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[Sonlirain]

In b4 microsoft redoubles their efforts in cramming W10 on everyones PC and makes the offer not time limited.

[endlessblaze]

I have a thread for my issue.

[TheBiggerFish]

Then link it.

[endlessblaze]

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=157889.msg6969798#

link

[Flying Dice]

They have a vested interest in getting as many transfers as possible, because W10 users = potential customers at the Windows feeding trough store and for subscription-only software.

There's nothing inherently wrong with W10-it actually runs better than any other version I've had, and in vanilla is better than 8. With ClassicShell it's basically a faster-booting 7/XP/whatever your flavor of choice is. The problem is with the underlying attempt to further solidify their monolithic control on the market being conducted in conjunction with a bunch of shifting over towards shittier policies and pricing schemes (from the perspective of consumers).

[Aklyon]

Inherently ok or not, I still see absolutely no point in using a worse-version of 8.1 until it comes up with a solid selling point that isn't faster booting. Mine boots fast enough as-is without pretending it can do things I haven't told it to do or needing a shell replacement to look correct.

[hector13]

My Windows 10 start menu doesn't open for some reason.

Not that I ever use it for anything other than to shut the computer down, but I can do that by right-clicking it apparently.

[Thief^]

I used to have trouble with that on my old laptop, it turned out to be because my laptop was a piece of garbage.

Long story short if your CPU is stuck at 100% (because it was a shit 1GHz netbook cpu) it can take a long long time for the start menu to open. It still will, eventually... it must be marked as low priority or something.

As for the earlier comment of needing classic shell... no it doesn't. What is with supposedly tech-literate people acting like old people who hate all change?

[Sonlirain]

So... i tore apart an ex school computer and was surprised to find 2 gigs of DDR2 (put it in my secondary PC since it had only 1 gig) 3 HDDs and a Geforce 9800 OC edition (has 2 fans) and a noname 500W PSU hinting that the PC used to be a gaming machine in it's prime (that prime being almost a decade ago)

Now the GPU looks... weird. and google images don't have anything that resembles it... so i was wondering if it's still worth a couple bucks.
Anyway i took 2 photos with my potato smartphone camera.

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I'm kinda wondering if i should try auctioning it or dunking it into a trash bin... i kinda doubt 8 year old GPU's have much draw nowadays.

[Aklyon]

As for the earlier comment of needing classic shell... no it doesn't. What is with supposedly tech-literate people acting like old people who hate all change?

Whenever something good shows up about win10 even more shows up thats not great.

[Thief^]

Check eBay for prices (look under "sold") but I doubt anyone would really buy that card. It was great in its day, but it's out of driver support now and you have to go back to the geforce 4 before people are after them for nostalgia / retro builds.

[BigD145]

I used to have trouble with that on my old laptop, it turned out to be because my laptop was a piece of garbage.

Long story short if your CPU is stuck at 100% (because it was a shit 1GHz netbook cpu) it can take a long long time for the start menu to open. It still will, eventually... it must be marked as low priority or something.

As for the earlier comment of needing classic shell... no it doesn't. What is with supposedly tech-literate people acting like old people who hate all change?

Windows 10 has built in advertisements. Fuck your change.

[Sonlirain]

Speaking of win 10... i'm trying to install it again to give it another chance. I don't have anything valuable on my PC anyway so...

I install win 10... it goes out of range.
I reset my PC hoping i will be able to fix the resolution in emergency mode.
NOPE windows reverts to win 7.
I only lost 1 hour of my life.

[Lord Shonus]

Windows 10 has built in advertisements. Fuck your change.

No it doesn't. You can get ad supported apps, but there's not a single ad baked into the OS.

[Sonlirain]

Managed to install the sanctioned malware after much grief.
The screen went out of range and F8 didn't work to let me activate the system emergency mode.
And if did a hard reset it... reverted back to win 7.

I had to log in and turn the PC off WHILE BLIND.

So after that i could do a hard reset and windows finally decided to let me run it in low res mode and set a correct resolution.
Loads of ads.
Headset going full on static on me forcing me to mess with audio settings (had to cut the volume to 50% to finally get rid of the annoying static)
Speccy and my anti spyware software got removed forcing me to reinstall it.

And finally as a middle finger to the telemetry...
https://www.safer-networking.org/spybot-anti-beacon/