Windows 10 2 OS in one?? Its a buggy mess

forgotmyname

Finally decided to allow windows 10 to update from 1703 where I locked it.

Well it seems i made the right choice of locking it back then, so many bugs.

It messed up my taskbar icons, microscopic.. Checked settings and use small icons was not enabled.. But you can still choose small/large icons from the menu also.

When i try and select anything from any menu it highlights everywhere the mouse has moved over in blue.

One page shows my monitor correctly but another page shows generic PnP monitor. I cannot enable Gsync because the control panel is missing. Download from the Store it says but it does not work, drivers not compatible, yet they are the latest drivers...

Maybe I should roll back to 1703 and stay there forever??

unforeseen

Maybe it's more a case of leapfrogging 3 versions that has screwed it up. With such a gap between old and new versions you would have been better off doing a clean install.

The cause of your problems was probably you locking it more than anything

EveryWhere

Yes, back up your data and clean install.

debitcardmayhem

unforeseen wrote: »

Maybe it's more a case of leapfrogging 3 versions that has screwed it up. With such a gap between old and new versions you would have been better off doing a clean install.

The cause of your problems was probably you locking it more than anything

This seems to me a reasonable and accurate precis of your perceived problems. I personally would try each either in a Virtual Machine or on a spare PC as you go along, commercial enterprises don't roll out updates until they are proven in their environment.

[Deleted User]

Worth trying another round of "check for Windows updates" after the upgrade, it is possible that the installed drivers are no longer compatible and haven't been updated yet. Also try your manufacturers update tool if there is one available.

If that doesn't work then backup and fresh install is advisable.

Neil_Jones

I doubt jumping multiple versions affects the functionality of Windows, I've quite often gone from the original v10240 (July 2015) to 1809 and 1903. Windows is supposed to be upgradable from any version to the newer one.

Far more likely something else on the machine has affected the installation, but sounds like a graphics card/driver issue. Don't do the driver updates through Device Manager, it doesn't know any better, get them off amd.com or nvidia.com as appropriate.

forgotmyname

Its a brand new 1GB SSD so yep a fresh install without my usual services tweaking to block anything. This is a totally out of the box install freshly downloaded from the MS site and the 1903 version which did a few updates after install but not many.

Downloaded the latest drivers from NVIDIA but used the device manager browse to the driver folder to avoid all the junk that attaches to the drivers. I love how the NVIDIA driver package says copyright of NVIDIA and "FORCEWARE"... says it all. So essentially the same as running the installer just less junk installed, but did try the installer also.

Even tried installing the NVIDIA Experience and it did exactly the same. Cannot install DCH drivers must use standard and the latest control panel does not install on standard drivers.

Its an RTX card.

Frozen_up_north

I’ve had minor issues with Windows 10. They were all related to hardware drivers. In no particular order:

An Acer laptop which originally came with Win 7, the battery monitor function isn’t supported in Win 10 and Acer said the laptop wasn’t compatible with Windows 10. The fix is to rename the battery monitor app and ignore it.

A Dell PC with an additional Radeon graphics card. It worked fine on earlier Win 10, but had display problems with 1903. Windows update installs a generic graphics driver which doesn’t support dual screens. The fix is to install the manufacturers driver, which does support Win 10.

Missing Samsung printer on an Asus laptop after Windows update. Fixed by re-installation of the Samsung printer software.

I guess others have had similar issues, bottom line is the semi automatic Windows updates aren’t infallible, but problems are mostly easy to resolve.

GDB2222

We have several Windows machines. All on W10. All allowed to update freely. No problems with any of them.

Essentially, the OP seems to have found a way of breaking a system that works perfectly if left to its own devices. I guess that we wouldn't have heard from him otherwise.

JJ_Egan

As above no problem with Win 10 .
But its noted from this forum that some users have problems on .

forgotmyname

GDB2222 wrote: »

We have several Windows machines. All on W10. All allowed to update freely. No problems with any of them.

Essentially, the OP seems to have found a way of breaking a system that works perfectly if left to its own devices. I guess that we wouldn't have heard from him otherwise.

Except its a fresh install with no tweaks, downloaded 1903 from the MS site and installed from a USB stick. Well its been tweaked now but not at the time of posting.

Try searching for control panel/G sync issues with RTX cards. Lots of hits. Seems it doesnt like the fact that i had a display port and a HDMI cable plugged in. Unplug the HDMI and the G sync option appears but then says make that monitor primary... But it just made me unplug the other one.....:T How do you make a single monitor primary???


Hits for the taskbar menu not so easy because a lot are not actually windows 10 or the icons staying highlighted not the menu.

And my tweaking did not duplicate all the old style options of setting the monitor and failing to know what the left and right hands are doing.

Old style display settings said Generic Monitor but It knew what the monitor was in the device manager and had the driver installed.

None of this is down to my tweaking.