Windows 10 questions
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You can enable or disable the Hybrid Shutdown, w/o any problem if you have compatibility problems.
And no, Hybrid Shutdown has nothing to do with the battery life.
A machine turned off is turned off, no matter if the HS is in use.
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that doesn't seem correct. here's a quote describing the operation:
"The goal of Fast Boot is pretty obvious from its name - Windows 8 boots up faster than previous versions of the operating system ever did. To accomplish this feat, Windows 8 doesn't totally shut down when you click the Shut down command. Instead it only partially shuts down and partially hibernates. This is the Hybrid Shutdown part of the equation. Then, when you turn on your computer, Windows 8 starts very quickly because it only has to partially boot up and partially wake up. This is the Fast Boot part of the equation. Fast Boot also gets a boost from the efficiency of today's hardware; namely UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) and multi-core processors".
if you are not plugged into the wall and on battery, this will drain your battery faster. my father in law has win 8 and his (from completely charged) is dead (without use) around the 2 month mark or so (perhaps faster). my windows 7 laptop (with a battery half the size of his, and mine is 3 years older) has never had any battery drain that i noticed even 5 months later (without using it and not being plugged in).
unless you're saying win 10 does it completely different than win 8?
but its good to know i can turn that feature off.
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does win 10 give access to appdata like in 7 (users/appdata/roaming)?
'cuz i have minecraft installed, and in order to mod it out, you have to fiddle with your data. do you still have this level of access in win 10?
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that doesn't seem correct.
What's wrong in my description?
Hibernation is not suspension.
A fully hibernated computer is a fully powered off one, hence a partly hibernated computer is still fully shut down.
What changes from the normal boot is that part of the needed data are loaded sequentially from a big file, instead of loading them per file, as happens in the classic boot process.
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does win 10 give access to appdata like in 7 (users/appdata/roaming)?
'cuz i have minecraft installed, and in order to mod it out, you have to fiddle with your data. do you still have this level of access in win 10?
File structure of Win10 is nearly identical to Win7 and 8. Access to files is the same. UI is much more similar to 7 than 8. On my 8.1, I had to install Classic Shell to get away from the abominable Metro interface and back to the Win7 experience. On 10, it's looking like that will be unnecessary for most people. The transition from 7 to 10 will be pretty much seamless.
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you said a "Hybrid Shutdown has nothing to do with the battery life", not "a fully hibernated computer". you're changing what we're talking about. i agree that hibernation doesn't affect battery life. but as i quoted techrepublic: hybrid shutdown "only partially shuts down and partially hibernates".
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File structure of Win10 is nearly identical to Win7 and 8. Access to files is the same. UI is much more similar to 7 than 8.
good to know. i figured there shouldn't be much problems with minecraft considering microsoft owns it now, but they do occasionally do odd things.
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you said a "Hybrid Shutdown has nothing to do with the battery life"
I write it again if you prefer Hybrid Shutdown has nothing to do with the battery life.
The sentence is right now as it was the first time i wrote it.
Then you should decide if you want the right answer, or if you want someone that backs your prebuilt (and wrong) idea about the matter.
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Is there any way to turn off Cortana & prevent the flow of information to Microsoft?
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Is there any way to turn off Cortana & prevent the flow of information to Microsoft?
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/turn-cortana-on-or-off
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The UK magazine "PC Advisor" issue 242 September 2015 had an article on "upgrading from XP" and mentioned a utility called
"Magical Jellybean Keyfinder" which searches registry for this info.Note: I haven't used it, that's why I mentioned it was from a magazine article. You can search/investigate yourself to verify the safety of the utility.
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I don't think the upgrade process will ask for the key.
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It does not. If your copy is legit and activated, it just upgrades you, leaving all your files and software in place.
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It does not. If your copy is legit and activated
It does not. If your copy is activated. To be more precise.
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Is there any way to turn off Cortana & prevent the flow of information to Microsoft?
http://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/ultimate-windows-tweaker-4-windows-10
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Actually, the only way to turn off Cortana completely is to rename it:
http://superuser.com/questions/949569/can-i-completely-disable-cortana-on-windows-10
If you only turn Cortana off in the settings, the process will still be running…
There is also a way to uninstall the built-in modern apps - as some people don't have any use for those:
http://www.howtogeek.com/224798/how-to-uninstall-windows-10s-built-in-apps-and-how-to-reinstall-them/ -
Actually, the only way to turn off Cortana completely is to rename it:
http://superuser.com/questions/949569/can-i-completely-disable-cortana-on-windows-10
If you only turn Cortana off in the settings, the process will still be running…
There is also a way to uninstall the built-in modern apps - as some people don't have any use for those:
http://www.howtogeek.com/224798/how-to-uninstall-windows-10s-built-in-apps-and-how-to-reinstall-them/I've played around with this and it breaks my Windows, in the previous comment I posted, there are two links for two different programs, one of them can disable built-in apps that can't be deleted, such as Store, Cortana, etc. It's better and safer to just disable them than delete them, because most likely if Windows doesn't fail to start, you will get a sh*tload of errors after that.
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You can follow my guide here to remove the components on an installed windows or even before install it.
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I have a legit W8.1 copy, I'm wondering if W10 is going to ask me the product key again to activate.
Any tested way on retrieving my W8.1 key from my own pc?try Belarc Advisor (i'm not 100 percent it will give it, but it gives lots of info)
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i can now confirm that there is a battery drain in windows 10 when shut down.
i upgraded my notebook (win 7 starter - which when fully charged, did not lose any charge even when being off for over 4 months). however, now with win 10, a 100% charged battery when turned off for just under 2 weeks has lost 7% of its life. advice to the contrary is simply incorrect.
i rolled back to win 7 starter for this reason. on a positive note, rolling back was very quick and easy. and i can still elect to return to win 10.