Windows 10.

whattochoose

After being in receipt of a new Windows 10 Lenovo laptop for a few days now, I have to say I'm not massively impressed with 10.
I find it very intrusive, and - oh! - the updates.
I know it's had a lot of stick, but I must say I always found Vista perfect for my, albeit simple, needs.

I_have_spoken

I remember when everywhere around here was just fields.

whattochoose

I_have_spoken wrote: »

Also, I remember when everywhere around here was just fields.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3E9I2KCyv4

iamlucky18

I didn't like Windows 10 in the beginning either. But stick with it and eventually you will get used to it.

Support for Windows 7 will soon be coming to a close - I'm not sure about Windows 8. But stick with it.

whattochoose

iamlucky18 wrote: »

I didn't like Windows 10 in the beginning either. But stick with it and eventually you will get used to it.

Support for Windows 7 will soon be coming to a close - I'm not sure about Windows 8. But stick with it.

I'm sure I will.
Thank you and Happy New Year.

pogofish

whattochoose wrote: »

I know it's had a lot of stick, but I must say I always found Vista perfect for my, albeit simple, needs.

BURN.... THE.... WITCH....! :mad:

iamlucky18

pogofish wrote: »

BURN.... THE.... WITCH....! :mad:

Lol :rotfl:

whattochoose

pogofish wrote: »

BURN.... THE.... WITCH....! :mad:

Happy New Year!

fenlander_uk

iamlucky18 wrote: »

I didn't like Windows 10 in the beginning either. But stick with it and eventually you will get used to it.

I used to feel the same way about arthritis - but it's still a pain in the neck...

iamlucky18

I'm sorry to hear about your medical issue, but it's completely unrelated to the OPs question, thank you very much. You're not the only one with medical issues...

Anyway - I can assure you Windows 10 is an ok OS. Not better than 7 by any means, you just need to get used to the new gui etc. Plus if you're a gamer, there are pros to using Windows 10 rather than 7/8.

Happy new year. Best wishes......

Nilrem

whattochoose wrote: »

After being in receipt of a new Windows 10 Lenovo laptop for a few days now, I have to say I'm not massively impressed with 10.
I find it very intrusive, and - oh! - the updates.
I know it's had a lot of stick, but I must say I always found Vista perfect for my, albeit simple, needs.

The updates will slow down after a while, you're probably facing "new install hell" with them, by which I mean for the first week or so after buying a PC or installing it (even with the latest install media) it'll tend to be downloading update after update to get current.
Windows 10 seems to be reasonably good at dealing with this, far better than Windows 7, let alone Vista or XP.

I always used to hang on to any machine I reinstalled/built for a day or so and run it on the desk next to my machine for this reason, I'd check it every time I got a drink/got up and if needed reboot to finish the update process.
Typically it took at least an evening of just updating to get them to the point where they weren't still downloading stuff, and this was on 50-100mb connections, if the internet connection is slow or you're doing other stuff with the system it'll take a lot longer to complete the updates.

I think the record for longest time to complete the updates was on a friends old laptop which took about 4 days of just sitting with the occasional reboot to get all the updates It was due to a combination of an old/slow machine and something like 2-3 years of updates.

I'd recommend leaving the machine running for an hour or so after you've finished using it to let it download updates in peace for the first few days (or manually tell it to update repeatedly - I think it doesn't do them in the background anything like as fast whilst it's actively being used)