Windows 10 Update thoughts and questions...

[baldgye]

finally getting this download going for the 3rd time... and it's now downloading painfully slowly

[jdcarpe]

finally getting this download going for the 3rd time... and it's now downloading painfully slowly

West coast USA is awake now, and they are all pulling bandwidth for sure downloading the ISO.

[baldgye]

finally getting this download going for the 3rd time... and it's now downloading painfully slowly

West coast USA is awake now, and they are all pulling bandwidth for sure downloading the ISO.

Yeah I thought it might be at my end, but it's not 17% ...I wish if you didn't have enough space on your hdd the file it downloaded remained in your memory or something so you could delete stuff, make room without having to download the whole thing again :/

[baldgye]

31% ...........in 30mins it's done a little less than 15%  D:

[baldgye]

Anyone one else get this message:

"Continuing with the installation of Windows will change your display language. To change it back, you'll need to reinstall the language pack."


I'm running an English version of Win7 :/

[Fire Brand]

activation servers seem to be down currently I just keep getting the can't activate error inside windows 10, although other than that its running perfectly

[baldgye]

Downloading display drivers now, though I can't seem to close Device Manager's auto search window thing... but I really like the look of it, looks really nice and sharp... and the default font is reeeal nice

[katushkin]

Downloading display drivers now, though I can't seem to close Device Manager's auto search window thing... but I really like the look of it, looks really nice and sharp... and the default font is reeeal nice

Yeah, I think it looks really sharp as well. Windows explorer isn't horrible to look at, and I think the new updated icons are actually pretty cool.

I'm also using Internet Explorer because Google Chrome looks out of date compared to the OS.

[baldgye]

Downloading display drivers now, though I can't seem to close Device Manager's auto search window thing... but I really like the look of it, looks really nice and sharp... and the default font is reeeal nice

Yeah, I think it looks really sharp as well. Windows explorer isn't horrible to look at, and I think the new updated icons are actually pretty cool.

I'm also using Internet Explorer because Google Chrome looks out of date compared to the OS.

Using firefox atm, i dont know why, but even though it runs like ****, I still got allot of love going way back for the old gurl


Though I'm not happy about it rearagning all my bloody desktop icons... THAT WAS INTENTIONAL CHAOS

[Fire Brand]

Downloading display drivers now, though I can't seem to close Device Manager's auto search window thing... but I really like the look of it, looks really nice and sharp... and the default font is reeeal nice

Yeah, I think it looks really sharp as well. Windows explorer isn't horrible to look at, and I think the new updated icons are actually pretty cool.

I'm also using Internet Explorer because Google Chrome looks out of date compared to the OS.

Using firefox atm, i dont know why, but even though it runs like ****, I still got allot of love going way back for the old gurl

me too :x

[tp4tissue]

IDK... I think i MIGHT buy it.. if the price isn't ridiculous..


Hrrrmmm.. $100...  is that just the vanilla... what features are missing.

[jdcarpe]

IDK... I think i MIGHT buy it.. if the price isn't ridiculous..

The price is free if you have Windows 7, 8, or 8.1.

[baldgye]

IDK... I think i MIGHT buy it.. if the price isn't ridiculous..


Hrrrmmm.. $100...  is that just the vanilla... what features are missing.

It's free what the **** is wrong with you

[Computer-Lab in Basement]

IDK... I think i MIGHT buy it.. if the price isn't ridiculous..


Hrrrmmm.. $100...  is that just the vanilla... what features are missing.

200$ for pro

not worth it imo

[tp4tissue]

IDK... I think i MIGHT buy it.. if the price isn't ridiculous..

The price is free if you have Windows 7, 8, or 8.1.

I have Windows 7 Arrgh matey edition..    is it free for me?

[jdcarpe]

IDK... I think i MIGHT buy it.. if the price isn't ridiculous..

The price is free if you have Windows 7, 8, or 8.1.

I have Windows 7 Arrgh matey edition..    is it free for me?

Yes, they say your license will be exactly the same after the free upgrade.

[Computer-Lab in Basement]

IDK... I think i MIGHT buy it.. if the price isn't ridiculous..

The price is free if you have Windows 7, 8, or 8.1.

I have Windows 7 Arrgh matey edition..    is it free for me?

you can try

i have arrgh matey Win 8 Pro... kinda am tempted to try upgrading...

[Touch_It]

IDK... I think i MIGHT buy it.. if the price isn't ridiculous..

The price is free if you have Windows 7, 8, or 8.1.

I have Windows 7 Arrgh matey edition..    is it free for me?

For you tp, no.

[jdcarpe]

IDK... I think i MIGHT buy it.. if the price isn't ridiculous..

The price is free if you have Windows 7, 8, or 8.1.

I have Windows 7 Arrgh matey edition..    is it free for me?

you can try

i have arrgh matey Win 8 Pro... kinda am tempted to try upgrading...

Do it!

[Touch_It]

I upgraded from 8.1 pro.  Smooth transition.  Start menu looks nice.  Windows update screen looks ****ty.   I want the option to choose what screen I look at, like in 8.  Can't comment on the rest yet.

[tp4tissue]

IDK... I think i MIGHT buy it.. if the price isn't ridiculous..

The price is free if you have Windows 7, 8, or 8.1.

I have Windows 7 Arrgh matey edition..    is it free for me?

you can try

i have arrgh matey Win 8 Pro... kinda am tempted to try upgrading...

Do it!

Here's the thing... I'm a little worried that it may break my OTHER argh matey apps..


Has anyone found any application conflicts thus far?   is everything A-OK??

[jdcarpe]

I need to upgrade my Alienware Alpha. I'll report back how that goes in a few days.

I'm going to swap in a 500GB SSD at that time as well.

[katushkin]

Here's the thing... I'm a little worried that it may break my OTHER argh matey apps..


Has anyone found any application conflicts thus far?   is everything A-OK??

Which ones you wondering about? My Win 7 copy wasn't genuine and Steam, displayfusion, f-lux, rainmeter, all work fine.

No watermarks or prompts about my license either.

[SpAmRaY]

You guys are making me want to try out windows 10, dumb question because I honestly have mostly ignored Windows 10, if I 'upgrade' can I reinstall Windows 7 if I don't like 10?? My current license is Dell OEM Windows 7 Ultimate.

[jdcarpe]

You guys are making me want to try out windows 10, dumb question because I honestly have mostly ignored it if I 'upgrade' can I reinstall Windows 7 if I don't like 10?? My current license is Dell OEM Windows 7 Ultimate.

No, it will overwrite your recovery partition, if you have one. The only way back would be a clean install of Win 7.


Make sure you create recovery media in Win 7 before you upgrade.

[tp4tissue]

Here's the thing... I'm a little worried that it may break my OTHER argh matey apps..


Has anyone found any application conflicts thus far?   is everything A-OK??

Which ones you wondering about? My Win 7 copy wasn't genuine and Steam, displayfusion, f-lux, rainmeter, all work fine.

No watermarks or prompts about my license either.

I'm just worried that some of the crk exes would stop working..

I don' wanna get too specific.. haha

[katushkin]

You guys are making me want to try out windows 10, dumb question because I honestly have mostly ignored it if I 'upgrade' can I reinstall Windows 7 if I don't like 10?? My current license is Dell OEM Windows 7 Ultimate.

No, it will overwrite your recovery partition, if you have one. The only way back would be a clean install of Win 7.


Make sure you create recovery media in Win 7 before you upgrade.

Microsoft have said there is a 30 day roll back period. Which I'm assuming means there is a relatively simple way of going back on your choice. But I would take JD's advice.

But as someone who was wholeheartedly against Windows 8, I think you will like 10.

[Fire Brand]

You guys are making me want to try out windows 10, dumb question because I honestly have mostly ignored it if I 'upgrade' can I reinstall Windows 7 if I don't like 10?? My current license is Dell OEM Windows 7 Ultimate.

No, it will overwrite your recovery partition, if you have one. The only way back would be a clean install of Win 7.


Make sure you create recovery media in Win 7 before you upgrade.

wrong it gives you the option within the first month of installing 10 to roll back to the previous windows copy

settings > update and security > recovery > second option to be used in the first month of installing windows 10

[Fire Brand]

You guys are making me want to try out windows 10, dumb question because I honestly have mostly ignored it if I 'upgrade' can I reinstall Windows 7 if I don't like 10?? My current license is Dell OEM Windows 7 Ultimate.

No, it will overwrite your recovery partition, if you have one. The only way back would be a clean install of Win 7.


Make sure you create recovery media in Win 7 before you upgrade.

wrong it gives you the option within the first month of installing 10 to roll back to the previous windows copy

settings > update and security > recovery > second option to be used in the first month of installing windows 10

I didn't mean that to sound snarky, love you JD

[azhdar]

Made a fresh W7 install, forgot to activate it.
redownloading the full W10

GG...

[jdcarpe]

You guys are making me want to try out windows 10, dumb question because I honestly have mostly ignored it if I 'upgrade' can I reinstall Windows 7 if I don't like 10?? My current license is Dell OEM Windows 7 Ultimate.

No, it will overwrite your recovery partition, if you have one. The only way back would be a clean install of Win 7.


Make sure you create recovery media in Win 7 before you upgrade.

wrong it gives you the option within the first month of installing 10 to roll back to the previous windows copy

settings > update and security > recovery > second option to be used in the first month of installing windows 10

I didn't mean that to sound snarky, love you JD

Ah, I didn't know they had added that. I did a clean install of the beta on a new PC build, so I have no experience yet with the upgrade path.

[tp4tissue]

Oh man.. dx12 is windows 10 exclusive..

GOOD THING, Tp4 only plays Agar.io..

now If they updated Agar.io to DX12...  THEN I would be forced to get win 10

[tp4tissue]

Hnrrmmm.. it seems win 10 is more of a battery eater for laptops at the moment..

I think we should prolly keep our laptops win 7 for now..  and wait till they get on that..

[jdcarpe]

Hnrrmmm.. it seems win 10 is more of a battery eater for laptops at the moment..

I think we should prolly keep our laptops win 7 for now..  and wait till they get on that..

My laptop (one of them, anyway) is on Win 8.1. What do?

[tp4tissue]

Hnrrmmm.. it seems win 10 is more of a battery eater for laptops at the moment..

I think we should prolly keep our laptops win 7 for now..  and wait till they get on that..

My laptop (one of them, anyway) is on Win 8.1. What do?

if it's a clean install, everything's prolly fine.. but all those fancy UI graphics,  that DOES use power.

[fishcola]

Just got it installed.... only to find out I chose 32-bit (ARGH). also, beware NVidia users, multiple monitor support doesn't seem to be working yet... sigh time to redownload the right version...

[Lord of Narwhals]

Just got it installed.... only to find out I chose 32-bit (ARGH). also, beware NVidia users, multiple monitor support doesn't seem to be working yet... sigh time to redownload the right version...

Multiple monitors work just fine once you've installed NVidia's drivers.

Autohotkey does not work with TeamSpeak in Win 10 though which is kind of strange

[fishcola]

gracias.

[baldgye]

Ok so I've run all the games and programs I've been running recently on win7 and everything is running as-per

[Belfong]

Running it now after letting it install for the whole night. It looked nice and clean. I like it but I do see some similarity with OS X particularly how it underlines the active apps in the task bar, magnifying glass on task bar and have multiple virtual desktop. But it still has many of the windows charm. This is definitely a worthy upgrade over 8.1, which was crap. I am glad to be rid of it.

[swimmingbird]

Got it installed last night - I didn't bother with the beta so this is my first time experiencing windows 10

Much nicer look - they've kind of gone all Jony Ive and made everything "flat" - some people like it, some don't. I don't really care either way

[Melvang]

Any thoughts on the new MS browser vs Chrome?

[katushkin]

Any thoughts on the new MS browser vs Chrome?

I prefer it. I have all my widgets and plugins and **** on Chrome, but it looks dated compared to the new setup. I'm using IE until I start hating it.

[ApocalypseMaow]

Just got it installed.... only to find out I chose 32-bit (ARGH). also, beware NVidia users, multiple monitor support doesn't seem to be working yet... sigh time to redownload the right version...

Thanks for this... I would have had a meltdown when all six of my monitors wouldn't work!!!

[Ryukuxyz]

Registered for the update hours ago, and no notification yet. How long did it take you guys to receive your notification to upgrade?

[Lord of Narwhals]

Just got it installed.... only to find out I chose 32-bit (ARGH). also, beware NVidia users, multiple monitor support doesn't seem to be working yet... sigh time to redownload the right version...

Thanks for this... I would have had a meltdown when all six of my monitors wouldn't work!!!

It works after you've installed the Nvidia drivers. So far I've had no problems with my triple monitor set up.

[Melvang]

Registered for the update hours ago, and no notification yet. How long did it take you guys to receive your notification to upgrade?

I wondered this myself and did some digging.  Looks like it could be weeks before you get a notification.  They are doing this probably to reduce the load on their servers.  But if you dig around on the site you can find a link to download it.  It was disguised as an .iso for upgrading multiple PCs.

[Binge]

Unfortunately no Roland drivers are compatible with this OS T-T

[swimmingbird]

Registered for the update hours ago, and no notification yet. How long did it take you guys to receive your notification to upgrade?

Just go into cmd prompt and type the following to force launch it

cuauclt.exe /updatenow

[Binge]

Login screen is ugly... how to change?