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Windows 10

#21
Well....took the plunge and upgraded to Windows 10. Takes quite a bit of time to download and install it all.

So far so good.......computer actually runs better now and I don't have any more "recover webpage" issues.

Screen layout isn't a radical departure from what I already had......they only changed a couple of things. (Home desktop -type computer).

Only thing I'm having a problem with:- When I'm on a webpage I used to be able to hit a little button up in the screen right hand corner and it would take me back to the main Google home page (the page with "Google" in the middle of it)....can't seem to find a button for that now..

Actually Bing is now the engine......although "Google.ca" is the one listed in the "homepage" box".

But I can't find a button to go back to Bings' main page either......

In Windows 10 you have a little bar at the bottom left of the startup page that you type in to get whatever site you want......but it isn't an engine mainpage.
 
#23
Yeah my personal computer is 7 and my work computer is 8. If I find out are even a few similarities between 8 and 10 I won't be making the move. I like 7 a kit better. I will use it until it just doesn't seem logical.
 
#26
ZenG said:
Well....took the plunge and upgraded to Windows 10. Takes quite a bit of time to download and install it all.

So far so good.......computer actually runs better now and I don't have any more "recover webpage" issues.

Screen layout isn't a radical departure from what I already had......they only changed a couple of things. (Home desktop -type computer).

Only thing I'm having a problem with:- When I'm on a webpage I used to be able to hit a little button up in the screen right hand corner and it would take me back to the main Google home page (the page with "Google" in the middle of it)....can't seem to find a button for that now..

Actually Bing is now the engine......although "Google.ca" is the one listed in the "homepage" box".

But I can't find a button to go back to Bings' main page either......

In Windows 10 you have a little bar at the bottom left of the startup page that you type in to get whatever site you want......but it isn't an engine mainpage.
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If you are using the new default browser in Windows 10 (they call it Microsoft Edge), the home button you are talking about is not showing by default, but you can turn it back on. This site has the instructions: How To: Add the Home Button Back to Microsoft Edge

However, what you pretty much do is click the elipses up in the top right corner, click Settings in the drop down menu, scroll down and click Advanced Settings button, then the option to turn the home button on is at the top. For me it then showed the home button on the top left of the menu, just after the back/forward arrows.
 
#27
My Dell tablet with 2GB of RAM and an Atom processor runs much better and faster on 10 than 8.1. I like both OS's, and 7 too. Although 7 is now looking big and clunky to me compared to 10.

I keep a VM of each.

-Mike
 
#30
ZenG said:
Well....took the plunge and upgraded to Windows 10. Takes quite a bit of time to download and install it all.

So far so good.......computer actually runs better now and I don't have any more "recover webpage" issues.

Screen layout isn't a radical departure from what I already had......they only changed a couple of things. (Home desktop -type computer).

Only thing I'm having a problem with:- When I'm on a webpage I used to be able to hit a little button up in the screen right hand corner and it would take me back to the main Google home page (the page with "Google" in the middle of it)....can't seem to find a button for that now..

Actually Bing is now the engine......although "Google.ca" is the one listed in the "homepage" box".

But I can't find a button to go back to Bings' main page either......

In Windows 10 you have a little bar at the bottom left of the startup page that you type in to get whatever site you want......but it isn't an engine mainpage.
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You need to download Google Chrome and use that instead of the 'blue E' that comes with Win10.
 
#32
ZenG said:
So far the 10 is outperforming my old 7........
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It works substantially faster than 8.1 did with some of my engineering apps, especially LTspice. That in itself made the switch very worthwhile to me, and the 3.5 hour upgrade process was actually dead simple in my case. I used the Media Creation Tool, not the native Windows Upgrade process.
 
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#33
Yeah I'm really liking Win10 so far. I've upgraded two of my PC's now. The only issue I've had is that it does not seem to support my old Creative Labs Sound Blaster Music sound card which is maybe 10 years old, but I love it because it's one of the few you can use to 'record what you hear' with. Might be time to let go and see if any of the new batch of sound cards support this now.
 
#34
mmbongo said:
Yeah I'm really liking Win10 so far. I've upgraded two of my PC's now. The only issue I've had is that it does not seem to support my old Creative Labs Sound Blaster Music sound card which is maybe 10 years old, but I love it because it's one of the few you can use to 'record what you hear' with. Might be time to let go and see if any of the new batch of sound cards support this now.
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Audio drivers in general seem to be in need of some MS love. I lost some features on my built in Connexant card, but at least it still works fine beyond that. I have an old Creative/EMU interface that lives in a dedicated offline XP box, which came with a killer soft sampler and some other features that make mostly collecting dust still seem worthwhile. I'd just replace the SB though, although that "screen grab" feature does seem to be way less common these days.
 
#36
You ALL have a free invitation to Win 10 if you have computers running Win7 or later. I've converted two machines and so far I have no real problems. The left-click button on the touchpad of my Lenovo laptop seems to be a little erratic; I'll have to look for a driver update.

The upgrade didn't delete any of the programs I had installed; that's good, but it depends on YOU answering a Yes/No question when you install Win10. Overall, READ EVERY QUESTION you are asked, and think about your answer before clicking. If you're running 8 or 8.1 and have Classic Shell or another Win7 emulator running, you might as well uninstall it before doing the upgrade. You won't need it.

IMPORTANT: after the upgrade loads, as you enter Win10 for the first time, it will give you the option to take default settings or choose your own. CHOOSE YOUR OWN. There are a number of default settings which send data to MS and set default programs/apps which you may not want. Take the extra 2-3 minutes and go through the settings carefully.

Once 10 is installed, the cheesy square frame logo from Win8 will appear in the lower left corner where the Start button was in Win7. It serves the same function. To see programs, use the link "All Apps." Congratulations, all your programs are apps now....but overall, that part of the navigation is similar to Start/Programs.

I won't go on - there are plenty of WIn10 reviews out there, so go find and read them before you upgrade. BUT - whether you wait a month or not (I don't think longer is needed), you should upgrade.
 
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#38
I have been weeding out the inevitable Microsoft spam that Windows 10 brings with it, but otherwise, it behaves more like a tool than Windows 7 did. I never suffered with Windows 8, and it probably would have turned me back to a typewriter person. As far as I'm concerned, computers are a tool, and that's it. It isn't a lifestyle, so I don't need fancy graphics and other crap when I'm using a word processor or spreadsheet or accounting program. Recording requires other kinds of computing power, but I haven't checked to see if Cubase works with Windows 10. So far everything else does just fine.

The only irritant, aside from the initial wave of spam, is the occasional pop up message that wants to know if I'm ready to go to a subscription version of Microsoft Office. The answer is no. Actually, the answer is hell no! Can't have everything.
 
#39
My laptop was running Windows 8.1 Pro, and I downloaded the Media Creation Tool so I could upgrade without waiting for my "notification." The upgrade went a lot smoother than I expected it to. I'm still getting used to Win10 but aside from small annoyances like "where the hell do I find the Control Panel???" it seems OK, and improvement on 8.
 

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