To Windows 10 or not?

prawny1 · World Chat Champion Joined: 28 Jun 2005 Karma :

The only programs I have lost are ones that have the same function as built in tools, why m/s felt the need to filter my installed programs during the upgrade is beyond me.

I have had to reinstall my burning software and magicdisc/iso, i'm sure I will come across other things that don't work.

Edit: just checked and realdownloader is gone too Crying or Very sad

and my youtube to mp3 downloader.

:in Gandalf voice: "you shall not pirate"
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panrider_uk · World Chat Champion Joined: 23 Sep 2007 Karma :

Just upgraded a 3 year old Acer tablet with no dramas.

Massive improvement over Win 8
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UncleFester · World Chat Champion Joined: 30 Jun 2013 Karma :

Stuck a GTX970 in last night to replace the old Xfire FireproV9800 cards .... in 3 monitor arrangement running 5760x1080 .... with most of the graphics quality turned up ... a butter smooth 60fps.

Deleted the old Win7 saved OS ... the more I use this, the more I like it.
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Minty · World Chat Champion Joined: 23 Dec 2005 Karma :

I think Bill Gates has been in my pc - since W10 became available, my explorer randomly freezes and has to be closed and relaunched via task manager.

The fucking bully.

Might upgrade my daughters laptop first and let her potentially suffer first.
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weasley · World Chat Champion Joined: 16 Oct 2010 Karma :

Well, as the OP I should update on this. It seems MS have made my decision for me, because although I have reserved a copy I have not yet got the download, so I am happily stumbling along on Win7 Pro.

I have more-or-less decided to upgrade when the opportunity comes, but I am not yet deemed worthy.
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Pete. · Super Spammer Joined: 22 Aug 2006 Karma :

I tried the media creation tool but it kept asking for a valid serial. Might have been something to do with me having an educational license version installed I dunno. Eventually I got win7 to run updates and once (after many hours) it was up-to-date I got the win10 upgrade icon. I reserved my copy and the next tim eit booted I could run the upgrade.

After installing (another long process) the machine ran ok until next boot at which time it fell over pretty badly. Rebooted again and went through the update process it ran fine EXCEPT for MS edge. Installed Chrome, killed the google update service, runs well.

Incidentally, it did say that the upgrade could not be done because of the un-supported graphics card (ATi R1200-something or other). I ignore that and did the upgrade and it installed a basic windows driver. I chose to update the driver, told it to search c:\ and it found the old win7 driver, installed that, listed the card correctly.

This is on an old Satellite running 2GB ram that I donated to my wife's nephew, originally running windows vista I think.
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J.M. · World Chat Champion Joined: 27 Mar 2011 Karma :

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arry · Super Spammer Joined: 03 Jan 2009 Karma :

Upgraded 4 days ago and so far have had 3 total crashes. PC is a couple of years old and I can count on one hand how many times it's crashed before in all that time.

Not impressed

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weasley · World Chat Champion Joined: 16 Oct 2010 Karma :

Soooo, thanks to a megadump update requirement for Destiny and the PS3 last night, I found myself with some free time, so I looked into this whole Windows 10 thing.

It turns out that my PC has been valiantly and consistently trying to update to Windows 10 every day for weeks, but every time the update has failed due to error 80240020 - I discovered this by searching the log in Windows Update. This appears to be associated with a corrupted or incomplete download.

Google and YouTube yielded a load of solutions to this involving deleting downloaded files, running command prompts as an admin and typing a thing appended with "/updatenow" and using Microsoft's smart "Fix it" tools. None of this worked.

So I went for the Media Creation Tool and this worked a charm, acting as an installer with no need to download an image and faff about with anything - it just ran an update and now I am all Windows 10ed-up.

First impressions:

It was less different to look at and use than I anticipated. It looked pretty much like Windows 7, with the only big difference being the tiles on the start menu. I like the native mail, pictures, music etc stuff. Nice to have this built-in rather than have to find an add-on. I know it is not the best solution for any of them, but they are good enough for viewing and low level faffing.

I don't like the fact that it integrates stuff I have no use for, like Windows 10 phone and XBOX; all quickly hidden though.

I have only really spent a few minutes playing with it after update, but so far it appears (to a simple user) more like a facelift than a new model, which is fine as it was all pretty intuitive for a long-term Windows user.
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Rogue_Shadow · World Chat Champion Joined: 10 May 2012 Karma :

One month left to upgrade to Windoom 10!
For free anyway ...

grr666 · Super Spammer Joined: 16 Jun 2014 Karma :

$119 after that if I remember correctly.
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Bubbs · World Chat Champion Joined: 28 May 2009 Karma :

I had no choice... I woke up to find my laptop had self installed it.
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Dennis_B · Nova Slayer Joined: 06 Jun 2016 Karma :

Windows 8.1 is fab and I won't be moving anytime soon.

Minty · World Chat Champion Joined: 23 Dec 2005 Karma :

Go home Dennis, you're drunk.
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Dennis_B · Nova Slayer Joined: 06 Jun 2016 Karma :

I like the tiles. You can see what's going on, I have a Windows 8.1 tablet and that is splendid too. Windows 8.1 rocks and is so much better than Windows 7.

Sload · World Chat Champion Joined: 28 Aug 2011 Karma :

Still on 7, fuck win10 Laughing

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They are vile bastards, if I disable the update notifications they break the auto update.
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ninja_butler · World Chat Champion Joined: 19 Oct 2011 Karma :

The Windows 10 prompt behaves like a PUP malware and tries ot install itself by stealth. Windows 10 itself comes with an EULA that requires you to give Microsoft intimate access to your device or PC and I wouldn't be surprised if somewhere in the small print it says something about selling your soul.

I ain't touching it with a barge pole.