Windows 10 Upgrade Thread (Questions, observations, experiences)

[battery_charger]

Well, so far so good...

The Windows 10 Upgrade took about 2 hours and all is good. McAfee did have a bit of a CPU crazy moment, but that has sorted itself out. All's good.

I won't be upgrading any of my windows 7 computers though; they're staying on 7.

 

[Air Force Brat]

Well, so far so good...

The Windows 10 Upgrade took about 2 hours and all is good. McAfee did have a bit of a CPU crazy moment, but that has sorted itself out. All's good.

I won't be upgrading any of my windows 7 computers though; they're staying on 7.

So far I have stayed with 7, I'm not sure how my flight sim would work with 10.

 

[battery_charger]

So far I have stayed with 7, I'm not sure how my flight sim would work with 10.

My advice is to stick with 7 in that case. I have had issues whereby certain programs (which aren't that old!) that worked fine in 7, do not in 10. As such, my advice would be to either dual boot windows 7 and 10, or stay on 7. Make sure that you have at least one computer that is left on an older OS, so that you can use it for compatibility with older programs.

My new HP laptop had windows 10 preinstalled; I set up dual booting with 7 and 10 in order to get everything working (I'm retiring the Acer Aspire, which is on 7).

 

[antiterror13]

So far I have stayed with 7, I'm not sure how my flight sim would work with 10.

I would suggest to create 2nd partition and install fresh Win 10 on it with Win 7 key disk, so you will have 2 OSs on your computer (win 7 and Win 10)

 

[antiterror13]

with Windows Creation Tool for fresh install Win 10

 

[Air Force Brat]

with Windows Creation Tool for fresh install Win 10

I wish you were here to help me with some of these things bruda, I'm still a techn-trog, with an analog brain in a digital world?? Come on down for a visit and we'll go fly that Ercoupe when we get the computer done?

 

[battery_charger]

I would suggest to create 2nd partition and install fresh Win 10 on it with Win 7 key disk, so you will have 2 OSs on your computer (win 7 and Win 10)

Yeah, that's also a good idea - set up a dual boot system so that you get to keep 7 whilst also upgrading to 10 nicely

 

[solarz]

So last night at 11pm, after my son finally went to bed, after I finally finished all the housework, finally getting to sit down in front of my computer thinking I would get to play an hour of Skyrim before going to bed, and what do I see?

"Hi"
"We've updated your computer."

F----- YOU Microsoft!

If you're going to push stealth updates like that on people, the first thing you'd damn well make sure is you won't be breaking anything! Like the driver for my wifi adapter!!!

Took me nearly an hour to find the flash drive that had the driver files on it and reinstall the drivers.

You know, I actually liked win 10, even though it has stupid UI designs that were just better in win 7. But this kind of bulls--t?? Makes me so frickin' angry!

 

[battery_charger]

So last night at 11pm, after my son finally went to bed, after I finally finished all the housework, finally getting to sit down in front of my computer thinking I would get to play an hour of Skyrim before going to bed, and what do I see?

"Hi"
"We've updated your computer."

F----- YOU Microsoft!

If you're going to push stealth updates like that on people, the first thing you'd damn well make sure is you won't be breaking anything! Like the driver for my wifi adapter!!!

Took me nearly an hour to find the flash drive that had the driver files on it and reinstall the drivers.

You know, I actually liked win 10, even though it has stupid UI designs that were just better in win 7. But this kind of bulls--t?? Makes me so frickin' angry!

Ouch - looks like Microsoft have forced an update on your computer, from Windows 7 to Windows 10...

It's not an uncommon scenario either - ever since the change from an "optional" to "recommended" update, it has been downloading and installing Windows 10 automatically on a number of PCs, whether i be windows 7 or windows 8.1.

Here's a whole thread about the subject:

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Thankfully, if you find out that you don't like Windows 10, or have software/hardware/driver incompatibilities, you can roll back to your previous OS, so long as you do it within a month of the new OS being installed.

If you do decide to roll back, DISABLE WINDOWS UPDATES! Otherwise there won't be anything stopping the Windows 10 upgrade from being installed again...

Thankfully, neither of my Windows 7 laptops/partitions have had this happen to them. Especially in regards to my new HP - setting up dual booting was hard enough, and I don't want to dual boot Windows 10 Home with Windows 10 Pro as that would not resolve my software issues!

 

[solarz]

Actually, I upgraded to win 10 a long time ago. Check out the earliest posts in this thread.

This makes it all the more maddening that I have to deal with the kind of obtrusive stealth updates that I endured last night.