Windows 10

[Lord Warlock]

finally got notified the upgrade was ready to install, figured I'd get the important stuff done before the switch.

[NHCharger]

I think it's free because 8 sucks ass.

Yup. When my old computer died last year the sales lady sold me a new one with 8.1 already installed. wouldn't wish this mess on my worst enemy. 

[b5blue]

  I'm on 10 now. My Toshi ran 7 and crapped out last month so I've a new HP that crashed one week out of Walmart's return 2 week guarantee. Rebooted to out of box I installed 10 2 days ago just to ditch 8.1 ASAP.  I "offed" many auto settings from the get-go.
  Never having a tablet or smart phone much of 10 is useless so far, but as I add them it might pan out?  (We'll see how it does in the months to come?)

[Paul G]

I got on the upgrade list.

[Lord Warlock]

loaded the upgrade, everything seems to work ok except bluestacks player on the pc.  games open but eventually lock up, haven't figured it out yet, been trying new video drivers but no such luck.  Tempted to just ditch the two 7800 cards i'm running in crossfire and go with a newer card that could outperform the current matched pair.  Just not sure I want to spend 200 bucks or not.  would rather spend that on the car instead. 

[BrianShaughnessy]

Upgraded the desktop and laptop yesterday.    Both seem to be running OK.  The laptop downloaded some more stuff tonight from windows update.

[polywideblock]

saw a segment on aussie TV  yesterday  didn't paint a very good picture of win 10 said its a new "low " in monitoring your usage  apparently doesn't just tell them where you go and for how long but monitors "key strokes" too  . not a computer tech head so have no idea what that means but they were getting all in a fuss about it ,just thought I'd pass it along

[Lord Warlock]

According to what I've read, Microsoft is doing the same thing that google does, reports any activity back to them.  You have to figure out where to go to disable the reporting levels, i'm sure its mentioned somewhere. 

Uninstalled bluestacks and reinstalled it and it works fine now.  Now its only figuring out easy stuff like how programs are called apps now, and where links are stored without the menu bar I was used to in the new browser. 

Think 10 isn't as happy with my crossfire'd 7800s, disconnected one of the cards just to see if I could tell any difference, and so far not in any of my current games.  So I'll keep my eyes open for a newer video card, but shouldn't really need one yet.  These have lasted over two years with no problems, and that's usually around when I start looking for a replacement.

[Paul G]

I have been notified that the 10 download is ready for our laptop. Not going to do it just yet.

Upgrading anything from MS, it's like sticking my self with a knife so I can oversee the healing of the wound.

[Dino]

I tried updating twice and twice it failed.  I give up.  I'll stick with 7.

[JB400]

It's getting better, for me anyway.  My computer isn't freezing up as much as it was under initial install.  I'm not liking their Internet program though.  I can't select which webpage I want to go back to by right clicking the Back button, which is a pain.  They also changed the Favorites icon on the top right of the program, so that is taking some getting used to.  I'm not sure why I need a Share icon or a Web Note icon either.

[John_Kunkel]

According to what I've read, Microsoft is doing the same thing that google does, reports any activity back to them.  You have to figure out where to go to disable the reporting levels, i'm sure its mentioned somewhere. 

Takes an app.

http://bgr.com/2015/08/05/window-10-privacy-settings-how-to-stop-spying/

[oldcarnut]

It looks like they voted themselves to be the new pc sheriff 
http://www.dailydot.com/technology/microsoft-eula-piracy/?fb=dd
http://www.pcauthority.com.au/News/407894,microsoft-can-disable-your-pirated-games-and-illegal-hardware.aspx

[Lord Warlock]

I don't have an issue with them catching people stealing software and using it for free, probably 3/4 of china gets it for free.  Microsoft got harder to cheat on over the years, eventually they got smart enough to stop many of us.  At some point you say screw it and buy the software the right way.  I just wish we only had to buy office once.  Luckily office 10 still works with windows 10. Glad I don't have to get office 360.  Office XP was the last software I used inappropriately.

So far, 10 has been very stable, and easy to get accustomed to, I still run into a missing menu list or a program I know is there but can't find it, or a shortcut that was there before, but realized it has nested folders in the favorites list so will get used to it.  Graphically everything seems to work fine if not in crossfire mode,  I need to figure out how to execute a batch process where it enables crossfire when starting a game, then disables it when exit the game.  While i'm going back and forth, I will look for hardware upgrades as I can afford them.  The wife and kids will have to keep themselves updated from now on.  I'm done with their pc needs. 

[bull]

Changes for the sake of changes IMO. Nothing has ever been better than XP.

[A383Wing]

Changes for the sake of changes IMO. Nothing has ever been better than XP.

  XP was the best ever

[John_Kunkel]

XP's 2 GB memory limit is the only reason I changed from it.

[Lord Warlock]

I still think Win95 and 98 were best, xp was ok, vista wasn't bad.  Anything was better than using dos. Its almost funny listening to kids complain about an OS, dos was better than hand typing, but not much, Windows was a light years advance, and win95 made it easy to use.

I'm open to improvement, make something better and we'll all thank you.  Or pay you money if you prefer. 

[451-74Charger]

I loaded Windows 10 onto my desktop Tuesday, did a clean install.

I use box that for Games and eBay only, so no big dealt to me. I had a hell of a job with the SLI GTX 670's, but figured the ports on the card are active and thus windows assigned primary monitor to a port that wasn't used.
Took about 30 minutes to find the command line to force all screens to mirror.
Now i swear my games are clearer.

[Lord Warlock]

I've noticed text in games is clearer on mine too, and games work fine in crossfire mode but app type games do not like crossfire mode so I have to enable or disable it often.  Drivers will improve i'm sure, just giving it time.  It does have me considering a single card solution, since my cards are a bit dated (amd 7850's) don't want to spend much  yet though.  PC's are a lower priority these days.

[Paul G]

I did the 10 upgrade on our laptop. It is an Asus running 8.1. It had a hard time in the begining finding the downloaded 10 files to do the upgrade. Had to manually go find the files, then it went smoothly just took a very, very long time. So far the laptop is working very well. It is an internet machine mostly. No complicated games or heavy computing. So far a big improvement from 8.1.

The problems with wifi just not being there and having to restart the machine all the time are gone. The feel of 10 is better, no big tiles on multiple screens to fight my way through just trying to get back to the desktop screen. Tiles are smaller. Ease of use, navigation between programs seems to be simplified. I have not put much time on the laptop yet, but so far no complaints with 10. Time will tell on that machine. I will wait a bit longer yet before doing the desktop.

A friend did the 10 upgrade to his 7 machine and it crashed on him a few days later. Totally buggered up his machine. He had to source an old win 7 disk to reboot his machine and get back to 7. He lost most of his contacts, and some files were corrupted. He is our club webmaster, so he is not too happy having to manually restore all the old contacts and some of the club info. He does not recommend doing the win 10 upgrade. I dont know if the crash was win 10 related or just the age of his machine, or going from 7 to 10?

[Dino]

The Windows 10 files downloaded to my laptop twice and it was unable to install it.  On our desktop it installed fine but after using it for two days we really didn't like it all that much.  There's an option to revert back to your previous os within 30 days of install so we did.  Windows 10 may be nice if you have several devices and want them all connected and such, but we really don't care for it.  I have a tablet and a laptop but that's it, we don't even have smart phones so there was no point in all of this.  For us Windows 7 is still the best option currently.

[polywideblock]

I'm sticking with 7 , isn't it annoying to get the "get windows 10"  window in a window every time you start your computer ? how do I remove the get win 10 crap ?

[Lord Warlock]

still going good with 10 on mine, I did finally just ditch one of my video cards to avoid crossfire issues, still plan on just getting a more up to date card and going single card for a while. 

My laptop didn't have the upgrade to 10 notification until today, had updated everything before but never got the icon, started the laptop up again after a month and the notification was finally where it was supposed to be, but it still makes you wait for the upgrade...thought the waiting was for the initial release, not forever.  Had hoped to update it before giving the laptop to my daughter, (won't see it again) Decided I would just go out and get a SLI powered gaming laptop with the i7 in it instead of the i5 that was in the current one. 

Still don't need half of what 10 offers, not really into the 8.1 look, preferred 7's look, but 10 isn't drastically different than 7 is and now will continue keeping a new OS up to date.  7 was getting old for me. 

[myk]

The Windows 10 files downloaded to my laptop twice and it was unable to install it.  On our desktop it installed fine but after using it for two days we really didn't like it all that much.  There's an option to revert back to your previous os within 30 days of install so we did.  Windows 10 may be nice if you have several devices and want them all connected and such, but we really don't care for it.  I have a tablet and a laptop but that's it, we don't even have smart phones so there was no point in all of this.  For us Windows 7 is still the best option currently.

Another vote for 7 here...