[Clart]

So the option to upgrade (from Win7) to windows 10 appeared on my task bar the other day. Any one upgraded yet? Is it worth holding off for a while or is it good to go?

[bendavison]

I got the same notification. Looks like the upgrade isn't available yet, but you're just reserving the option to upgrade for free, so you're not committed if you go for it. You'll just get a download at some point and you can choose whether or not to install it.

It can't be worse than windows 8... Looks basically the same, but without the silly start page/tiles for devices larger than a tablet* (and a return to standard start button)

*can't remember whether this includes all tablets/ipads

[Obi-Wan is lost...]

29 July I believe. I wouldn't be in a massive rush to upgrade. Think it will be free for a year. Also think you can download and install at later date. There is likely to be issues with early releases, I've read there are still significant issues with the latest beta versions. And before you do upgrade...remember backup, backup, backup.

[Clart]

Nice one. Not used win 8 but heard a lot of negative things about, glad to be bypassing it.

[Obi-Wan is lost...]

Nowt wrong with Win8.1 if you install http://www.classicshell.net/ to replace the start menu. Don't  me Slackers. 
You do really need a touch screen for the 'Metro' interface to be useful/make sense. if you mainly use a mouse the start menu/desktop is still the easiest way to navigate.

[slackline]

Nowt wrong with Win8.1 if you install http://www.classicshell.net/ to replace the start menu. Don't  me Slackers. 

Better still install Cygwin/X and have the full *NIX experience under Windows. 

[Jim]

you're not even on windows 10 yet????? :ShakesHead: 

[Obi-Wan is lost...]

you're not even on windows 10 yet????? :ShakesHead: 

You using the dev release? Heard it was flaky as hell.

[Jim]

I'm on windows 12 

[Jim]

to remove the icon in your taskbar:

run Windows Update and click “View update history” to see all the updates you have installed. Look for, or search for, KB3035583, select it, and then click to uninstall or change it.

[lagerstarfish]

anybody here upgraded to Windows 10?

opinions?

problems?

[Grubes]

yes
its better than win 8 but that aint saying much.

seems faster

[tomtom]

anybody here upgraded to Windows 10?

opinions?

problems?

Its great (on a new PC that went from 8.1 > 10)

On my other PC (7) it wouldnt because I'd buggered about moving things (twice) to a SSD and lost some 100mb partition or other thats important/needed for the update.

[mrjonathanr]

Works fine

[Bubba]

Done 2 PCs and a lapper, all worked fine...even legitimatised my less then correct versions of Windows 7.

Just be sure to turn off the more intrusive privacy settings....

[SamT]

Really please with my upgrades....

I had an old laptop - 2009 ish, Windows 7, that was suffering Blue screens, generally running really slow etc etc, I upgraded the memory a while ago (its 32 bit, so put 4gb in but it can only use 3.somethings worth) all to no avail. 

Nothing to lose so upgraded, which all happened smoothly and  its now like brand new! quick to boot up etc. seems to be running stuff fine again. Yay.
(had an issue with the sound card driver, but downloaded the original driver for it from the Dell Website and its got sound again. )

My more recent Dell - i5, windows 8.shite, was a bit more tricky. After the upgrade it booted to a black screen, no cursor etc.  After much googling (on the rejuvenated one!) and faffing about with video drivers, turns out it needed a bios update.  All good now though. Both running smooth and swiftly. 

Much prefer Win10 navigation compared to win8, it feels far more like Win7

[SamT]

Just be sure to turn off the more intrusive privacy settings....

such as??

[Bubba]

Just Google Windows 10 privacy settings and there's many guides

[benno]

Yes. I had a student license key from yonks ago from Windows 7 and was curious. My PC was dual boot Windows 7 (now 10) and Ubuntu. Dual boot configuration didn't play nicely with the upgrade process, so I removed Ubuntu and redid it with only Windows installed and it went smoothly. 10 seems nice on the surface, basically a slightly prettier version of 7 with incremental backup, as far as I can tell. It does lock up very occasionally (7 didn't), although I suspect this an issue with my soundcard driver which hasn't had an updated version released in many years.

TL;DR It's nice, but unless you're curious or have problems now there's not a great deal of point.

[mr__j5]

It may be nicer looking to some people and not have the horrible menu (although I think it's worse in that respect than Win 8.1)

But I'm a software developer so am at my machine 9-5 5 days a week and all 3 machines that I have that are now Win 10 are less stable they before there were updated.

For example, this machine, was totally rock solid, now after updating to Win 10, after coming back from sleeping the nVidia display driver keeps telling me that it has crashed. Now you wouldn't normally blame the OS for something like that, but when it never happened on Win 8.1 and it now happens most days on Win 10. I'm blaming the OS.

[bendavison]

Anyone else found that Chrome keeps crashing since upgrading?

[tomtom]

Anyone else found that Chrome keeps crashing since upgrading?

Nope - but chrome is a right memory hog... I like edge, except its full of all the adverts I block in Chrome :D

[Fultonius]

15% and counting. Let's hope it doesn't bugger up the 8gb solid state drive... 

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[Fultonius]

P. S. Can I just let it do its shit overnight,  or does it require any user input?

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[chris j]

Anyone else found that Chrome keeps crashing since upgrading?

On my older laptop (dates from 2010) I find that having Chrome running often slows the whole computer to a crawl. On my newer work laptop (core i7 2014) chrome is slow to start up with the shotcuts on the home screen, often just stops with the google bar and nothing else, but otherwise seems ok.

[cjsheps]

Is it worth upgrading from 7? The only praise I've heard is "it's more like 7".

[tomtom]

I think it's faster... Also in a few years time Ms will probably stop supporting 7..

[Fultonius]

Is it worth upgrading from 7? The only praise I've heard is "it's more like 7".

So far, 2 hours into my W10 experience I'd say go for it. They've all the things that made we not even consider W8, so yeah, it's just like a tweaked version of W7.

My computer was really getting glitchy and slowing down a lot (like it needed a fresh install) and upgrading, so far, seems to have sped it up a fair bit. 

[SamT]

I've had a few issues at work with the software we use at work. It has a Microsoft SQL server 2008 R2 back end which isn't supported by windows 10. Weird things like timestamp formatting issues.
The lack of a 'recent places' in file manager/save boxes is really really bugging me at work.  The 'quick access' replacement functionality is bobbins.

However, On my home laptops its all tickety boo and its rescued a laptop that was destined for the cyber bin, which now runs as smooth as it did when it was new.

[Jim]

I was going to do something productive this evening but looks like I'll be messing about upgrading an old laptop now.
Thanks

[Fultonius]

So far the negatives are:

My WiFi toggle buttons (fn f12) doesn't work any more, neither does the fn f2/f3 which change the brightness. Bizarrely the Fn & F6/7/8 sound controls all work. 

I think it's fucked up my iSSD ExpressCache, which is a pain as it saves a load of battery on standby. Right now, the speed boost is making me happy enough to let that slide.

[Jim]

its normally a driver/patch that you'll need to download from the laptop vendor to fix the Fn keys, maybe same for the iSSD thingy

[Fultonius]

its normally a driver/patch that you'll need to download from the laptop vendor to fix the Fn keys, maybe same for the iSSD thingy

I'm  just now as I can only find Windows 8 updates for my model. (Samsung Series 7 Chronos). I tried one of them and it totally screwed up my trackpad so I got rid of it.  Got too much on, so will deal with it when I get a bit more free time.

[SamT]

yeah.. my sound card on my old dell wouldn't play to the on board speakers. .  only the headphone jack. However re installed the driver from the dell website and was back up and hearing things again.

[Fultonius]

Currently reverting to 7... Couldn't get express cache working and my touch pad driver was being a dick. (not matter what I tried) also the start menu kept disappearing. I reckon it looks alright if you have a newer,  or better supported machine but Samsung don't give a shit do we're high and dry...

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[lagerstarfish]

well, with a legit win 10 compatible copy of Vegas Pro 13 (and 14) available for £149 from the new owners, I am now thinking of switching "up" to windows 10 on 2 laptops (i3 and i7) and the desk machine (i7)

partly because I think I heard that win 7 will not be supported in 4 years and some of our machines might still work OK at that time

am I making a mistake?

[Fultonius]

I'm having no problems with Windows 10, generally quite liking it. Basically windows 7 with a few tweaks - I'd say go for it.

[SamT]

+1

[tomtom]

Run it on all my and MrsTT's machines with no problems.

[remus]

Using it on a windows surface pro 4 and its pretty good. Frequent updates that fix small issues which is nice.

[lagerstarfish]

groovy

cheers lads

doing it on the least important machine first

[lagerstarfish]

seemed pretty painless, if a little slow

no data lost

all important software working fine