Posted on 08/01/2015 2:27:53 PM PDT by RBStealth
When I first upgraded to Windows 7 back in 2009, I was shocked. Microsoft had somehow recovered from the mediocrity of Windows Vista and built an operating system that felt like the natural progression from Windows XP. It was clean, it ran better and most importantly, it didn’t try to fix what wasn’t broken.
Then Windows 8 happened.
I was smart/fortunate enough to avoid Windows 8 altogether, but as a fan of new technology, I couldn’t help but feel a little left out. I wanted the latest and greatest, and now, nearly three years later, it has arrived in the form of Windows 10.
Having spent a full day with Windows 10, my first takeaway is that Windows 10 is a sequel to Windows 7 in the same way that 7 was a sequel to XP. All the best elements are still here — the Start menu, the taskbar, the easy-to-use File Explorer — but they’ve been altered just enough to warrant a full-scale upgrade.
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1) Notebook 1 mfg: 2007 Dell Inspiron D620 Designed for --Win XP, --Vista Capable
Had installed Win 7 on this and it ran terribly. Trying to get the proper drivers for this might have been problematic but even so, it was not a 'Vista Ready" machine. If a machine is "Vista Ready" it should be easily upgradable to Win7/10. So this was a bit of a long shot. In addition this version of Win 7 was legitimate but pirated...software to fool the OS into passing as activated/registered.
But alas, even though it was a 'pirated' installation, Win10 did upgrade and activate with the same product key everyone else gets installed.
Win 10 ran better than my Win 7 installaton on this notebook. With Win7 on this one, it was slow, problematic and Windows Explorer(File Directory) would commonly crash on bad days, and it was buggy, slow and unreliable. However, I have a lot of small startup utilities running: taskbar tweaker, fences, classic shell,etc....these were mucking things up for Win 10 and had to remove them. Alot of these free small utilities are incompatible with Win10 and slow things down, or lock up your desktop icons, etc. So with this notebook its running quicker and smoother than before with Win10. It appears at this early stage that I have a solid and smooth machine, although a bit dated, a bit slow.
2) Dell Inspiron E6410 Notebook mfg: 2010 "Win 7 Ready"
After Win10 installed, I found some of the same issues with my small/mostly free utilities were causing it to be slow for everything to load. Once again jettisoned the usual suspects: Taskbar Tweaker, Classic Shell, fences 1.0 etc Now it runs quick and smooth.
I like Win10 better than Win7. Although I miss my startup utilites. Will do without for now and wait for them to play catch up.
Next up is my Win 8.1 machine.
I just uploaded Windows 10 to my computer. It came originally with Windows 7 which I liked, I also liked Windows XP
Graphical user interfaces are highly subjective.
What’s good for you might not be necessarily good for me.
I upgraded my Windows 8.1 Toshiba laptop to 10 and so far am liking it much better. The best thing was that after updating the One Drive it told me that the app was slowing down the computer and took me straight to the Task Manager so I disabled it. Saved me from trying to figure out how to sign out of the One Drive. Don’t care about cloud much.
No you cant’. Microsoft doesnt like you and wants you to purchase it.
Yes you can upgrade for FREE just go to the Windows 10 upgrade site
Well now you have one yes, and one no.
Thats the problem with not finding your answer to a common question yourself on the internet.
Go through google and find out explicitly your answer.
Just finished installing on my main laptop and I’m absolutely loving it. It really looks pretty slick.
The installation was insanely painless (which was shocking). So I’m set to upgrade the wife’s laptop and a tablet tomorrow.
Does it come with a warning message that the NSA is full interfaced and integrated into your operating system now?
The reason I’m asking here is because I got two different answers also. I read its free and also read I have to pay.
oh please baby its not that hard. Go indulge yourself ...read.
I installed Win 10 on my Dell desktop a couple of days ago. So far the only problem I have encountered is that permissions on directories were set so that I could not write or save to them, even though I was Administrator. There were no fixes I could find online, so I had to resort to going to each directory and changing the permissions.
You can, but you need to get fingerprinted and pay for a background check.
No, you can't upgrade your operating system for free. But you can change your web browser. Decide who you want to spy on you, and download appropriately. If you can't upgrade your IE, try Chrome or Firefox.
Consider it a “contribution”.
For any of you with Sony VAIO computers,
Here’s the latest:
http://esupport.sony.com/US/p/os10upgrade.pl
Still no word on release dates for the drivers, Just the month.
Sony sure stepped on their Johnson on this one.
mmm, thats teerible, anymore problems and you should do a clean install.
Supposedly once youv’e done the upgrade, M.S. marks your bios or somewhere so that a clean install works w/o requiring a product key.
lol, hillarious
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