Windows 10

[yorknomore]

This seems massively over the top. I have an old dual core laptop with 4gb of RAM running absolutely perfectly, no prioritising of programs, no slow-down on anything basic. obviously struggles with resource intensive programs, but no way you'd need more than 4GB for everyday use!

I was referring mainly to the use of resource hungry programs or if you are using multiple programs, if you want a machine to run at an optimal and you are a casual user then 4gig is the standard ram you would need, however if you yourself are happy with your system you don't need to fix what isn't broken.

 

[blueparrot]

Try the following first:

Thanks I'll try that when I get home.

 

[Pride_In_Battle]

I was referring mainly to the use of resource hungry programs or if you are using multiple programs, if you want a machine to run at an optimal and you are a casual user then 4gig is the standard ram you would need, however if you yourself are happy with your system you don't need to fix what isn't broken.

Fair enough :) As you said, RAM is cheap enough and easy enough to install, that if that is what's causing a bottleneck it's pretty easy to fix.

 

[Stato]

i will echo what the others have said too 8gb is over the top, you only need 1GB to run 32-bit Windows 10 and 2gb for 64-bit.
i would recommend double for both but as long as you meet the spec you should be fine.

 

[pudge]

@pudge, open 2 explorer windows and copy & paste the following into the address bars and post screenshots (you may need to turn on show hidden items in the view tab):

C:\Users\Public\Desktop
C:\Users\xxxx\Desktop (replace xxxx with whatever your user name is)

I couldn't load a second tab using a username, no matter what I typed in there was no page to be found.

 

[Centurions]

I couldn't load a second tab using a username, no matter what I typed in there was no page to be found.

Ahh, sorry. I meant file explorer not internet explorer. I'll blame that on MS's naming of them.

 

[pudge]

Ahh, sorry. I meant file explorer not internet explorer. I'll blame that on MS's naming of them.

Even then I used Chrome lol

When I do the username one it just comes up as my previous pic so I'm just recycling that

 

[crooky]

i will echo what the others have said too 8gb is over the top, you only need 1GB to run 32-bit Windows 10 and 2gb for 64-bit.
i would recommend double for both but as long as you meet the spec you should be fine.

4GB is so 2010 though even for a bog standard PC. I think 8GB will soon become the norm so the more the merrier I'd say. The absolute best upgrade for improving PC performance on day to day tasks is easily a solid state drive though. Just got one to revitalise my 5 year old laptop with Windows 10 coming out and it absolutely flies now it's gone from a boot time of about 120 seconds to about 35 with similar improvements on the usual tasks.

 

[Centurions]

Even then I used Chrome lol

When I do the username one it just comes up as my previous pic so I'm just recycling that

That's strange, Windows has decided that all your apps are installed as public which means if you set up another account they'll see them (in theory) whereas if they'd been set up as private then only you would see them. Yours seems to be the wrong way around.

I'm not sure if it's the Microsoft account versus Local account that's screwed things up, you could try creating another (local) account and see if that account can see them in the desktop folder.

Alternatively you could select everything on the desktop and hold down ctrl while dragging to your folder to create copies as suggested earlier by yorknomore. I would then try installing something else (absolutely anything will do) and see if it creates a shortcut on both.

 

[Tricky Dickys Right Foot Shot]

Sorted out my own problem, seemed like I had to do another 7 updates via windows update, they sorted out my GPU drivers, as for the Ethernet problems I was having it seemed like I had to update my network drivers manually through device manager, when I did an automatic check for updates it said they were already using the latest version, I went on Intel's driver page and found out they weren't using the latest Windows 10 drivers!

Pretty piss poor this having to manually update shit on my own especially after waiting 9 hours for the fucking thing to update from windows 7 to windows 10!