NoelC

Sounds like you've already gotten to the bottom of the problem, but for what it's worth, I never lost the blur yesterday, and I worked much of the day full screen with 3 monitors. I did see the DWM memory increase quite a bit, though not over 2 GB. I'm in a pretty good condition to test things right now, so if you need more specific multi-monitor testing, let me know. -Noel

That's the simple answer - thanks, Andre. Chances are we won't get updated libraries until after VS2015 is released, though. I guess it's unreasonable to hope for full compatibility at the library level (and to be fair, there are only a few errors). But at least we already have the benefit of the updated compiler and the additional warnings it emits. It's pickier now about creating local variables with the same names as globals or statics, which I found a couple of instances of. And there are some changes with regard to using floating point function overloads (e.g., pow and sqrt are now double-only, you have to use powf and sqrtf). I didn't see anything new turn up from running the code analyzer though. -Noel

Hi, I have a C++ solution that builds properly in VS 2013. I've installed VS 2015 RC to figure out what may need to change in order to be able to use the new IDE when it releases. Our code compiles cleanly, but we link to several 3rd party libraries that we have gotten from external sources, and the linker is putting out error messages that imply we're either missing some library that was split off from the standard library, or that maybe the 3rd party libraries have to be built with VS 2015 in order for us to link successfully. The specific errors we're seeing are of the form: ThrdPrtyLib.lib(error.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __iob_func ThrdPrtyLib.lib(parserInternals.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __iob_func ThrdPrtyLib.lib(error.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol vfprintf ThrdPrtyLib.lib(error.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol vsnprintf ThrdPrtyLib.lib(xmlstring.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol vsnprintf ThrdPrtyLib.lib(xmlreader.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol vsnprintf LIBCMT.lib(vsnprintf.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol vsnprintf ThrdPrtyLib.lib(cryptlib.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _vsnwprintf ThrdPrtyLib.lib(cryptlib.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _vsnprintf LIBCMT.lib(vsnprintf.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _vsnprintf I've done a fair bit of searching on the net for this issue and have gotten a feeling that this isn't a new problem just with 2015 RC but with 2015 in general, and have seen some implication that the latter note I mentioned above (a need to rebuild all the libraries also with VS2015) may be pertinent. Have you any thoughts or workarounds? Thanks in advance. -Noel

I didn't do anything special here to disassociate .key from the registry and I don't have the registry icon on donation.key. Might it be something done for particular languages? -Noel

Last time I used our iPad's keyboard I was sitting in the front seat of our RV, trying desperately to see enough eMail text on one tiny screen to make sure I didn't leave any customer needing support unanswered for too long. Took me 2 times longer than it would have if it were a laptop with a decent sized screen (and maybe more importantly, a mouse pad), which again would take 2 times longer than if I was just sitting in front of a desktop system with a few monitors and a real mouse and keyboard. At least that Microsoft commercial showed a game being played, which is really the only thing such a device is good for. Gamers and media consumers probably love modern times, though... They get to play with their toys and watch their videos with the entire industry trying valiantly to convince their bosses they're not toys. And not to worry; the bosses are distracted by their own toys. Who cares if the entire business crumbles. -Noel

Fair enough. Mine has the latter (blank page) icon. Somehow donation.key may have gotten changed to donation.reg. Now we know why smart people change the system configuration so that the file extensions always show. -Noel

Don't forget that the default setting for Windows is to "Hide file extensions for known file types". Many people disable that when they first set up windows. Note that "Kayit Girdileri" is "Registry Entries" in Turkish. Atlanis, open debug.log and list the information here for Big Muscle to look at. It will say why it is doing what you're seeing to someone who knows what to look for (as Big Muscle does). -Noel

I do. "Hip" IS plainly stupid. The terms "hip" and "serious, for work" are polar opposites. The latest Microsoft commercial I've seen for Surface 3 devices has a user interacting with the tablet only a few times, minimally. The whole rest of it, with apparently meth-addicted people tapping out a loose rhythm on things is as stupid as they come. Note that they don't show the people's faces. -Noel

It would have been way too not-hip to ask whether the PC needed to be part of a domain or not. -Noel

Sorry, I should have thought of that up front. http://Noel.ProDigitalSoftware.com/temp/debug.log I believe it was around 7:30 pm that I exited 3 monitor full-screen mode. Edit: VMware just crashed while running the VM, so it's dead and gone now and I can no longer force any crash dumps or anything like that. I'll probably try running full screen mode again soon as fully immersing myself in the OS is a good way to try to determine if it's acceptable. I'll report back if it fails similarly again. -Noel

There's a direct (if VERY convoluted) way to instruct it to create a local account, by the way... And here we thought Microsoft hid the option in plain sight before... -Noel

I was able to get to the "legacy" control panel applet that controls desktop icons by (in Classic Shell) searching for "desktop icons". -Noel

Hey Big Muscle, This version may be causing a memory leak in DWM. I used Win 10 build 10074 all day yesterday in a fully "immersive" sense (i.e., I ran my VM full-screen across all 3 of my monitors). I did a bunch of things like run Visual Studio 2015, Beyond Compare, Tortoise Subversion, and other software development activities. It actually seemed to work pretty well; I never noticed any glitches. But... At the end of the day, using the VMware controls I dropped out of 3-monitor mode, then dropped out of full-screen mode and back to the normal 1920 x 1200 pixel mode I usually use, and I noticed I'm no longer getting any blur. I still have partial transparency, but no blur. And DWM is holding well over 2 GB of RAM. The allocation doesn't seem to be attributed directly to DWMGlass.dll or UxThemeSignatureBypass64.dll, however. And I'm not presently running ModernFrame.dll at all. I still have the VM running and can keep it this way for some hours as needed... If you'll suggest the best way to capture a dump I'll be happy to provide one. -Noel

>lightness of OS I got Win 10 just under 40 running processes and consuming a hair over 1 GB of RAM earlier today. No OneDrive, no indexing, fresh bootup so that it didn't start a number of the things Microsoft feels comfortable leaving running... Then I installed all my apps and subversion and stuff, and now it sits at about 50 processes and after having used it all day to run Visual Studio 2015 RC it seems to be chewing up 3.5 GB of RAM just sitting here. Must be a few leaks still... -Noel

Look closely, they're there in the drop shadow resources, but you may want to set the FrameMargin setting in the DWM key in order for the corners to be proportioned pleasingly. Values of 2 or 3 seems to work pretty well. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\DWM] "FrameMargin"=dword:00000003 -Noel

By the way, I see you left SmartScreen enabled. You sure you want to do that? From this page: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/smartscreen-filter-faq

Yes, I've been getting spurious reminders of "scheduled restarts" as well, even when there's nothing pending. I thought at first it was because I had set the group policy to ask before installing updates, but I created a new VM and installed 10074 afresh, leaving alone the update settings, and I still get it. Likewise, I clicking on reminders takes me nowhere. -Noel Edit: Sean, I've been able to get Windows to stop checking for updates on its own (at least mostly) by changing settings in the Group Policy editor. Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update, then choose Configure Automatic Updates and select Disabled.

And advertising, which will be much more effective (i.e., they can charge a premium for well-targeted ads) if they track you. -Noel

Try the one listed near the bottom of this page: http://www.glass8.eu/download.html -Noel

I found those panels, no problem... Interestingly, I found the "Show color on taskbar and Start menu" setting off. Turning it on did not correct a problem where the system auto logs on after bootup up with a gray taskbar. Logging off then on again does correct that, though. -Noel

Believe it or not after a reboot that problem is now gone for me too. Maybe they slipped an update in. VMware's support for Win 10 is actually pretty good. I've been refining my theme atlas. I found some mistakes in it, and I'm trying to set up to handle any active window color, not just blue, but I find it difficult to get quite enough color in the border without pushing the opacity up, and I like things to be mostly translucent. This works with 10074. Let me know what you think. http://Noel.ProDigitalSoftware.com/ForumPosts/Win10/10074/RoundedCorners.png -Noel

I have 10074 only in a VM. I had 10061 Enterprise on hardware for a while but that hardware has since been used for a Win 7 install. -Noel

Probably just a glitch in 10074 then. Thanks for checking. It's all new together... -Noel

Nice! Came right up and worked. Have you thought any more about a way to have the ModernFrame.dll re-color the caption text on Metro/Modern windows? I do realize I'm on the lunatic fringe using white, but I like it... :-) I did notice one small glitch... As you can see above I have my Taskbar on the top. When I hover over a button on the Taskbar the top part of the screen goes black briefly. I managed to catch it in action in this screen grab... In about 1 second after seeing the above it clears up and shows the Taskbar Live Preview normally. It might just be happening during the transition when the preview from the prior button is being faded to the one for the current button. -Noel

I'll take your word for it. I don't find reading what smaller-minded people have to say about high-tech pleasant. It frustrates me at a fundamental level, mostly because where we are today is only a tiny bit of where we could have been by now. Would you say, since about ten years ago, we're closer to: A. A Star Trek future? B. An Idiocracy future? -Noel