Windows 10 [2014 - 2017]

Windows 10 update stops webcams working

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37154516

 

Why reduce the rollback period?! What's to gain from that?

 

I can imagine it related to devices with very low storage capacity, although even if true, it could've been handled in a better way. One of the big concerns for Win10 upgrades from Win8 was storage limits on 16GB machines (the effectively free SKU stuff) which enjoyed the Win8 compressed-mounted-image to make it fit.

I wager a few upgrades on those boxes effectively zeroed-out available space for users who didn't know to use the cleanup utility, so I'm sure it generated some adverse reactions. They could've been smarter with the timer; lower timeout values for storage constrained devices, longer timeout value for people with disk space left.

 

It's all about control. Who's the boss?

 

Can't Microsoft just add "smart" to their age old disc cleanup utility?

So instead of runs when called, make it automatically run when windows is installed in tiny partition.

 

How do I get the start menu to display icons ?

 

There was something about resetting the icon cache for people who had something like that in a previous version?

 

My tablet refuse to show its start menu at all yesterday. Fixed by installing classic shell.

Weird.

 

I had something like this happen back in Windows XP (icons just being a generic blank), but can't remember what I did back then to fix it or even if it would still apply to Windows 10.

Regards,
SB

 

I found this
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/icon-cache-rebuilder-for-windows-10
but it didnt work

 

Well seems my random blank screen stuff was my GPU dying.
I lost Displayport access to my monitor, then switched back to my old 6950 -> seems to be stable so far even if I need to use pretty old drivers.

 

sorry to hear that.

 

Well at least I finally have an explanation & even better, a stable PC
Times like this its a good thing I have a bunch of old cards lying around.

 

This isn't necessarily a Win10 problem, but I just installed a cumulative update for Win10 and I click more info or something and use edge to view it. On the page, it said that if I want to access the individual update, I need to go to microsoft update catalog website, which when I click it, this happens...

Anyway, I just want to know what is included in the update (as in what fixes) and not just a simple stability improvement notice. Is that really a hard thing to do? Why can't they just list the bug fixes or something?

 

I get this


Servicing stack update for Windows 10 Version 1607: August 23, 2016

Summary
This update makes stability improvements for the Windows 10 Version 1607 servicing stack.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3176936

 

Today I ran into an issue where OneDrive folders in the cloud didn't show thumbnails of the images.
I made a folder in computer, copied the images, OneDrive synced it to cloud, I took a shared link - just like I had done many times before. But when I checked the link in the browser, I got just the general icons, not the thumbnails. It turns out some update in July-August in the backend of the OneDrive prevents displaying thumbnails when some kind of metadata is missing. No details from Microsoft. User reports differ what this mystical missing field is: some users have fixed it by entering Details, some have entered Date Taken. Many had success with neither. Neither did I, ended up using Google Drive.

During last 6 months I have seen so many bugs with Windows at work it's as if somebody is sabotaging Microsoft...

 

Bid your welcome to the fridges with Windows 10. It's the future, according to LG.

 

Maybe if my local supermarket was renting them for basically the same price as a normal rental fridge & that included a certain number of free grocery deliveries/mth or something.
Otherwise I see no reason it'll be any more successful than the last time they tried computers in fridge doors

 

I thought the comptuers-in-fridge-doors were just enormous Android tablets? Is the Win10 announcement something new?

Edit: in an effort to self-educate, I can indeed confirm LG is showing off Win10-enabled refrigerators. Article on TheVerge.com I found the following quote apt:

 

But can it play Crysis at max settings?

Regards,
SB