Anyone upgrade yet? I'm very impatiently waiting for the download to pop up. My laptop died about 2 weeks ago. Just got a new one... preloaded with windows 8. Which is one of the worst OSs ever created. But knowing that 10 was a few days from release and free I went ahead and got the computer. So has anyone upgraded yet? Thoughts so far?
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1. "i have like 900GB+ worth of ...stuff... to backup." In response to Reply # 0
so far i'm not interested in the free upgrade to W10 b/c i don't know where i'd back up all of that data. and i'm not so upset w/W8 that i'm itching to have W10.
but in your situation i'd have done the same as you. lol
2. "How large is the total download?" In response to Reply # 0
Is it under a Gig? Gotta be crazy from a bandwidth standpoint from Microsoft's POV, but I suppose they have the shake things up from their perspective as well.
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7. "waiting to get caught up on my updates" In response to Reply # 0
didn't realize that I was behind on 100 updates.
Anywho, once I'm caught up I'm hoping I'll get the notice to upgrade. ---------------------------
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13. "what kinda issues were you having?" In response to Reply # 11
It worked fine for me over wireless. it's clearly a bit compressed (closer to watching one of the GameDVR recordings) but I didn't have any issues with it, with both my Xbox and laptop on my 5G WiFi network.
16. "I like it, and I like edge." In response to Reply # 0
I wasn't a huge critic of windows 8 like everyone else, I mean I kinda got used to metro after a while, but when I clicked that start menu it felt like eating a slice from a pizza joint you hadn't been to in a while, I mean it felt...right. Things you need are right there on hand on the start menu. The interface is crisper, I mean click on that calendar for god's sake, that 'task view' at the bottom that replaces alt-tab, it all looks crisp and professional.
I'm still puttering about it, but If anything, it's best selling point is how easy-like-a-sunday-morning it is compared to win 8.
17. "my only real problem with 8" In response to Reply # 16
was how you ended up with a lot of stuff split between metro/desktop UI.
and there was no real way around that.
I like 10 a lot, not sure if I understand why the WiFi bit is on by default, and I've had issues with getting snap to work the way I want but it's pretty good.
as with any OS, I'd advise anyone who is happy using what they're using to wait before upgrading.
18. "yeah the problems of win 8 were overstated in my opinion" In response to Reply # 17
and so it will mean that fanboys will talk up win 10 as the best thing since sliced bread, but if people don't give a fuck bout OS's like that then it won't really seem like that much of a transition.
I think this system was really meant to sop up the people still on win 7, and for them I think they should upgrade. It will be a more comfortable pair of shoes.
20. "Naw, WIn8 was damn near unusable for certain folks" In response to Reply # 18
I set up win8 for 3 older people who could use Win7 perfectly fine who just couldn't figure out how to get around Win8 (people with touch screen monitors faired a little better).
Mainly because of need to switch back and forth between Metro and the Desktop and the settings were just scattered in so many different places.
Win10 seems to solve many of those problems.
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25. "I mean I don't get your point. Am I making up my statements up?" In response to Reply # 24
Were the people I set the computers up for too Dumb (yo calling mama dumb)? Are you the baseline bottom so if you could figure it out anyone should be able to?
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43. "not for my grandmother." In response to Reply # 42 Thu Jul-30-15 07:13 PM by SoWhat
she wasn't down w/the tablet or smartphone she was given as gifts. the touch screen thing wasn't her bag.
but anyway, i understand what you're saying. i'm not nerdy enough to be into the Microsoft vs. Apple thing. i'm no MS fanboy though i prefer PCs. i understand it as a personal preference - i don't care that some other ppl prefer Apple while i prefer PCs. just like i don't care if other ppl dig Droids while i dig the iPhone. on the contrary - i think it's great that we have so much choice and that most of us can find hardware running w/the OS we prefer.
21. "Updated yesterday, love it so far" In response to Reply # 0
The xbox app works great and I can stream pretty much anything except for tv to my computer now. The games don't look half bad for being streamed. Of course it works so much better with Ethernet.
For me that's a big deal because I'd much rather stream to twitch while at my computer than to set everything up through my xbox.
Played around with a few settings, got that annoying long Cortana bar off and substituted it with a smaller button
I'll play around with it more today.
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This allows you to install it early without waiting for the rollout
If you're upgrading from 7 or 8 just pick the 32 or 64 bit version depending on what you have now and it takes you through everything. Very simple and very quick.
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Go To: Start >> Settings >> Update & Security >> Windows Update >> Advanced Options >> Select "Choose How Updates are Delivered" >> Turn Off "Updates from more than one place"
44. "well my shit is all fucked up." In response to Reply # 0 Thu Jul-30-15 07:19 PM by Hitokiri
Installed 10 and I kept getting internal_power_error. Apparently windows installed the wrong driver for my graphics card. So I followed the internet instructions and disabled my (amd) card and searched for the updated drivers. It was the most up to date one. So I updated the driver for the Intel one. Which worked. Until I got another unexpected restart. Accidentally uninstalled my amd card completely. But everything was running sooo slow. So I put the installation bundle on a USB and tried to reinstall 10 that way. A clean install I thought might work. But that failed. Haven't been able to get into windows at all. Trying to install from the usb again.
Can someone help me?
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45. "So i got it installed. The start-up is mad slow." In response to Reply # 44 Thu Jul-30-15 08:34 PM by Hitokiri
Looks like my graphics card is incompatible. I reinstalled it after I finally got windows up and running and went back to getting the internal_power_error. Disabled the card again. And now it disabled my trackpad. Downloading the driver for that right now.
I am beyond frustrated. I think I've got a windows 7 installation disc around here somewhere...
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49. "I've got an AMD Radeon r9 m200x" In response to Reply # 47 Thu Jul-30-15 10:01 PM by Hitokiri
It seems this is a common problem. I found multiple entries about it in a google search and there's a reddit thread about it in r/windows.
I uninstalled the entire card, then installed Windows, then installed the latest driver on the amd website and then the error came back. So it seems there's just no fix yet.
And now I just realized that my function/playback control keys don't work. WTF. Reinstalled the driver for that...
Think I'll just update the bios, that should help, right?
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52. "RE: I've got an AMD Radeon r9 m200x" In response to Reply # 49
It wouldn't hurt to update the bios but I'm thinking that may not be the problem.
If your issue with the card comes up after the drivers are installed then it may be on AMD's side and nothing you can do. I switched to Nvidia myself and couldn't be happier.
If we can find out exactly whats causing that error then maybe it just takes some configuring until the fix is released. I almost want to tell you to try installing an older driver to see what happens.
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48. "Small nice touch. Ask Cortana in Edge. " In response to Reply # 0 Thu Jul-30-15 09:31 PM by Buddy_Gilapagos
I see a name, thing or person while surfing the web and I was initially annoyed that I couldn't select, right click and send to search in a new browser windows like I would do in chrome.
However it did have a "Ask Cortana" in the right click menu and that did a search of sorts and a little information box popped up and was easy to get rid of. Actually eaiser than the right click search feature I loved.
Still should have right click search though but it did force me try this new feature.
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50. "that notification sound was driving me crazy" In response to Reply # 0
Don't really understand why the sound panel isn't with the control panel, rather you have to right click on the speaker volume icon in the right hand corner. Beyond that, 10 is decent no complaints.
(I may be in the minority, but I don't see myself using edge, I'm in too deep with firefox.)
>Honestly you do know you can turn all that shit off like I >did? No doubt they can still do what they want.
Unless you have an enterprise version of Win10, you can't disable Telemetry.
Even if you opt out of WiFi Sense M$ still states that, because Skype and Outlook.com are Microsoft products, they still have every right to peruse or collect your contacts at will.
and that's just a tiny amount of shit they're doing.
> >You might as well go off the grid at this point.
I'm sticking to Win7 on my laptop and Vista on my Windows desktops. I also maintain Linux and OpenBSD desktops where anything like this would be caught and yanked out.
Older OSes still work just fine so I'll keep using them for my music and whatnot.
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65. "Windows should be the anti-cloud. " In response to Reply # 0
I think the way windows should justify it's existence is by being the homebase to all my computing. I don't fully trust the cloud. All the pictures I take on my phone, it's cool that they are uploaded to the cloud but I'd also like them to be backed up to my desktop as soon as I step foot into my home network. Same for music, documents etc. Besides, all that stop won't fit on a phone anyway.
Google is pissing me off by no longer apparently supporting Picasa and pushing all my desktop photos to the Google Photo. It's nice to have a cloud backup of all my photos but they aren't the same quality as what resides on my home computer. MS is shooting themselves in the foot if they don't put out a picasa killer.
And while I may upgrade my phone every 18 months, my desktop should be around for a few years given upgrades every now and then.
All that to say, man can not make it on cloud and mobile phones alone. There is still a need for a desktop (or laptop).
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