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jimbo45 said:

Hi there
Mines's just the same as normal --note though using W10 for Workstations.

The settings screen and the options are a total mess as far as languages are concerned -- was working fine in build 1005 now it's totally broken with bits of both languages I've installed all over the place with no logic over the translated pieces either --still this is a test build so I'll just live with the defect.

Cheers
jimbo

Ah yes. If you make the window narrower it reverts to the old layout. maybe it's always done that and I've not noticed.

Edit: Just tried it on slow ring and it behaves the same.

jimbo45 said:

Hi folks
Another "Semi Defect"

Running photoshop get error : photoshop encountered an error with the display driver - disabling some enhanced features.

I've got Intel display graphics BTW -- will do further checks on this

again I'm using the W10 WORKSTATIONS PRO version rather than the straight W10 PRO

WINAMP -- that old faithful still working -- got some silly message about DIRECT X but didn't seem to stop the program from working properly.

Bit cross about not being able to use Bridged networking in VMWare on the VM as I can't get access to some machines from the LAN.

That might be a showstopper as far as using it in a VM is concerned.

It's fine with a couple of glitches though on a real machine

cheers
jimbo

There are some minimum system requirements for PS Photoshop system requirements You may not have OpenGL 2 at a guess.

@jimbo Have you noticed any differences between Windows 10 for Workstations and Windows 10 Pro - performance or otherwise? Mostly curious since I WFW as a VM. Certainly does seem worth it to buy a license.

Still no drive letters in Explorer.

Tried with Tutorials, for current user, set ShowDriveLettersFirst to 0, close regedit and open ... value is set back to 2 (don't show)

Setting value for all users, has no effect

Strange. WU updated Windows 10 for Workstation to Windows 10 for Workstation N!?!

jimbo45 said:

Hi @martyfelker

Hi there
If you have the hardware - I'd go for it -- on modest hardware it might not be of any difference but at least you don't have all the rubbish bloat.

It'd definitely geared to higher spec machines.

I'm --now I've got the licenses -- going to try the standard release of W10 for Workstations!!
VMWare still flakey on Linux Kernel 5.2.x -- tried on Fedora 30 -- Ubuntu also problems

At least with Linux distros you can install (the Linux Distro -- not Windows !!) in about 7 mins flat on decent gear though so no probs trying various distros and kernels.

I haven't done any benchmarking but W10 Workstations is definitely is a LOT snappier on dual XEON machine with 32 GB RAM.

You could try by downloading via UUPDUMP -- select W10 PRO and add the extra edition and at install you can choose between W10 Pro and W10 Workstation-- you could do a few tests before you have to activate which should give you an indication of whether you want to go further with it.

I chose ENG-GB edition -- maybe that doesn't have an "N" version -- don't know !!!! -- I clean installed anyway as I didn't have a "starting" edition of W10 Workstation to upgrade from.

Cheers
jimbo

ENG-GB. Still being a member of the EU has to offer an N version.

@johngalt: thanks for the pointer to TechBench dump. I did some IP2Location lookup and found it's hosted in California, USA. I've seen other sites like this hosted overseas that seemed more suspect. That said, the DNS record for the two IP addresses for the site are pretty sparsely filled out. Sigh.
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