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Atunah · 07-31-2015, 11:07 AM

I went ahead last night and used that media tool thingy to upgrade my netbook. Its an asus with touch screen, keyboard does not come off.

It already had W8 on it before so I thought its a good one to try out. My main computer is a desktop running 7 which is also eligible for free upgrade.

Since I am not super well versed in the language of computers, I was a tad bit nervous.

. Overall it worked fairly seamless. Its so much better than 8 for me. I always hated that flipping back and forth with the weird tile thingies. I don't use the touch screen often as its kind of weird when you have a keyboard attached at all times. This works better and it feels more intigrated now rather than 2 different systems on my computer. I don't know how to explain it better.

Its like 7 but with some added useful functions.

I did have one annoying issue with my Asus smart gesture touchpad. I have a big pad so I use that, no mouse. It usually has the 2 finger scroll to go around pages and none of that worked, I didn't even have my option thingy in the bar. Googling showed someone going into programs and repairing the smart gesture thing, but that did not work. I uninstalled the thing, restarted and then the build in asus install thingy brought it up to install new. After a gazillion reboots I am back in business with the scrolling and other gestures.

Everything I had on the netbook still works as it did before. Now given, I don't have a bunch on here, its not my main computer.

I need to wait to update my main computer because I use a really old scanner and older printer on it and I don't even know if there are drivers for those. I'll have to figure out where to go to find out if there are drivers.

I have plenty of time to think about it on that unit. Its a few years old, I already had a hard drive changed out and some other parts like power cord and fan. My husband does that stuff. There might also be some issue with the graphic card I think. That was also put in at some point.

I think though for a windows 8 device its a huge improvement to go to 10.

If I can do it, anyone can.

07-31-2015, 11:07 AM	#1176
Atunah Wizard Posts: 1,817 Karma: 23400001 Join Date: May 2012 Location: USA Device: K1/K3/BasicK Voyage/Oasis1/Oasis3	I went ahead last night and used that media tool thingy to upgrade my netbook. Its an asus with touch screen, keyboard does not come off. It already had W8 on it before so I thought its a good one to try out. My main computer is a desktop running 7 which is also eligible for free upgrade. Since I am not super well versed in the language of computers, I was a tad bit nervous. . Overall it worked fairly seamless. Its so much better than 8 for me. I always hated that flipping back and forth with the weird tile thingies. I don't use the touch screen often as its kind of weird when you have a keyboard attached at all times. This works better and it feels more intigrated now rather than 2 different systems on my computer. I don't know how to explain it better. Its like 7 but with some added useful functions. I did have one annoying issue with my Asus smart gesture touchpad. I have a big pad so I use that, no mouse. It usually has the 2 finger scroll to go around pages and none of that worked, I didn't even have my option thingy in the bar. Googling showed someone going into programs and repairing the smart gesture thing, but that did not work. I uninstalled the thing, restarted and then the build in asus install thingy brought it up to install new. After a gazillion reboots I am back in business with the scrolling and other gestures. Everything I had on the netbook still works as it did before. Now given, I don't have a bunch on here, its not my main computer. I need to wait to update my main computer because I use a really old scanner and older printer on it and I don't even know if there are drivers for those. I'll have to figure out where to go to find out if there are drivers. I have plenty of time to think about it on that unit. Its a few years old, I already had a hard drive changed out and some other parts like power cord and fan. My husband does that stuff. There might also be some issue with the graphic card I think. That was also put in at some point. I think though for a windows 8 device its a huge improvement to go to 10. If I can do it, anyone can.