Windows 10 Preview on Surface Pro 3

[bluegrass]

Typing "calc" requires putting down my coffee or letting go of the mouse. There are times I'm not willing to do either one.

Tell Cortina your upset and you would like her to start Calc for you.

 

[bluegrass]

No, I have W10 on one SSD and W8 on another SSD and both are plugged into the SATA ports on the motherboard.

I just go into the UEFI ( used to be BIOS ) and tell it which drive to boot from.

Sorry, I thought you were talking about a Surface. It's obviously if you have two Sata SSD's plugged into the motherboard your not talking about a Surface.

 

[GTiceman]

I keep having issues now on 10061. I did a few refreshes, think I might need to do a clean install of 10041 then move back up. The UI keeps freezing up and I get a solid color background, likely that sleep issue again. Also Cortana/Search and the Start Menu stop responding requiring a restart. This is basically clean out of the gate after the refresh. I finally got Weather to be my location, but on my last refresh it went back to London and it is stuck again.

 

[ViktorEvil]

I had the same issue with a solid colour background. Also wouldn't let me log back in to my account just had a black screen no matter what I did. Had to go back to 8.1 this morning. I think I will wait and see if they release a more stable build tomorrow.

 

[Nicola]

I had the same issue with a solid colour background. Also wouldn't let me log back in to my account just had a black screen no matter what I did. Had to go back to 8.1 this morning. I think I will wait and see if they release a more stable build tomorrow.

It's a known bug (was stated in the release notes) and a workaround is to lock and unlock again.
A patch from yesterday fixed it though.

 

[ViktorEvil]

That will teach me about reading release notes. Oh well I'm back on 8.1 anyway now. I did like the direction they were going with 10 though

 

[GTiceman]

It's a known bug (was stated in the release notes) and a workaround is to lock and unlock again.
A patch from yesterday fixed it though.

Yea I saw that and it does workaround. The bigger issue for me is the Start Menu, not sure where that one came from.

Is there rumor around a new build tomorrow?

 

[ViktorEvil]

It's Microsofts Build event tomorrow so I'm just speculating that they may have something to show us

 

[GTiceman]

Oh right, I don't expect the build to come out until the end of BUILD. It would make sense to release it day 1 so everyone attending can get a look at it.

 

[GTiceman]

It would be handy when you look at the details of updates if they had a hyperlink to the KB. Just left feedback for that.

I leave feedback even if it is a known issue just so they have the stats for it.

 

[Kris]

Just reinstalled Windows 10, haven't used it for a while. I would like to use the start menu, like they had it in Windows 7 but having a small issue with the tile icon area. When I put a tile over it makes the start menu huge because it puts a group name option above the tiles. Is there any way to remove this or make it smaller? I have tried re-sizing it but it won't make it any smaller than the group name

 

[sharpuser]

Hi, @Kris

You cannot resize that banner, but you can leave it blank (delete the name). It does not make sense to delete it, because you can have a nameless group of tiles as large as you want.