I signed up for it last summer and I have it ready to install whenever, so I think I'm good as far as that goes.
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Windows 10 - Whether You want it or not...
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Yeah, me too. There are some things I like about it and others I hate. It runs all my current apps. Only thing I disliked is it took away all the free games.
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Yes, it has been stable. The only issue I've had is maintaining wifi connectivity. My main desktop at home where I do all my personal development work will occasionally claim it can't find a network. I reboot it and it will be fine for a few days. I never turn it off. Someone else said they had the problem, but Microsoft claims there is no such issue.
Upgraded from 7 to 10 at the end of December on both a laptop and desktop. My only major issue is it seems to have greatly impacted the battery life on my laptop. It went from lasting around 3 hours to only lasting an hour! Has anyone else seen this?
I have Win10 on all my personal computers and my work laptop. I don't really like the interface that much - it is difficult to find functions that are buried deeper than they were in Win7, but once you find them and add them to the obnoxious squares that appear, they become easy to reach.
I absolutely fail to see the virtue of training millions of WIndows users to navigate a specific interface (up through Win7) and then abandoning it (WIn8 to Win10). MS screwed the pooch bigger than most companies could survive, but they were SO determined that they went ahead and did it anyway.
But like most things, you learn to navigate it eventually.
I have not lost any programs from any computer I have loaded Win10 onto. Everything was intact, and for that matter, pretty much everything worked fine. The exception is that I have a Lenovo laptop and evidently neither Win10 nor Lenovo have written drivers for the touchpad. It's not a fatal flaw because the result is that sometimes the left-click button doesn't work. But when that happens, a tap on the touchpad does the same thing...so when that happens, it's one extra touch.
I've checked online and Lenovo seems to be ignoring this - many people with the same model (I think it's a Z580) have the same problem. Lenovo or their touchpad vendor ought to get off their dead butts and write the driver. I don't blame MS for a third party neglecting to update a driver.
I absolutely fail to see the virtue of training millions of WIndows users to navigate a specific interface (up through Win7) and then abandoning it (WIn8 to Win10). MS screwed the pooch bigger than most companies could survive, but they were SO determined that they went ahead and did it anyway.
But like most things, you learn to navigate it eventually.
I have not lost any programs from any computer I have loaded Win10 onto. Everything was intact, and for that matter, pretty much everything worked fine. The exception is that I have a Lenovo laptop and evidently neither Win10 nor Lenovo have written drivers for the touchpad. It's not a fatal flaw because the result is that sometimes the left-click button doesn't work. But when that happens, a tap on the touchpad does the same thing...so when that happens, it's one extra touch.
I've checked online and Lenovo seems to be ignoring this - many people with the same model (I think it's a Z580) have the same problem. Lenovo or their touchpad vendor ought to get off their dead butts and write the driver. I don't blame MS for a third party neglecting to update a driver.
There are quite a few articles online about MS forcing Win10 on you to try to get the numbers up. For my techies and myself - NO WAY! There is no reason to upgrade from a good stable Win 7 installation, change is not always for the good. AND - Win 10 is FULL of MS spyware tracking your every move. In addition - there are tons and tons of patches - some very serious - that constantly need to be applied. I am tired of doing MS's Beta testing without getting paid for it. Apple is getting to be just a bad now - many issues with their latest OSs as well.
Hopefully, by the time Win 7 is no longer supported Linux will be mature enough to take over - it's getting there.
Hopefully, by the time Win 7 is no longer supported Linux will be mature enough to take over - it's getting there.
Alkali Ike
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All this whining over a free upgrade to a modern OS!
No patches for Windows 7? Last time I checked it took hours to get all the latest updates done on a fresh install.
Linux? You're joking right? Linux has been "Almost ready for prime time!" for about 15 years now.
I jest, partly.
No patches for Windows 7? Last time I checked it took hours to get all the latest updates done on a fresh install.
Linux? You're joking right? Linux has been "Almost ready for prime time!" for about 15 years now.
I jest, partly.
After months of closing the popup on my Windows 7 boot camp I finally pulled the trigger on the update. It isn't bad at all. I don't know what everyone's problems are with it. It dropped everything back in exactly the same place. It really looks like just an update to the start menu. Even that isn't all that different, they just added cortana and a few more widgets on the right side of the bar. I did have to figure out how to update the drivers for the Mac function keys manually, but that took about 10 minutes.
Alkali Ike
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One could take this thread, change the dates to 2001 or 2009, and substitute XP and Win 7 as being the new release, and it would read exactly the same. There were (and still are) XP users who cling to XP and won't upgrade until nothing runs on it any more.
Of course I'm excluding Windows Millenium and Vista, which truly were awful and deserved to be avoided.
Of course I'm excluding Windows Millenium and Vista, which truly were awful and deserved to be avoided.
For those who are thinking of updating - go through the manual setup and PAY ATTENTION to the questions you are asked. You can turn off most of the auto-responses that send information to MS. I'll bet most people (not IT pros, though) ignore this and don't realize they had a chance to turn off this stuff. It's much easier to do it during install than it is to find all the stuff later.
I agree what Win7 is an excellent program. We still use it campus-wide where I work, but changing over an institution with more than 30,000 students, faculty and staff will eventually be a big deal.
The biggest problem is people who intentionally act technology-stupid and refuse to take an active hand in learning about the programs they're using.
I had a scary, surreal experience last night, and I'm wondering if anybody else has had it, too...
I was messing around on my computer at home last night, fat, dumb, and happy, when:
- the game screen I was on disappeared;
- my desktop screen appeared for about 1/2 a second, then disappeared;
- a blue screen with a smiley face in a white box appeared; and
All by itself, Windows downloaded and installed Windows 10.
Didn't ask if I wanted it (and I don't, really -especially not at midnight); it just... did it. And I couldn't stop it. Turned the power off a couple times; didn't work. It just picked up right where it left off. It did ask me if I accepted it, or wanted to decline, on the "read the agreement" page, but - what happens if I decline? Am I left with a dead computer? I didn't know, and after what just happened, I was afraid to find out - particularly at 1 in the morning.
Anyway, this morning I found out that all kinds of things are missing, and need to be reloaded; and some of them are gone forever. And, it seems that Windows has (very quietly) admitted this was an "Oopsie", and promised it won't happen any more... doesn't do me much good, though...
Win10 will download without asking but at some point either you or someone else clicked the magic 'okay' button to install. I downloaded about 2 months ago but I've clicked cancel anytime it asks to install.
You can roll it back once but eventually you'll have to upgrade. You should always back up important stuff. Some apps will not run on Win10. Find out what they are now and keep note of them.
The are plenty of reasons why an interface needs to change including technical and ergonomic. Win 7 is great but it actually is outdated and limits future development. MS want's 1 interface for all OS's which is a big relief for people who develop on Windows and in the long run will be less expensive. Learning doesn't hurt anyone and I haven't found myself to be less productive on Win 8/10.
Mine forced itself upon us apparently yesterday. Thankfully I do 90% of the stuff I need to do with a tablet. The biggest pain was constantly getting the "I don't recognize this computer" every site I had to go to.
Anybody see this... GWX Control Panel?
Prevent the 'upgrade'.
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Prevent the 'upgrade'.
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From what I've been told, someone at Windows "clicked the magic button" to install Windows 10 in the auto update feature - and supposedly did it by mistake. I admit that I was foolish enough to have left auto update turned on - that won't happen again. Yes, 10 seems to be a mixed bag - I have friends who love it, and friends who can't stand it. In my case, I spent a lot of money on software and a custom computer to do custom stuff with CDs, DVDs, and BDs; Windows 10 has put me out of business - figuratively speaking - and left me with an expensive computer that's no more functional than the 3-year old Acer tablet that I take along on motorcycle trips. I'm typing this on a very old computer I built, and fortunately didn't throw away. I'll probably grit my teeth and set the other one back up; have a friend who loves Windows 10 walk me thru the maze to find the "Recover" function; and see what happens. If I get my software back when it reverts to Windows 7, fine. If not? Well, that's life, I guess. I can still do the work on this old computer; just have to stay off line with it (it's running on XP Pro, and can't upgrade). And, Internet-wise, I can do what I want to do with the tablet, and the computer at work... and the "new" computer will go in the garbage. I don't want the constant reminder of how useless it is now, sitting around in front of me...
