I have a Samsung Galaxy media device that the first thing I did was "root it" to take full control over and sideload applications.Originally Posted by thedon809
I have a Samsung Galaxy media device that the first thing I did was "root it" to take full control over and sideload applications.
Working on clearing the decks.
I did the Technical Preview for Windows 10 as soon as it came out. I've used Windows 8 with Classic Shell over it and it was bearable at least. (I still have a big problem with the fact that free third-party software is needed to make major paid-for software usable) The Windows 10 tech preview, other than the resizable Start menu, looked exactly like Windows 8 + Classic Shell. It was pretty obvious that Microsoft had spent all their time talking about how great 10 was rather than actually developing it.
Meanwhile, LMDE 2 is kicking a$s on one of my laptops. I've got Windows 7 Pro x64 on the other one, and as much as I hate to say it, it has been extremely reliable and fast even on 6-7 year old hardware. At this point, for me, Windows 7 is probably going to end up like Windows 2000: there is going to have to be a massive lack of support for me to consider getting rid of it.
However, I have Windows 8 to thank for getting me into Linux. I've distro-hopped quite a bit in the past few years, and as far as a viable Windows "substitute" for the masses, it really doesn't get much simpler than Linux Mint with Cinnamon. You could drop that in front of anybody that's used to XP and it would take about 5 seconds to get familiar with it. Not the fastest desktop environment, but it's intuitive and polished. Mint, from what I can tell, has a massive worldwide community support base too.
Jon J.
1989 Daytona ES 2.4L DOHC
2003 Neon SXT - gone but never forgotten
If it ain't broke, fix it 'till it is!
ok im running it on al 4 pc now love it and the multi media centre is running way fast and less glitch y im just going to re connect my two 4 tera drives back on my network an test them
"this sucks more than anything that has ever sucked before"
-Butthead
lol
Grrr... ranting... stupid computers... freaking... dammit...
Got Windows 10 "up and running" on two machines right now. I say that in quotes because neither of them are all that great. My laptop, I had to fight with video drivers just to get it to work. Now, if I open the Start menu and hover over any of it, all text disappears until I restart (not hibernate, not sleep, not refresh... need to completely shut down and reboot for it to come back). On both machines, scrolling doesn't work in the app store or in Edge. It works fine in Firefox, IE, file explorer, image viewer, etc.
One was a fresh install that I have no speed comparison for. The other was upgraded from Windows 7. I will say 10 starts and resumes super fast. However, during use, it's laggy compared to a fresh install of 7 on the same box.
Last but not least is a stylistic thing that I realize not every one cares about: the whole thing looks awful! There's a thread on the Microsoft support site that is now nearly 1200 replies long begging for Aero to return. I totally agree on that one. The flat window borders and toolbars look like a high-school-level Intro To Programming exercise. It's like if I gutted the interior in my Neon, took heat and A/C out of it, and put skinny drag wheels on the back, all while doing little to nothing to the engine. Will it be marginally faster? Technically, it should be. Is it idiotic and senseless for a daily driver? Yup. I'm gonna say that Windows is a daily driver for nearly all users.
If every other Windows release sucks, did they doom themselves by skipping 9? Could we have back-to-back suck now?
Last edited by jonnymopar; 08-16-2015 at 08:37 AM.
Jon J.
1989 Daytona ES 2.4L DOHC
2003 Neon SXT - gone but never forgotten
If it ain't broke, fix it 'till it is!
My gal had it installed for a few days, took it off and went back to 7.
Great stuff for great cars! Poly engine mounts and bushings at: http://www.polybushings.com
Just installed windows 10, now MPtune (2.0.4.9) won't load. It just hangs at the startup screen.
Is there a more updated version, or is something in my system borked?
edit: Looks like I have to run it in Windows 7 compatibility mode.
but the compiler doesnt even try to work.
Last edited by iangoround; 08-22-2015 at 10:18 PM.
this is weird - my home pc with win 10 that i have been running for a couple weeks now started experiencing the same issue today. i had to go into both .exe programs and set the compatibility mode to win 8. my other test computer with win 10 is working just fine! i'll check into this some more.
89 Voyager LE, 2.5T2 - rest in peace
87 Charger Shelby T2 (2.4 conversion in process)
ahhh i had to go though getting rid of Yahoo again god i hate there pop up's sneeaky
It's still running fine on my Asus 2-in-1. But, there' a Win10 'cumulative update' downloading. I'll let you know if it stops working after that.
i spent a considerable amount of time yesterday trying to hunt down the issue. i think i have it narrowed down to the way win 10 handles xml files. i had to rewrite a bunch of code in mptune to get it to work properly, i.e. not use any xml serialization. i still have to figure out a way in mpscan to get it to work. looks like there is going to be some serious "googling" this week. if setting compatibility mode works for users at this point then great, otherwise i'll hopefully have a workaround in the next week or so.
89 Voyager LE, 2.5T2 - rest in peace
87 Charger Shelby T2 (2.4 conversion in process)
When I first put it onto my work laptop it broke the touchpad drivers. Had to delete them and let windows re download the correct ones.
Last edited by thedon809; 08-24-2015 at 10:53 AM.
Hmm, MP Tune didn't give me any issues even with the latest updates this morning. I'll try MP Scan.
EDIT: Yeah, don't seem to have any issues with MP Scan either.
I had uninstalled MPTune on this machine and reinstalled it, thinking something got messed up in the update. MPTune runs in win7 mode, but I don't think the updater works. When it runs it downloads everything, but when it goes to update the MPTune.exe it thinks that it is still running (it's no, checked task manager), and eventually times out and aborts.
it appears the issue is tied to the net framework version. if i set the framework to ver 4.0 or higher it runs perfectly, and all serializations, special collections work. if i drop back to ver 3.5 (which is what i had been using to maintain compatibility with win XP/vista) it bombs. i'll keep digging. don't know why it works on some v10 computers and not on others.........
89 Voyager LE, 2.5T2 - rest in peace
87 Charger Shelby T2 (2.4 conversion in process)
Now for some reason it opens, but immediately crashes. The updater doesn't want to run either.
did you set the compatibility mode to win 8? also, in the c:\users\"username"\appdata\roaming\mptune directory there "may" be a error file called mpterrors.txt or mptapperr.txt. if there is would you post that up?
89 Voyager LE, 2.5T2 - rest in peace
87 Charger Shelby T2 (2.4 conversion in process)
Not specifically. I couldn't even find in win 10 how to do that.
Right click on the shortcut icon or program executable and go to PROPERTIES. There should be a tab in that window labelled COMPATABILITY
So I uninstalled it and installed it again, set it to run in windows 7 compatibility mode and it worked. I also set the updater executable to run in windows 7 mode, but that didn't seem to solve the issue. I wound up grabbing the files it downloaded before I closed the updater window and manually renaming them after the updater closed.
The error log exists, but it is empty.
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