rollin' on dubs
It's a snitch for Micro$oft I'd rather not have.
Does the new Windows Media player have trouble with .mp4 files. They played on my Win 7 player then they ....stopped. I know .kmv files are best handled by VLC, but what of .mp4?
I tried to walk like an Egyptian and now I need to see a Cairo practor....You can turn off all the "snitching" in the settings, either when you first boot after the upgrade or later. Doing so also disables most of Cortana's features, but she's an effect, not a cause.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"![]()
Odd, the new video player should open both MKV and MP 4 files.
Even if it's awful.
"what the complete, unabridged, 4k ultra HD fuck with bonus features" - Mark Von LewisWell, got Windows 10 tonight.
Spent most of my evening correcting some of the "bad" changes, such as the godawful idea to give all windows, active and inactive alike, white title bars.
Who at Microsoft ever thought this was a good idea?
Also, the inability to choose when to update, even in a Professional edition, is highly grating. Especially the EULA setting that says you consent to "getting updates without prior notices".
Edit: Also, why did they shrink the "big" taskbar icons?
Edit2: At least the arbitration clause, that any sane supreme court would have made illegal, doesn't apply to me.
edited 13th Aug '15 1:29:54 PM by Medinoc
"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."You can choose when to restart your computer after updates, but I want my OS fully current at all times, if at all possible. I don't mind that bit at all.
I don't mind the smaller taskbar icons, although the way Windows skins them to show active and multiple windows changed, which took a bit of getting used to.
edited 13th Aug '15 1:32:08 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Right now I'm installing Windows 10 on my parent's computer.
Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.Pfft... After all this time spent activating Aero Lite, Firefox 40 jumps on the horridly impractical "white title bars" bandwagon... Had to change the Classic Theme Restorer settings to a less practical one that uses the Windows title bar, but moves the orange Firefox button to the toolbar... where it loses its orange color. Damn.
Edit: Ah, managed to get it on the tab bar, which gave it its orange color back. Good!
edited 17th Aug '15 12:32:35 PM by Medinoc
"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."I disabled the Xbox Game DVR and... it doesn't seem to be getting the message. I booted up the original Need for Speed: Most Wanted to discover it lagging in the menus. Starting Task Manager showed the Xbox app in the background despite it refusing to work at all without an Internet connection (the computer didn't have one while I was trying to play the game).
Yes, something is evidently sufficiently wrong with the Xbox app's coding that it is making a 10 year old game lag. So much for 8GB of RAM, an Intel i7 and a GTX 860M :|
Oh, and Windows acknowledged for once that Cortana and the Start Menu weren't working (this appears to happen randomly).
edited 17th Aug '15 9:48:08 AM by Krieger22
I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiotI've had Cortana randomly fail to work, but I haven't had any issues with the Start menu.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Seriously Windows 10, selective sound playing AGAIN? I already know the workaround is to go into the playback device's enhanced properties and changing the format, but not only is it not working again right after a recent update, it will not let me access the options for sound format and the test sound fails every time! I never had problems like this with any other OS, why now? Also since when do Skype notifications completely kill whatever sounds are also going on?!
edited 17th Aug '15 6:23:11 PM by ParadoxialStratagem
Living The Fever DreamProbably, updating to Windows 10 fucked up the driver (seems to happen), Windows Update fucked up the workaround because the workaround didn't reinstall the driver, and reinstalling the driver fixed the problem.
I wouldn't expect subsequent Windows Updates to fuck up the driver again, updating to Windows 10 is a one-time thing.
"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."Windows 10 on my laptop seems to have very large fluctuations in terms of boot times. Sometimes it will boot up quickly, sometimes it will take several minutes to boot up, and then take several more minutes to load the desktop once I've logged in.
I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiotI had a problem where the whole OS seemed to freeze at high CPU usage for a while; it happened immediately after the system restarted from a power failure. It also had something to do with StarCraft 2 loading up from a fresh streamed installation.
edited 19th Aug '15 12:15:38 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"I'm surprised I haven't noticed until recently that the Windows 10 upgrade removes that stupid yet sometimes useful program Windows Movie Maker. It wouldn't be a minor annoyance if it weren't for the fact that they don't have any programs to replace it, hopefully they come up with either A. A new version of WMM or B. A successor program like they did with Explorer sooner or later. And before you ask, no it turns out Win10 is incompatible with all forms of WMM, largely because the OS doesn't support it I checked.
Living The Fever Dream
I suppose they realised that not everyone would want to make videos. Or they thought that their download centre makes sense now.
Now I'm wondering how well Lightworks Free works in Windows 10.
I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiotWMM was bloody awful anyway: a stripped down feature set compared to any other professional or even semi-casual video editor, and that was even if you downloaded the older version, pre-Win 7.
There would seem to be a market for a reasonably featured video editing product that lives somewhere between the $0 and $400 price points (fuck you, Adobe).
edited 21st Aug '15 5:12:54 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"At the moment the only one I've found is the aforementioned Lightworks; at the Free level it'll only export at 720p You Tube standards, but for most amateur users that's enough.
The problem is that with my Premiere based experience it's pretty hard to work with.
"Yup. That tasted purple."

Just disabling it is the only thing you can do as far as I know. As Fighteer said, it's just a Google/whatever search box built into the task bar.
Remember, these idiots drive, fuck, and vote. Not always in that order.