Windows 10 Build 10240 for PC is now available

Joanne said:

Hey, yes!! It works! Thank you very much! :)

The 24h time format that I like to use works! It has finally appeared on my Welcome Screen! :)

I have also tried to apply a 12h time format, both in my native language -which I use because of the other metrics- and also in United States English. Unfortunatelly, the AM/PM does not appear on my system, neither in English nor in my locale. Personally, I do not mind this since I am always using 24h time format, I'm just mentioning it though.

Anyway, thanks a lot! :)
It finally works the way I want it! :)

Glad of being helpful and to know you finally have it the way you like :)
And thanks for reporting about the issue with 12-hour time format not displaying A.M. and P.M. on the Lock Screen. Just like you, I prefer using the 24-hour format and I haven't tested it. I'm going to report this straight away. Still so many bugs to squash less than a week to prime time. July 29th? It's going to be soooooooooo fun!

Lee said:

The 29th of July 2015, will be just like Christmas. . .you will be excited to get up and open your presents, albeit when they are all open and the day has come to an end. . .the excitement is gone. It just seems to be a big let down. For some reason you were hoping for more, however, it just wasn't there what a BUMMER. . .:). . .Have a Happy 29th of July all. . .

Just hope that box in which present came is not more exciting than present itself !!

CountMike said:

It's difficult to know what exactly is wrong on someone's else system, how much it was modified etc.

Rocky said:

Joanne, I am sorry that you are having issues, I am not having any issues. I read your entire post (posts) very thoroughly and none of those issues beset my system. All of my live tiles function as they should and I have no screen blurriness or anything else that you mention. Of course my situation is way different than yours or many other people's situations around these parts. I only have one computer in the house, it is the desktop that I am on. I have no laptops or any other computers. Windows 10 is the sole OS I am using, I am not dual booting or running a virtual machine. I have ALL of my programs loaded into Windows 10 as I am constantly doing my hobby stuff with audio and video projects. I have run into ZERO ISSUES. To me this OS just works. It sits n the background and lets me do what I want. It s everything that an OS should be, clean, fast, efficient and bug free. That is my experience.

BunnyJ said:

+1.. We need to know what has been modified in the registry etc. With out the knowledge it's hard to really help out.

Hello, and thank you, all of you who have offered to help, have shown interest, have expressed their experience with Windows 10. I’d like to answer to a few things:

Nothing in my system is touched in a dramatic manner, neither in the BIOS nor in my Registry, besides a few changes I always apply.

I always clean-install Windows 10 using an official Microsoft ISO. One time or two I’ve also installed a build “from out there” but this was just out of curiosity and I have not kept it for long. Always clean-installation from the official MS ISO.

Clean-installation [is always performed] on an unallocated SSD, the Samsung in my system specs, it being the only drive connected in my system during OS installation. From this and just this you can understand that my BIOS is always on Optimized Defaults. Because to unplug the drive(s) and plug them back again, I need to clear CMOS which sets my BIOS to Optimized Defaults. Of course, I always disable a few things in the BIOS, like the on-board audio since I have a discrete soundcard, Intel Virtualization Technology, the ASMedia SATA controller, Smart Connect, and finally I load my RAM’s XMP profile. All these take place before Windows 10 clean installation.
Right after the installation I install my drivers in the following strict order, and I reboot after each one: Intel .INF file, IME driver, AHCI driver, LAN driver, NVIDIA driver, and afterwards my soundcard’s driver. Immediately after all this, and even before installing my Soundcard driver, I switch to my MS Insider account, verify it, and set Win Update to Fast.

Then I install all my regular programs, not all at once but during the course of a day or two.

Registry changes/hacks? None, besides those who correct the non-smooth shutdown/restart of my computer. I’ve also lived without these (hacks) though. The result was that 9 out of 10 times an application (DDE Server Windows or Program Manager etc) was preventing my PC from shutting down/rebooting right away. So I applied those Registry changes. Nothing else.

In my system I am…obliged, it is compulsory, to always use 125% Zoom. From “Use these recommended settings” –and not from Custom DPI- I always set both of my monitors to 125%. In Windows 7 I do the same and have done it since forever. Absolutely no issues of blurry text in Windows 7, ever. Now, I realize that something has changed since 7. And even though it is huge for me I have compromised with this blurriness in all those very useful Windows components. The people who do not see blurriness should first check out their monitor’s dot (pixel) pitch, their monitor’s (recommended) resolution, and finally if they are applying a 125% Zoom or not. If I won’t apply any Zoom either, there is no blurriness, anywhere, but everything is minuscule, of course. So, it is under these specific circumstances that the blurriness appears and…. how serious or rare is this? We will see… I have compromised with it, this is why I do not mention it so much anymore, but we will see how many other people will compromise as well, when the High DPI displays will become the norm. My personal hope is that the majority of these Windows Components, together with the Control Panel, will pass under the Settings menu, which displays excellent on my screens.


To end this huge post, I’d like to explain a bit my tone of dissatisfaction. I’ve familiarized myself with all the bugs I have referred to, but…it was the Artifacts on my Desktop that surprised me very negatively today!! I have never seen that before! Since yesterday and in all the previous days my desktop wallpapers were displaying superbly! My personal and subjective opinion is that it was today’s Hotfixes that caused this new issue (the artifacts). Because yesterday when Win update installed the latest NVIDIA driver I have not seen any artifacts. Anyway, I have now clean-installed the 353.30 NVIDIA driver and the artifacts seem to be gone. I hope the update won’t install the other driver again.

Thank you.

PS: Just of curiosity, Rocky, have you had the "time format issue on the Welcome Screen" resolved already, without the solution posted by Jackalito, above? The notification's icon on your Taskbar never-ever does light up without a reason, ie no notification in your Action Center? Your computer is shutting down/restarting without any annoying notifications and without those registry changes? If all the previous are working in your system I'm happy for you! :)

Joanne said:

Hi, hi, hi... I went in the other room a bit and when I returned Win updated had already downloaded the latest NVIDIA driver and was asking me for a restart, lmao...

So, my time has come to ask, as well :

- How can I prevent Windows Update from downloading my GPU driver? :)

Thanks..

Use DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller) to uninstall your current drivers in safemode. By doing so, this wonderful application will ensure WU won't override your display drivers once you restart back to the "normal" mode. Then install your working driver and restart.

DDU: http://www.wagnardmobile.com/forums/...7ab3c70a60768b

Let me know if it doesn't work, because I have a plan B ready (just in case)