Has anyone changed to the new - free, - windows 10? What is your opinion of it?
I have, (but I was on 8 already) and I wouldn't recommend it generally. If you are on Windows 7 or XP, (now sadly dying), which I would think most people are, and are completely satisfied with that, then treat 10 like the plague. Unless of course you are the sort of person who likes a challenge Windows 8 and 10 are a different country.
If you are on Windows 8, which is fairly newish, and has as much in common with previous programs as Chinese has with English, then go ahead if you want to, there is not all that much difference. Oh yes, it has all the gadgets, - facial recognition, voice recognition etc., and if that's what you want, then go ahead, it's free anyway.
That's my opinion, but I'm just an amateur with a laptop, which for me is challenge enough! I'd love to hear what others think.
I just updated from 8.1 this morning and I am really pleased. It seems to have addressed a lot of the issues I had with both 8 and 8.1. It took me a while to find it, but I really like having the start menu back.
Well I took the plunge today .. circa 3 hours later all done .. no issues and a very smooth transition.
I really wish I would stop getting the reminders about updating. Its not going to happen. I even purchased a copy of W7 two years ago just in case one of my computers failed and I was forced to purchase a new one with either W8 or the current 10. By the way, what happened to Windows 9? And dont tell me it was 8.1, because that makes no numeric sense either. I just dont understand why Microsoft cant fix the bugs without forcing you to learn how to use an operating system again. They do the same shit with Office and Outlook.
My employer's corporate parent continues to recommend avoiding 10 for a variety of reasons (mostly MS's growing tendency to force you to buy the more expensive Enterprise package rather than Pro if you want to centrally manage your PCs) so my new laptop is running 8.1. Much nicer than the original 8 and I added Classic Shell to get a traditional Start menu. I may actually like this better than 10 based on my brief experiences with the latter.
Ever since I went to w10 Shock Wave Player keeps crashing on me and pages intermittently freeze (Chrome here). I have taken the advice on the web and changed the Chrome setting for Plug-ins but the problem is still apparent .. any ideas please?
I JUST upgraded to Windows 10, expecting to hate it. I like it. It's actually an improvement over 7 (and I was fond of 7).
I upgraded my computer today to Windows 10. So far so good.
I like that the start button was introduced back.
No issues to report yet.
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Mysteria
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Due to a recommendation from our corporate parent to avoid 10 for now (there are some issues with running it in a corporate environment, notably some changes designed to force more businesses to spend big bucks for the Enterprise version instead of using the OEM Pro version that comes with computers), I'm running 8.1. So far, so good. I did put Classic Shell on to get a proper Start menu but otherwise it's vanilla 8.1.
I've tried 10 and don't really see that I'm missing anything by not running it. In the end, I just need my computer to work and every version of Windows since about XP has been more about piling on features than just giving me a basic, working system.
Crappy, much better than 8.x though.
I had a new computer with windows 8 on it. They wanted me to up grade to windows 8.1, which I did, then they wanted me toyp grade to windows 10, which I did not want to do, but they kept after me, until they ungraded me. It froze my computer and made it a piece of shit. Microsofts answer "Whoops, guess we goofed up." I sit here and hundreds more that microsoft did this to and so I had to buy a new computer with windows 7 on it, fuck Bill Gates and Microsoft.
After the anniversary update to Windows 10.....My computer went on the fritz. I had so many problems with it.
Then....
I lost all my network connections.
I had to have my computer guy look at it and Windows 10 fried my boot sector. My computer isn't even 2 years old.
He was able to fix it and god bless him he put windows 8 back onto my computer.
I HATED WINDOWS 10.
Hugs,
Mysteria
xo
Tried updating my laptop while on vacation to Win 10. Update crapped out several times.
Went back to older version. May be less painful to just buy and new laptop LOL
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I'm not impressed. After a few days of cleaning things up it works pretty well but visually I hate it. I don't find it as intuitive as other software.
I usually have to benchtest all the systems that I recommend to most of the places where I volunteer as techie for the various boxes due to unfortunately having degrees in microcomputers and networking.
Windows 10 is relatively easy as compared to MS systems, but their profit margin has in the past release the machines and let the consumer do the test support to find all the glitches the system has.
In all honesty 10 is one of Microsoft Windoze better operating systems, but Linux and Apple are tons better. XP was windows very very best system imho.
I have far more tech calls on Microsoft systems than all other systems combined, and its not because of the percentage of computers made to run windozes than all the other systems. (although mathematically that has to have some impart)
I would highly recommend people get linux systems, they are getting to be really fun now without the user requiring much coding, scripting, or even programming abilities but still having the ability to get into the guts of the engines!
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Why they had to change from XP I will never know.
I have a new PC with 10 and its a pain in the ass to learn the new and complicated ways of operating it.
I have kept the old XP one as well for when I get so frustrated and want to chuck 10 out the window.
