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There are some things I love about Windows 10, like virtual desktops (welcome to the 90s Microsoft!) but there are some things that irk me: * Pretty login scre

by Zikes 11y ago

There are some things I love about Windows 10, like virtual desktops (welcome to the 90s Microsoft!) but there are some things that irk me: * Pretty login screen photos, with a link at the top-right saying "Like what you see?". I click the link expecting to get the source for the image, instead I get "Cool, we'll show you more like that." So much for that nice new desktop background I was hoping for. * Automatic updates leak RAM like a bloody sieve. I have 16GB of RAM, and every time it downloads an automatic update that RAM will inevitably fill to the brim. Eventually it'll also fill the page file, and the whole thing virtually grinds to a halt until I finally reboot and install the updates. * Automatic update finishes and I see a friendly message saying "don't worry, all your files are right where you left them!" Two minutes later I see "Program X is not compatible with this version of Windows, so we uninstalled it for you." * Frequently resets default programs to MS applications, usually as a result of a large automatic update. The inconsistency of this is the weirdest bit, it never resets the default browser, but every few weeks I have to re-set the default PDF reader and image browser. * Managing screen resolutions/positions is not "advanced". Microsoft needs to sort out their configuration screens, this half-arsed hybrid Win10/Windows 9X system is just getting worse and worse.

eco 11y ago
You wouldn't happen to have a Killer Network chipset, would you? There has been a bug in it for a long time (since Windows 8, at least) that causes it to gobble up memory in a particularly frustrating way because the utilization doesn't show up in Task Manager. Installing the latest version of the Killer Networking driver fixes it [1]. You can also prevent the bug by disabling the Windows Network Data Usage Monitoring Driver by changing the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\Ndu to "4" (disabling it). 1. http://www.killernetworking.com/support/driver-downloads http://www.killernetworking.com/support/driver-downloads
soared 11y ago
I've had many of these same problems, with the addition of automatic driver updates breaking my display and forcing me to spend an hour fixing their (M$, lenovo, I don't care. read: Not My) mistake. I've searched, but have you found a list of those login screen pictures? I want them.
- Zikes 11y ago
  My display breaks often as well, but I can't tell if it's my AMD drivers or Windows. Either way, it's more steps than should be necessary to just "put things back the way they were" when it happens. I haven't dug into the login screen pictures at all. After my first attempt to get the source, I just gave up on it. The funny thing is, if they hadn't put that "Like what you see?" link in at all, it wouldn't be as big a deal. It would still be a bit disappointing that I couldn't easily get to the source, but the fact that they got my hopes up and then disappointed me makes it that much worse.

by Zikes 11y ago

eco 11y ago

You wouldn't happen to have a Killer Network chipset, would you? There has been a bug in it for a long time (since Windows 8, at least) that causes it to gobble up memory in a particularly frustrating way because the utilization doesn't show up in Task Manager. Installing the latest version of the Killer Networking driver fixes it [1]. You can also prevent the bug by disabling the Windows Network Data Usage Monitoring Driver by changing the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\Ndu to "4" (disabling it). 1. http://www.killernetworking.com/support/driver-downloads http://www.killernetworking.com/support/driver-downloads

soared 11y ago

I've had many of these same problems, with the addition of automatic driver updates breaking my display and forcing me to spend an hour fixing their (M$, lenovo, I don't care. read: Not My) mistake. I've searched, but have you found a list of those login screen pictures? I want them.

Zikes 11y ago
My display breaks often as well, but I can't tell if it's my AMD drivers or Windows. Either way, it's more steps than should be necessary to just "put things back the way they were" when it happens. I haven't dug into the login screen pictures at all. After my first attempt to get the source, I just gave up on it. The funny thing is, if they hadn't put that "Like what you see?" link in at all, it wouldn't be as big a deal. It would still be a bit disappointing that I couldn't easily get to the source, but the fact that they got my hopes up and then disappointed me makes it that much worse.