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  • spud17
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    RumRat wrote: »
    That would be interesting......I don't think there should be any problems.
    I'm on the verge of a W10 assault on my laptop...;)

    WPS installed fine, found the option to alter the start page, initially it was greyed out but I found that if I opened a New Document, the options became available.
    All sorted, and it looks useful for future use.

    I recommend having a look at W 10.
    Runs ok on that pc, it's not been turned on for 10 days and tonight's updates were painful
    It wanted to restart, I wanted it to just shutdown after installing updates, but it just hung at 1 of 3.
    I had to turn off using the power button, restarted, applied updates, let it restart, everything behaved, then had to shut down in usual way.
    Move along, nothing to see.
  • spud17 wrote: »
    WPS installed fine, found the option to alter the start page, initially it was greyed out but I found that if I opened a New Document, the options became available.
    All sorted, and it looks useful for future use.

    I recommend having a look at W 10.
    Runs ok on that pc, it's not been turned on for 10 days and tonight's updates were painful
    It wanted to restart, I wanted it to just shutdown after installing updates, but it just hung at 1 of 3.
    I had to turn off using the power button, restarted, applied updates, let it restart, everything behaved, then had to shut down in usual way.
    Hi spud, I have used it in a VM with 3GB on my fedora lappy and the pain I feel is the fact that my virtualbox won't integrate fully yet, but it's early days and just got back from Spain so I will give it another go too.
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  • Jivesinger
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    Hi spud, I have used it in a VM with 3GB on my fedora lappy and the pain I feel is the fact that my virtualbox won't integrate fully yet, but it's early days and just got back from Spain so I will give it another go too.
    I found that a recent version of VirtualBox (4.3.18) works better with Windows 10, as it has compatible Guest Additions.

    However I did find that the Guest Additions wouldn't work well (read: crashed the machine and caused BSODs so I ended up reinstalling the whole W10) unless I enabled 3D acceleration and gave it more memory (256MB).
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