Installed Windows 10.

Dry_bean.

Grabbed the bull by the horns last night and installed Windows 10 on my laptop.

Took a couple of hours all up, no drama's, retained all of my programs, settings and passwords, certainly nice to have the start menu back. :thumb:

As our old mate Borat would have said "great success"

The only thing to be a little wary of is Windows default settings, very intrusive, good information in this link https://jonathan.porta.codes/2015/07/30/windows-10-seems-to-have-some-scary-privacy-defaults/

As the author comments,

"After waiting for Windows 10 to finishing installing you get presented with a customize wizard. The first screen has a large chunk of text on it, a large and clearly visible button to proceed using the default settings, and a small hard to see text link that lets you choose your own setting values instead of the defaults.

Everything about this screen is urging me to just accept the default configuration and get on with life.

Well, never being one to pass up the “Advanced” config options, I clicked the small text link."

Wise words indeed.

Lwowiak

All of my computers are equipped with Windows 7. It is perfect for my needs and there is no way I will be upgrading to Windows 10. If I had a newer PC with W8 installed on it, then I would get W10, but would be careful about those default settings. Way too intrusive.

Dry_bean.

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but would be careful about those default settings. Way too intrusive.

Yep, I think that's exactly what I said in my post, fortunately the defaults can be changed.

GeekKopi

Once you go mac you won't go back. Been on the dark side since 2009.

Dry_bean.

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Once you go mac you won't go back. Been on the dark side since 2009.

Morning GK, cant say I agree with your sentiments, I've used both, much prefer Windows, its very much a personal thing. Heather has an IPad and swears by it, I avoid the thing if at all possible. My original post was meant to assist those running Windows who are contemplating an upgrade to 10.

Lwowiak

I have used Mac and will never, ever go back. Mac is too restrictive, and I do not find their software "easier" to use, rather the exact opposite, apart from a few exceptions. Most business applications are designed for Windows. I mean real world, large corporation stuff, not small business applications. There are reasons why Windows is used in this domain. Mac is great for many people who seek simplistic and easy to use applications for home and small business. This is where it shines. I do not want to start a Mac vs Windows discussion as it has been perfectly summed up in my paragraph above. Whatever is fit for your purpose. We are all individuals, and this is what makes us interesting.

GeekKopi

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Morning GK, cant say I agree with your sentiments, I've used both, much prefer Windows, its very much a personal thing. Heather has an IPad and swears by it, I avoid the thing if at all possible. My original post was meant to assist those running Windows who are contemplating an upgrade to 10.

If anyone is on Windows 8 it's definitely worth going to Windows 10. The mrs work laptop is on Windows 8 and it's terrible imho. Don't worry about me DB. An apple fan boy will always hijack threads re tech [emoji41][emoji48]

Lacehim

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Once you go mac you won't go back. Been on the dark side since 2009.

Until you realise that in their newer models they are soldering the ram and SSD/harddrives in and once it's broke you have to put it in the bin and buy a new one.  No self repairs which is very frustrating for my business and my customers when I tell them.  I much prefer OSX to Windows for ease of use, but their hardware it expensive, and if they are going to hamper my ability to upgrade it I'm not buying it. Back to Windows 10.... I cloned by drive and installed it on my desktop running Windows 7, but although it passed MS testing when it booted my second monitor wasn't right.  Turned out I only had generic drivers and shock horror, ATI/AMD have dumped by graphics card for Windows 10, so back to Windows 7 I go. I have installed it on my Windows 8.1 laptop though, and I have to say it's about 100 times better than Windows 8.1, but they seems to love fixing things that aren't broken.  Stupid settings menu, when the original control panel is still installed.  Built from the ground up they said, what a joke.  It's just regular Windows with a few bug fixes and reskinned to look better (according to them anyway).  Why they hung on to those stupid tiles I will never know. FYI If your are staying on Windows 8.1 and want the old start button, just install Classic Shell, it's free and you'll be back to Windows 7 usability in no time!  http://www.classicshell.net/  You can even install in on Windows 10 if you can't get to grips with the new start button features.

Lwowiak

Thanks for the info Lacehim. Windows 7 has been, and still is a very good operating system. My daughter prefers her Mac, but we use the laptops for completely different things, and for her needs, it is a lot better. Shame about the Ram and HD. It sucks when everything is thrown out instead of being repaired.

Dry_bean.

Have heard W 7 was pretty good, I stuck with XP (also a very stable OS) until I needed a new desktop machine about 18 months ago, then I went straight to 8.1. From my experience with 10 on the laptop so far I won't hesitate to install it on the desktop when we get back home.