Windows 10 update not working - disable AVG = fix?? Maybe...

Hi,

Just a quick post but I wanted to get this up because I think I've got round my windows 10 update issue and possibly this might help someone else?

So I've been struggling with updating windows 10 this evening. It has not been automatically updating, so I gave it time, I waited for the notification from Microsoft which never came.

Seemingly windows update just wasn't finding the windows 10 update.

This post at Venture beat seemed to be the solution:
http://venturebeat.com/2015/07/28/how-to-force-windows-to-start-downloading-the-windows-10-update-files/

But I still couldn't get it to work.

Then I tried disabling AVG anti-virus... and now it's downloading...

I don't know why this seems to have worked but if anyone else is struggling to get windows 10 updated as well and you have AVG then try temporarily disabling it and then running through the steps on the above link.

Best of Luck!



** Important Update**

I think the old Cisco VPN client is causing issues. My upgraded has succeeded but I've lost all my network connections. They show in device manager but nowhere else, so no network access, internet access etc.

If you are doing the upgrade and have the VPN client installed I would strongly recommend uninstalling it first.

I'm not 100% sure if this is the reason but I'm not taking the risk on the next PC I upgrade!

vSphere client on Surface pro 3 / Windows 8.1 input issues

So here's an irritating issue... I have a Surface Pro 3, I really like it, however there are a few niggles and issues but on the whole it's great. (You generally get issues with new versions of windows anyway, anyone remember vista? and windows 7 wasn't perfect for a long time, although it's pretty damn stable now). 

One of these issues was that I couldn't use the VMware vSphere client to control virtual machines using the console on my SP3. The cursor wasn't in sync with the screen. I'd put the cursor in the middle of the screen and it would register further down and off to the right. This made it almost impossible to click anything. I got around this by creating a virtual machine and using RDP to connect to the virtual machine and then connecting that way but it's a bit of a mess.

So here's the actual solution, if you right click the vSphere client icon > Properties > Compatibility > then check the box which disables display scaling on high DPI.

This runs the application natively on the display, which makes everything very small because the screen resolution is fantastic, but I kinda like this, you get more real-estate. It messes up a few positions such as text boxes slightly screwy but at least it works!

I couldn't find any other pages which detail this issue so hopefully this'll help someone else with the same issue.