Windows 10 Technical Preview - Insider Program

ryu said:
dont know then, im using the following url:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/preview-iso

the sign in is definitely greyed out unless its because of my slow line (afrihost having problems at the moment with international)

Edit: i can sign in on the insider page but when i go back to the download page i just see sign in again (greyed out)
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If you are already signed in with a hotmail account then it takes a few seconds to recoginise that and change from greyed out to your signed in account name without you having to enter your details. So perhaps its the slow Afrihost account.
 
Unhappy438 said:
If you are already signed in with a hotmail account then it takes a few seconds to recoginise that and change from greyed out to your signed in account name without you having to enter your details. So perhaps its the slow Afrihost account.
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im signed in with an outlook.com account, yeah i think its afrihost.
will try again when international is up and running at full speed again.
 
Another thing I'mn not a fan of in Windows 10 are the icons, they look like they come from Windows 95, however I think I might have read (or imagined) reading that it was a tribute to Windows 3.1 or something..

Anyhow with regards to the general interface, without Windows Aero, it reminds me very much of android 5.0's interface..
 
I see gforce experience lists a new official win10 nvidia driver since yesterday, v352.84

EDIT: This driver sucks donkey balls, do not install it!!!

FPS dropped to a jerky 20-30fps. Rather use the latest win8 driver.
 
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Xzib1t said:
Another thing I'mn not a fan of in Windows 10 are the icons, they look like they come from Windows 95, however I think I might have read (or imagined) reading that it was a tribute to Windows 3.1 or something..

Anyhow with regards to the general interface, without Windows Aero, it reminds me very much of android 5.0's interface..
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Ja, I agree. Don't like them either.

But going by past experience, these things will be sorted in the golden and RTM builds. Microsoft tends to keep some ' fit and finish' surprises for the very end. It's just a simple dll or two. Right now the focus is on getting all the subsystems to marry up properly, which is a massive job. The little UI tweaks will come at the very end.

At least so I hope.
 
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Got some weirdness with dx12 & nvidia.

My GPU has 2GB VRAM, dxdiag reports over 6GB, nvidia control panel panel reports 2GB dedicated & 6GB+ available. When I'm playing a game msi afterburner reports that I'm only using about 133MB of VRAM!

Question is am I actually only using 133MB with the rest of the stuff being in RAM and being shuffled back & forth as needed or is this a bug?

If it's not a bug then surely one would prefer to use as much of the faster VRAM as possible instead of RAM?

Thirdly none of my games are dx12 enabled so surely they won't make use of this hardware resource sharing?

Windows 10 build 10074, nVidia 352.84 Win10 driver.

Playing Witcher 3 on this thing and I have not seen any youtube video with the framerates I have and they are at lower settings than mine, it's not a dx12 game though.
 
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Xzib1t said:
Another thing I'mn not a fan of in Windows 10 are the icons, they look like they come from Windows 95, however I think I might have read (or imagined) reading that it was a tribute to Windows 3.1 or something..

Anyhow with regards to the general interface, without Windows Aero, it reminds me very much of android 5.0's interface..
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http://winbeta.org/news/windows-10-icons-receive-major-overhaul-finally-look-good
http://www.neowin.net/news/hands-on-windows-10-build-10125-new-icons-ui-changes-and-more
 
Is a new build of Windows 10 out already? I checked my Windows Update and I see I am downloading "fbl_impressive Professional 10122"... makes me think this is a new build??

I currently have build 10074 installed on my spare laptop.
 
I installed the new build... its nice that the start menu can be resized, but it is still as buggy... sometimes I gotta click like crazy to get that start menu to show up
 
Reading all these 35 pages I didn't see any feedback for installing Windows 10 on older machines. I skipped Windows 7 due to the hudge OS footprint, 8.x because it is a nightmare, but this one seems to be a natural upgrade from XP Pro.

I want to install Windows 10 on two older laptops with 2GB RAM, so 32-bit version should run smooth: HP Compaq 6715b - AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60 CPU, RS690/SB600 chipset (Radeon X1250 internal graphic) and some other one with Intel Core 2 Duo CPU, 945GM chipset.

Running upgrade assistant on XP SP3 reveals no major problems. HP Bluetooth module is not compatible, but I don't care. The other problem is important, it says "Windows Media Technologies not compatible" and brings a link for downloading Windows Media Player 11. It doesn't make sense, as I have to do fresh OS installation, not an upgrade. Do I have to install MP 11 just to find out whether my hardware is compatible? Confused...

Other question: I see built 1022 is out, it might be the last one before general release. In my selfish approach I want to save on my 3G conection 4GB downloads and another couple gigs for updates and still qualify for Windows 10 licence when it comes out. Having Arthur on the board can we have some insights which one will be the last chance to enroll in the program? :)
 
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sajunky said:
Reading all these 35 pages I didn't see any feedback for installing Windows 10 on older machines. I skipped Windows 7 due to the hudge OS footprint, 8.x because it is a nightmare, but this one seems to be a natural upgrade from XP Pro.

I want to install Windows 10 on two older laptops with 2GB RAM, so 32-bit version should run smooth: HP Compaq 6715b - AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60 CPU, RS690/SB600 chipset (Radeon X1250 internal graphic) and some other one with Intel Core 2 Duo CPU, 945GM chipset.

Running upgrade assistant on XP SP3 reveals no major problems. HP Bluetooth module is not compatible, but I don't care. The other problem is important, it says "Windows Media Technologies not compatible" and brings a link for downloading Windows Media Player 11. It doesn't make sense, as I have to do fresh OS installation, not an upgrade. Do I have to install MP 11 just to find out whether my hardware is compatible? Confused...

Other question: I see built 1022 is out, it might be the last one before general release. In my selfish approach I want to save on my 3G conection 4GB downloads and another couple gigs for updates and still qualify for Windows 10 licence when it comes out. Having Arthur on the board can we have some insights which one will be the last chance to enroll in the program? :)
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:wtf:
If you want to run Windows 7 on your PC, here's what it takes:
1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
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http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/system-requirements
Your device: http://www.cnet.com/products/hp-com...ta-business-2-gb-ram-120-gb-hdd-series/specs/

Are you sure you don't want to just get a new laptop?

EDIT: you should be able to run it though.
 
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