I took the plunge. So far, so good. Everything seems to be working fine.
I’m liking the Task View button and the quick access to the app store. Cortana seems cool, haven’t really explored it too much yet. The overall look and feel is very close to what I’m used to, so that’s good. There hasn’t been anything yet that has stood out as something I don’t like.
But, why give me a browser and then tell me it’s not safe to use it? Weird.
Well, I think what makes it “better” is that it’s currently supported. Mainstream support for Windows 7 ended just over a year ago, and for Windows 8, it will end in 2018.
'cept when not. I was very happy to have made backups of everything before installing W10, because I hadn’t thought of removing my password and, since the keyboard wasn’t being recognized (the laptop’s own keyboard, not any fancy external one), I couldn’t enter it. Had to take it for a format-and-reload.
My old Vista PC was having issues so I bought a new Win10 PC recently. I was pleasantly surprised. Therefore I upgraded my wife’s Win7 laptop to Win10. No problems at all.
If you upgrade shortly, the cost is free. Also in a few more years Microsoft will stop supporting Win7. Personally I think that upgrading is a no-brainer (after you do a full backup of your important files just in case something goes wrong).
I upgraded to Windows 10, and so far, I’m pretty impressed. I use a laptop as part of my keyboard rig in the band I play in. I was getting crashes every now and then and my software was pretty slow to load, like 3 minutes when reloading, and more like 5-7 minutes at start up, just after turning my computer on. So, I backed up everything and tried the free upgrade. . . everything eventually upgraded, and I didn’t have to reinstall any software. Now, with Windows 10, my software loads about 1 minute when reloading and about 1.5 minutes at start up. And so far, non of the same crashes. But, time will tell on that.
So, with Windows 10 my software loads much faster, not sure if this if temporary, but I’ll find out. And I didn’t have to reinstall anything. And it was free.
One down side, if you run any “gadgets” they won’t work with Windows 10.
if you liked gadgets, you can probably find a tiled app to replace them. it would be in the side of the start menu rather than free floating on the desktop, but that might not be a bad thing.
I had some mixed results upgrading from 7 to 10.
The install went smoothly and for the most part all the software and drivers seem to have crossed over just fine.
It starts up and shuts down much faster than 7 did.
Now for the weird stuff…
The start menu and task bar randomly stop responding for minutes at a time. Sometimes the task bar blanks out, like it’s hiding the icons on it for some reason.
My alienware drivers apparently stopped working after a couple of months. The fan started freaking out, running at high speeds. I updated the drivers and now it sometimes runs quieter. Even quiet is noticeably noisier than before.
The operating system menus were written with mobile devices in mind. “apps”, “tap here to continue”, that sort of thing. I have a $3000 desktop dammit, not an iPad. It even wanted me to use a pin to log in and sign in with my ‘cel number’.
The interface is ugly, compared to 7. 7 had nice icons that glowed when you hovered the mouse over them, stuff like that. now its 2 dimensional drawings for everything. This is a style preference, I know.
Cortana is a bit useless to me. It helsp me search. I can search just fine without it. It launches ‘apps’. I can click on an icon just fine. Meh.
My main complaint was that it was Clippy on steriods: fuck file associations, any time I opened any file it offered to open it with a different program than the one I
Any of you know a method to switch the “perky! waitress! personality!!!” off?
Nava
Got a chuckle out of Clippy on steroids!
I would suggest if it works for you upgrade to a solid state hard drive (SSD) if you don’t have one already and use a kit. When you clone your current hard drive you will have a backup of win 7, then you can ‘upgrade’ to 10, if it works fine, if not you can just re-clone your old HD, or just pop it in.
The upgrade to SSD does make a substantial boost in speed, win startup time most notably greatly shortened.
This assumes you don’t have a SSD already, and you have enough free space to fit on the common SSD’s which are typically smaller then standard HD’s.
I have a Sony Vaio running Windows 7. I upgraded to Windows 10 and all seemed fine until I tried to sync my 1 year old iPod touch and all three of my iPod classic 160GB. None of them were recognized and I kept getting “no available driver” errors. I spent many hours searching for solutions on the internet and trying various things. I finally gave up and deleted Windows 10.