windows 10

[MikePA]

I have Microsoft office installed on my windows 8.1. Do you know if you will loose it with the upgrade of windows 10.
Then you have to reinstall it???
It's would be a pain in the butt if this happens. I just don't want to loose a half of a day playing with my PC.

During the installation, you are asked if you want to keep personal files and apps.

 

[k0ua]

I didn't lose anything in the way of programs or files during the installation. Of course the things like calculator and notepad changed their looks a bit, but you don't lose anything.

 

[k0ua]

I did notice it apparently reset my "scroll" settings on my touchpad mouse. So I reset that back to where I like it. I did not sign up for a microsoft account so I could use Cortana. I havent messed with one drive.. Also the sound driver for my sound card was upgraded, and it moans about that every time it reboots.. Havent fixed that yet.

 

[rekees4300]

I did not sign up for a microsoft account

Glad to hear that's still possible. Have no intention of giving the M$ propeller-heads any personal data. BTW some Windows 10 default settings need to be turned off unless you want your computer to send your data to M$ automatically where it will be shared with "trusted third-parties"! Translation: we will sell your data to whatever advertisers we wish and you have nothing to say about it!

Windows 10?s default privacy settings and controls leave much to be desired | ExtremeTech

 

[randy41]

Glad to hear that's still possible. Have no intention of giving the M$ propeller-heads any personal data. BTW some Windows 10 default settings need to be turned off unless you want your computer to send your data to M$ automatically where it will be shared with "trusted third-parties"! Translation: we will sell your data to whatever advertisers we wish and you have nothing to say about it!

Windows 10?s default privacy settings and controls leave much to be desired | ExtremeTech

on the other hand then you get ads for stuff you really are interested in

 

[buckeyefarmer]

It is taking hrs to upgrade my sons laptop.

Can't download to mine yet, not offered yet.

 

[MikePA]

Can't download to mine yet, not offered yet.

Do you mean when you click on the link I posted you cannot download it?

 

[buckeyefarmer]

My sons was listed in the windows update list. Will try the link.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Well has taken an hr to download from the link, then as soon as it started to config it had to do more updates.. Computer was all updated before I started.

My son's computer has been on 91% for the last hour.

 

[Gafn]

I had an i7 ASUS Republic of Gamer's laptop with Win 8.1 - decided to install Win 10 (I don't perform upgrades anymore)

I download the windows 10 ISO and burned to DVD. Booted from the DVD and performed a clean install (no reformat kept all my data and old windows files incase I needed to roll back)

So far system operates much faster, however booting up and shutting down are slower.

It is a stable install with no issue in installing programs, streaming, and heavy internet traffic - I forced a 100GB download at 12 MB/S and recorded sustained activity without interuptions, so basically the internet operation within the OS will run at the maximum speed of your internet link, or your hardware. I forced a 1 TB wireless multi-file transfer @ 300 MB/s and it ran flawlessly as well - so wireless local network operations score very well. Wired transfers run at Gigabit speeds.

Had a glitch in installing the latest Nvidia video card drivers - took 3 attempts to get them to remain installed.

Installed VMWare and started my old windows 7 box and played out dated games, ran outdated programs, and browsed outdated files within the Virtualized windows 7 Pro system without issue.
Performed the same for old Vista system that I virtualized as a test box, runs without issues.

All in All - if you can do a clean install - I say go for it... Win 10 will be good to go...

If you MUST have you old Win 7/Vista/ ETC... systems - I say install Win 10, and VMware cleanly, Perform a VM Convertion on your old systems, making them virtual, and run the Win 7 virtually on Win 10 - This is one way to never lose any of your old systems - they will be preserved to the data that you converted them to VM...

If you have upgraded to a new system with more RAM and CPU - then you will get the benefit of running you VM server on that new more powerful system...

Best of all VMWare Player, and VMWare converter are free tools offered from VmWare.

 

[davesl708]

I have a question for the group that has Win 10 (since MS has not answered it).
I have Win7 pro. Will the free upgrade to Win10 also be pro or will I get stuck with some home version?

Thanks,

 

[MikePA]

I was running Win8 Pro, the upgrade was to Home. I looked at Win10 Pro and there's no feature I want to pay $100 for.

 

[davesl708]

I was running Win8 Pro, the upgrade was to Home. I looked at Win10 Pro and there's no feature I want to pay $100 for.

Ok. Thanks MikePA.
May not be worth the upgrade time. I don't have much faith in MS's programmers. Seems to be hit and miss on operating systems.
Don't see much in Win 10 to make it worth the time to download the third party stuff to get it to do what 7 does now.

 

[MikePA]

Ok. Thanks MikePA.

You're welcome.

May not be worth the upgrade time.

If it wasn't free, I would not have upgraded.

I don't have much faith in MS's programmers. Seems to be hit and miss on operating systems.

At work, we've noticed a decline in the quality of the patches. MS recently laid off a lot of programmers. There might be a connection. And the way they are pushing Office365, they clearly see their future is subscription based offerings, at least at the corporate level.

Don't see much in Win 10 to make it worth the time to download the third party stuff to get it to do what 7 does now.

As a Mac user, I only run virtual Windows machines for software where the OSX version is a half hearted version. I also keep a Windows machine around to help others when they have problems.

Most of the PCs at work, over 14,000 of them, are running Win7, with a hundred or so Surface Pro 3 devices, which had to run Win8.1.

 

[Mysfyt]

Not yet but I'm definitely looking forward to it.

My Windows 7 computer died a fortnight ago which meant a 2hr drive into the Big Smoke to buy a new one. I'm a 'stuck in my ways' old fart and the Windows 8.1 of the new system is an embuggerance.

I've practically set up my desktop to mimic Windows 7 as much as I can.

EMBUGGERANCE

Mind if I use that?:laughing:

 

[k0ua]

EMBUGGERANCE

Mind if I use that?:laughing:

I know, that is one of those terms you need to "file away for future use".

"hey fella, you are a real embuggerance"

You can simultaneously insult, and mystify some good for nothing....

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Finally got mine working on win10. That took way too long, but part of it was I upgraded all the Win8.1 updates first, then did a restore save. Took an hr to download using the link mentioned above, and then took over an hr for the upgrade to install. Then, my internet wasn't working. Finally got that going, so basically a whole day shot.
I am creating a win7 VM on my desktop, not sure if I will upgrade that one though. Will see who I like it. I like Win7 and hated Win8 and 8.1.

 

[KiotiKowboy]

Sony says NOT to upgrade the Sony Vaio just yet ... wait for the driver updates to be released.

 

[mddorange]

I have a question for the group that has Win 10 (since MS has not answered it).
I have Win7 pro. Will the free upgrade to Win10 also be pro or will I get stuck with some home version?

Thanks,

My Win7 Pro upgraded to Win10 Pro!!!

 

[Bird]

I stopped by Best Buy just to look this morning; sure do like what I saw. I could download the update for this computer, and guess that'd be the more sensible thing to do, but I'd rather get a new computer with a touch screen.:laughing: Have to think about it awhile, or at least a few minutes.:laughing:

Well, I kept seeing that icon on the task bar wanting me to sign up for Windows 10, and you fellows seem to like it, so yesterday I did. It said it would notify me when it was ready in "a few days or weeks." Less than 24 hours later, I got the notification this morning, so I'm now using Windows 10 on the 2 year old 17" HP laptop. It took ne from 8:51 a.m. to 11:34 a.m. just to get it downloaded and installed. Now I've got to figure out how to change a lot of settings.