Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Fast+Skip Build 17046 for PC Insider

Kari said:

Geeks, if you want to list all SYS files in Windows\System32 folder, remember that most of them (in fact almost all of them) are in various subfolders. You must include subfolders in DIR command with switch /s to include those in listing:

dir /s *.sys

This finds 865 SYS files on my laptop. Without subfolder switch DIR command only shows content of current folder.

Alternatively, open File Explorer, browse to Windows\System32 and search for files with extension sys with ext:sys.

Correct. I was going to mention this when I first read Marty's first post, but glad I decide to finish the thread first.

Directly in /sytem32 I have only 6 files, 3 from (presumably) my Logitech devices and 3 win32k. But adding the subdirectory flag I find 782.

@martyfelker, perhaps you're remembering .DLLs instead of .SYS? I find 3500 .DLLs in /system32....

Same on FCU

Apparently we are to get a lot more fluent in forthcoming builds. Am I only person on this forum who really does not care, or even particularly like it.

To me, this is like painting an old house to make it look nice for selling, without investing in fixing underlying issues.

cereberus said:

Apparently we are to get a lot more fluent in forthcoming builds. Am I only person on this forum who really does not care, or even particularly like it.

To me, this is like painting an old house to make it look nice for selling, without investing in fixing underlying issues.

I'm not particularly Ga-ga about it either but it's a nice touch and like to see some reaction to mouse-over, just to be sure it's active.

Edwin said:

What I don't get is......

When Windows 10 came out, in all it's bland, white washed glory, everyone wondered where all the attractive illuminated buttons and bars, etc. went!
Argument was: "We're making it so the CPU/Graphics work more efficiently"

Now we're getting more and more of all this 'Fluent Design' and dancing window animations!

What gives???

For all Microsoft's claims that W10 was light on graphics it has always needed a WDDM 3D driver which W7 never did.

cereberus said:

As we would say politely in UK, it is bollards.

I thought it was Bullocks?

kado897 said:

For all Microsoft's claims that W10 was light on graphics it has always needed a WDDM 3D driver which W7 never did.

This is only because Windows Vista and 7 included both XDDM and WDDM from which a driver manufacturer could choose which to use. WDDM is a lot faster and has more features than XDDM.

Update: The heavy development of WDDM 2.x between each new releases of Windows 10 also explains why we have a lot of display driver issues with older display adapters. Hardware manufacturers/driver developers simply can't keep up with all the changes.

Josey Wales said:

I thought it was Bullocks?

That's bollards - LOL
I can't say I have heard people say bullocks as the accentuation is on second syllable and could easily be confused with the less polite term.