Windows 10

JJ_Egan

Installing 32 + 64 for a 96 bit PC ??

molerat

A quickie for anyone who has installed - will Office Starter 2010 work once W10 is installed ?

grumpycrab

molerat wrote: »

A quickie for anyone who has installed - will Office Starter 2010 work once W10 is installed ?

Same question. I may have upgraded by some time this evening, so check back.

S0litaire

custardy wrote: »

Having done multiple installs of 10 on various machines. It never took anywhere near an hour,let alone 2.

well in my upgrade from win7 it took over 2 hours..
That was ruining from an Bootable USB ISO image last night.

Started it at around 00:30am by 01:45 it was just getting to the first reboot. By 03:00 it was sitting at the login screen.

Then a further hour to download and install the 5 patches it needed (including an Nvidia driver and HP Printer driver both which took 20 mins each to download and fail!!) Had to manually grab drivers from the Nvidia site and install using their drivers (which also partly failed!!) but got me my 1920x1080 screen instead of the terrible default safety resolution...

Shut it down and went to bed! not booted it up yet to see how messed up it will be..

Robisere

I intend to carry on using my full retail genuine Windows 7/64 bit as long as possible, meanwhile learning to use Linux in some form or another.
Why should I lose access to my printer and programmes, and have to buy loads of new stuff, just because MicroSoft packs away the goalposts and builds something different? Yes, it's a free download, but take a look at MS' history. This is a monolithic corporation which has a history of buying up other companies for their features, then using them as MicroSoft products. MS has now run into a brick wall and knows that the only way it can continue to make a profit, is by offering the carrot of a free Operating System. Later will come the "Apps" - that is the stick, which will become progressively more expensive.

There is good reason why MS call 10 "the last Windows" - creating operating systems has become horrifically expensive. MS want the Android cake, and they want to eat it too!

kwikbreaks

Well I decided to just go for it on my 4 very different machines.

I5 Win 7 Home desktop
I3 Win 8.1 Laptop
Lenovo S12 netbook Win 7 starter
Asus EEE Pc Win 7 starter

All 4 machines completed in a bit under 8 hours including creating Reflect images before and after, downloading install on each individually, clearing out the install files and old Windows, and junking and reusing the restore partition on the one machine where I'd kept it. Some of the jobs were overlapping. I think the actual install without the trimmings on an average machine could be done in the hour as suggested.

The main reason it took me quite a while was the two netbook class machines Nifty had walked me through upgrading to Win 7 from XP last year. Neither were fast performers on XP and despite fitting both with SSDs the slowest (an Asus EEE PC) was dire on Win 7. Both actually seem to run Win 10 quite well. Not blisteringly fast for sure but quite usable and the CPU on the EEE Box does now dip below 100% for more than 5 seconds at a time.

No problems encountered and pleased with the results. The fact it does stuff in the background after the install is apparently complete did make me think something was wrong on the EEE box but after a while it was all OK.

I'm even happy enough to not install a 3rd party start menu although it isn't as good as the Win 7 one was with you having to manually add stuff with explorer rather than drag and drop so far as I can see. A quick google gave me the info on how to get to them quickly and it seems this scheme was introduced in Win 8 but was invisible to me as I used ClassicShell from day 1 on that.

S0litaire

Just booted my win 10 machine,

All seems well. Games and apps seen to work. No issues so far!!

Other people are not so lucky, hearing a lot of complaining that Firefox does not run/install for some people.

Not had that issue myself, Firefox runs fine, only minor issue if that Microsoft's new "edge" browser does not 'see' Firefox when you try to import bookmarks. It only sees internet explorer.

So far so good...

JJ_Egan

Dirty install over the top of a lot of programs .
Download burn iso to disc install .
Total almost 3 hours and probably another half an hour to find drivers .

Jivesinger

InvestInPoker wrote: »

Agreed, and if you have a Facebook account as well you can say goodbye to any scraps of privacy you had left.

All things considered I did want to upgrade to Windows 10 but the forced updates rule has killed any chance of that. I have important and private files on my computer which is used for sensitive things. There is no way I am authorising a company to be able to install whatever they want on it whenever they want.

The privacy thing is just confirming my choice.

That Privacy policy isn't specific to Windows 10, of course. It's more general than that.

I'm also not convinced there's much new in there - I suspect they could always do most of those things based on the earlier policy in effect when people signed up, and it's only because Microsoft emailed everyone to say they were changing things that someone's bothered to read it.

Laurensalive

My Windows 10 is taking hours to download. I am still at 45%. The download started at 11.12 am. I have seen on Microsoft forum that some machines take time to get the download. I though it would have been faster than this.