General / Off-Topic So, Windows 10 yes or nah?

verminstar

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verminstar
At the time when the free upgrade offer was literally being shoved into my face every time I booted up, I was using programs that relied on browser apps like unity. They wanna gimme free stuff? Shiny...had a m8 warn me to make a good backup first, which I did...and boy was I happy I did.

Never before have I ever come across something so devastating to my stress levels in such a short space of time. Continual system crashes at the average rate of 3 per hour which requires rebooting from a blue screen of death...almost all the usual stuff I used to do, simply stopped working or caused other issues like software conflicts when trying to startup...really doesn't get better I'm afraid. Before that day was out, I had carpet bombed win10 from my PC and reinstalled win7 pro...no issues whatsoever.

Course, everyone has different experiences but mine wasn't good and it'll be a cold day in hell before I try walking that road again ^^
 

JacoTheBad

JacoTheBad
goemon said:
from my machines ad those of the people i'm living with ... yes, if your pc/laptop is up to date. no, if you have older equipment. to much hassle with drivers. exampel: i had to disable the graphic card driver update on my travel laptop, because win 10 declares an old driver the new driver (something wrong with the data base... and as far as i have googled not even a windows problem, but the problem of the graphic card manufacturer), because only the new driver, which win10 declares a driver not-up-todate, can run horizons.
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I had an issue that sounds simular to this as well. All was good for months, and then suddenly endless boot loops made it unusable. It would work & run for about five minutes before crashing to endless boot loops, unless I didn't connect to the Internet; then it would be fine. I ended up disabling the updates & all has been fine since then.. Although I haven't allowed it to update now for months ;). I had suspected it was actually a graphics driver update that was causing the problem.

I should point out however, that I play on a late 2013 iMac bootcamping Windows 10. Literally the only thing I boot into Windows for is ED :)
 

glynie

glynie
Install it, burn an ISO of it, then format your drive and put Windows 7 back on. Install Windows 10 again when you need it. Your hardware ID's and that are registered with Microsoft when you install the first time so it'll activate again in the future as long as you don't change your PC. That's what I've done.
 
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Hell Razor5543

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I have recently installed Windows 10, from an image on a USB stick. If you decide to do a clean install it will bite you (as it needs to see an activated copy of Windows (7/8/8.1) for Windows 10 to activate. I was not aware of this, so I got caught out. I re-installed Windows 8.1, let it activate, and then Windows 10 would install and activate. I cannot say (yet) how good/bad it is. I did switch off almost all 'snooping' software, although I have allowed Defender the ability to report any suspect software (viruses/malware stuff).

I was told that Windows 10 will be free to install as long as it is on the same motherboard, so you can upgrade everything else without worries about charges from Microsoft (if they can be trusted).
 
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xondk

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Sandysky said:
Win 10 collects too much data and is close to being sanctioned for breaching data protection act.

http://www.techrepublic.com/article...-much-user-data-lacks-security-says-watchdog/
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Last I checked no one has verified that when you turn off the 'extra' stuff that it collects (for various apps and such to be able to work), apps that need the info to be able to do what they do, cortana write in your calendar needs permission to your calendar e.t.c.

But yeah last I checked there's been no confirmation that if you turn it off it still collects 'more' then it should?
 
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