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MicaelS

(8,747 posts)
Mon May 18, 2015, 10:22 PM May 2015

My experiences with Windows 10 [View all]

I have been trying the latest version (10074) and did a clean install on one of my 120GB SSD. I did not like it too much. Was way too different from my beloved Win 7 Pro. I have not used 8 or 8.1.

Then I cloned my Win 7 Pro install to another 120GB SSD, and did an in-place upgrade install on the clone drive. Frankly I did not expect it work given the number of programs I have running. It took about 2 hours with multiple restarts, but it finally came back up, and I was very impressed.

I only had a few programs that did not work. Perfect Disk Defragger was the main one. Had 2 updates that refused to go though. One for an Asus motherboard driver and one for the latest Nvidia WHQL driver (running a GTX970). I used it all weekend long this past weekend, including multiple visits to DU, and had no OS crashes. Firefox crashed multiple times.

I was hesitant beforehand, thinking I might stay with Win 7. Now, I'm looking forward to Windows 10.

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I like 8.1 MuseRider May 2015 #1
"I sure like it more than I liked Vista" JayhawkSD May 2015 #2
I don't like 8.1 Rosa Luxemburg May 2015 #3
Why do you use a defragger on an SSD? Fantastic Anarchist May 2015 #4
I have multiple spinner hard drives MicaelS May 2015 #5
You really don't want to defrag a SSD. hobbit709 May 2015 #6
I am well aware of that, thank you. n/t MicaelS May 2015 #7
Thank you! Fantastic Anarchist May 2015 #8
10130 is looking ok so far steve2470 May 2015 #9
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