Windows 10 Preview on Surface Pro 3

[wynand32]

I agree, at least on the SP3 (For me, I frequently use it in a tablet usage mode). I think if I had a desktop, I would for sure be testing this full time. I have it in a dual boot scenario...and have not bothered to boot to Win10 in about 2 weeks. Waiting to take another look at the next build.

Funny enough, most of the problems I'm having on my SP3 I'm also having on my desktop running Windows 10. Except for the mobile-specific stuff like wifi connectivity (my desktop is wired) and battery life.

 

[hughlle]

Anyone else find the mail app occasionally sending drafts? I'll often open an email from my ma, click reply, then decide i'll do it later, only to get another email from her telling me i just sent a blank email, and upon looking at the empty draft, it states sent.

 

[Ragingaardvark]

I've not had any _real_ showstoppers so far. Occasionally the Host Setting for Process Synchronisation will got mental requiring me to shut it down from task manager. Windows Mail can become a little unresponsive - showing unread mail in the icon, but needing a shove to actually get it to come through to the client. And Microsoft Solitaire Collection simply won't work (stop the world, I want to get off).

Other than that, I'm happily using 10 as my everyday OS.

(Of course, I could have just hugely tempted fate by saying all that)

 

[m0v1em4n]

I've not had any _real_ showstoppers so far. Occasionally the Host Setting for Process Synchronisation will got mental requiring me to shut it down from task manager. Windows Mail can become a little unresponsive - showing unread mail in the icon, but needing a shove to actually get it to come through to the client. And Microsoft Solitaire Collection simply won't work (stop the world, I want to get off).

Other than that, I'm happily using 10 as my everyday OS.

(Of course, I could have just hugely tempted fate by saying all that)

Its about the same for me, no real problems

 

[wynand32]

I've not had any _real_ showstoppers so far. Occasionally the Host Setting for Process Synchronisation will got mental requiring me to shut it down from task manager. Windows Mail can become a little unresponsive - showing unread mail in the icon, but needing a shove to actually get it to come through to the client. And Microsoft Solitaire Collection simply won't work (stop the world, I want to get off).

Other than that, I'm happily using 10 as my everyday OS.

(Of course, I could have just hugely tempted fate by saying all that)

I had the same issues you list here (with a couple of other processes that would rev up the fan), plus:

1. Internet Explorer became very unstable. It would crash 10% of the time (which is significant given how often I use it), and on a number of key sites for me.

2. The connection to Disqus broke (on all of my machines, oddly enough) and so I could no longer post comments to any Disqus sites from IE. I had to use Chrome, which I do _not_ want to do.

3. I was having an increasing number of locks-ups that could not be fixed by unplugging/plugging power. I was resorting to Power-Down Volume hard shutdown multiple times a day, and losing work because of it.

4. A few MUI apps stopped working reliably, particularly Tweetium, which needed constant restarts.

5. In general, I was having issues with apps not opening/maximizing from the taskbar and needing restarts.

6. Live Tiles just didn't work reliably, or at all. And I like Live Tiles.

Then there are the other widespread issues like drastically reduced battery life. Overall, there's a ton of promise in Windows 10, but when I went back to Windows 8.1 I've found things so refreshing stable and quick that it really demonstrates how much work there remains. Hence my hope that the next build is far more reliable.

 

[lhauser]

I've had a pretty good experience with Win10. I've been back and forth...the first release for a few weeks, then back to Win8.1 to wait for Continuum. The a clean install of the release before this, and upgraded to the current release. It worked OK, but as time went on it had some odd behaviors. So I went back to 8.1 to gather my breath again, and did another clean install to the very latest ISO of Win10, just last weekend.

So far it's working pretty well. The only oddities are that the start menu won't disappear when I click on the desktop behind it, and my wifi never, ever connects automatically after a restart. Connecting manually works fine, so I don't get that. No showstoppers right now, I'm pleased to say.

Overall I like the experience. I don't even try to use IE...it was fine in 8.1 using the MUI, but I don't like the desktop interface that much. I use Chrome, and since I don't use battery a lot when I have to use a browser, whatever it does to battery life hasn't been an issue for me. I don't like hamburger menus compared to the Win8.1 MUI menus, and I don't like the scrolling program list. But I can live with them. I think Win10 will be a winner.

 

[m0v1em4n]

My wifi never, ever connects automatically after a restart. Connecting manually works fine, so I don't get that. No showstoppers right now, I'm pleased to say.

I have the same issue with WIFI.
When I first put Win 10 on my WIFI would not connect automatically, then I went through a stage were it was connecting automatically , but went to my son's the other day and linked on to his network and now it will not connect automatically again, go figure.
there are lots of little niggle's in Windows 10 but nothing major, at the moment

 

[hughlle]

I have the same issue with WIFI.
When I first put Win 10 on my WIFI would not connect automatically, then I went through a stage were it was connecting automatically , but went to my son's the other day and linked on to his network and now it will not connect automatically again, go figure.
there are lots of little niggle's in Windows 10 but nothing major, at the moment

Strangely just putting my surface to sleep for a few hours when at home and i'll find i normally have to do a restart just to be able to connect to one of the local open connections, yet at uni i can run around all day long and it seamlessly connects to every connection it needs.

 

[RémiM]

I have the same issue with WIFI.
When I first put Win 10 on my WIFI would not connect automatically, then I went through a stage were it was connecting automatically , but went to my son's the other day and linked on to his network and now it will not connect automatically again, go figure.
there are lots of little niggle's in Windows 10 but nothing major, at the moment

I solved this annoying problem:

1) click control panel
2) click network and sharing center
3) click on Wifi(name of your wifi)
4) click network properties
5) check "connect automatically when this network is in range"

 

[hughlle]

I solved this annoying problem:

1) click control panel
2) click network and sharing center
3) click on Wifi(name of your wifi)
4) click network properties
5) check "connect automatically when this network is in range"

I've had luck with this in the past, bt like with others experiences with 10, suddenly things just inexplicably stop working. No matter how i try and get the device to remember a connection, it just unticks itself on each reboot. Yet as i said in my previous post, this only happens for some networks, others are remembered without an issue.

 

[RémiM]

Well, in my case, it solved the problem.

Weird how Win10 can behave differently from one machine to another.

 

[mitchellvii]

And man, what a hot mess it became. Weird that so many things stopped working, and some correlated across my Windows 10 test machines.

This is the problem with Windows. I'm sure there is still some underlying code lurking in there from the old DOS 6.0 days. There is so much interdependency that when you try to "fix" one thing it can cascade into unintended problems for 5 other things.

I run into this with database design. I have a very complex database that runs my business which I wrote from the ground up. When my people get back to me with suggestions on how to improve things, I'll make what seems like an innocuous little improvement only to find I broke a ton of other stuff in the process. So I go digging into the code until I sort it all out. Worst part is that after all that, I finally realize why I never did it this new way in the first place. I'm sure when MS designs these things they experience the same issues only on a mega-macro basis.