Upgraded yesterday using USB, no issues found so far on using a Ryzen 2600 and Asus Prime x470 Pro, even the Intel NIC is behaving itself. So glad I decided against an Intel rig, yes AMD not prone to issues, but compared to Intel, life is easier.
Day two – and Windows 10 October 2018 Update trips over Intel audio
Barely a day into release and Microsoft has admitted there is a problem with its shiny new OS and chips from Intel. Using Intel Display Audio? No Windows for you! As well as the usual complaints from overenthusiastic users reporting freezes during setup and mysteriously vanishing files or apps, a low rumble of dissatisfaction …
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Saturday 20th October 2018 21:04 GMT Kris Sweeney
Windows 7 is no protection
Running Windows 7 Ult and my audio died with the October update. While recording devices can be installed successfully and stream audio, all audio output devices failed and were marked with an exclamation mark in device manager following a reboot. no combination of uninstall, reboot, reinstall, download latest known good, rinse and repeat has worked.
Devices have the following explanation as to why the installation fails:
'Windows cannot verify the digital signature for the drivers required for this device. A recent hardware or software change might have installed a file that is signed incorrectly or damaged, or that might be malicious software from an unknown source. (Code 52)'
Thanks Microsoft.
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Thursday 4th October 2018 16:39 GMT bombastic bob
Re: rushed
Article: driver problems that "end up sending CPU usage skyrocketing and battery life plummeting."
I've seen SIMILAR problems within UWP [CR]apps in general, including some of the built-ins. I reported this problem during the insider program.
There's an internal architectural problem within UWP itself. Applications tend to "CPU spin" on conditions they are waiting for. It could be one of the 'WaitForXXXObject[Ex]' functions, it could be the use of 'Sleep' with a 0 value (for some reason quoting the function call tripped a security blockage) or even 'yield' doing it.
This problem also exists in POSIX systems when you return immediately from things like 'poll' and loop without using delays. In the POSIX world, though, your polling loop can use 'usleep()' which is in microseconds [no guarantee it'll be "that long", it's somewhat 'advisory'].
NOW - if _THIS_ is at the core of the problem, then it's a MAJOR ARCHITECTURAL SNAFU and Micro-shaft basically has NOT listened to *ME* on this. I know I'm right because it's measurable and I even posted the measurements, got hammered and discredited and ONE particular fanboi was even getting PERSONAL over it all. [This is how they react when faced with 'OBVIOUSLY WRONG'].
Hey Microshaft: SEE! I! TOLD! YOU! SO!!!
And so FINALLY someone wrote a driver with the SAME! KINDS! of assumptions as the main loops in UWP [CR]apps. Yeah, maybe it only showed up IN A VM when I was testing it, but it REALLY means they aren't TESTING AT ALL.
So yeah - 'rushed' aka "being cheap" and your QUALITY GOES DOWN.
icon because: to the REST of us (aka 'not Micro-shaft'), it's OBVIOUS.
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Monday 8th October 2018 00:29 GMT FlamingDeath
Re: rushed
"Funny, they do the same thing (capitalization and punctuation for emphasis) over at El Reg. I've seen it on occasion."
So does the Daily Express, and I only know this because it keeps rearing its ugly head in my Google News aggregate feed, strangely their Planet Nibiru articles keep appearing in the science section. Apparently science means something different now...
Obligatory Bill Hicks Quote:
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Monday 8th October 2018 02:50 GMT slartybartfast
Re: Edge?
Apparently the security settings in Edge (do not track, block third party cookies etc.) are the least effective of the main browsers. I read this in an article browser comparison (sorry don't have a link to the site). It stated in Edge, many of them simply don't work, especially 'block third party cookies'.
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Friday 5th October 2018 10:44 GMT Thunderpants
Re: Edge?
"thats not quite as much spyware by design"
It might not have as much spyware by design (dunno, I've not really looked into it) but I can say having installed it on a VM yesterday, it's on a par with Google for shoving advertising down your throat.
Congratulations - you've installed the upgrade successfully - by the way, here's MSN spam spam.
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Friday 5th October 2018 11:30 GMT Hans 1
Re: Edge?
You're kidding. I sideloaded Firefox from a USB stick.
I use Invoke-WebRequest from Powershell .... used to use ftp.exe before that ... I sometimes have Edge start, though, when silly me forgets that Outlook does not honor Windows settings and uses Edge to open links .... then again, I do not click many links in emails ... and it never gets time to load the page in question, so I am safe ... I think ...
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Monday 8th October 2018 06:25 GMT Ken Moorhouse
Re: Twenty-five years of...
There are people using Outlook that can use it year in, year out, without problem. It's when the user happens to trigger one of the design flaws of Outlook is when the troubles begin. Going "oversize" was the most obvious of those triggers, but MS have now raised that bar, making it statistically less likely.
MS use the "foie gras" technique of storing messages in the repository. Only after the message has been stored is the user made aware that the message store has gone over size and special tools need to be applied to it in order for it to resume working - tools (provided by MS in lieu of a means to prevent the problem happening in the first instance) which can result in loss of data. Other mail clients check boundary conditions *before* inserting messages into the message repository.
Well-meaning malware-checkers can also interfere with Outlook's mode of operation. To ensure Outlook doesn't do anything naughty malware checkers monitor Outlook so tightly that loss of messages and freezing are common-place.
Though this isn't Outlook's fault per se, it is because of such things as the capability Outlook has of being able to be "driven" by third-party apps that cause malware checkers deep distrust of Outlook.
So by all means use Outlook, but complacency is bad: take regular backups of your PST's, and keep the PST size small.
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Monday 8th October 2018 12:09 GMT Wzrd1
Re: Edge?
What's "Outlook"?
Microsoft Outlook, also known as Microsoft Outrage. E-mail client that borks itself and its profile at random times, in really exotic ways.
Typically, after receiving a "feature upgrade".
Does anyone remember NT4 service pack 6? Followed by service pack 6a. Followed by a string of hotfixes...
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Friday 5th October 2018 16:29 GMT jelabarre59
One way of getting round the problem with edge not working would be to install chrome or Firefox. Isn’t that the first thing you do with Edge, aka the chrome downloader?
Don't even need Edge for that. Just install Chocolatey, then from an elevated command prompt, type "choco install -y waterfox".
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