I think I might have encountered that. I just remember a period where only one monitor was operating at a crappy resolution for a while, then I installed the latest Nvidia stuff for my card, and all was well.
Thankfully, Windows 10 solved an issue for me in 8.1 where I couldn’t open the Weather app at all, so it was showing me the weather for the East Coast for ~2 years when I live on the West Coast. I would have changed it, but the weather app would crash when I launched it for unknown reasons.
I don’t really get this design decision. It was the same on Windows 8, and maybe 7. Sometimes I’m running a game on my “primary” monitor, and it’s nice to know the time… so I don’t know why I can’t see it without opening a browser console and typing new Date\n. I mean, my non-primary monitor is the one that knows about HDMI and DisplayPort, but its color reproduction is significantly worse than my primary (Dell U2410 (crappy) vs 2407WFP).
The clock thing is especially dumb, because it’s not like anything else is happening on my left monitor with the space that the right monitor uses for the clock and tray.
Now I am curious. Is there something I am missing about a Macbook Pro that makes it better than say a Lenovo Carbon X1 or a similarly spec’d Windows based laptop?
I just recently tried upgrading my desktop to Windows 10. Unfortunately, my video card had enough and decided to quit working on me. I built my desktop back in college about 7 or 8 years ago and it was due to upgrade the RAM. Unfortunately the motherboard I had wouldn’t support DDR3+ and had a capacity of 4gb. Which also means my chipset would only work with a few older motherboards.
I did the math and by the time I got a new video card, motherboard and RAM with potential to get a new CPU I was in a deep hole. That said, I visited my local Microcenter and ended up getting a new box, an Asus G10AJ and since they had a sale on monitors too so I picked up a Samsung 34" curved monitor. Least to say, after setting it all up I am wondering how I was getting along with my custom build! Screen is beautiful and the box screams. No Windows 10 upgrade issues with this bad boy.
The best part is my custom build sounded like a 737 taking off when it started with all the fans and the new setup has liquid cooling and I have to bend down to even hear it. This is exactly why I am only allowed to visit Microcenter twice a year because I’m like a starving kid in a candy store.
I think the process was: download some sort of installer, click ‘next’ a few times, then let it install and restart a few times with some more dialogs/wizards in between.
There appears to be some bug with my combination of motherboard, Sandy Bridge processor, and Windows 10, because 137951632% CPU usage seems a bit high. Only found this thread so far, and there seems to be disagreement about whether or not updates are available for the relevant BIOS/UEFI.
After some frustration, I finally got it installed. Really like it so far; nice and minimalistic. No Cortana in Canada for some (surely stupid) reason. I like the new browser and I especially like that there is only one now. It’s nice that the traditional desktop apps and the windows store apps are integrated into one place.
