How is windows 10 working out for you?

[pscot]

Not sure I want to do this.

[eppur_se_muova]

1. Lucky No. 13 ! nt

[pscot]

2. That's one reason

[eppur_se_muova]

3. Hmmm ... someday Apple will introduce OS XIII ...

since Americans mostly can't count, and certainly not in Roman numerals, no harm ... they'll probably pronounce it "Zee".

Meanwhile, most of my Linux installs are safely into the 15-18 range.

[pscot]

6. I have to use fingers and toes

to figure out which super bowl we're playing in.

[historian]

14. tut tut

Of course they can count - that's what calculators are for!

[steve2470]

4. no issues nt

[pscot]

5. Accounts vary

I've become a late adapter.

[jrandom421]

7. Working great!

Got it installed on an HP Stream 7 tablet and it rocks!

[Egnever]

8. 3 machines so far and all running nicely.

[Tripper11]

9. So far so good....

I tried to start install the day it was released and for whatever reason it just wouldn't do anything, then a day later I clicked start download and away it went.
I actually didn't have time to do it then, so once it got to "accept" mode I closed my laptop and went about my day.
Had more time the next day to complete the install, and basically has to start all over.
Once I started it took about 2 and a half hours to complete install and back up and running.
So far so good. My laptop is definitely more peppy, everything seems to be running fine.
I did a disk clean up and some other maintenance stuff then rebooted and it's just purring along.
No lost files, programs or anything else.
On and off during the past 2 days I've been googling tips and tricks and working on the interface, getting used to it.
At this point, I like it.

[pscot]

10. that's encouraging

Thanks for the generous response.

[ornotna]

11. Used it about 3 hrs then reverted back to 7 pro

Didn't like the way Firefox looked or acted. And it got rid of my Bitdefender anti-virus. I've got a year, I can still go to it later.

[GoCubsGo]

12. I don't think your Firefox issues are related.

It has been deteriorating for over a year now. It gets worse and worse with each update. I know folks who are having problems with it, and they're using Macs.

[historian]

13. windows 10

I cant find the calculator which used to be on the bottom; I have no idea what edge does but when i try to sign in and use it tells me that file is not in the registry. My tax program which worked beautifully no longer works, and the company is perplexed about this. It is another vista in my opinion. Win 7 was fine, why mess with it? Can someone please tell me how to restore win 7? Thanks

[pscot]

15. You have a month to go back to Windows 7/8

http://www.howtogeek.com/220723/how-to-uninstall-windows-10-and-downgrade-to-windows-7-or-8.1/

There are several calculators. You just have to browse 'store' to find them. It says they're free. Store offers a couple hundred 'free' apps. Edge seems to be a news aggregator. I killed all the tiles in the start menu. I hate tiles.

[historian]

16. i hate 10

Why not leave well enough done? Where is store? I cant find it anywhere. Thanks for your help

[pscot]

17. Store is the shopping bag with a window

just type store in the search box to get it. Windows 10 uses apps rather than built in utilities, but you don't have to get them from store. I'm using editpadlite, which I got off the web, rather than notepad. Once you get your customary browser set up 10 isn't all that different from 7.

[historian]

22. thank you thank you

Just when i was getting used to xp along comes this!

[ucrdem]

18. It's not bad.

About the same as Windows 8 from a desktop POV, except the slithering metro screen is gone. Instead there's a kludgy start button which as far as I can tell can't be modified to show recent posts or anything else. So it's back to Classic Shell, which now supports windows 10, which turns 10 back into 8 with a few improvements here and there: http://www.classicshell.net/

I downloaded Win 10 Pro into a partition, but I can't activate it with a Win 7 Pro key that came with a refurbished tablet, so I'm not sure I'm going to stick with it. Basically it would mean loading a bunch of software that's already loaded onto my C:\ drive into a partition on same, for marginal benefits, mainly, the Homegroup on my Win 8 partition is hosed and I can't fix it for love nor money.

HOwever, I recently acquired a 4-terabyte backup drive, also refurbished, that's set up to function as a "personal cloud," meaning everything backed up onto it is available from the internet. Works, too, so far. So that means I don't need a homegroup to move files between devices, or OneDrive, which is touchy. So I really don't need Windows 10, which in all likelihood would probably screw up the same way as 8 anyway, sooner or later. So I'll probably leave it unactivated and unused until I either need it or need the partition back and delete it.

[Gigabear]

19. The only annoyance that I haven't been able to figure out yet

is that the icons on my desktop taskbar seem to randomly move or just disappear, only to reappear later for no apparent reason. I like to have an empty desktop, so I keep my most used program icons on the taskbar. It is a little frustrating when they don't stay where I put them.

[ucrdem]

20. How about a lock screen AND a log-on screen to annoy you ?

The lock screen I got rid of, but the blue cloud appears to be indestructible. On the bright side, my Win 10 Pro activated itself this morning, so it looks like I'm keeping it. I had to surrender an activated Win 7 Pro install on my desktop, but I didn't use it much, and I installed it for this purpose anyway. As for 10, apart from the Bhopal screen, it's pretty customizable once it's activated, including the start menu, but it doesn't have a recent documents jump-list, so I kept the button and ditched the menu. Here's what it looks like at the moment:



So far it hasn't blown apart any software that I'm aware of, and it doesn't mind using my Win-8 drive as a kind of data drive, so I'll probably stick with it until does something weird.

[trof]

21. There are some good tutorials on the web.

Especially on you tube.

[RoccoR5955]

23. Same as any version of Windows

Memory leaks, runaway tasks, lousy third party drivers. Edge is kludgey, and still has bugs. Not that I use it.
Well at least the OS doesn't eat your RAM like previous versions did.
I guess that is a start.
It pays my bills, so who am I to complain. As crappy as it is, I shall still have a job for a long, long time!