Windows 10 [2014 - 2017]

i have this weird crystal/glass effect on Windows 10. what the heck is that? O_O

 

Settings - personalization - color - make start, taskbar and action center transparent

 

it is already transparent

 

The Windows Store saddles PC games with significant limitations

http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/2...saddles-pc-games-with-significant-limitations

 

Turn it off then.

 

Looks like Windows 10 has broken my Sam and Max (Season One) games on Steam. I'm reading that GOG uses an updated game engine, and still works. I tried the fixes, no joy. I'm far from being alone in this. My Back to the Future episodes on Steam are probably OK, I test played one of them.

 

it have no effect to the border. it only affect the transparency of the bar itself. not the border.


EDIT:
turns out its a broken theme. fixed by using default theme.

now the only problem that left is

- metro apps took ages to load and sometimes failed with this message



including the START MENU (so now i use classic shell)

 

@orangpelupa

Your symptoms are of a corrupt or damaged update. Explorer (as in, the actual explorer.exe binary) is the "default program" for opening Metro / UWP applications including your start menu.

I'd suggest opening an administrative command prompt, and running sfc /scannow to identify and hopefully resolve the issue.

 

Oh ok I didnt even notice that weird border.

 

sfc found a problem and fixed it and asking to restart.

restarted.

-___-

• now explorer crash every boot. WERfault need to be manually closed. then explorer.exe manually started.
• and now i cant open metro app at all. even their icons cant be clicked.

it seems my windows 10 metro is too broken.

EDIT:
crap.. the settings menu is now a metro app in windows 10

i cant even access the recovery menu lol


EDIT:
finally able to open the settings, recovery.

now im back to 8.1 and everything working fine

 

Sorry it didn't work they way it should

LOL @ 8.1 though, that's certainly one way to fix it

 

Yeah lol. My fix for w10 was rolling back to 8.1. glad the metro recovery menu finally can be started

I wonder, why Microsoft put such crucial thing inside metro? They should put the recovery menu in a foolproof native windows exe.

Even better if it also can be invoked from command prompt.

 

They do have plans to improve on that, though

 

List of leaked Windows 10 games IDs. It suggests Forza 6, Gears 4, Horizon 3, Scalebound and more on PC, too.

http://www.dsogaming.com/interstiti...za-horizon-3-scalebound-are-coming-to-the-pc/

Microsoft.Gunpowder

• Microsoft.4Elements2

• Microsoft.AWorldOfKeflings

• Microsoft.Adera

• Microsoft.Adera-Lite

• Microsoft.AgeCastles (Age of Empires Castle)

• Microsoft.AgeofEmapiresCastleSiege (Age of Empires Castle)

• Microsoft.AlphaJax

• Microsoft.AoECastleBeta (Age of Empires Castle)

• Microsoft.ApexPG (Forza Motorsport 6: Apex)

• Microsoft.ArvadaBeta

• Microsoft.AtariGameOver

• Microsoft.Ausar

• Microsoft.BigBuckHunter

• Microsoft.Bingo-Beta

• Microsoft.BulldogThreshold

• Microsoft.BulldogThresholdClosedBeta

• Microsoft.ColdAlley

• Microsoft.CrashCourse2

• Microsoft.DisneyFairies

• Microsoft.DisneyFairiesHiddenTreasures-Lite

• Microsoft.DisneysLittleMermaid

• Microsoft.EdenFalls (Trademark taken in 2014)

• Microsoft.EdenFallsBeta

• Microsoft.EndlessSkater

• Microsoft.EveryStreetUnited (Sports Game)

• Microsoft.FableLegends

• Microsoft.FieldStreamFishing

• Microsoft.Fishdom3SpecialEdition

• Microsoft.GalacticReign

• Microsoft.CollateralDamage

• Microsoft.GNS-TEST-APP

• Microsoft.GoCargoBeta

• Microsoft.GoCargoBeta2

• Microsoft.GunpowderLITE

• Microsoft.HaloChannel

• Microsoft.HaloSpartanAssault

• Microsoft.HaloSpartanAssault2

• Microsoft.HaloSpartanAssaultiOS

• Microsoft.HaloSpartanStrike-Beta

• Microsoft.HaloSpartanStrikeiOS

• Microsoft.HaloSpartanAssaultLite

• Microsoft.Hexic

• Microsoft.HoganThreshold

• Microsoft.HoganThresholdClosedBeta

• Microsoft.HoloStudio (HoloLens HDK)

• Microsoft.Ilomilo

• Microsoft.KillerInstinct-Win10

• Microsoft.KinectimalsUnleashed

• Microsoft.Kodu

• Microsoft.Lucille

• Microsoft.MaxTheCurseofBrotherhood

• Microsoft.Minecraft

• Microsoft.MicrosoftBingo

• Microsoft.MicrosoftJackpot

• Microsoft.MicrosoftJigsaw

• Microsoft.MicrosoftMahjong

• Microsoft.MicrosoftMinesweeper

• Microsoft.MicrosoftNumberPuzzle

• Microsoft.MicrosoftSolitaireCollection

• Microsoft.MicrosoftSolitaireCollectionPreview

• Microsoft.MicrosoftSudoku

• Microsoft.MicrosoftTreasureHunt

• Microsoft.Microsoft.ProjectDenver

• Microsoft.MinecraftUWP

• Microsoft.MonstersLoveCandy

• Microsoft.MSDonuts

• Microsoft.NFLonWindows10

• Microsoft.OpusPG (Forza Horizons 3)

• Microsoft.OriandtheBlindForestDefinitiveEdition

• Microsoft.ProjectCastlesBeta (Age of Empires)

• Microsoft.ProjectFlair-Beta (Press Play Game)

• Microsoft.ProjectFortune (Press Play Game)

• Microsoft.ProjectKnoxville (Press Play Game)

• Microsoft.ProjectMercury (Press Play Game)

• Microsoft.Dakota

• Microsoft.ProjectSparkWebsite

• Microsoft.QuantumBreak

• Microsoft.Studios.RecklessRacingUltimate

• Microsoft.RecklessRacingUltimateLITE

• Microsoft.ReCore

• Microsoft.RocketRiot

• Microsoft.RosewoodFP

• Microsoft.RoyalEnvoyIISpecialEdition

• Microsoft.Scalebound

• Microsoft.SecretsTreasureTheLostCities

• Microsoft.SecretsTreasureTheLostCitiesBeta

• Microsoft.SesameStreetTouchandLearnTV

• Microsoft.ShadowPackPC

• Microsoft.ShuffleParty

• Microsoft.SkullsOfTheShogun

• Microsoft.Studios.HydroThunderHurricane

• Microsoft.Studios.PinballFx2

• Microsoft.Studios.TheWavyTubeManChronicles

• Microsoft.Studios.ToySoldiersColdWar

• Microsoft.Studios.Wordament

• Microsoft.StudiosRMTestApp

• Microsoft.Taptiles

• Microsoft.TeamCrossword

• Microsoft.Tentacles

• Microsoft.TentaclesII

• Microsoft.TentaclesEnterTheMind

• Microsoft.TheGunstringer

• Microsoft.TheHarvestHD

• Microsoft.ThisIsOnlyATest

• Microsoft.TJComboBoxingBeta

• Microsoft.TYtheTasmanianTiger

• Microsoft.UglyCastles

• Microsoft.VisitEdenFalls (Eden Falls Demo?)

• Microsoft.WordamentTapSnap

• Microsoft.WSOPFullHousePro

• Microsoft.XboxBriefingE32014

• Microsoft.XboxFitness

• Microsoft.XboxSport

• Microsoft.Zombies

• Microsoft.ZooTycoon3

• Microsoft.ZTFBeta (Zoo Tycoon Free?)

• Microsoft.zzzXLConfigTest

• Microsoft.14822C0D9D6C2

 

Given what they did with games for windows live I'd think twice.. well more like 10 times, before buying games on the windows store.

Anyway I've bought a intel nuc6 i3 for htcp/server duties and I think I'll go with 10 for that Are there any free tools out there yet that allow you to rip out all the useless software before installing?

 

Yeesh. Now my windows 8.1 is broken after auto windows update. A bunch of Metro apps is missing and the store app took ages to load.

Even worse, there's windows 10 pop up that keeps nagging me to upgrade.

Seriously Microsoft?

Isn't the stock windows 10 have no bloats?

Sure it have lots of advanced tools that is useless for most users. But you will glad you have those when Windows goes poof.

 

@orangpelupa it almost sounds like you have another piece of software which may be affecting an update. You've now had the same problem across two operating systems, I feel like this can reasonably point to something not Microsoft related. Or maybe not

And yeah, Windows 8 and 10 both come pretty stripped "out of the box". You can use the Roles and Features wizard to further remove other items, however it's largely unneeded. If you want to optimize space further, use the "Create recovery media" option to build a USB bootable recovery and source image, and then use the same tool to clear the equivalent data off your local drive.

 

I don't see Windows Store in any way related to GFW

 

Yeah, the only item in common with all the issues is orangpelupa. It's as if everything he touches wrecks or self destructs. I have never seen anyone else with as many issues consistently.

 

A heads up for those who upgraded to Win 10 from Win 7/8/8.1.

Even though Media Center (and externder) has been deprecated, upgrading to Win 10 fails to remove scheduled tasks related to Media Center.

I just had a machine at work spaz completely because of this. Win 10 would attempt to run tasks, fail, then try again ... ad infinitum. The machine has a mechanical harddrive and disk usage would peg at 75% usage (ie. rendering the machine useless). The machine crashed with an "Event log full" fault. Removing the scheduled tasks returned the machine to working order.

My home PC also had the tasks active and running, but here it didn't result in an endless loop, just intermittent errors and with a SSD I hadn't noticed it.

Cheers