Upgrading to Windows 10
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Haven't upgraded yet - some of my family have. Quite a few people report initial problems getting compatible drivers.
I've just reinstalled Windows 7 onto the laptop add it is still buggy, I won't be installing it onto my main pc for a while yet
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Still mainly 7 but running 10 on a Surface Pro 3 and its been problem free for me; that said I've not actually used it a lot...I will when I get it back off daughter lol.
Well hopefully it all goes smoothly and i'll be back online in a couple of hours, currently 75% downloaded, main reason i am going ahead is i am having glitchy issues with win7 and my new gopro hero 4 camera and i am hoping the upgrade sorts them out
I went ahead and upgraded at the time. My only real niggle was it mucked up the power settings on my Acer laptop. Kept resetting the display brightness to zero when turning on on battery. This meant dragging out the power cables to bring screen to life so I could reset it. Now fixed. Other little thing is that it removed the "Lock" screen. Handy if needing to be away from the laptop for a minute or two.
Apart from that it does boot up faster though I try to keep the comp running pretty bare bones and not clog up the memory which helps. There was a lot of trawling through turning off sharing software and plugging security leeks, most modern machines love the idea of "The Cloud" which I don't; I know it has uses but I don't want them.
On the whole I'd say it's a pretty smooth transition. All my non Microsoft programs seem to be running fine, I was worried about things like Libre Office not running as I don't want to be paying an annual fee for Microsofts which I feel is a rip off.
No longer use my printer or scanner so don't know about drivers for those. But all the other peripherals I use, cameras, memory storage, MP3's, Kindles and the likes run nicely still.
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Apart from that it does boot up faster though I try to keep the comp running pretty bare bones and not clog up the memory which helps. There was a lot of trawling through turning off sharing software and plugging security leeks, most modern machines love the idea of "The Cloud" which I don't; I know it has uses but I don't want them.
On the whole I'd say it's a pretty smooth transition. All my non Microsoft programs seem to be running fine, I was worried about things like Libre Office not running as I don't want to be paying an annual fee for Microsofts which I feel is a rip off.
No longer use my printer or scanner so don't know about drivers for those. But all the other peripherals I use, cameras, memory storage, MP3's, Kindles and the likes run nicely still.
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I refuse to be brow beaten into downloading it until Edward Snowden and or the white haired wiki leaks fella says it's ok to download and use.
Libra Office runs fine on 10 - I just changed to Libra as Kingsoft decided to add a Watermark to everything I printed!
Been using it since it first became available and not really had any problems, a few things I don't like but that is down to personal preference rather than actual problems.....the only thing that really annoys me (and there is probably a way around it if I could only be bothered to look) is the fact that I cannot simply use a right click resulting in a dropdown menu to create a shortcut to a webpage and drop it onto the desktop, though you can still re-open a page with IE and do it that way.
My Scanner and printer are both over ten years old (not used often) and both worked straight away and didn't need anything doing, as did camera's, MP3 players etc.
DB
My Scanner and printer are both over ten years old (not used often) and both worked straight away and didn't need anything doing, as did camera's, MP3 players etc.
DB
