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Windows 10 , Have you?






I have been running Win 10 on my primary desktop since it was released. So far, I'm loving it. 8 was a bust and I immediately went back to Windows 7; however, 10 seems to be a very stable and useful operating system.

I use it mostly for gaming, multimedia, and some work related things.
 
For me 10 seems to load the SATA drivers for my motherboard a lot faster so I get a 10 second gain on bootup.

Also supports retina display MacBooks a lot better than 8.
 
My pc stuck in automatic repair loop. Whatever i tried doesn't work. Any one know how to get out of this loop?
 
I decided to give 10 a whirl on my laptop using the original OS. That didn't last 2 days. Boot and shut down times were about 4 times longer than 7. There was no noticeable difference is speed once in the OS. I did use some stuff to try making it look like 7. It's much easier to use 7 rather than try making 10 look and act like 7. 7 does everything I need it too.
 
boot time on win10 and shut down time/restart are faster than on win7. everything seems to be stable right now. we will see once the system gets loaded with more apps and games
 
I have a suspicion that units which are experiencing problems with Win10 are lower end hardware. I'm thinking maybe MS was too forgiving with their minspec reqs.
 
Dunno about that. I took the plunge on my 6-7 year hold HP 5320m (1st gen i5, 450m) this week, and the upgrade from win 7 tot 10 seems to work just fine. It kept the programs i had on there, drivers work well including audio over hdmi output (gave me some trouble under win 7 at times).

As i mostly use that as a media box connected to my TV i can't really say much about performance. There could be a difference either way, but hands on it's too small to notice. In any case it seems to be perfectly functional.

There was very little software on this machine though, just things like vlc, a torrent client, chrome, and truecrypt for the part that holds the actual media files. All of that was flawless after the upgrade.

I'll eventually update my work laptop as well, but at a point in time where i can test all the soft and hardware on that at a relaxed pace.
 
We just bought a brand new all-in-one touch screen HP desktop with Windows 10, works great and we love it! Much faster, I love the hybrid half oldschool windows pullup with the new "apps" part to the right when you pullup (not sure the correct name, I'm referring to when you click the windows button on the bottom left corner as "pullup")

Mind you we went from VISTA! lol, it's been a long time coming let me tell you!

I love the pinup's on the bottom, and how you can search for programs or "apps" instead of downloading them through a browser. The only thing that stinks is how it always wants to go back to the other default browser when you change anything with chrome and have to go back to the settings > system > default apps.

All in all it's a great change and so much faster than the OOOOLD a$$ Emachines 32-bit Vista! lol.
 
Sigurthr said:
I have a suspicion that units which are experiencing problems with Win10 are lower end hardware. I'm thinking maybe MS was too forgiving with their minspec reqs.
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I don't think that is the case, there was a ridiculous amount of problems with Win10 on the Surface Pro 3 (MS's own hardware), to the point of being unusable on a large portion of systems. MS was pretty useless during the whole fiasco as well.
 
Yeah, I looked up the specs for the Surface Pro 3 and it should run win10 fine. Idk then, there's obviously compatibility issues or a high rate of install corruptibility. Still, four machines here of varying hardware running it flawlessly fwiw.
 
Yea lower end is not the issue at all. I just did repairs on a laptop and the customer requested windows 10 installed. It was a very low end laptop they got cheap with an AWD 1ghz processor and 4gb ram which is almost bare minimum for Windows 10. I did a lot of testing on it and found no issues. Never crashed once.

I also just purchased a laptop with Windows 10 on it. First time using Windows 10 as I've been using my old surface with Windows 8 and I must say it seems like a very nice upgrade.
 
I was getting a pop up about every 20 minutes offering the full win 10 free so finally I just did about an hour and a half upload with half a dozen restarts and so far so good.

Be aware you need to go through the pages at the end of the setup after the agreement and accept or decline all the automatic wifi stuff and all the report back to Microsoft stuff, I opted out of everything supposedly.

So far so good, it works fine.
 
Well chaps, let me just grab my salt & pepper to season my words that I'm about to eat.
I had to download a huge file last night so I left my comp on overnight, and Windows 10 kindly installed the "Threshold 2" update released mid November, and it's effectively trashed my machine. Keeps crashing and freezing, and the update kindly deleted a few of my apps without notice.

Now I'm about to see if I can get rid of the updates, sadly Sys Restore was turned off.

Turn off updates people.
 
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