[Update] Windows 10 Discussion
03-10-2014, 14:24
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Re: [Update] Windows 10 Discussion
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Windows Media Player can't play DVDs in Windows 8(.1) either you have to have the Pro edition with Media Center add on. But in answer to your question yes VLC will play DVDs if it runs on Windows 10
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DVD playing was removed already by Windows 7 if not earlier
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03-10-2014, 16:43
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Re: [Update] Windows 10 Discussion
No for Windows XP you needed in codec, don't know about Vista but in 7 Windows Media Player could play DVDs from a clean install
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04-10-2014, 17:10
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Re: [Update] Windows 10 Discussion
no codec needed for VLC Player.
VLC Player is the best Player. Plays everything you throw at it.
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04-10-2014, 17:42
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Re: [Update] Windows 10 Discussion
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The TV programme was called The Prisoner and Patrick McGoonan was the main character if my memory serves me right. Ken
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Correct. I was paraphrasing as there was always a new number two. As there is always a new version of Windoze.
Seems all the later versions of windows, now coming at us faster than revisions of Firefox , are seemingly downgrades of earlier versions with worse GUI's and inferior or lost features. M$ loosing the plot methinks.
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04-10-2014, 18:20
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Re: [Update] Windows 10 Discussion
My fav GUI is windows 7 atleast this doesn't look like tellytubby XP or windows 98.
I would love to put a windows 7 theme on this when I get it.
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05-10-2014, 18:06
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Re: [Update] Windows 10 Discussion
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My fav GUI is windows 7 atleast this doesn't look like tellytubby XP or windows 98.
I would love to put a windows 7 theme on this when I get it.
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You can get rid of the "tellytubby" stuff but it needs a lot of work in the registry and using GUI tweaking tools to remove the froth.
Trouble is when they bring out the next version I have to start again from scratch to weed out the crap. Tends to stop me from embracing newer versions.
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05-10-2014, 18:08
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Re: [Update] Windows 10 Discussion
If they improve the accessibility as much as they did in windows 8,then I'll be very happy with 10
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05-10-2014, 18:18
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Re: [Update] Windows 10 Discussion
I like windows 8.1 on the whole. Made a lot more usable with the help of Classic Shell. The Start Screen tile crap was a big mistake.
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05-10-2014, 20:57
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Re: [Update] Windows 10 Discussion
just playing around with windows 10 tech preview dual booted it hope they leave the choice of start screen and start menu like they got in this in final version then everyone can be happy looks good so far
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06-10-2014, 08:54
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Re: [Update] Windows 10 Discussion
Will probably be pulling the hdd out of my laptop this weekend and drop a ssd in it with a copy of this on it, and see what it's like but to be honest at the moment I have not seen anything from the videos that makes me want to upgrade, to it when it's released even if it's free.
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08-10-2014, 09:50
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Re: [Update] Windows 10 Discussion
A recent update switched the start screen to the desktop in 8.1 with the tile screen now a click away, which is how it should have been from the beginning.
I hear Win-10 has got virtual desktops, it's taken them long enough....
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08-10-2014, 15:28
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Re: [Update] Windows 10 Discussion
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I hear Win-10 has got virtual desktops, it's taken them long enough....
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Yeah, that - something that Windows users have had to download an 3rd party application for that other major OS's have had for many years.
Very handy feature I intend to make heavy use of, as I'm someone who typically has 20-30 windows open per PC and 2-3 remote desktop sessions going at the same time.
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08-10-2014, 15:34
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Re: [Update] Windows 10 Discussion
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something that Windows users have had to download an 3rd party application for that other major OS's have had for many years.
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Not always 3rd party
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/w...#2TC=powertoys
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/s.../cc817881.aspx
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08-10-2014, 16:26
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Eh, well the first (for XP) was released seven years after XP itself, and three months after you could no longer buy XP. The second (for Vista support) was released six years after Vista, and two years after you could no longer buy Windows Vista.
Sure, you could get the non-3rd party software if you were willing to use a two generations old OS ;-)
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