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[BeeDeeDubbleU]

I appreciate that the merits/demerits of Windows 10 have been discussed in here several times since it was released but I was wondering what people who have upgraded think of it now? Have the teething problems been ironed out on later versions?

I upgraded my wife's laptop a couple of months ago with no apparent problems and it looks alright to me but all of my work, programs, applications and history is on my desktop and I am still a wee bit nervous about going for the upgrade on this. Any opinions would be gratefully received.

[engine]

I have had no problems with the upgrade process, or the running of Windows 10. Naturally, if you're upgrading certain things will be in a different place, which I can accept, especially as Win 10 was supposed to fix some of the issues with Win 8.X

However, for me, Windows 10 has become an annoying OS to use. I want an OS to operate seemlessly, without prompts appearing, without its insistance to show me what it thinks I should see, and without the annoying defaults to force cloud-based use. By all means, make them options, but not defaults. imho

As with any upgrade, back up your data in case something goes wrong.

[IanCP]

I found few problems, all were eventually overcome.

I want an OS to operate seemlessly, without prompts appearing, without its insistance to show me what it thinks I should see, and without the annoying defaults to force cloud-based use

I installed Classic Shell right from the start. While I didn't go in depth with it, it satisfied my needs. Almost XP like.

I simply killed Cloud off with a small cmd routine - sticky me with your email if you want it. About 25 Kb size from memory.

Next trawl through all your settings and turn off anything you don't want - Privacy in particular

The only disappointment was History [back up]. No matter what drives folders I wanted, it would go off on its own [even told not to] and try to back up several multi Tb drives onto one drive of 1Tb.

I satisfactorily went back to running a Robocopy script.- several times since then I'm mighty glad I did.

[engine]

Thanks for the tips. I did make sure the privacy was locked down. Classic shell? Is that the desktop that's very XP-like? That's what I use. I detest all those moving icons on the metro-style interface: It's very distracting!

Killing cloud might be helpful as I do not want to use it. I may change my mind, but it's running whether I like it or not. I'm often bandwidth challeneged and any cloud-based services are going to eat my allowance before i've done any work.

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[IanCP]

I stickied you back on the Cloud issue. That kill OneDrive file is only 879 bytes long, Microsoft repetitively removed links to it from Windows 10 Insider Preview.

Yes it seems we both have the same "Classic Shell".

[tangor]

All latest "options active by default" are geared to make the unwary (or uneducated.... or worse, stupid) user dependent on MS cloud services (harking back to big iron and dumb terminals). After all these years they continue to try and put the genie back in the bottle.

[keyplyr]

Never had a problem with Windows 10. Liked it from the start, but I had Windows 7 set up pretty close to it prior to the upgrade.

I also don't have issue with using cloud services. I'm on the move quite a bit and like having access to files from multiple devices when out of the office.

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

Thanks guys.