up to 10 or stay with 7

Fightsback

RumRat wrote: »

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You're late

RumRat

Fightsback wrote: »

You're late

I wasn't late. I just failed to be on time.....:o

Oh yes....OP......Move on up to W10, make up your own mind. You can always revert back to the old fashioned thingy if you don't like it...;)

esuhl

I can't really see any major difference between Windows 7 and 10. You get mobile apps, a native virtual hypervisor, Cortana and DirectX 12. I don't need any of those, and the UI is awful!

If MS are going to make the UI so bad, they should at least allow you to change it to something sensible.

I build my PCs from components, and the free W10 upgrade is only an OEM version anyway, so I'm sticking with W7 for now. I'll need a retail version anyway down the line.

Just a thought but... since Windows 10 uses a rolling release model now, if you buy a W10 retail licence, you'd never need to buy another copy of Windows again.

motorguy

I upgraded from Windows 8 on my new Alienware 13 and its great.

I've my old laptop still for downloads and i did the upgrade from 7 to 10 on it. Its at least 6 years old and its great on it too.

No issues with either during the upgrade.

Well pleased.

Jivesinger

Many people's computers work fine, but a few don't, because they have problems with 'drivers'.

I would certainly look on the manufacturer's website to see if they say your computer is compatible with Windows 10. If they don't say this, then it doesn't definitely mean it won't work, but you'd be taking more of a risk.

Strider590

Well I had to go from XP to 7 last year and despite everyone telling me that 7 was great and everything worked ok, when I "upgraded" numerous rather expensive software packages refused to work any more and a number of things STILL wind me up.
Chances of getting me onto Win10 any time soon? we're talking minus figures..........

FreddieFrugal

Didn't have great experience at first.

Upgraded from 7 to 10, the upgrade worked, however it left the computer really sluggish and laggy doing normal tasks.

Used the restore windows 7 option and that broke everything, stuck on BSOD crash when starting up again afterwards.

So I did a clean install of Windows 10 from USB and now I am actually quite happy with performance again. Start up is quick, and everything seems to work with good pace. Haven't had chance to reinstall any games to see what it's like. Did mean I had to reinstall everything but at least with a clean install it's a quick way of decluttering!

Make sure you back your files up before doing the upgrade. you need to do the free upgrade before you'd be able to clean install anyway, to activate windows on your system and register on microsoft's servers.

The only windows 10 thing I've found that I'm not happy with is that there is no option over how updates are done. It's either on or off. No notify me and let me choose which to download. but there are ways around it, there's a tool that let's you hide particular updates but you have to download it separately, you can also tell windows you're on a metered connection which stops it from auto downloading.

If you have 10 pro you can use group policy editor to bring the old options back, but that's not an option on Home.

I think that is a really stupid change and removes user control over their own system, you shouldn't have to do workarounds, the option should just be there as it used to be.

samsamesggsandham

FreddieFrugal wrote: »

Didn't have great experience at first.

Upgraded from 7 to 10, the upgrade worked, however it left the computer really sluggish and laggy doing normal tasks.

Used the restore windows 7 option and that broke everything, stuck on BSOD crash when starting up again afterwards.

So I did a clean install of Windows 10 from USB and now I am actually quite happy with performance again. Start up is quick, and everything seems to work with good pace. Haven't had chance to reinstall any games to see what it's like. Did mean I had to reinstall everything but at least with a clean install it's a quick way of decluttering!

Make sure you back your files up before doing the upgrade. you need to do the free upgrade before you'd be able to clean install anyway, to activate windows on your system and register on microsoft's servers.

The only windows 10 thing I've found that I'm not happy with is that there is no option over how updates are done. It's either on or off. No notify me and let me choose which to download. but there are ways around it, there's a tool that let's you hide particular updates but you have to download it separately, you can also tell windows you're on a metered connection which stops it from auto downloading.

If you have 10 pro you can use group policy editor to bring the old options back, but that's not an option on Home.

I think that is a really stupid change and removes user control over their own system, you shouldn't have to do workarounds, the option should just be there as it used to be.

Our upgrade was slow too and kept crashing - we ended up doing the same as you and started again with a clean install. Much better now - quick and snappy and no crashing. It was a painful journey though.

compmad1

Windows 10 will have upgrades until about 2025. Doubt Windows 7 will. I love Windows 7, but have now got Windows 10 on two out of three machines. I have removed a lot of Windows 10 features: tiles, replaced start menu with Classic Shell. Made to work much more like Windows 7.
Did same with notebook I have not changed yet on 8.1, due to lack of time, but I will. Windows 8/8.1 is rubbish. 10 better. Modified my little notebook so that it is more like Windows 7: no tiles, login without password and Windows 7 start menu. Windows 7 is great. Concerned about updates.

debitcardmayhem

I have upgraded to Windows 10 from windows 7, so I can run Windows 7 and Linux Mint on Virtualbox, mind you it was a Windows 7 Box running on virtualbox running under Fedora 22:cool: