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 From:  koswix  
 To:  ANT_THOMAS     
41498.93 In reply to 41498.90 
All working!

I'm still amazed at how quickly things go these days. Not so long ago reinstalling windows was a good couple of hours or so, and then god knows howlong downloaiding updates on a shitty slow connection. 

Now it's less than 15 minutes using a USB 3 memory stick, an SSD and my stupid-fast broadband and I'm all setup, updated, Chrome installed (and synced to my previous settings/extensions). And now I can change my desktop picture!!?!!!!":"111

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 From:  ANT_THOMAS  
 To:  koswix     
41498.94 In reply to 41498.93 
I knew downloading the ISO when I didn't really need it would come in handy.
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 From:  milko  
 To:  koswix     
41498.95 In reply to 41498.93 
for future ref, my bike has gears and unetbootin have a download for Windows and Linux too :)
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 From:  koswix  
 To:  milko     
41498.96 In reply to 41498.95 
As I discovered. That'll teach me to ignore hipster mac users!

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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)  
 To:  koswix     
41498.97 In reply to 41498.80 
You were doing this on a fucking battery? WTF?

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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)  
 To:  ANT_THOMAS     
41498.98 In reply to 41498.94 


And download the ISO.

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 From:  koswix  
 To:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)     
41498.99 In reply to 41498.97 
It's one of the many benefits of a laptop, it can run on batteries. Just not my laptop, as it turns out :C

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 From:  Matt  
 To:  koswix     
41498.100 In reply to 41498.82 
Get Rufus. It's really easy to make a bootable Windows USB drive with it.

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 From:  koswix  
 To:  Matt     
41498.101 In reply to 41498.100 
I got the hipster boys one and it was pretty straight forward: point it at iso, point it at USB stick, done.

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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)  
 To:  koswix     
41498.102 In reply to 41498.93 
I've recently fixed to Windows 7 computers and they took aaaaaaaaages to complete all the updates. The install was quick both times (twice on the last one - I reinstalled Win7 with the Aldi recovery partition, switched the computer off, plugged the HDD into mine to copy the stuff back and when i plugged it back in the drive was completely empty) but the updates needed lots of reboots and time.

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 From:  ANT_THOMAS  
 To:  Chris (CHRISSS)     
41498.103 In reply to 41498.102 
Aldi?
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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)  
 To:  ANT_THOMAS     
41498.104 In reply to 41498.103 
Maybe Lidl.

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 From:  graphitone  
 To:  Chris (CHRISSS)     
41498.105 In reply to 41498.104 
 :'-D 
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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)  
 To:  graphitone     
41498.106 In reply to 41498.105 
Definitely Aldi. I'm just dropping it back off to him now.

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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)  
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41498.107 
It is a Medion computer from Aldi.

Home now, thought my laptop might want to upgrade itself but apparently not. I left it downloading the files over night and it doesn't seem to have finished it. I ran the setup.exe and it says boot.win is not there.

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 From:  koswix  
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41498.108 
If you haven't already, you may want to go into PC Settings -> Privacy and explore the umpteen pages of options that are enabled by default to leach your data back to Microsoft and its advertisers. I did the 'custom options' install where I declined their offers to track me, but most of the stuff in Privacy was still switched on.

There's also a feature in Windows Update that uses the Win 10 install base as a bit-torrent swarm, and redistributes downloaded updates. I don't have an issue with that idea in principle, but as my upload is limited (if I go over my upload limit my download speed get's capped) it would have been nice for MS to mention it somewhere other than page 9,374,249 of the EULA.

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 From:  koswix  
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41498.109 
I think I quite like 10, it's definitely an improvement on 8/8.1, and I'm pretty sure it's a lot better than 7 too. Not overly-keen with the intrusiveness of it, but with all the tracking stuff turned off I think it should be OK. If MS push things much more in that direction I think I'd be about ready to quit windows all together, tbh. But in terms of interface and speed,  it's definitely a winner for me.

My laptop still refuses to reliably hibernate, though (first discovered on the day it came from the courier, manufacturer refused to acknowledge it as a fault) so at least I now know that it's not a Windows issue, but a hardware/driver issue. Power management driver perhaps? Who knows!

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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)  
 To:  koswix     
41498.110 In reply to 41498.109 
Got mine updated Thursday night. Haven't had much of of a play with it yet. My laptop actually hibernates (or rather resumes) better than it did before. The Intel grpahics driver did some stupid stuff when resuming in Win8 (7 worked fine). The display would go blank, come back for a bit, disappear, do that a few times and finally get to the desktop after a while.

Might have a play with it later (YJ) after changing the PCV hose on Sian's Mondeo. A split rubber hose that needs the inlet manifold removing to change it. Some of the bolts are impossible to get to. Grrrrr.

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 From:  koswix  
 To:  Chris (CHRISSS)     
41498.111 In reply to 41498.110 
If you choose hibernate on mine it acts like it's hibernating, but when you boot up again it's a fresh boot. There's nothing in error logs etc. to say the hibernate failed. Sometimes it works, though.

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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)  
 To:  koswix     
41498.112 In reply to 41498.111 
I'm sure I used to have a computer that used to do that when trying to put it into standby. Never used the hibernate mode til I've had this laptop. And power options in the BIOS related to it maybe? Had a fucking sod of a job changing the PCV hose on the Mondeo. Had to remove loads of electrical connections, clips for cables and hoses routed around it, 8 bolts holding it in place, 2 were fairly easy, 2 were awkward and the rest just couldn't be seen without holding my mobile with the camera switched on with the torch pointing between bits of car to direct myself on the screen. 2 big splits in it and the car is mostly back together now.

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