Upgraded to Windows 10

Finally bit the bullet and upgraded Desktop

[IanCP]

Firing up the Desktop this morning I'm met with a purple ribbon across the Desktop telling me about upgrading. Being in a cavalier mood this fine, sunny late winter morning in Sydney area I thought "Yeah, why not"?

Fun, Fun, Fun...

First drama? During the installation phase [drivers] I get the BSD. This one is the "Black Screen of Death". Oh dear! Been there, done that when I upgraded from Win 8 Pro to Win 8.1 Pro - it was not a happy experience [long story]. Based upon that unhappy experience, and with fingers crossed? I switched the TV from the morning news service over to HDMI No. 2 input [PC].

Yep there's my Monitor in all its glory - the real PC Monitor is DEAD. Grrr... So I leave it to go along happily by itself, and after the driver phase is finished, the monitor comes to life. Phew eventually fixed itself with the right drivers.

Next I declined "Express Settings", and went for "Customise" - be aware that's hiding in subdued small print bottom left hand side.

Away we go again. It now tells me my Microsoft Media Centre will be disabled in Windows 10. Whoa! Accept or throw a spanner in the works? I'll bite the bullet and accept.

Anyway from then on it was plain sailing. End result when it did its final restart? The difference from say yesterday?

Same Desktop PC, apart from a minor keyboard glitch I'm aware of and can fix later...

You wouldn't even know it was Windows 10 Pro unless I told you so.

There are minor differences in File Explorer which I'm familiar with on the Win 10 Laptop. I can live with that. It substituted "The Edge" for IE 11 - I killed that off. All I have left to do is find out how to remove the pointless "Search the Web and Windows" panel consuming valuable space on my Task Bar.

IE11, FF 39.03, PaintShop Pro, Mailwasher, NoteTab Pro, Microsoft Movie Maker - they all still work - same settings, same history, same everything...

And I'm a Happy Chappy! - I'm on very good terms with myself, and I'll now update FF to 40.

I hope others enjoy my relatively painless experience.

[13Cube13]

Windows 10 will not be free for long. And guess what, after 30 days you can't revert back to Windows 7.
I guess if MS stops supporting Windows 7 I'll need to upgrade, but am happy where I am for now.

[forbes.com...]

[IanCP]

Well I've ran into one hiccup, and apparently I'm not the only one with the problem.
Homegroup between Laptop and Desktop no longer works since I upgraded the Desktop.

Now it's magically back, but I'm going to have to go through the permissions jazz all over again. The Laptop sees the printer, it just won't let me access it.

Why do I think I've done all this before when going from Win 8.0 Pro to 8.1?

[keyplyr]

@IanCP - there have been various issues reported regarding Windows 10 communicating with remote devices, or even wireless keyboard/mouse (as I reported in earlier post) thought to be a remote device. Google groups has dozens of pages of these types of reports.

[toidi]

I am surprised that so many expetts here are still using win for an os. Why not just switch to linux? My lack of expertise has kept me locked in to win but why so many knowledgeable people.

[netmeg]

The hardware and OS I use have to do with the applications I need to run. Not the other way around.

[ogletree]

Many of us would love to switch to Linux but many things don't run on Linux easily. I know you can work around it most the time but that takes a lot of extra time and/or expertise. Also some of us play games and you can't play games on Linux if you want them to run correctly. I tried running WOW on Linux but it was just too slow. Linux does not run DirectX and OpenGL just does not cut it. Of course I make a living teaching Windows and MS Apps so I have no choice but to run it.

[keyplyr]

Glad I'm not an expert, I get to have both.

[jimbeetle]

Upgraded one machine Friday but a couple of drivers got fouled up so reverted back to Win7.

Figured I'd try it again today and see if I could just roll back the drivers after the update and now it's re-downloading *all* the upgrade files.

Arrrgh!

[IanCP]

I am surprised that so many expetts here are still using win for an os. Why not just switch to linux?

I indeed have standing by a fully refurbished HP machine with Win XP Pro on board, nothing else, was going to be the Win 10 Preview DeskTop but couldn't make the grade for that.

Also standing by is a DVD with Linux Mint 17.1 Cinnamon ISO waiting for desk space, spare power points, and my time - all of which are presently in very short supply. My good lady needs to see another PC hanging around like...

Unless I'm repairing one for someone in the family...

[tangor]

Unless I'm repairing one for someone in the family...

That's a WHOLE DIFFERENT TOPIC! There are times I wish my family was a bit smaller in population! :)

[toidi]

Shoot. I was hoping to hear that you all were just playing around with win and that their are better options.

[Leosghost]

There are better options..But although one can lead horses to water, one cannot force them to drink..

[Leosghost]

This may be a "glitch" that some might want to know about .."upgrading" resets "child safety setings"..
[theregister.co.uk...]

[tangor]

New thread started on Win 10 Privacy controls... which are helpful for those with concerns in this regard.

[webmasterworld.com...]

[elguiri]

What do you think of the Edge browser?

[keyplyr]

I like it but will stay with my developer build of Firefox.

As a publisher who runs ads, I don't like the read feature that strips away Adsense & MS Ads, but then that's the trend with the modern browsers (Safari, Firefox.)

Edge is fast and has lots of cool new features to personalize the web browsing experience, but like all new things, it will take getting used to.

[tangor]

Do know that Win 10 has an ad block built in, and enabled by default for WINDOWS BASED PERSONALIZED ADS that can and sometimes does interfer with other advertisting. As noted in PC WORLD

Turning off personalized ads in Windows 10 is a two-step process. First, go to Settings > Privacy > General and slide the option that says “Let apps use my advertising ID for experience across apps (turning this off will reset your ID)” to Off.

[pcworld.com...]

[tangor]

Edge reports all keystrokes and visits to MS servers UNLESS you defeat them (and even then, still calls home from time to time)

See the [webmasterworld.com...] thread for more info

[keyplyr]

Then I'm glad I don't visit MS servers.

[tangor]

If you are on Win 10 you don't have to visit. The OS will do that for you. :) Behind your back. :(

[keyplyr]

Not my back... all that's been disabled. First thing I did. Plus I control up/ down transmissions through my network gateway. Already caught & blocked a lot of stuff coming from Windows. Keeping a close watch.

[RedBar]

Not happy!

Just had a Black Screen Of Death with the machine totally unresponsive except for the mouse cursor. I had to force a shutdown and when it came back it it simply said "Getting Updates", now it says "Working On Updates" ... it's been at 30% for ages ... oh, now restarting ... arghhhh

WTF is going on? Not at all impressed whatsoever MS.

[RedBar]

Seattle, we have a problem!

For the second time today whilst streaming a TV programme using Firefox 42 I have a Black Screen Of Death. Somehow I don't feel this is a coincidence.

This time I am not forcing a shutdown, I'm going to leave the PC alone and see what happens.

[RedBar]

Correction Firefox 40.0

So, I left it for 15 mins and all it did every 45-60 seconds was flash up the folders and programmes I had open but all were shown with a blank white space. Nothing was happening therefore I had to force a shutdown, it re-booted fairly quickly and came back as "normal".

I have a feeling me and Win 10 ain't going to get on so well now!

Any suggestions for any tests I could do?

[IanCP]

Black Screen Of Death

My one or two near death experiences with BSD took me back to my desktop.

No, I don't know...

[Leosghost]

BSD ? ..http://www.bsd.org
BSD wouldn't do that Ian.. :)

[keyplyr]

"Black Screen of Death" sound like an old Vincent Price movie.

[RedBar]

I'm testing it again right now, both times I was streaming the BBC if that is in anyway relevant, fingers crossed.

I have an all-in-one PC Win7 for updating however I am very reluctant at the moment since that machine has been ultra reliable.

[13Cube13]

Forgot to mention my upgrade experience, specifically, rather then my distaste for 10.

The little Windows dingy thing icon did update all files in the background. Kind of wish ot had warned me since I use a metered connection occassionally. There goes $40. The a couple weeks later I clicked on upgrade me now. It sat at 30% or something and just sat there forever. Rebooted and same thing. Had to search forums online and figure out what to do.Windows '10 upgrade problems' 'windows 10 upgrade complaints' or something to that effect. Found some estoertic thread somewhere that explained how to go into the control panel and upgrade directly from updates, rather then using the icon method.

Pretty much want to put it out of my memory now. Not a good start, if they can't make the icon work?

Anyhow nice to be back on Windows 7.

[keyplyr]

Probably good on 7 for a year then M$ will discontinue support (no more security.)