Thanks JTH. Arrrrrgggggghhhhh. Isn't it great being an old fart who thinks beyond how great this all is and who might have to pay for it?
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Fkin MS10 is the Facebook of society (I shake my fist at you in disgust)
Aside from the numerous sound, WIFI & reboot issues I've been "tolerating" my UAC got corrupted after a VPN install (meaning my standard user account was unable to process "run as administrator" applications)
After exhaustive research and troubleshooting, the shortest route to a fix was a complete rebuild + reinstalling all the previous applications.
8+ hours of my life, wasted...
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I will definitely WAIT to Upgrade to Win 10, like 2 years!
UPDATE: Thus far, the rebuild has gone better than expected.
On the originally build, I had to rollback the WIFI driver, because the current one offered by HP, was not able to split-allocate my bandwidth (meaning if I was streaming something like Netflix, the web surfing was brutally slow)
It seems they finally resolved this issue, I now have the most current WIFI driver and it is working properly.
I lost my backups a few months back, and was unable to revover the MS Office 2010 HUP, so I had to upgrade to MS Office 2016 HUP, it is working very well and the outlook was able to import my GMail account.
The VPN which broke the original build, is now working very well, (there are DNS leaks with Win10, but they appear to be resolved by disabling IPV6).
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If you still have the CD key, you can install a trial version and insert your CD key. I mentioned this early in this thread as I had to do it myself. Worked like a champ. Probably too late for you now, but if you have a 2nd computer or something, could always use it for that.
I have it upgraded on 2 of my laptops (well, my wife's and then my wife's second one haha). We haven't noticed anything this big or even buggy really at all. It was a bit to get used to at first, but otherwise the glitches were un-noticed if there as any, and it's been smooth sailing for us. Now if only work computers would upgrade to it... :/
Arrrgh, arrrgh. Arrgh. They never even made legacy stuff work with XP before they upgraded to 7. It’s great if you use “standard” application to do “standard” things. Does anyone in any IT in any agency EVER think that there are others using computer applications than those sitting in offices at the HQ?
I should take to heart what I was told in a briefing earlier this year by a HQ type. “We are a government agency first, our purpose for existing and supporting that are secondary”.
Yeah, sure. Win10. Nothing works with 7 so why not? Who cares if we can do the job the agency was created to do?
PO
Of the 8 PCs I've upgraded to windows 10, mine is the only one having problems, but I'm also the only one who does any "real" work on my PC
Since our last conversation, I've had to rebuild the PC again twice, after duplicating the original errors. The key error is "Extended attributes are inconsistent" with past windows versions, this is commonly tied to the UAC's sound, but I don't think this is the case in this situation.
One possibility, is the disk cleanup utility (and CCleaner) is stripping out the extended attributes across my file system, thus disconnecting my standard user account from being able to use the "run as administrator" feature. If so, this is not user error, this is a substantial flaw in the system.
The other possibility, when installing programs under the admin account, it is not connecting administrative type programs to the standard user account.
Normally I would troubleshoot extensively until I was 100% certain what is causing it, but I'm moving next week, and I've already lost 3 days messing with it, so for now it's up and running and working well.
On this latest install, I've installed all programs under the standard user login, using admin credentials.
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BUGS! I'm waiting for them to get the BUGS out!bug.gifbug.giftapfingers.gif Is this thing in Beta or something?
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