Hi, Windows 10 pre-installed is O.K. & much better than Win 8.
Upgrading to 10 from 7 or 8 is abit of a lottery,may work, may not. Your choice but be prepared for fail.
You really require a clone of your Hard Drive on another hard drive to make it easier to get back to previous windows if it goes wrong.
I upgraded 1 of my win 8 PCs & failed completely & I couldn't even back to a restore point, but as I was prepared with a clone then only a 5 minute job after the failure.
I'm preparing a pre-installed W10 laptop @ this very minute.
Hoggy.

 

No issues at all, in fact i'd describe it as easier and smoother than the OS X process.
Edge is lacking add-ins, but runs fast and smooth.

Interface is a change, but it works well and i prefer it now to OS X even though i only have one PC and 4 macs.
Very fast to boot, smooth and a good step forward.

 

Never used Win 8 much but Win 10 feels very much like Win 7 with remnants of Win 8 lurking in the background most of which can be easily ignored. Had a few minor niggles at the start but overall it seems quite stable and runs more or less everything I was using before, including some Vista stuff.
With a UEFI BIOS it boots to Desktop in about 10 seconds.
Not keen on the way you are forced to accept all Windows updates whether you want them or not (unless you are willing to try the Registry hack). Overall I'd say go for it. Any initial wrinkles have mainly been ironed out now.
I only have 1 mac but I do have a cagoule and 2 umbrellas as well. :lol:

 

My 2p would be to uninstall any anti virus before starting the upgrade.

 

Hmmm .. I'm starting to think I should do a better back up with an image or clone and get a new HDD to do it first before risking an upgrade. Drives are not expensive. I've got an SSD for C: but it's not huge and seems to be mostly full despite having "My documents" on a separate 1T HD drive.

Is this any good?
http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx
Or this?
http://www.todo-backup.com/products/hom ... ftware.htm

 

I use Acorns for cloning. Works well and you can change the size of the partitions sizes too

 

Hi John, HD Clone Free edition from Miray works well, a little slow, but it's Free.

http://www.miray-software.com/products/ ... clone.html

Hoggy.

 

All 4 of the upgrades I performed at home were faultless, not a problem at all. Two were 7Pro to 10, and the other two were 8.1 to 10.

10 is better that all previous versions IMO, I do find it funny how a lot of people don't want to let go of W7.

Anything I have of any importance I don't want to loose is either on OneDrive or on my NAS, so if it goes tit's up then it doesn't matter.

 

Main thing to bear in mind is that to get Windows 10 for free you HAVE to upgrade, you can just do a fresh install. Once you have done the upgrade to 10 it registers with Microsoft which then give you the licence to run 10 on your hardware. From that point you can then do a fresh install and it will not need a product key and just activate once online.

I've found most upgrades go fine but if you've not done a fresh install of 7 or 8 in the last 6 months you'll have too much 'junk' on your pc and 10 will seem sluggish, so do the upgrade and then do a full fresh install.

 

I have Windows 8 pre installed on my PC, Windows 10 is available as a free upgrade. My concern is ,I run Outlook 2007 for my e-mails. Word etc. If I install Windows 10 will outlook 2007 still work.

 

I have Windows 8 pre installed on my PC, Windows 10 is available as a free upgrade. My concern is ,I run Outlook 2007 for my e-mails. Word etc. If I install Windows 10 will outlook 2007 still work.

Hi, Office 2007 which contains Outlook works fine in pre-installed Windows 10, if Win 8 upgrades to Win 10 without probs Outlook run should be O.K. Win 8 to Win 10 can cause probs, as every PC is different, so create a clone first.
I have installed Office 2007 on 2 Win 10 laptops today after removing the Office trial that comes pre-installed.
Hoggy.

 

Well I finally got it installed but it wasn't easy. I created a new cloned drive so I have my original to go back to and everything is backed up. I used http://www.todo-backup.com/products/hom ... ftware.htm to do it all. It's got an easy to use interface, it does clone, full image and incremental backup and is free. Works really well with loads of help.

Windows wouldn't upgrade - Errors found:
C1900101-20017

Windows update error 0x80070005(2015-12-03-T-06_50_57A) Not fixed

This fixed it:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/968003

Basically had to download a tool and a script to run which fixed a load of permissions.

After a couple more attempts it upgraded Ok. Only just looking at 10 now. Cut and paste doesn't work in circumstances it previously did as I just noticed when doing this post. How do I get tabs to preload on Edge? IE is still there and is more familiar - but why both - what's the difference supposed to be?

I'll not judge it yet but I'd like to be able to put borders back on window edges - they seem to be there but a couple of twips off the visible window which is almost invisible (only one pixel) so difficult to locate when stretching a window.

Trying to create a startup group - found the startup folder but it too behaves strangely and won't let me paste a shortcut there (if I copy from a real programme or folder) but I can paste a shortcut there if I had copied a shortcut originally!

 

Forget Edge. Just regard it as a concept browser that you can play with for now.

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Has taken a couple of months to get
- File Explorer to work at an acceptable speed & not hang
- Laptop mouse sometimes decides to go on strike
- Burnt the SSD in my desktop though got a replacement SSD for free as under warranty

Otherwise its become much better after the recent SP update

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I managed to get some borders to appear on active windows so I can more easily recognise them when overlapping with others, so grab and size them, by installing a custom theme:

Aerolite Theme install:
http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/7935 ... -10-a.html

The borders then appear but are too thick but can be tweaked in the registry which you could probably find an app for but is easy enough:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics
BorderWidth -20 (was -15)
PaddedBorderWidth -15 (was -60)

 

Nothing but trouble with my laptop since I upgraded.

Internet pages take longer to open and I keep losing my wifi connection, and I have tried varies fixes on the net and nothing has worked so far. I am seriously thinking of going back to 8.1.

 

Sounds like El Capitan :lol:

 

Nothing but trouble with my laptop since I upgraded.

Internet pages take longer to open and I keep losing my wifi connection, and I have tried varies fixes on the net and nothing has worked so far. I am seriously thinking of going back to 8.1.

Network adaptors not waking up from Sleep mode seems to be a common problem - with no clear solution.

 

There seem to be quite a few bugs in 10. Opening image and video files directly from my USB connected mobile phone seems to be hit and miss with jpg files being reported as unrecognised following viewing a cancelled video. If you persevere eventually they open.

Videos need to download across first but the spinning circle of dots is all you get with no explanation - with 7 it said "downloading" and gave you a progress bar.

A friend at work had the unexplained spinning dots on something else and left it to see what would happen. Over 30 minutes later it said unrecognised format.

My sound recording software can no longer control the recording level with its slider - I have to go within windows to do it.

Lots of other issues. It works no better than 7 it's slower to boot and load startups and I don't like the interface which seems a mishmash of 7 screens with some re-styled screens. Edge seems pointless and takes over displaying other formats better handled by other apps like acrobat. The system sounds are also unintuative and too similar to each other.

Maybe it will be sorted in six months but in the mean time I'm intending going back to 7 and taking a clone copy of 10 So I can change back to it in future if ever they drop 7 support.

 

If you've upgraded from 7 though you can't go back to 7 after upgrading. The licence for Windows 10 consumes the 7 licence and the key used to activate 7 will no longer work.

Haven't actually tried it to prove that, but that was in the details when they started the Windows 10 upgrades...

 

I thought the onlyreason youcouldn't go back was because after a month the restore point image was removed to save space.

 

Hi, Once upgraded you have 1 month to return to your old OS.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/wind ... windows-81

Hoggy.

 

That Microsoft info talks about recovery from backup to the previous version after a month so seems to be to do with the available files.

 

Hi, I've returned to Windows 7 from 10 within the month with no probs, took less than 15 minutes.
This was a customers PC, I don't time have to "play" with mine I just want to use it, not spend time fixing it.
Hoggy.

 

Might not have ended up that way with the licences in the end. People were basically suggesting that after upgrading to 10 the licence is machine based with out the need for a key so were asking if they could then use the 7 key to install 7 again on another machine - this was when it was explained about that key being consumed by the 10 upgrade and therefore then invalid.