Windows 10 Upgrade Thread (Questions, observations, experiences)

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battery_charger

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Hi, just thought I'd add my thoughts on Windows 10 (I have recently bought a new computer with Windows 10 installed).
So far, so good. I have various computers with various OSes; one is windows XP and rarely gets used; one is windows 7 and runs nicely, one is windows 8.1 and my new one is 10. Chances are, we'll upgrade the 8.1 computer to 10 as well. I like how they have brought back the Start Menu, instead of the duplo tiles that 8.1 had. I also like Edge (like others on here), it functions better than Internet Explorer, though I will still be using Chromium for my main browser. Disadvantages? I don't like how Windows Updates are forced on, and can't be stopped/disabled; I also don't like the default privacy settings (however, they can be changed) - and if you are used to running older programs, beware: some programs that work fine on Windows 7 may not on 10! As such, I am now running a dual boot of Win7/Win10.
 
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A couple months ago, I finished built my new computer. Z170 class mobo, i7 6700k and 32GB DDR4 and 512GB Samsung 850 Pro and 4TB WDC Black ... very nice computer even to be honest, my old (5 years) PC also doing just fine, I just felt it was the time to have new computer. I bought Win 7 64 Prof from Amazon for US$55.99 ... very very good price!

First I installed Win 7 64b pro on first partition, no issues at all ... all smooth. Then with Windows Creation Tool I install Win 10 64b Pro on the second partition and used the same key as Win 7 pro I installed on the 1st partition ... and all good

Now I have 2 OSs on my PC .. Win 7 64b pro and Win 10 64b Pro ... and it is legitimate and Microsoft allows it. It does make sense as you only able to run it one OS (either Win 7 or Win 10) at the time ... so here you go

I am still not too comfortable with Win 10, so most of the time still using my Win 7 64b Pro ... and it works like "no others" ;)
 
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Some of my program not working on 64bit environment, also thats one of the main reasons why I still want to have Win 7 64b Pro and Win 7 Pro has "Windows XP Mode 32 bit" (google it) .. and Microsoft discontinued it since Win 8
 
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antiterror13 said:
A couple months ago, I finished built my new computer. Z170 class mobo, i7 6700k and 32GB DDR4 and 512GB Samsung 850 Pro and 4TB WDC Black ... very nice computer even to be honest, my old (5 years) PC also doing just fine, I just felt it was the time to have new computer. I bought Win 7 64 Prof from Amazon for US$55.99 ... very very good price!

First I installed Win 7 64b pro on first partition, no issues at all ... all smooth. Then with Windows Creation Tool I install Win 10 64b Pro on the second partition and used the same key as Win 7 pro I installed on the 1st partition ... and all good

Now I have 2 OSs on my PC .. Win 7 64b pro and Win 10 64b Pro ... and it is legitimate and Microsoft allows it. It does make sense as you only able to run it one OS (either Win 7 or Win 10) at the time ... so here you go

I am still not too comfortable with Win 10, so most of the time still using my Win 7 64b Pro ... and it works like "no others" ;)
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I've recently had a laptop upgrade - my old Acer laptop (on windows 7) suffers from overheating, so I upgraded to a HP running Windows 10 (preinstalled). It's a great laptop, intel i7, 8GB RAM, 2TB HDD, and Windows 10 is good, but I had program incompatibilities. As such, I partitioned the laptop into 2x 1TB partitions, and used a spare license of Windows 7 Professional to set up dual booting. Everything works fine, all that is left for me to do is get all of my programs installed.

Thankfully I bought a laptop with plenty of storage, as it allowed me to dual boot 7 and 10 together on the same machine. For those programs that are really old, I'll either use my XP machine, or use Windows XP Mode on my Windows 7 Pro partition.
 
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Great. But basically you use 2 licenses for Win 7 and Win 10? and you will never run Win 7 and Win 10 at the same time

In my case, I only use 1 license (Win 7 pro) for both ..... but you have to install Win 7 first. This is allowed by Microsoft as we will never run Win 7 and Win 10 at the same time
 
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antiterror13 said:
Great. But basically you use 2 licenses for Win 7 and Win 10? and you will never run Win 7 and Win 10 at the same time

In my case, I only use 1 license (Win 7 pro) for both ..... but you have to install Win 7 first. This is allowed by Microsoft as we will never run Win 7 and Win 10 at the same time
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Yes, but I didn't know that there was the option of using just the one license for the two OSes. Plus I didn't think that such a system would activate, seeing as though Windows 10 was already activated.

Furthermore, Windows 10 was preinstalled on this machine, meaning it was an OEM key - and I'd have to fish through the BIOS in order to get the key.

But the thing is that Windows 7 and Windows 10 both work nicely. :)

As an aside, how long will it take to upgrade my existing Windows 8.1 laptop to Windows 10?
 
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Upgrading from Win 8.1 or Win 7 to Win 10 is just smooth, painless process ... would take 30 mins or so. One of my laptop still run Win 7 and no plan to upgrade it to Win 10 ... I may consider buying Samsung EVO 500GB SSD for the laptop and install Win 10 on the second partition. I know I only have time until July 2016 ... but heyyy SSD price will drop significantly when Samsung mass produced 3rd generation V-NAND 48-layer ... I'd expect the price/GB would drop 30-40% ... in a few months

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Well, a quick update... my Windows 8.1 laptop has decided that it automatically wanted to download Windows 10, and will automatically install it either tomorrow or Thursday!

Let's see how this goes... hopefully, it will turn out to be good, as I do not like Windows 8.1.
 
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antiterror13

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It should be smooth, the only potential problem is the network wifi card. If your wifi not working, don't panic. Just run Command prompt run as Admin and type "net cfg -d" .... should be good
 
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Update:
In the end, I decided to postpone the update for a bit... which turned out to be a wise move, because the laptop started acting strangely in regards to Internet connections. Everything started to run very slowly...
Hence, I ran a System Restore - and due to the slow processor, the system restore took about 45 minutes! However, it has since fixed the internet issue.
Only downside is that it now has to download Windows 10 again... though seeing as though it is now grouped in with the "important" updates, it will automatically download and install when I need it.

Oh, and whilst talking about the switch from "optional" to "important", I have heard quite a few users on CNET showing their dissatisfaction of their Windows 7 machines being auto-upgraded to 10. Why would I want to upgrade 7 to 10? 7 is a good OS. However, upgrading 8.1 to 10 is a very easy decision, as 8.1 (and 8) wasn't fit for purpose anyway.

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