Peanut Butter makes the "esc" key stick ...... :eek:
 
TPadden said:
..... as long as you let Microsoft know when Peanut Butter makes the "esc" key stick ...... :eek:
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I'm English and the only one in the house who loves that stuff - with jelly yum. Here its what we call jam is the culprit, not washing their hands after sweets and chocolate. iKlear is also superb for clearing the mess off a Dell touch screen never mind just Apple :D
 
SandboxGeneral said:
That shouldn't affect my install in a VM right?
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You'll be fine - they released a hot fix for it yesterday anyway, a November update..

9879 seems even better until I went to reassign parental controls back to the kids accounts, the edit screen was completely knackered with the menus off the screen to the right and I had to guess with keyboard tabs and enter with each one to put them under my nannying eye!

Wifi still dropping on battery power though :D
 
Gav Mack said:
You'll be fine - they released a hot fix for it yesterday anyway, a November update..

9879 seems even better until I went to reassign parental controls back to the kids accounts, the edit screen was completely knackered with the menus off the screen to the right and I had to guess with keyboard tabs and enter with each one to put them under my nannying eye!

Wifi still dropping on battery power though :D
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BDM STUDIOS NL said:
Still investigating for myself in what way my VMed Windows 10 TP can affect other drives in my MP. For now i've kept the VM isolated.

Keep you posted.
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Thanks! I haven't loaded the VM in a couple of weeks yet and might do it tomorrow.
 
BDM STUDIOS NL said:
Still investigating for myself in what way my VMed Windows 10 TP can affect other drives in my MP. For now i've kept the VM isolated.



Keep you posted.
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It's a hard disk power management glitch causing direct disk corruption - you are already isolated cos it can't corrupt a virtual disk in a VM anyway fella :D
 
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