I finally got notice that I could install it.
I installed it.
Um … the Earth continues to spin with nary a wobble.
The installation process was pretty painless, aside from annoying "So by default we're going to set these various built-in apps as your default for stuff unless you click on a little button and then uncheck them all" shenanigans and a screen full of "How much information do you want to send to the mother ship" switches. But after that, everything looked pretty much as-was.
At least until I opened the Start menu, which was also full of attempts to use Microsoft apps. As are occasional popups. And Microsoft really wants me to login to the Internet with an account to save my settings globally — including to my (snicker) Windows Phone.
But that kind of ratcheta-ratcheta aside, it was a pretty effortless transition. Kudos to the kids from Redmond.
[Note: I have no idea how long the actual upgrade took. I went upstairs and did some errands, and it was all done by the time I came down a few hours later.]
Thank you so much. You can't possible imagine the suffering that developers go through to make Responsive sites work on IE9.
+Jann Van Hamsterwheel Well, I use Chrome anyway, rather than IE (and plan to continue to do so, rather than switch to Edge).
For some reason, Windows 10 really wants you to disable some startup apps to improve performance, but I already do that for stuff that isn't necessary. Every now and then there's a "Try Office 365" notification.
I've been using 10 since before it was released and other than those spammy notifications, I like it. I did log into it with my Windows Live account and it is nice to be able to access stuff from my work machine at home and vice versa.
+Les Jenkins Reminding people of startup apps that could be disabled isn't necessarily a bad thing. That it's bringing over those apps and still starting them up is actually pretty cool.
The spamware side of it is less than charming, but is not yet an intolerable cost for a free upgrade.
Love the picture, but not Vista, nor Windows.
+Tommy Erickson It's not completely apropos to the topic (or the outcome), but when I ran across it I had to use it.
+Dave Hill i liked it👍
I put 10 Pro on my old Dell Studio laptop, and I like it a lot. It runs well for being on an older machine (intel dual core and 4gb ram), and has been very stable. The install was as simple as any other Windows install, beside needing to switch off some of the default sharing options, if that's a concern for you.
My laptop was waaay overdue for a wipe and clean install anyway (usually I do this every 1-2 years), so I figured I would check out 10, and if I didn't like it, could easily wipe and reinstall Win7 again. Plus I do a fair amount of computer cleaning and repair for people on the side, so I figured I could use the opportunity to familiarize myself with the new OS, as I'm bound to encounter it on customers devices more frequently, now that the roll out has taken hold ans people can upgrade to 10 for free.
My upgrade hasn't gone quite as smoothly, unfortunately.
When I get to the login screen, I type in my password, wait about three minutes for the screen to unlock from processing this crippling amount of information… at which point everything shuts down and the (two year old, tricked out, entirely able to run Windows 10) system reboots.
So… that's been Wednesday. Thank goodness I have another machine to work on.
My next desktop machine will be a Mac. I've been PCs since 85, but over the last two and a half years my MacBook Air has convinced me to switch entirely over.
Got by the login screen, finally, by unhooking the system from the network connection. So… yeah. Still haven't actually gotten into Windows, since it's doing post-login setup, but I've gotten over one hurdle.
Thank goodness I don't need the machine to be on the interne–
Hmm.
My 4 year old laptop has been bugging me (well, probably not the hardware as such) but I’ve been reluctant.
Will my Windows 7 compatible programmes still run? Including the Good Old Games/Steam remasters – all those games that won’t run normally in a 64 bit system?
Am I going to lose all my stored passwords, including to OneDrive, where I hold the document reminding me what my passwords are!?
Can a 4 year old Laptop handle it?
Hmm. It did seem to take quite some time on the initial login.
What mine was actually doing is just restarting entirely. Right back to "loading BIOS" et cetera. Total reboot, on a loop.
Im not gonna bs you guys. I just downloaded an iso, and ksm patch, from a torrent site, made a bootable USB stick from it, and ran the install. That way I could run killdisc on the hard drive and do a true clean install. Hard to say what's going on with an ''upgrade'', ya know?
I wish I'd done a clean install, but even contemplating everything I'd need to reinstall afterwards made my head hurt.
+Doyce Testerman
Don't blame you really. The macs are a lot less quirky than windows PCs, and built well. But they're pricey, and I don't particularly care much for the UI on the Mac os
+Doyce Testerman
Clean's always the way to go, imo. I keep everything backed up on my 3tb external, so the backups are already done. I keep fairly lean number of applications, so for me, its usually all the little things that take time, like flash, java, etc., and setting up all the options in windows and all those apps