Windows 10 - The Verdict - Better than Windows 7/8?

prowla

I think that Microsoft have manage to break their one-bad-one-good release cycle, and have managed to do two bad in a row.

The interface is an improvement over Windows 8, yes, but that's about it. The UI looks really old-fashioned (Windows 3), still has elements of Windows 8's schizophrenia in it, and actions require more movements and gestures to achieve than in Windows 7. The fact that the default is that it snoops on you and you have to go to all sorts of lengths to stop it is inexcusable. One of my machines Windows Update broke and I had to go searching KBs to find how to fix it.

I'm not upgrading any Windows 7 machines to 10, "free" or not, but I am doing Windows 8 ones.

I_have_spoken

It also ate my dog and ran away with my wife.

Well my Windows 10 get drunk on cheap cider and made a pass at the vicar's wife, then when her indoor asked 'does my bum look big in this?', Cortana shouted 'yes!'.

Rolling back to Windows XP!

50Twuncle

RumRat wrote: »

Works perfectly. Faster and better than 7 or 8.
I see no point in reverting back to an old OS. Very happy with W10.

Is Win 10 actually faster than 7 or 8 ?
Have you actually timed START UP with a stop watch to compare the previous OS to Win 10 ?
To start with - I thought the same but after 3 months, I don't think that Win 10 is any faster - in fact, under certain conditions, it is considerably slower..
This is on both an i5 laptop with 8Gb RAM and an i7 Desktop with an SSD and 12Gb RAM !!

enfield_freddy

frightened one of my kittens as well

Oblivion

stockton wrote: »

Incidentally, although I had Windows 10 on for over a month, when I reverted to Windows 7 I just clean re-installed it and it was validated no problem. Now I am getting nagged to download and install Windows 10 again. I already have a backup copy of course.

To stop the Win10 nagging you need to uninstall 3 of the Windows updates which are responsible for this. Actually the first one in my list stops the nagging but the other two also stop any crafty background snooping by Microsoft.

Go to Control Panel > Programs & Features > and click on 'View Installed Updates'. When they are all loaded, click on the Name column to order them alphabetically and numerically.

Now look for each of these in turn and delete them one by one ... they are in the 'Updates' area which comes after the 'Security Updates' area.

KB3035583

KB2952664

KB3021917

Restart and no more W10 nagging. Just make sure that you also configure Windows Updates to warn you before updating so you can uncheck them if they reappear, because if you leave it to update automatically they'll sneak back in again.

poppasmurf_bewdley

I've recently bought a new laptop to replace my Windows Vista one, and it has Windows 10.

I use it to access the internet, and apart from having a different initial startup screen, and tiles instead of icons, it does nothing better or worse than Vista as far as I can ascertain. Admittedly, it does have a few extra baubles like Photos, but also has crap like Cortana which is completely useless to my mind, and the Edge browser which is ......

It works, which is what I ask of it. But it's not something to rave about.

The_Last_Username

Well for me Windows 10 works okay - and (as I'm previewing Windows 10 on my phone too) the integration with my phone and overall usability of the OS are a big improvement over previous incarnations of Windows.

Sure there are a (very) few "niggles", as with any operating system.
I particularly dislike the regularity of booting the PC only to get the "Start is not working. Please restart" - type message following on (it seems) from when I have shut the machine down (correctly I may add) during an upgrade being downloaded or performed in the background.
As I said though, a minor irritation; it always restarts correctly upon a reboot.

There will always be users that dislike whatever/whichever operating system and there will also always be users that dislike any change to their operating system.

I have tried (and at times continue to experiment with) various builds of Linux and used various MAC OS's.
And for me the fact is that Windows ( and Windows 10 in particular) does exactly what I need it to do, when I need it to do it and without any problems or fuss.


I like Windows 10.
(I like it on my phone too. )

Oblivion

The_Last_Username wrote: »

I like Windows 10.
(I like it on my phone too. )

SPLITTER!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb_qHP7VaZE

50Twuncle

Has anyone noticed that everytime that you rebuild a Win 10 PC - It creates another recovery partition on the C: drive - mine now has 3 extra partitions of between 350Mb and 800Mb - I don't want to delete them as they may contain important data !
They are called simple basic HEALTHY RECOVERY partitions (on top of the expected 20Gb RECOVERY partition....

Cornucopia

I installed W10 because my W7 was not working properly after a re-build by Currys (yes... I know).

Overall, I'm both impressed and disappointed in it in almost equal measure. It works, and for me, it's faster on virtually everything than W7 was.

There are still mystery crashes, though.

And some of the design elements of W7 seem to "leak through". And it's woefully uncustomisable compared to previous Windows. And the very pale, simple simple graphic design is not to my taste, and customisation is limited. And File Explorer is a mess.

What it needs...

- a simple mechanism for setting up user tiles. (Why can't it use basic HTML for this, with a set of special tags for system/web info? Like special tags in MS Word?)

- a simple mechanism for tweaking the graphic design (whether by a master template or through tweaking individual settings).

- universal switch to tiles (get rid of the W7-looking start icons on the desktop).

- Freecell

- more consistent use of Jumplists.