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Pros: It's better than Windows 8
Cons: It's Windows. Get rid of that crap and install Linux.
Cons: It's Windows. Get rid of that crap and install Linux.
Avoid Windows 10 until they work the bugs out. Right now, the public is their testing lab.
Email log in at start up. Sux if your wife set it up then changed her password for her email. Can't get on logged on to waist hours on the internet! Easy to fix and make a generic log in thought.
Oh, and all the data tracking by Microsoft. Turn off Cortona and anything else that keeps track of what you do.
Oh, and all the data tracking by Microsoft. Turn off Cortona and anything else that keeps track of what you do.
I upgraded to Windows 10 a couple of months ago on an HP Envy touch screen laptop that my wife uses lightly. I use this laptop to to some video editing but not much beyond that so keep that in mind. It was using Windows 8.1.
Before the upgrade, I made sure I did a system image backup to an external USB drive before I upgraded, just to be safe. Note this is a system image of the disk along with with boot sector and all the low level stuff so I could get back to its previous state if necessary. This isn't backing up individual files, but what is supposed to be a true image of the entire hard drive.
After upgrading, I do like 10 better than 8.1. I thought the dual UI interface in 8.1 (traditional and Metro UI interface) was a bit odd, and like how 10 did away with dual interfaces. I think you still have elements of the metro UI but you no longer switch between them - it's just one user interface now. A bit more like Windows 7 in that regard, so I consider that an improvement.
I don't really notice a performance difference, and the upgrade went smoothly for me. There was a couple of things that I had to fix though:
1) My video editing software had a mysterious config option that changed during the upgrade for some reason, and it's performance became horrible. After about 10 minutes of research, I found what setting had changed in the editing software, set it back to the proper config setting, and it completely resolved that issue.
2) My wi-fi card in this laptop is is an Intel AC-7260, which connects to an ASUS 802.11AC router in the 5.2 GHz band. I noticed it's throughput dropped to half of what it was with Windows 8.1. I had to research this a bit longer than the video editing software problem, but finally determined the Windows 10 upgrade mysteriously changed a config setting in the device driver for the Intel card. After restoring that setting, wifi performance was back to what it had been with Windows 8.1
That's pretty much the extent of my issues with the Windows 10 upgrade. Everything so far works pretty well, and I do like the user interface better than 8.1. The only weird thing I see so far is the notification center shows airplane mode is on, which can't be correct since I have no issues with wifi connectivity (there is no hardwired ethernet in this laptop, all networking is going through wifi). No big deal at all.
Now the crappy part - MS is becoming EXTREMELY aggressive about making people upgrade to Windows 10, and from what I have read, will make config changes unknown to you that will allow MS to slip the Win 10 upgrade without you knowing it until the next time you access your PC. There's a lot of folks pissed off about that nasty practice (and rightly so). Some folks have had a lot of issues with the upgrade, and I guess I was lucky.
If you don't want a surprise upgrade, I suggest you do some Googling on how to make sure several aspects of Windows automatic updates in your current Windows version are turned off. And I would keep up to date on that process since Microsoft seems to be morphing aspects of how they can sneak this upgrade on you (I recently saw another trick they use involving Internet Explorer update settings). This is some dirty pool they are playing. Freakin' a-holes!
Regardless if you want the upgrade or not, I would certainly read up on how to do a System Image backup to an external drive (or another PC's drive on your network) on your current Windows version, just in case you need to get back to where you were previously. I have never done a system image restore using Microsoft's System Image stuff, but did use Norton Ghost disk image backup on an older PC running Vista, and it saved my butt many times so I didn't have to do a complete reinstall of the operating system and all my software (which is a freaking nightmare). I'm assuming Microsoft's implementation of System Image backup works as well as Norton Ghost did, but I just don't know. Unfortunately, Norton Ghost was discontinued many years ago so it won't work with modern versions of Windows. I do a System Image backup every month to be safe on all my Windows based PCs.
Good luck.
Before the upgrade, I made sure I did a system image backup to an external USB drive before I upgraded, just to be safe. Note this is a system image of the disk along with with boot sector and all the low level stuff so I could get back to its previous state if necessary. This isn't backing up individual files, but what is supposed to be a true image of the entire hard drive.
After upgrading, I do like 10 better than 8.1. I thought the dual UI interface in 8.1 (traditional and Metro UI interface) was a bit odd, and like how 10 did away with dual interfaces. I think you still have elements of the metro UI but you no longer switch between them - it's just one user interface now. A bit more like Windows 7 in that regard, so I consider that an improvement.
I don't really notice a performance difference, and the upgrade went smoothly for me. There was a couple of things that I had to fix though:
1) My video editing software had a mysterious config option that changed during the upgrade for some reason, and it's performance became horrible. After about 10 minutes of research, I found what setting had changed in the editing software, set it back to the proper config setting, and it completely resolved that issue.
2) My wi-fi card in this laptop is is an Intel AC-7260, which connects to an ASUS 802.11AC router in the 5.2 GHz band. I noticed it's throughput dropped to half of what it was with Windows 8.1. I had to research this a bit longer than the video editing software problem, but finally determined the Windows 10 upgrade mysteriously changed a config setting in the device driver for the Intel card. After restoring that setting, wifi performance was back to what it had been with Windows 8.1
That's pretty much the extent of my issues with the Windows 10 upgrade. Everything so far works pretty well, and I do like the user interface better than 8.1. The only weird thing I see so far is the notification center shows airplane mode is on, which can't be correct since I have no issues with wifi connectivity (there is no hardwired ethernet in this laptop, all networking is going through wifi). No big deal at all.
Now the crappy part - MS is becoming EXTREMELY aggressive about making people upgrade to Windows 10, and from what I have read, will make config changes unknown to you that will allow MS to slip the Win 10 upgrade without you knowing it until the next time you access your PC. There's a lot of folks pissed off about that nasty practice (and rightly so). Some folks have had a lot of issues with the upgrade, and I guess I was lucky.
If you don't want a surprise upgrade, I suggest you do some Googling on how to make sure several aspects of Windows automatic updates in your current Windows version are turned off. And I would keep up to date on that process since Microsoft seems to be morphing aspects of how they can sneak this upgrade on you (I recently saw another trick they use involving Internet Explorer update settings). This is some dirty pool they are playing. Freakin' a-holes!
Regardless if you want the upgrade or not, I would certainly read up on how to do a System Image backup to an external drive (or another PC's drive on your network) on your current Windows version, just in case you need to get back to where you were previously. I have never done a system image restore using Microsoft's System Image stuff, but did use Norton Ghost disk image backup on an older PC running Vista, and it saved my butt many times so I didn't have to do a complete reinstall of the operating system and all my software (which is a freaking nightmare). I'm assuming Microsoft's implementation of System Image backup works as well as Norton Ghost did, but I just don't know. Unfortunately, Norton Ghost was discontinued many years ago so it won't work with modern versions of Windows. I do a System Image backup every month to be safe on all my Windows based PCs.
Good luck.
Installed mine on an HP desktop, replacing 8.1. Much easier to use, no problems, installed in an hour or so.
Windows 10 is complete crap!
I have seen more problems and crashes from it than anything since windows 98.
I am absolutely finished with windows! My next system will be Linux or Mac.
I have seen more problems and crashes from it than anything since windows 98.
I am absolutely finished with windows! My next system will be Linux or Mac.
The draw back to Windows 10 is you will no longer "own" the OS, they can and will force updates to you and it will be done via peers not a centralized server from MS, also if they will add on features in the future that if you want to use them there will be a charge for it. The end goal here is to get everyone on it then start charging them for premium services or more of a per month or per year subscription. Most of the current OS's (i.e. Win7, Win8) are still supported for years to come and they really don't like keep up support for them that is another reason for the huge push to get everyone onto Win10. Don't even get me started on all the snooping software pre-installed and how they would have no problems using this to "target market" products to you or hand over to anyone else who offers the right amount of $. Just my option but I think I will hold out until the end and yes I have already convereted a few machines and have already tested this OS.
