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Does anyone regret upgrading to Windows 10?

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  • Robisere
    Robisere Posts: 3,237 Forumite
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    My plan is to carry on with 7/64 on this desktop until early next year, when I will have saved enough to buy a really good laptop, with Win10 installed. I have no need for this hulking great desktop PC now, it has been great for me over the last 4 years. I inherited most of it from my network engineer grandson, upgraded it and now I know that a good laptop and my 24" Iiyama monitor, will fill all my needs.

    Interesting thought is that, if I already had a top spec laptop running 7, I would probably not upgrade to 7. As it is, I have a genuine full retail Win7/64 disc, so if I wished to do so, I have the knowledge and experience to junk 10 and revert to 7 if necessary. Can't see it happening though, even at 70 I am always learning and 10 sounds like a challenge - how can I break it? :);)
    I think this job really needs
    a much bigger hammer.
  • jenniewb
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    Just wondered how long it took anyone to update- I've heard stories of it taking hours and hours (as in 7 or 8 hours plus) which isn't a problem as such, unless you need to use the computer!


    Also, does it work for everyone? I have a reduced RAM at the moment as I've yet to replace a 4GB memory stick which broke down not long ago. I'm still using 4GB and getting on fine if a little more slowly, but would an update to Windows 10 just not work properly due to this? Or is it better to wait until I've replaced the rest of the RAM?
  • Robisere wrote: »
    My plan is to carry on with 7/64 on this desktop until early next year, when I will have saved enough to buy a really good laptop, with Win10 installed. I have no need for this hulking great desktop PC now, it has been great for me over the last 4 years. I inherited most of it from my network engineer grandson, upgraded it and now I know that a good laptop and my 24" Iiyama monitor, will fill all my needs.

    Interesting thought is that, if I already had a top spec laptop running 7, I would probably not upgrade to 7. As it is, I have a genuine full retail Win7/64 disc, so if I wished to do so, I have the knowledge and experience to junk 10 and revert to 7 if necessary. Can't see it happening though, even at 70 I am always learning and 10 sounds like a challenge - how can I break it? :);)




    command prompt (elevated) and type fdisk <enter>
  • Robisere
    Robisere Posts: 3,237 Forumite
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    command prompt (elevated) and type fdisk <enter>

    - it was a joke, Freddy....
    I think this job really needs
    a much bigger hammer.
  • kwikbreaks
    kwikbreaks Posts: 9,187 Forumite
    jenniewb wrote: »
    I have a reduced RAM at the moment as I've yet to replace a 4GB memory stick which broke down not long ago. I'm still using 4GB and getting on fine if a little more slowly, but would an update to Windows 10 just not work properly due to this?
    I successfully upgraded an EEE Box (netbook grade machine) with 1.5GB to Win 10. Only having 4GB will not be an issue at all. Of course something else may be,
  • Daz2009
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    Jivesinger wrote: »
    At the back of a shelf somewhere I have a Belkin USB Bluetooth adaptor. The box proudly proclaims 'Designed for Windows XP' but it apparently also supports Windows 98 SE, ME, and Windows 2000 (and some variants of Apple OS X).

    But I plugged it into a laptop I've upgraded to Windows 10 and it did just seem to work. This one has a Broadcom chip too.

    Perhaps crucially, the laptop itself isn't in the 1st flush of youth and is running 32-bit Windows 10.

    It could be that if I was running 64-bit, it wouldn't find the drivers so easily?

    Did you have yours working under an older version (presumably Windows 7)?

    Yes,64-bit win 7
  • Jivesinger
    Jivesinger Posts: 1,221 Forumite
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    Daz2009 wrote: »
    Yes,64-bit win 7
    The best I can suggest is manually installing the best driver you have, possibly right-clicking the setup file first and setting Compatibility to Windows 7. But you may have already tried that?

    And in any case it might still not work or (with one driver I found) it may block it and say there are compatibility issues.
  • LucianH
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    I regret trying to upgrade to windows 10 on my daughters HP Pavilion Laptop. I have an older Pavilion laptop which I succeeded with the upgrade but I had to give up on my daughters since the video drivers were incompatible and, after much googling, there's a number of other forums tracking the problem (no manually installed drivers available)

    The annoying thing is that when the upgrade (from Win7home to Win 10) was first performed, it worked fine. However, Microsoft decided I needed a display driver update and it broke it (reverted to generic low resolution driver). I can understand Microsoft wanting to force windows updates on us but why do they force driver updates without letting us decide whether they are needed.

    Luckily I'm a fan of Macrium Reflect and could restore back to Win7 although I wasted a whole day in trying different solutions. I'm now going to have to wait for a fix and then update my daughter's lappy when she's next home from uni.
    Never let it get you down... unless it really is as bad as it seems.
  • Does anyone regret upgrading to Windows 10?




    hell no


    my Amstrad runs a lot faster on windows 10 , that "gem" stuff was horrid


    photo_Amstrad1640_02.jpg
  • bod1467
    bod1467 Posts: 15,214 Forumite
    Does anyone regret upgrading to Windows 10?

    No. Next question?
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