Windows 10: More observations

Just installed 10049 and it only took 3 hours or so. It seems better than 10041 thus far. The only way to get this update was by joining the FAST ring.
The biggie for me is that it installed the Hi Def Audio for the chipset (OK - I forgot to disable onboard *Sad first). It does not truly detect the Asus DG card and actually broke the setup for it. A reinstall of the driver fixed that.

The ongoing question of how to have rounded edges persists. Some programs load as they did in 10041 and others are sharp cornered. An example of this is Media Monkey 4 versus 3. The latter version has the "old" look still, but not so for the update to 4. I wonder when we get the option back for what I'll call smooth edges for desktops.

:)

 

Some Observations

I have had this problem on both my Lenovo laptop and desktop. I hope I am not stating the obvious or missed someone else saying what I am about to say.

I noticed that your PC will kinda give you a warning when it is getting ready to throw this error message upon sign on. For me, the notifications, in the lower right hand corner and the Start button stop working. When that happens two events have either
occurred, need my attention or are about to occur.

I have already mentioned the first one, things stop responding. Second, it means that an automatic update is lurking in the wings. Third, my PC is getting ready to give me the "Critical Error" message.

On my desktop, if I press Ctrl+Alt+Del simultaneously, when the LENOVO trademark screen comes on, the PC will go to the golden (for me) set-up screen and load the update. After the update is loaded, I have no problems logging in. This does not apply to
my laptop, for some reason.

I tried the hard boot method, but it didn't work. Instead, I selected the RESTART, instead of SHUT DOWN option. That seemed to trigger the installation of the lurking update. After the update was installed, I was able to log into my laptop, with no problem.

Now next problem, draining the battery and preventing it from charging completely. I noticed the battery no longer functioned properly during the installs for Windows 10 upgrade. I guess 1 problem at a time. Guess I'm off to Lenovo to see if there is
a patch for this problem. Please let me know if this helps anyone.

 

Not a qustion but an observation,

There's also a forum (windowsphone.uservoice.com) that Microsoft uses for gathering feedback on the phone and suggestions for improvement. This forum is primarily a peer support forum. The UserVoice forum is the better place for making suggestions to influence
future updates.

 

I have no idea what you're talking about....

 

Hi

My Sound Blaster card quit working completely in this build, not detected at all.
Even running the install software didn't bring it back, it will be interesting to see if it comes back in later builds.

I had to switch to my on-board sound but that's working better then the SB card has in a long time so I'm just going to stick with it.

Mike