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 Post subject: Windows 10 - To Upgrade or Not?
PostPosted: Mon June 29, 2015 9:28 am 
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So, should I let Windows update my machine to version 10 for free when it becomes available in one month, or should I wait?


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 Post subject: Re: Windows 10 - To Upgrade or Not?
PostPosted: Mon June 29, 2015 1:36 pm 
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I'm always afraid of OS upgrades.

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 Post subject: Re: Windows 10 - To Upgrade or Not?
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Me too, but Windwos 10 sounds pretty cool.


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 Post subject: Re: Windows 10 - To Upgrade or Not?
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Do you have a window where the upgrade will remain free, or do you have to do it right away? Seems like the prudent thing to do would be to wait to make sure there are no bugs or side effects.

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 Post subject: Re: Windows 10 - To Upgrade or Not?
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Yeah you have a year to take advantage. I'll probably see what happens with the first adopters before I hop on board.


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 Post subject: Re: Windows 10 - To Upgrade or Not?
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I'd always give an OS at least a month or two just to make sure there's no hideous bugs or anything. There's a year to upgrade for free, so no huge rush.

It does seem like it'll be worth grabbing though.

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 Post subject: Re: Windows 10 - To Upgrade or Not?
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I'll be upgrading my Windows machines ASAP. We've been testing it for a couple of months at work (although my main machine's a Mac now). It's pretty damn solid. It recognized a few of our older audio gadgets and a scanner without a hitch. Edge is pretty great (it feels faster than Chrome), but it'll undoubtedly be a pile of shit in a year or so because Microsoft sucks at browsers worst than Apple does.

But I will admit that a large part of why I like it is that Microsoft finally gave in to multiple desktops, which I love.


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 Post subject: Re: Windows 10 - To Upgrade or Not?
PostPosted: Wed July 29, 2015 10:22 pm 
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Whole upgrade process took about 40 minutes on my main Windows machine, but I have a superfast SSD.

Got tired of waiting for the upgrade notification, so I backdoored it.


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 Post subject: Re: Windows 10 - To Upgrade or Not?
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http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2015/07 ... -terrible/


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 Post subject: Re: Windows 10 - To Upgrade or Not?
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I hate this shit. We are going to have to update at some point which will render one of our main appraisal programs useless. So on top of learning Windows 10 im going to have to start from scratch building reports in the new appraisal software.

Fuck this shit.


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 Post subject: Re: Windows 10 - To Upgrade or Not?
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I don't know what to do, you guys. I'm perfectly happy with 7, but the upgrade rube in me finds it hard to resist.


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 Post subject: Re: Windows 10 - To Upgrade or Not?
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If you have a high-resolution screen and have text upscaling, Windows 10 does a considerably better job of that than Windows 7 or 8.


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 Post subject: Re: Windows 10 - To Upgrade or Not?
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I couldn't resist. Upgrading now.


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 Post subject: Re: Windows 10 - To Upgrade or Not?
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Not heartbroken that my PC won't update, at the moment. Something about it doesn't like my partition. I added an SSD about a month ago for the OS drive. Maybe it doesn't like the Samsung clone? There's a 100MB data partition labeled C: that I can only see in diskmgmt. I think that's the problem. I'll wait for Pete's review before I decide.


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 Post subject: Re: Windows 10 - To Upgrade or Not?
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now way in hell i'm doing this anytime soon.

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 Post subject: Re: Windows 10 - To Upgrade or Not?
PostPosted: Thu August 06, 2015 12:04 am 
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I was hoping to not have to use Classic Shell for this version of Windows but my Start Menu disappears while I'm navigating/scrolling through it.


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 Post subject: Re: Windows 10 - To Upgrade or Not?
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What do you mean? Mine doesn't do that.


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 Post subject: Re: Windows 10 - To Upgrade or Not?
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Like I click the start menu, bring the mouse up over it and start navigating through menus or scrolling through all those tiles, and it just disappears as if I've click out of the start menu.


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 Post subject: Re: Windows 10 - To Upgrade or Not?
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I installed classic shell which is working great. I'm glad they brought the start menu back for windows 10 but on first look it didn't seem as good as windows 7 version.


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 Post subject: Re: Windows 10 - To Upgrade or Not?
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cutuphalfdead wrote:
Like I click the start menu, bring the mouse up over it and start navigating through menus or scrolling through all those tiles, and it just disappears as if I've click out of the start menu.

Yeah. Mine doesn't do that. It doesn't close until I click on a program window or the desktop. Weird.


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