Rebooting in Audit mode made Windows 10 useable for me

ryans

smilem Would be awesome if you could post the video here.

smilem

"Would be awesome if you could post the video here."

I wasted 3 hours exiting the audit mode, so I can't do this. I do not recommend anyone using this route. Better use Windows server, I tried Windows Server 2022 and it did not dithering on my laptop, but the ICC profiles were not loading and brightness of display was nonadjustable. After I installed drivers it made it dither. But every laptop is different.

Michael-Nurse-Dev

Tried audit mode. The way it is rendering the image to screen is definitely different - I would say better - but it effectively logged me out of everything, uninstalled half my stuff and 'lost' all my local user files - I keep important stuff in the cloud but still there was some mildly useful things in my downloads folder. Will keep testing this mode.

Staycalmsyndrome

Audit mode logs you in the administrator account. It doesn't delete the data of other accounts. Go to C:/Users/"Your account name" and you should find your files.

KM

I recommend that everyone who has success with Audit mode and can afford it buys the $20 microscope that notebookcheck uses (https://ledstrain.org/d/1903-gear-used-by-notebookcheckcom/12) and compares audit mode vs regular mode. If we find something that way, we would finally have some proof that companies can't ignore anymore.

Michael-Nurse-Dev

"we would finally have some proof that companies can't ignore anymore."
They can ignore it just fine. If < 1% of customers have an issue it is not an issue.

JTL

Michael-Nurse-Dev They can ignore it just fine. If < 1% of customers have an issue it is not an issue.

I've written more on this subject before so I'm not going to reiterate, but I have the suspicion that almost all previous interventions failed due to lack of any reproducible "cause and effect" relationship between the issue and potential causes. Is this the entire story? No, but it's certainly a valid starting point.

KM

They can choose to ignore the customers that have the issue, but they can't ignore proof. But I think you got what I meant. Please lets not keep ourselves busy with nitpicking.

smilem

Yes audit mode has no flicker in my case verified with high speed phone camera and lens to magnify pixels.

mrmarkyuk

Just a heads up, you can still download windows 10 (early builds)

head over to https://rufus.ie/en/

it's safe and secure, I'm able to use build 1709 without any problems - just make sure you disable updates once windows 10 is installed.

tfouto

mrmarkyuk Your PC will be vulnerable to attacks.

jordan

mrmarkyuk 1709 still good? No need for audit mode?

smilem

tfouto

Dont be brainwashed sheep. Unless the attack comes from your local LAN, the protections is your antivirus and browser. These should be updated.

ensete

autobot I tried it on my work PC. It absolutely makes a difference, and the difference i positive, but it renders the PC so unusable as a daily driver that it's not really a viable long term solution.

jordan

ensete what about running your monitor as extended ? (Ignoring the first monitor) someone said it works? Also bios to PCIE on 3.0 and not auto supposedly can help?

daniels

Has there been any follow up on audit mode in Windows 10 or 11?

Has anyone else found it to be helpful or otherwise?

And is it useable, without practical issues (people mentioned disappearing software, difficulty exiting it, etc)?

What does one need to know in order to give it a try without running a risk to one's computer?

ensete

daniels I tried it again on Windows 11, and it indeed completely solves the visual problem and I can look at the screen symptom free, but just like windows 10 it renders the PC so usable it's not really a solution.

daniels

ensete Symptom-free is extremely enticing. You mean that it renders the PC so unusable, correct? How so?

ensete

daniels As in no services are running, you can't connect to a network, you can't change the resolution, you can't install application, most applications fail to run at all. the only thing I found I could really use without error was a command prompt.

So yes, while it is symptom free, it's not really useful. You could achieve the same state by turning the computer off. You will have no symptoms and no computer to use.

daniels

ensete Yikes!

But I think that is a good idea: turning the computer off! Then no symptoms!

Back to the audit mode: you'd think that the software engineers would be able to reproduce the symptom-eliminating-changes on a working system.

And you'd think that there would be a market, even if small, to design a sort of minimalist computer and software that could do the minimum without bells and whistles, and would be tolerable.

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