Windows 10 - Thoughts?
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I've been a win 10 user for about 10 months now i think, i think my feelings about it might for once best be described in emoticons
:You_Rock_
:vio::yikes:
All in all very similar to some of my previous windows operating system experiences, not as fluid as Xp at it's peak, a billion times better than any version of windows 8, far far superior to any version ever of Vista, in ways reminiscent of windows 7 but if you had tweaked with your settings to make the transparency effects subtle, definitely worth it for free and if i was buying a new pc i would be installing win 10 on it
:You_Rock_:vio::yikes:All in all very similar to some of my previous windows operating system experiences, not as fluid as Xp at it's peak, a billion times better than any version of windows 8, far far superior to any version ever of Vista, in ways reminiscent of windows 7 but if you had tweaked with your settings to make the transparency effects subtle, definitely worth it for free and if i was buying a new pc i would be installing win 10 on it
Cant believe I am saying this but its actually pretty good! Thats coming from someone who has used/fixed/support and installed windows since version 3.x.
Usually they release an OS and its good, then they release a half working OS, then fix it by the next release. Hence XP=good ME=Awful 2k=good vista=terrible.
It doesnt mind huge hardware changes as in rip a drive out of one machine chuck it in another machine, it finds hardware changes and gets on with it rather than a BSOD. It runs fast on old hardware and is pretty easy to use. Looks good and nicely laid out.
You will hear chirps of "it will send your underwear size to Microsoft every 2 minutes" Yes there is a lot telemetry which can pretty much all be disabled. Not even tried to get on with Cortina as I can type instead.
I say go for it whilst its still free.
Usually they release an OS and its good, then they release a half working OS, then fix it by the next release. Hence XP=good ME=Awful 2k=good vista=terrible.
It doesnt mind huge hardware changes as in rip a drive out of one machine chuck it in another machine, it finds hardware changes and gets on with it rather than a BSOD. It runs fast on old hardware and is pretty easy to use. Looks good and nicely laid out.
You will hear chirps of "it will send your underwear size to Microsoft every 2 minutes" Yes there is a lot telemetry which can pretty much all be disabled. Not even tried to get on with Cortina as I can type instead.
I say go for it whilst its still free.
That is hilarious!!!
I'm somewhere in between the 'you rock' and 'good job' emoticon
the emoticons were my chronological feelings from install day to now
10 months = say 300 days. 109 emoticons - 1 emoticon per 2.75 days, so I suppose thinking about it I'm on the second roll around laughing emoticon.
It just feels like all those ones up to the 'you rock' are involved with installing.
Some of the folks in the office have skipped ahead to the ranty shouty emoticons - but they are just like that anyway
Anyway to the OP, I think it's better to update than not...
It just feels like all those ones up to the 'you rock' are involved with installing
.Some of the folks in the office have skipped ahead to the ranty shouty emoticons - but they are just like that anyway
Anyway to the OP, I think it's better to update than not...
Not as bad as I expected. I loved XP, then finally bought Win7 since we were using it at work, and still are. I put up with the nagging for a while, but realised that eventually they would pull support from Win7 and if I didn't go with the upgrade, I would have to pay.
I never really bonded with Win7 like I did with XP, but there was less of a jump between XP and 7 than there was between Win 7 and 10. The Tablet aspects of the menu system, and the Apple-esque programs still trip me up.
The upgrade was easy, the easiest software install I have ever done. All installed programs were still there, still working.
Then it all went wrong when I tried to check an ancient Zip250 drive and the driver caused Win10 to go to an unrecoverable blue screen of death! I had to use another installation of Win7 on a separate drive to download a full install file of 10, which was free, and wipe my 128Gb SSD and start again. Interestingly, the SSD was almost full and I think that the upgrade to Win10 stored a huge amount of recovery data on my C Drive which was almost enough to make it unusable in the long term. I have read that Win10 has a reverse function to uninstall itself and that must mean it keeps all the earlier OS available. Fresh installation didn't do anything like that and there was plenty of space again.
Fresh install wasn't bad, but had a nightmare with some of the old software which required Java. The software needed a version of Java which was older than the oldest version that Win10 would run.
The Windows Picture and Fax viewer disappeared totally and was no longer available to preview photos, it was fine when I did the upgrade, but the fresh install hid it. I found a fix, but it involved a Registry Edit!
Overall I am happy enough using it. There are annoying aspects that result from the attempt to make one OS work for tablets and PCs, but most of the time I can work without noticing this. Nothing so annoying as I wish that I hadn't upgraded, but nothing so great that I would hate using Win 7.
I never really bonded with Win7 like I did with XP, but there was less of a jump between XP and 7 than there was between Win 7 and 10. The Tablet aspects of the menu system, and the Apple-esque programs still trip me up.
The upgrade was easy, the easiest software install I have ever done. All installed programs were still there, still working.
Then it all went wrong when I tried to check an ancient Zip250 drive and the driver caused Win10 to go to an unrecoverable blue screen of death! I had to use another installation of Win7 on a separate drive to download a full install file of 10, which was free, and wipe my 128Gb SSD and start again. Interestingly, the SSD was almost full and I think that the upgrade to Win10 stored a huge amount of recovery data on my C Drive which was almost enough to make it unusable in the long term. I have read that Win10 has a reverse function to uninstall itself and that must mean it keeps all the earlier OS available. Fresh installation didn't do anything like that and there was plenty of space again.
Fresh install wasn't bad, but had a nightmare with some of the old software which required Java. The software needed a version of Java which was older than the oldest version that Win10 would run.
The Windows Picture and Fax viewer disappeared totally and was no longer available to preview photos, it was fine when I did the upgrade, but the fresh install hid it. I found a fix, but it involved a Registry Edit!
Overall I am happy enough using it. There are annoying aspects that result from the attempt to make one OS work for tablets and PCs, but most of the time I can work without noticing this. Nothing so annoying as I wish that I hadn't upgraded, but nothing so great that I would hate using Win 7.
It does depend on what PC you have. I have a Samsung laptop at home - Samsung didn't develop any Win10 drivers for their older laptops, so going to Win10 would mean losing some functionality. Not Microsoft's fault at all, just Samsung being cheapskates.
So for a generic PC, I'm not sure there is a good reason not to accept the free upgrade. For something like a laptop, check you can get drivers for everything first, then create a rescue disk for your current system, and only then try the upgrade.
So for a generic PC, I'm not sure there is a good reason not to accept the free upgrade. For something like a laptop, check you can get drivers for everything first, then create a rescue disk for your current system, and only then try the upgrade.
I bit the bullet two days ago and it seems to have taken over from W7 pretty seamlessly.
I had a few minor issues with drivers that needed updating and I went through and turned off all the annoying privacy breaches like Cortana but otherwise it seems OK on the two machines that I installed it on.
One useful tip is that if you do install it, use a free little utility called "Produkey" to extract the W10 serial number. That way, if you change your hardware later on or decide to uninstall it for any reason, you can still make a clean install of W10 for free even after tomorrow when the offer runs out.
I need to keep my operating system reasonably up to date so I can leverage the latest photo and web editing software and knowing that I will continue to get updates after 2020 when W7 support finishes was a good enough reason for me to make the change while the offer still stood. I still held out as long as I could though because I liked W7 so much.
I had a few minor issues with drivers that needed updating and I went through and turned off all the annoying privacy breaches like Cortana but otherwise it seems OK on the two machines that I installed it on.
One useful tip is that if you do install it, use a free little utility called "Produkey" to extract the W10 serial number. That way, if you change your hardware later on or decide to uninstall it for any reason, you can still make a clean install of W10 for free even after tomorrow when the offer runs out.
I need to keep my operating system reasonably up to date so I can leverage the latest photo and web editing software and knowing that I will continue to get updates after 2020 when W7 support finishes was a good enough reason for me to make the change while the offer still stood. I still held out as long as I could though because I liked W7 so much.
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I got mine with a new laptop and it works OK - but I do seem to have lost access to some old photo files for some reason....
That will be the porn blocker John.
You need to adjust the settings because it doesn't like pink.
You need to adjust the settings because it doesn't like pink.
LMAO 😂.
Anyways, Windows 10 seems ok. I upgraded the mother in law's laptop and she's over the moon with it...
It boots faster and it just works.
(Just remember , Back up!!!
Back up all your files before upgrading, as sometimes things go belly up , especially in the Windows realm.)
... I gave up on Windows years ago, the relentless antivirus business, the dreaded and sluggish updates and the constant clogging with temp files just kills windows systems for me.
I don't use Mac or Windows .
I'm a poor and inpatient man so
I use the very easy , very fast and light, no fuss , FREE, unbreakable , quick to update and virtually immune to viruses...
Linux
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