catfan 14,793 Posted July 29, 2015 Report Share Posted July 29, 2015 Today's the day & with a bit of trepidation I decided to download & install the latest offering from those wonderful people at Microsoft ! Here we have it, free & gratis ! Even allows a back up to be made, either USB or DVD. From start to finish was under a hour with absolutely no problems & everything working fine for now ! (fingers crossed). 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted July 29, 2015 Report Share Posted July 29, 2015 Wots it like Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted July 29, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2015 As yet I can't fault it, in fact it was the easiest install I have ever done from Win 98 upwards ! Absolutely no problems at all, went in like a dream. Everything working fine & I will give it a few weeks & if still OK I will install on Mrs Catfan's PC ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
barclaycon 569 Posted July 29, 2015 Report Share Posted July 29, 2015 Thanks for the screenshots. I guess the best compliment you can give it so far is that it doesn't look like Windows 8 !! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted July 29, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2015 Not much difference ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted July 29, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2015 "Bootup" time from off, 12 seconds ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted July 29, 2015 Report Share Posted July 29, 2015 Being a PC thicko it's took me long enough to understand what I've got...change would just confuse me completely. I can't see that upgrading would make any difference to my using a PC as what little knowledge I have doesn't cover 1% of what the machine is capable of. I'll stick with 7 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted July 29, 2015 Report Share Posted July 29, 2015 Still using Linux/Ubuntu 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
barclaycon 569 Posted July 29, 2015 Report Share Posted July 29, 2015 Mmm yeah. Bootup. I bet it's not ready to go after 12 seconds ! Usually you find that even though the desktop appears there's still loads going on - connecting to networks, internet etc, libraries loading, so on and so forth. Plus in a real-world situation there will be OS updates, antivirus updates, flash player..... Don't get me wrong, if it does boot up quicker I'll be delighted. I'm assuming that it doesn't have that retarded jigsaw that was standard with Windows 8 (The metro interface). Looking forward to hearing more about your Windows 10 experience. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted July 29, 2015 Report Share Posted July 29, 2015 I'm still on 7, it will do me for a few more years. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
barclaycon 569 Posted July 29, 2015 Report Share Posted July 29, 2015 You and several million others ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
banjo48 928 Posted July 30, 2015 Report Share Posted July 30, 2015 Not really relevent to me now as I've just moved up to a Macbook, but from what I've heard is if you've got 7 then stick to it for now ! I did read that this new 10 will share you wifi connection details between contacts by default so must be switched off, but no idea how or why. I know a couple of chaps that have been running the beta version and they were not too impressed, and were the one's saying keep 7. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted July 30, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2015 Ready to go after 12 sec bootup ! I ran Win 7 Ultimate for along while & still like that one, however Win 8 was much faster, love Win 8 / 8.1 only upgraded to Win 10 cos it didn't cost me anything. ! This is the first O/S that all my drivers migrated over no problem, the "experts" say if your PC peripherals work OK on 7/8 they will work fine on 10 !! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TRD 196 Posted July 30, 2015 Report Share Posted July 30, 2015 It will be interesting to see what figures Microsoft give for the number of upgrades. I suspect most, like me, will wait for the good and bad reports to come through before taking the plunge. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted July 30, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2015 #8, Me too Bubblewrap ! Dual booting with Linux / Ubuntu also. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted July 30, 2015 Report Share Posted July 30, 2015 Wondering how you managed the dual boot with Linux/Windows, Catfan? I wanted to do that on my laptop and tried to set it up. Somehow, Linux dumped Windows and I could not boot back in. So I was thrown in at the deep end with Linux. ( I had backed up my data). Anyway after the learning curve I was happy with Linux. My wife has said she would like to try Linux, but I am reluctant to try as I don't need the hassle of trying to bring her up to speed on Linux so I would like for her to be able to easily go back to Win 7. Any ideas? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Karlton 582 Posted July 30, 2015 Report Share Posted July 30, 2015 poohbear #7 ditto ditto. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rob.L 1,088 Posted July 30, 2015 Report Share Posted July 30, 2015 Did the upgrade from Win7 on the laptop last night. Took about an hour to install, then another hour for me to change display settings, check that old software works, then clean up the crap left using CCleaner and Registry Cleaner. Somehow, and don't ask how I managed it, I lost the Start Menu. Everyone else works. So, I'll probably roll it back to Win7 and try again when I can be bothered. MS gives you a month to do this. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted July 31, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2015 When upgrading Rob.L elect to keep existing settings & after a successful install then delete the "old" folder created by Windows. Loppylugs. I created 3 equal sized partitions, 1 for Linux, 1 for Windows & 1 for data. I installed Windows first then Linux, being very careful to do this by the letter ! Windows will ask on bootup which O/S you want. Ignoring that then will boot to your preferred O/S. This choice can be changed quite easily. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted July 31, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2015 For anyone interested. https://www.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows/windows-10-faq?OCID=reserve_r_PostReserve_header Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted July 31, 2015 Report Share Posted July 31, 2015 Thanks, Catfan. I can't remember exactly what happed now. I think the Linux download which I had saved to a DVD offered to create two partitions, which would have been fine. Windows was already on one big partion. So I told it to go ahead. I guess maybe a better way to go would be to create a new partition using windows before even attempting to load Linux. Then load Linux to partition B. I might try that on my video editing computer, then its only me who gets the grief if something goes sour. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted July 31, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2015 Windows MUST go on first ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted August 1, 2015 Report Share Posted August 1, 2015 Windows would already be on. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
letsavagoo 963 Posted August 1, 2015 Report Share Posted August 1, 2015 Ubuntu and a few other Linux distributions have an option to install alongside Windows if you already have Windows on your PC. You can dual boot any Linux with windows but it can be a faff if you don't know what you're doing. I use Linux exclusively now. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Enigma. 1,533 Posted August 1, 2015 Report Share Posted August 1, 2015 8 Reasons Not to Upgrade to Windows 10 https://www.yahoo.com/tech/8-reasons-not-to-upgrade-to-windows-10-124926327849.html Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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