Windows 10 oddities

[mrme01]

Hello to the folks of this very fine forum, this is my first post on this particular part of the internet.

 

I am currently dual booting both Windows 7 and the 10 beta on my laptop. The reason for this is Microsoft have a history of releasing unmitigated bum when it comes to every other OS release. (related, NSFW http://imgur.com/gallery/PwzRDvx //EDIT: after multiple tries, I cannot get this link to work properly. It had a ')' at the end, but no amount of edits would update the actual code that makes the link work and it now forever has a ')' as part of the URL. Delete the ')' once clicked on to get the link to work. Otherwise, enjoy the weird animals with creepy eyes.
 

As this is a release post Windows 8, history would indicate this will be a decent OS, however I've never had the amount of issues that I'm having with it. I had the 7 beta installed on my old computer for the longest amount of time and using it was an absolute joy. Even in its half baked state, it worked really well. The new taskbar design blew my mind.

I ran Windows 8 for all of a day in beta, release and 8.1 respectively before I found myself nuking the partition from orbit, well, disk manager. 

I plan on running both the beta in the fast circle whilst updating my HP OEM copy of 7 to the release version come the 29/07, just to see what might be coming to me as a mainstream user or whatever fun stuff they have planned.

So, getting back to 10. For the record, I realise this is beta code, but we're a month away from release and it's like wading through treacle at times. 12 clicks to get the start menu to open last night. Now it won't open at all. I have to control+alt+delete to shutdown. Luckily I have everything I need either pinned on the taskbar or a shortcut on the desktop. I ran (as admin) a Powershell command to fix it, turned UAC back on and that worked for a while. Switching back to the Windows 8 style menu didn't do a thing either. Both forms of the start menu are broken for me.

Then we get to the biggest WTF here, it doesn't see my WiFi! It lists every single damn network around me (including printers), but my own. It's visible, I had a guest over last night and he could connect to my network just fine. I had to set up a second router (of the same brand, ISP provided me with two to help identify a fault I had a while back), that it connects to just fine! Is it something to do with the name, perhaps? Mine and the girlfriends laptop (Both running 7), two Android phones (HTC One M8 (mine) and a Samsung Galaxy S5 (hers)), an iPad 2 and a Chromecast connect to it just fine. 10, just refuses to see it, even when I try to use WPS. I've sat the laptop a foot away, waited 5 minutes for the SSID broadcast to be received by 10. Nothing. The name doesn't contain anything odd, it's just a phrase I made up with no spaces. 

I'm not asking for help here, but if you have any advice to give here, it would be appreciated. What I am saying here is I've never had issues like this with a beta so close to release. I've had it on here for the 2nd time now, last time I removed it as I needed to do an emergency recovery of a friends drive and I needed the space. That was an older build, but ran just fine on here. If you're looking to use the beta as a desktop OS, expect some weird issues, even after release. I really hope this release follows the trend of good/bad/good, but at this stage, it's looking to be another Vista for me at least. 

Please comment below with your thoughts and opinions on both Windows 10 and my long ramble on the issues I'm having with it.

Mark

[Arty]

i have been using windows 10 since luanch and have no any problems

as for start menu this happend once i openned task manager and ht restart on the explorer.exe 

your on the latest build right?

and i don't UAC anyway so i can't tell if that makes a dif

[mrme01]

i have been using windows 10 since luanch and have no any problems

as for start menu this happend once i openned task manager and ht restart on the explorer.exe 

your on the latest build right?

and i don't UAC anyway so i can't tell if that makes a dif

Hi Arty,

 

I've restarted both explorer.exe and the machine, several times and it's still broken.

I normally run with UAC off as I find it to be more of a hinder than of any actual help. I don't see why it's so important to the start menu though, doesn't affect any other release, including 8.

I am on the latest build, with all updates installed, both Windows and app updates.

I would tell you what that is, but I'm in 7 right now.