Thank you both for your replies.

I realize now that I expressed myself unclearly. I do not really want to stop W10 from updating the driver, I want to stop W10 from updating to the AMD SATA...

Finally I upgraded my old desktop from W7 to W10, not very pleasant...

Apparently, the AMD SATA Controller is not compatible with W10 and will not be made so, instead AMD tells us to roll back the...

This worked and gave me white text on dark taskbar, but... it also changed all the icon text to white on light background. How on Earth can this be such a hard thing to get right? What are those...

W10 Fall Creators Update (ver 1709) and this silly issue still persists?!
Either it must be a very hard bug to track down, or none at MS cares about this... so many small bugs in W10 that together...

Thanks for the tip. Been there, done that...
As I mentioned above, the task bar shows 24-hour clock, only the weather app insists on am/pm. And the settings on the Control Panel time tab are exactly...

W10 Creators Update (ver 1703) and this silly issue still persists?!
My time formats are set to 24-hour clock, just as shown in posting #5 above, the taskbar clock shows 24-hour time, but the...

Adding insult to injury, the anniversary update changes the home network back to public, so no network devices can be found. W10 more and more looks like a sorry mess...

No sorry, not the AU,...

I have this strange issue with viewing locally stored pdfs in both Edge and Chrome.

I posted about it here Strange issue with pdf's and Chrome on Surface Pro 3... - Windows 10 Forums but got zero...

Thanks for the comments and ideas. I'm sorry for being away from this thread for so long...







This all happened to me on my W10x86 running in Virtualbox 5, so maybe Jim has a point....

The other night I watched my Surface Pro 3 failing to install the Anniversary Update three times(!) before it finally managed on the fourth try. And yes, I watched it all, I even clicked "Restart...

Strange things are happening here on my W10x86 Pro system, and I am worried...

After being shut down for some time, I turned on this computer yesterday Monday, and it finished configuring some...

In tablet mode, long pressing the windows icon in the task bar will pop up (at release) a menu like that in step 4 above. There the Task Manager is available.

None of the above described ways to...

Tap and hold (long press) is unfortunately not exactly the same as mouse right-click, as it first selects the long-pressed word. This is not good, and counter-intuitive as selecting a word has always...

Hello,
I hope someone has some insight into this strange thing...

I have for years had my HD split into two partitions, one C:\ for windows and D:\ for my own data, not the stuff that windows...

Why do they do this?

I recently did the update of my W10x64 pro to version 1511 build 10586, and now I am discovering all kinds of annoying changes of my settings. In no particular order:
* Caps...

Fix it, of course :)

Sorry for not replying earlier...

My SP3 is still flaky when it comes to switching between tablet and desktop mode. There is definitely something going on within W10 related to this switching and...

I suddenly have the "can't find that page" problem with Edge, and this did not solve anything for me. That box was already ticked.

What happens here now is that every search ends up with the...

Yesterday I installed the cumulative update. Today I did a cold restart. Now the email app constantly crashes, it comes up and then just freezes until it eventually closes itself (or gets closed)....

It is still (even after the recent update) flaky here on my Surface Pro 3, now it works, now it don't...

My Surface Pro 3 just now installed the cumulative update for x64 systems, and now it seems that the rotation lock in tablet mode broke. It is disabled in the Action Center, and I am unable to turn...

Brilliant! Thanks for this.

I don't know if the cumulative update I just now did broke something, or if it always was this way, but now running Chrome in tablet mode does not automatically bring...

I guess you are using the new Edge browser. Yes, there are lots of functionality and settings missing yet from Edge. Hopefully, these things will be added in future updates. In they mean time, why...

Today out of sheer luck I solved my problem. Instead of using the email app to set up the account, I used the calendar app.

What I tried to do was set up connection to my company exchange server....

Yes, of course.

But here is a very strange thing... I just now decided that I'll give it one more try after numerous failed attempts yesterday and this morning. Only now I used the calendar app to...