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Post by hhsussex on Oct 7, 2015 8:03:57 GMT
A request to other forum members: if you're running a pc, have you upgraded to Windows 10, and what do you think of it? My current laptop runs on 8.1, an interface I'm not really thrilled with, and since the launch of Windows 10 I am daily besieged with plugs for updating. From reading around the topic on Google, it sounds as if the key issues are automatic updates, with no choice over what to upload or ignore, and the fact that future versions of Windows will continue to evolve without prior notification to users of changes in the interface.
Anyone care to share any thoughts, either from a business or leisure perspective?
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Post by flashblade on Oct 7, 2015 8:55:18 GMT
A request to other forum members: if you're running a pc, have you upgraded to Windows 10, and what do you think of it? My current laptop runs on 8.1, an interface I'm not really thrilled with, and since the launch of Windows 10 I am daily besieged with plugs for updating. From reading around the topic on Google, it sounds as if the key issues are automatic updates, with no choice over what to upload or ignore, and the fact that future versions of Windows will continue to evolve without prior notification to users of changes in the interface. Anyone care to share any thoughts, either from a business or leisure perspective? I had Windows 7 installed on my last 2 Dell laptops - I declined Windows 8, which I find somewhat impenetrable. Windows 7 works well and I aim to wait until W10 has proved itself, before considering updating. I speak as a business and leisure user, FWIW. |
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Post by hhsussex on May 27, 2016 14:25:46 GMT
An unexpected revival to this thread, and a warning. This morning I was preparing a post for this board - actually I was pasting a picture of the Lost Leader in messianic pose from the front cover of the limited edition pamphlet advertised by the Sussex Cricket Museum - when my pc blue-screened with the message Do not turn off, you are being upgraded to Windows 10. At this stage I couldn't recall having requested Windows 10. I've always clicked the frequent pop-ups off to get rid of them and today was no exception. Only after the pc had sat in its blue-screen condition for a while and I started doing some searching on my mobile did I discover the very sneaky trick that Microsoft are playing now.  This is what happens: clicking the right-hand top corner X doesn't clear the pop-up, it is taken as giveing permission to load - but it was at least 10 to 15 minutes before that became clear, and only in the way I described above.
Thereafter the process took about three hours in all -loading the upgrade, then another involved cycle of updating files, installing drivers and so on, all with a clockface sweep and a percentage display. Then, most maddening of all, a series of blue screen with changing densities, bearing messages about how this upgrade is going to change and enrich my life...but please wait and do not turn off. Finally the licensing screens, then an !Express set-up" option, which I elected not to go for, since most of the boxes that I carefully unticked from that option were designed to allow Microsoft greater trackability of my pc, itss whereabouts, what sites I visted and permissions to hand over this data to other like-minded predators....
Immediate impressions are that the interface is a lot better ie more "traditional" than Windows 7 or the awful Windows 8, and the folder displays seem more softly rounded, but I haven't really explored anything yet. In fact I am thinking how lucky it is that it wasn't a nasty piece of malware disguised as a Microsoft upgrade - bacuse, of course, a reputable sotftware provider and key player in maintaining industry standards wouldn't do anything so cheap and so invasive as to upgrade a user's system effectively against their will...would they?
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Post by leedsgull on May 28, 2016 14:05:35 GMT
This subject was covered on Fridays edition of You and Yours on BBC Radio 4. The expert suggested downloading a programme called never 10 which prevents this automatic update of Windows 10. I have done so this morning and it took effect immediately.
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Post by maxpayen on Sept 16, 2020 6:05:39 GMT
Am using Windows 7 and received notice of FREE Window 10 upgrade reservation. Says it is not an abbreviated copy. Are there any reasons of why or why not I should do the download? Can't imagine MS giving anything away free. Thanks
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Post by philh on Sept 16, 2020 11:08:36 GMT
Am using Windows 7 and received notice of FREE Window 10 upgrade reservation. Says it is not an abbreviated copy. Are there any reasons of why or why not I should do the download? Can't imagine MS giving anything away free. Thanks It might be that it is in their interests to have users on Windows 10 rather Windows 7. I don't recall any fees for upgrading to Windows 10, so I can't imagine there is a problem. I would just double check that it is not a scam from somewhere that looks like Microsoft as that could be disastrous. If your computer is slow and underpowered, you might find that Windows 10 is bad news as most upgraded operating systems tend to put a heavier strain on the machine. I suggest googling to check no one else has had a bad experience and check to see if you can rollback to Windows 7 if you don't like it or it reduces your computer to the speed of a snail. |
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