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I wonder when Google are going to get round to sorting out Chrome - which is still incompatible with Win10 and crashes periodically.0
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I wonder when Google are going to get round to sorting out Chrome - which is still incompatible with Win10 and crashes periodically.
Now then who might be playing tricks here, MS or Google.
MS might want to make chrome look bad or Google might want to make W10 look crash prone and blame it on the OS.
There is always the other option that it's just a normal bug, the truth is out there.
Cue x-files music.Science isn't exact, it's only confidence within limits.0 -
I believe the problems are with 64-bit, the 32-bit version works fine AFAIK.Chrome`s working OK for me on Win 10.I’m a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on the In My Home MoneySaving, Energy and Techie Stuff boards. If you need any help on these boards, do let me know. Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any posts you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button, or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com.
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http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-10/getstarted-make-start-full-screenA laptop as a desktop.
What I want to do is have the start apps start screen in full screen
A couple of seconds in Google found this.0 -
For certain things I use a 2006 Dell 6400 laptop, it has a knackered ram slot, so is maxed out at 2GB, Intel Core2 duo 1.7 GHz, it also has a 64GB SSD.
It originally came with Vista Home Premium but thanks to Nifty I was able to upgrade to Win 7.
It ran Win 10 for 8 months, then for some reason it stopped picking up the new builds.
There is minimal software installed.
I have already downloaded various versions of Win 10 ready for updating.
Yesterday, I wiped the Windows 10 Insider, put back Win 7 SP1, didn't run updates, upgraded to Win 10 from usb.
Device Manager had one yellow mark against display adapter, which Windows Update sorted on rebooting.
Reinstalled Palemoon and Thunderbird, replacing the new profiles with the ones I'd saved from Win 10 Insider.
Reinstalled Copy, to save sync time I just put the files back that I'd saved to usb, from the Insider build.
Went through and turned off all the Apps, except Weather and Maps and altered privacy settings as best as I could, with available knowledge.
I expect to do a bit more tweaking, but it all seems to 'just work'.
Total time, about 1.5 hrs. :beer:Move along, nothing to see.0 -
A hypothetical question.
It's now well known how Windows 10 activates after a clean install, by using it's digital fingerprint of your machine.
If I had a single hard drive, dual booted using Win 7 and Win 8.1.
I then upgraded each one to Win 10, then a week later decided to do a clean install of Win 10 to each partition.
On trying to activate would the MS server be totally confused as the hardware would be identical, but 2 licences.
OR would it register that the partitions were different?
(Sorry, too much time on hands).Move along, nothing to see.0 -
HiYa Spud, a non-hypothetical answer, wear your speccy and you will be able to see all your Windows software [and hardware] details including your activated internal Serial Number. Best of luck.Disclaimer : Everything I write on this forum is my opinion. I try to be an even-handed poster and accept that you at times may not agree with these opinions or how I choose to express them, this is not my problem. The Disabled : If years cannot be added to their lives, at least life can be added to their years - Alf Morris - ℜ0
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Having to do things in Linux via commands in the Terminal can be a real off-putter for many. Big strides seem to have been made in recent times in overcoming this and I found most actions/installations don't now need it.
Anything that does still need the Terminal confuses me but there's usually enough code to be found in Linux forums that can be copy/pasted to help with this. Even so, until everything can be done without resorting to the Terminal and putting in lines of code, Linux perhaps will never be as popular as Windows.
That will never happen (unless the OS is crippled and locked-down like in Android). The reason that text shells are used is because the command line is so powerful and underpins everything that the OS does. Once you know what you're doing, it's a lot easier to type a command than use a GUI.
I haven't used Ubuntu recently, but last time I did, I found it to be a bloated mess that was a nightmare to configure. The main reason is that Ubuntu preinstalls way so much junk and shields the user from the command line. The wiki/forum was rather overloaded with junk too -- I found it really hard to get accurate information.0
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