[WIN10] Windows 10 Mega thread

I have never done backups of Chrome settings before, so i had no idea i could do this, and if i have ever had to do an upgrade to Win 10 for anyone who has Chrome i just tell them that they will have to set it up again when the upgrade has completed, so for me to get this done as quick as i can without any fuss, i am going to do it the lazy mans way and just do the in place upgrade, and i know it will be a massive improvement from the way her current Windows 7 was running.

 

All you need to do is sync the browser to a Gmail account. When you reinstall Windows [cough], you install Chrome and sign back into sync within Chrome using that same Gmail account.

 

Thanks for all the great info, might have learned something new today, but not enough to make me ever want to use Chrome myself.

 

I can't believe in 2020 people still manually backup browser settings.

 

Even backing up browser settings manually doesn't work as well as online sync, be it Chrome or Firefox.

 

Did everyone get the memo ?

 

Yep, skim read it the other day. Doesn't seem to be a lot that really directly effected me or to be concerned about.

 

Likewise, just wanted to be a nice OCAU member & share it.

 

Freaking unbelievable!
Windows pops up a msg indicating it had done a virus scan whilst I'm in the midst of intense DRAM stress testing!
Lucky no errors reported by stress test app when this occurred...

 

You would think it would be smart enough to know when you're heavily loaded and perform routine duties outside of these times.

 

It probably 'thought' - hey i can use the page file...

 

So I decided to reinstall over the weekend. Turns out enterprise keys are not saved to the microsoft cloud. If you reinstall you have to put in the key again. Makes me wonder if I can install on multiple computers/VM's with that key

 

Moar fun:

 

I got this one a while back. Seems they do have a sense of humour

 

Classic:


"We haven't managed to screw this up for you yet, but god willing we'll try"

 

is it worth updating to version 2004?

 

Quite honestly for what I use windows for I've not noticed any difference.

 

My reason was wsl2.

 

The first time I installed version 2004 I had issues with the update changing which programs opened files. An example is that Microsoft Edge became the default program for opening PDF files instead of Adobe Acrobat and I couldn't make Acrobat the default so I restored an Acronis image made before the 2004 update. Then after waiting a few weeks before installing version 2004 a second time it installed smoothly causing no issues at all. Microsoft must have ironed out a lot of the problems after receiving a multitude of complaints. If you don't install version 2004 you won't receive any more updates.

 

there is some weird issue with a recent update that I did and how it impacts a PCIe AX wifi card.

Sometimes on restart/turning on the wifi card is never found but restart two or three times it comes up.

What is going on? Should I just do a full Ryzen upgrade lols