Windows 10....

DrTyore

Hey all

So my update kicked off this morning before leaving for work.. so looking forward to playing a bit and checking under the hood.... any tips / tricks / gripes / praise?

Mark

Bfillmaff

DrTyore wrote: »

Hey all

So my update kicked off this morning before leaving for work.. so looking forward to playing a bit and checking under the hood.... any tips / tricks / gripes / praise?

Mark

Liking it so far. Pornhub and Pokerforum still work, so 10/10 in my books.

For anyone that hasn't received the notification yet (they are releasing it in waves over the next few weeks) - you can force it easily. Just google "force windows 10 update"

Also if Windows Update is giving you hassles, (one of my boxes would not let me without crashing out) you can download the windows 10 Media creation tool from Microsoft Web site and use it to burn a copy to disc.

compuease

Here is the link for those of you who have trouble using google..

Windows 10

By the Microsoft "letter of the law" you are supposed to upgrade Win 7 or 8 via the normal windows update, then create media afterwards if you want to be able to do a clean install. You are not supposed to be able to use media downloaded from Microsoft on more than one machine. Issue you is, if you do a clean install you will not have a Win 10 product key to input. We'll see..
You also only have 1 year to be able you get your free Win 10 upgrade, after that you will have to buy it.

This upgrade will take you to the "like" version of windows, ie Win7 or 8 home will take you to Win10 Home and Win7 or 8 Pro will take you to Win 10 pro.

Might be a good idea to read this guide prior to upgrading.. It covers most of the things I have experienced so far..

How to Upgrade a PC to Microsoft Windows 10, Step by Step Instructions - Forbes

This one is pretty good as well.

How to Install Windows 10 on Your PC

pkrfce9

What would a guy named 'comp' know about this?

ReefAquarium

I watched a herd approach a crocodile infested river, the first to attempt to swim across entertained the crocodiles.

Wait for the first service pack or you'll be a free bug tester for Microsoft.

compuease

ReefAquarium wrote: »

Wait for the first service pack or you'll be a free bug tester for Microsoft.

Sensible discussion re this exact issue..

Should I Upgrade to Windows 10?

Easy answer.... It depends..


My personal experience (and those of several of my compatriots).. It's a good one... If you are running Windows 8 or 8.1 currently then definitely upgrade asap. Windows 7, well then read the link above..

Remember if you want to upgrade for free you have to do it before the offer expires on July 28, 2016

FYI, 14 millions downloads day 1...

Also I plan on upgrading my Windows 8.1 laptop today so will update on how that went. I have some pretty sophisticated data recovery software on it and some other equally unique software packages so will be interesting.

This will be my 2nd update since release although I have been running pre-releases on other systems for months.

If you have any "techie" questions, feel free...

philliivey

compuease wrote: »

Sensible discussion re this exact issue..

Should I Upgrade to Windows 10?

Easy answer.... It depends..


My personal experience (and those of several of my compatriots).. It's a good one... If you are running Windows 8 or 8.1 currently then definitely upgrade asap. Windows 7, well then read the link above..

Remember if you want to upgrade for free you have to do it before the offer expires on July 28, 2016

FYI, 14 millions downloads day 1...

Also I plan on upgrading my Windows 8.1 laptop today so will update on how that went. I have some pretty sophisticated data recovery software on it and some other equally unique software packages so will be interesting.

This will be my 2nd update since release although I have been running pre-releases on other systems for months.

If you have any "techie" questions, feel free...

Well does anyone know anything about oscommerce? More on topic updating to windows 10 does anyone think it will screw up like hold em manager or other programs?

compuease

philliivey wrote: »

Well does anyone know anything about oscommerce? More on topic updating to windows 10 does anyone think it will screw up like hold em manager or other programs?

Isn't osCommerce just an online shopping interface in your web browser? If so, no reason it shouldn't work as it's web based.

Now poker programs, ie holdem manager, etc, I haven't tried. Stars and Tilt worked fine even in the beta...

Maybe check here..
Windows 10 + HEM 1 Does it work ?

ReefAquarium

compuease wrote: »

Sensible discussion re this exact issue..

Should I Upgrade to Windows 10?

Easy answer.... It depends..


My personal experience (and those of several of my compatriots).. It's a good one... If you are running Windows 8 or 8.1 currently then definitely upgrade asap. Windows 7, well then read the link above..

Remember if you want to upgrade for free you have to do it before the offer expires on July 28, 2016

FYI, 14 millions downloads day 1...

Also I plan on upgrading my Windows 8.1 laptop today so will update on how that went. I have some pretty sophisticated data recovery software on it and some other equally unique software packages so will be interesting.

This will be my 2nd update since release although I have been running pre-releases on other systems for months.

If you have any "techie" questions, feel free...

Can you talk about why upgrade from 8.1 to 10?

compuease

ReefAquarium wrote: »

Can you talk about why upgrade from 8.1 to 10?

Nope, too much typing... Easy to google... Short answer, if you don't know why then likely not for you just yet.. But do it by July next year.

Milo

"working on it" right now.

Milo

Currently operating in "safe mode". Started the upgrade process from my laptop (W7). After some time, all that I get is a black screen with the arrow cursor. NOTHING else.

Ctl-Alt-Del allows me to reboot, but after entering password the screen goes back to black.

Thoughts?

Milo

Just noticed that I am apparently using Win10 Internet Explorer in this mode. What the hell is going on?

compuease

No idea, from your description at least. Did you read the instructions? What the heck is Win 10 Internet Explorer? Edge is the default web browser for Win10 but IE works fine on it.

Milo

Yes, I followed instructions . . . clicked the buttons I was supposed to. Left for work while it was still going through the process.

Came home to this black screen thingy.

compuease

Hard to know without seeing what steps it went through getting to the black screen. I know it reboots several times during the process. I won't be able to call you before at least 9:30-10 tonight.
You did back up first right? And you have a way back to the prior O/S as well?

Milo

That's fine. Thank you.

compuease

I'm gonna suggest that those of you who are not reasonably "techie" hold off on doing this upgrade for the moment until we have a little more history. Definitely some issues with some touch screens and tablets. If you do decide to go ahead make sure you have an easy way back just in case.

wildbill7145

Comp, prior to venturing into this, what would you recommend backing up? I'm thinking important documents (obv), drivers... What else? It's been a long time since I've gotten into this.

compuease

Have a way back to your previous O/S, I assume windows 7? Create recovery DVD's..

wildbill7145

compuease wrote: »

Have a way back to your previous O/S, I assume windows 7? Create recovery DVD's..

Will do. Never done it before, but as usual I'm sure google can assist with that.

Yep, 7.

wildbill7145

Whelp, my upgrade says it's downloaded and ready to install. Gonna back up drivers, create a recovery DVD set today.

Not sure whether to go ahead with this or not yet. Anyone else have any reviews?

DrTyore

I've been using it since it was released..

Aside from an uptick in installing updates (and therefore rebooting itself / losing all the porn I had open) it's fine.



Mark

wildbill7145

Thanks Mark. Just started the backup process. Found some blank DVDs I haven't used in several years. Windows said roughly 360Gb would be backed up. Lol, that'd be a lot of DVDs. Thankfully my external drive had spare space.

Does this even make sense to do it this way? The external wouldn't even be a bootable drive I wouldn't think?

compuease

I meant create recovery DVD's for the O/S not your entire hard drive..


FYI, Like Mark I've been using the official release since the end of July and various "beta" versions since Feb'ish, and certainly no show stoppers for me, however some configurations have had issues that's why I suggested waiting a while if you are not tolerant of glitches or somewhat technically savy. If you are in a production environment this needs to be done in a controlled manner.

wildbill7145

compuease wrote: »

I meant create recovery DVD's for the O/S not your entire hard drive..

Oops. Well, I'm only on hour three of this process and it looks like it's 70% done! After this is done on the external drive, I might make a backup of just the system on a DVD as well then, just in case.

compuease

For those of you who haven't already updated to 10 and are going to, please make sure all mandatory updates for both 7 and 8.1 are done prior to doing the 10 upgrade. There have been 1 or 2 updates recently to resolve some issues with the upgrade.