Ouch... honestly, and I'm not trying to piss ya off or insult in any fashion, but that's the only horror story I've read thus far about the upgrade.
My Mom wasn't able to download the file, kept getting some error, but I only had to uninstall Avast Antivirus and it's installed seamlessly.
Just out of curiosity, can you disclose what program you tried accessing that started the whole thing?
It was Civil3D 2014 by Autodesk. It was the first program I tried.
Ytown..I'll give safe mode a shot tonight.
A quick google search on Autodesk website revealed "Win 10 is an unsupported OS at the moment......"
Autodesk disclaims that about win 8 also which has been running fine for me for a couple years. Besides their software shouldn't crash and burn a Windows install. Worse case It won't run on a win 10. Which is what I was trying to test.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson.
Can you boot to safe mode? (you may need to check your computer's website to see what kep to use to access startup options)
If you can. you might be able to remove Windows 10, and return to your old O/S until you can research what program might be causing problems. (start, settings, update and security, and then go back to Windows (7, 8, 8.1)
I would try that before wiping everything out. You also should save your files if you haven't already done so while you have the opportunity.
All is good... Went safe mode then went thru the settings system backup and found a button to restore back to 8.1. Microsoft claims this is only good for 30 days after installing v.10.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson.
Can you boot to safe mode? (you may need to check your computer's website to see what kep to use to access startup options)
If you can. you might be able to remove Windows 10, and return to your old O/S until you can research what program might be causing problems. (start, settings, update and security, and then go back to Windows (7, 8, 8.1)
I would try that before wiping everything out. You also should save your files if you haven't already done so while you have the opportunity.
All is good... Went safe mode then went thru the settings system backup and found a button to restore back to 8.1. Microsoft claims this is only good for 30 days after installing v.10.
Yep. After 30 days the ability to revert back to a prior version of Windows goes away. I'm not going back. I love this new version of Windows. However, some may have certain programs that rhey cannot replace, that are incompatible, and makes it impossible for them to upgrade.
Micah 6:8; He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
John 14:19 Jesus said: Because I live, you also will live.
Any AutoCAD program user should have waited a long, long time before trying that maneuver.
They are historically bad/slow about making software compatible with the next generation. You will need at least 6 months before attempting that.. Probably with a version that has been validated against Win10.
Nothing in my inbox, I am frustrated.
Welcome back, Joe, we missed you!…. That did not age well.
Micah 6:8; He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
John 14:19 Jesus said: Because I live, you also will live.
Any AutoCAD program user should have waited a long, long time before trying that maneuver.
They are historically bad/slow about making software compatible with the next generation. You will need at least 6 months before attempting that.. Probably with a version that has been validated against Win10.
LOL ...Autocad and the verticals are dinosaurs for sure. Doesn't worry me to try it though, I know I can get everything back from my home server or the cloud.
I worked at Autodesk for 5 years. So I know what your saying I also know when a software co. says it's not supported it's because they haven't tested it on that OS yet. I worked in QA and now most of that work has been shopped out to the Chinese offices, so it's ten times worse then it used to be. And now China has all the source code....Yikes look out ADSK!
But I still don't think my windows 10 install was hosed completely by starting Autocad on it. I think I got a bad Win10 build or I crashed out when something else was going on in the background. I'm going to try again when I get the MS notification. I hate Win 8.1 and want it gone sooner rather than later.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson.
In my field, most people use Macs. When Autocad pulled out of that platform, everyone switched to Vectorworks. It's back now but it's too late, Vectorworks is now industry standard. The only thing that makes me mad is Vectorworks now does yearly updates. Luckily as an educator, I don't pay for them however a lot of freelancers are now several years behind and you can only backsave 2 versions on the educational version.
What field is that? I've never used vectorworks I'm in infrastructure/Mapping/GIS which uses alot of online mapping services and feature data objects (FDO) connections
I'm seeing a switch from AutoDesk to BricsCad for us infrastructure folks because Autodesk announced it won't sell perpetual licenses after the 2016 releases. Meaning they sell their products on subscription only. $7k a seat up front and $700-$1000 dollars a year to use it after that. What a rip off for their antiquated software that's full of bugs.
OK, I was reading this article, and I found a couple of interesting things about Windows 10.
2 of my favorites are that you can right click on the start button, and open up a whole new "power user" menu. This is not what I would usually consider a power user feature, but there are some useful things here, like a quick shut down/restart, and access to the control panel and other such wonderment. Handy, if not spectacular.
The other tip I really like is that you can go to a particular letter in your program list (on the start menu "All Apps" list) by clicking on any letter header, which then opens up an alphabetical list you can easily click on. I hate having to scroll all the way through my horrific list of programs just to get to the W's. This is so mush easier, and makes so much sense, that I am kind of surprised that it is in there.
There are probably better explanations on the link.
Micah 6:8; He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
John 14:19 Jesus said: Because I live, you also will live.
Here's another one, (though I HATE the name on this)
right click on your desktop, and create a new folder, copy and paste this to rename the folder: (it has to be exact)
GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
This opens a menu of hundreds of settings in one easy place. Just be careful with this.
Micah 6:8; He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
John 14:19 Jesus said: Because I live, you also will live.
I basically only have AutoCAD for two reasons: 1) It's free for educators 2) To open DWG's with the wrong settings so that I can fix that and import them into Vectorworks.
My one complaint with Vectorworks is that it uses it's own file structure so it is hard to import DWG's sometimes...thus why I have AutoCAD installed.
I am in Entertainment Lighting Design. It is pretty much a one stop shop. I can create my draftings, and 3D renderings all in one program. This takes a couple of programs in AutoCAD. Live Entertainment is strange, we are split up. Scenic Designers all use AutoCAD, Lighting Designers all use Vectorworks. There is some in each that use the opposite, however more and more Scenic Designers are switching to Vectorworks because of how buggy AutoCAD has gotten.
Scenic Designers are switching to Vectorworks because of how buggy AutoCAD has gotten.
Gotten? LOL
Now they are going around buying up competition & incorporating that software and deserting much of their own created buggy software. Which should be a good thing but it's not because they can't really rid themselves of all their old BS.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson.
It sucks the only way I can hover my mouse over my system tray icons and get the "tooltip" or notification upon hover and idle is I have to be in "tablet mode"...
Sometimes I like to hover over to quickly see battery life and a few apps I have that run in the sys tray have tooltips that popup useful info. Now I have to open and engage the application to get the info.
Wtf up with that? Only thing I can get to popup a notification is the the "Action Center". Am I the only one? Google hasn't helped.
It sucks the only way I can hover my mouse over my system tray icons and get the "tooltip" or notification upon hover and idle is I have to be in "tablet mode"...
Sometimes I like to hover over to quickly see battery life and a few apps I have that run in the sys tray have tooltips that popup useful info. Now I have to open and engage the application to get the info.
Wtf up with that? Only thing I can get to popup a notification is the the "Action Center". Am I the only one? Google hasn't helped.
Weird, I get tooltips on everything in my system tray
We don't have to agree with each other, to respect each others opinion.
My Mom was getting an error code that I was able to Google, if it's giving you a code or error text, paste it in Google and see if anyone else is/has encountered the same issue. May even be some instructions to get going.
Automatically updating to Windows 10 has failed 4 times (and counting!) on both my computers. Don't know why.
You have to be logged in as an administrator, not a standard account. it took me awhile to figure that out. Simply typing the admin password in when it pops up wasn't enough, I had to log on as the admin THEN run it.
We don't have to agree with each other, to respect each others opinion.
Automatically updating to Windows 10 has failed 4 times (and counting!) on both my computers. Don't know why.
You have to be logged in as an administrator, not a standard account. it took me awhile to figure that out. Simply typing the admin password in when it pops up wasn't enough, I had to log on as the admin THEN run it.
Yea!!!! I'm good to go on my desktop computer. Windows 10 is finally here at the 3rd_and_20 compound.
I will do the same thing I did (watch video posted above) for my laptop in the next day or two and update that one next. It's only like a year old but slow, like molasses. I pretty much only use it on game day chat.
I am running Classic Shell with Windows 10. (Yes, it's not just for Windows 8 & 8.1.) So far I think I like it better with Classic Shell running on top of it...
Since I figured out how to do things in 10, I kind of prefer the live tiles.
I set up all of my most used programs, and I love the ability to click on a letter and then have the ability to go right to an alphabetical section. It took a little getting used to, but I prefer it now.
Micah 6:8; He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
John 14:19 Jesus said: Because I live, you also will live.
Okay, I turned off Classic Shell to play with Windows 10 without it on, and now there is no start menu on the left-hand side, all there is is those stupid tiles floating all over my desktop.
Where-o-where did the Windows 10 start menu go? I hate just tiles!
How do I get the Windows 10 start menu back (I know there are some tiles on the start menu, but it's not ALL tiles, like now).
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Handy, if not spectacular.
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I pretty much only use it on game day chat.