Thread: Windows 10

Originally Posted by old1955

G'day Dave,

While I have W7 there may be similarities from this site that can help you stop W10. I followed it all the way through and haven't seen it come back. I had not reserved W10 but I caught it at 65% downloading.

http://winsupersite.com/windows-10/h...ng-your-system

Ross

Gday Ross

My updates I believe are just W8 updates. Idont think it is trying to go to 10 just trying to 'fix' what is there. The PC makes a great paper weight though a bit chunky for your ave A4 sheet

DaveTTC

Turning Wood Into Art

A bloke rang me this morning, he installed it without doing a back up & now his computer won't finish booting, I told him to ring Microsoft.

Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

A bloke rang me this morning, he installed it without doing a back up & now his computer won't finish booting, I told him to ring Microsoft.

Hi,
He could wait for the Indian call centres to call and offer to fix the problem with his computer.

Regards

Not if it won't finish booting.

Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

A bloke rang me this morning, he installed it without doing a back up & now his computer won't finish booting, I told him to ring Microsoft.

Can't figure some people, MS have gone to great lengths this time to tell people to "backup before updating".

I'm happy to stay with W7, rock solid, no probs, like has been said, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"

I find win10 much quicker and smoother.
8.1 was a big step up from 8


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I run Linux on my computers plus one Windows (virtual) machine that I keep for programs that are only available on windows (Sketchup, CAM-BAM, Mach 3). It runs Windows 7 and will stay that way for as long as it's possible!

I've just done my first W10 upgrade. I targeted my small Lenovo Flex 10 travel notebook originally running W8.1. To save on download quota (there are 4 win boxes in our house to potentially upgrade) I downloaded the USB ISO first and worked from that. It must be killing some peoples download quotas if they let a housefull of devices all upgrade through the background update process.

The upgrade went reasonably smoothly and the end product looked much like Win8.1 with a new theme. I don't know why they insist on loading the crapware live tiles. I have no interest whatsoever in most of them and uninstalled all that I could. I think W10 is taking a little longer to start up now than win8.1 did. On the plus side the tweaks I did to make the W8.1 function more like a usable desktop carried over in the upgrade so not much difference to my user experience. Upgrades from W7 user interface are still likely to be annoying.

The Lenovo apps weren't all happy after the upgrade and went through a couple of cycles of updates. I now have a couple of unidentified 'Multi function devices' listed in device manager and not sure what they are. I think it may be HP printer drivers so I'll delete those and reinstall the printers next.

Lenovo software is also now reporting problems with the factory installed recovery media, which I haven't pursued fixing yet. It may just be an incompatiblity thing and the factory recovery partition may need to be nuked after upgrade.

Speaking of recovery media, I keep recovery images on USB sticks. I noticed the local Auspost shops have Sandisk USB3 16gb sticks on sale for $9.95 at the moment. Which compares favourably with the MSY $9 price if there isn't one close by and you need to make recovery images before attempting to update.

I will definitely make sure I update all BIOSes, drivers and retained vendor bloatware to the latest available versions on the rest of the boxes before attempting the next update.

I tried the update last night on the notebook, don't use it much so didn't matter what happens.
Well it installed after 2 hrs after telling me everything was compatible.
Booted up ok and showed me a desktop.
Although the screen res was wrong and all circles looked oval.
And wireless mouse did not work.

It did another update and I no longer had a screen to look at.
So it all lasted about 2 minutes.
Went back to Win 7 real quick and all is fine.

I wonder if 2 minutes is a record??

What brand/model laptop?

I have an older one that runs Win 7 that I want to try it in but I'm not going to waste the time if it won't work.

Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

What brand/model laptop?

I have an older one that runs Win 7 that I want to try it in but I'm not going to waste the time if it won't work.

Its an asus Altec, I got it from the tip. someone threw it away because touchpad connector came off.
Just needed memory.

Now I suspect its the updates it did after installing.
Other people are saying the latest updates cause a lot of crashes.

I'm going to leave it a month and get the next install set, (I used media creation tool to DL the install to a USB and installed of that)
Hopefully they will update the DL install set.

I did not do it via the windows upgrade app that gets installed.

Ta, I have an old Toshiba L500 with Win 7 on it that I'll have a go at some time in the next month.

I had to reinstall the video card driver to get the second screen to work and delete about 20 rubbish apps that are automatically installed but apart from that I haven't had any problems.
If you do install Win10 make sure you select custom install because it automatically turns on every sort of reporting, information gathering and suggestion making stuff that it can think of.

Ta.