Windows 10 - free upgrade to those with PC using Windows 7 or 8

[DustyDisks]

Originally Posted by fjtorres

What hardware?

Asus K55A

One of the major pain's was I could not at startup get into my BIOS pressing F2, did a web search and tried several things and finally was able to F2 into BIOS.

Then the next pain was the system did not recognize my recovery disk at first. (Do plan to study and understand the BIOS boot options more after this) Finally got to boot into my recovery disk and now 3/4 into restoring the system!

Be careful with classic shell ! I am convinced that my messing with it caused the problem, the desktop went poof! And rebooting did nothing so a restore by ISO image was called for!

Users beware using this shell, tho it maybe fine and I just shot myself in the foot by mistake, whatever it was!

Will say again, win10 changes access to BIOS that holds even when cold booting!

[ApK]

Originally Posted by DustyDisks

Will say again, win10 changes access to BIOS that holds even when cold booting!

This concerns me far more than the privacy issues.

[DustyDisks]

Originally Posted by kennyc

How did you create the image? With utility software. I didn't see any option to create backup disks as part of the install or in the recovery setup options.

I do not trust Microsoft backup anything!

I use Macrium Reflect free addition, it works very well and is simple to use!

Have been bitten in the neither region's using Windows backup way too many times to trust it.

[Turtle91]

Originally Posted by ApK

And, really, forces like MS and Google, and even my arch-nemesis Facebook, are going to do nothing with your information other than try to sell you stuff more effectively. This should be the least of your worries.

The more people/companies that have my information, the more opportunities there are for people to hack/steal it and do stuff with it that I do NOT want...not that I even want them to sell me stuff more effectively...

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by DustyDisks

Be careful with classic shell ! I am convinced that my messing with it caused the problem, the desktop went poof!

All I can say is I've used Classic Shell 4.2.3 beta with Win 10 for two days now and no crashing. I have a Lenovo laptop.

[Josieb1]

Originally Posted by kennyc

I'm no expert, but I did turn everything off when I installed. I don't see it as being much more intrusive than what Google, Apple, Facebook or Twitter are doing. You've got to watch them all the time these days.

One thing (somewhat like google) is that if you disable the location/privacy items the Cortana assistant will not function. That's okay with me.

I changed the following settings:

Windows Update/Advanced Options/Chose how updates are delivered. Sharing updates with other PC's is NOW TURNED OFF plus I have set it to ask me to restart to load updates.

Privacy/Location is only on for weather and maps

Privacy/General advertising ID is off as its sending Microsoft Information on how I type

Privacy/Feedback and Diagnostics Microsoft can ask me once a week for Feedback and I only send Basic Information to them not Full.

Network and Internet/Wifi/Wifi settings turned off connect to hotspots and networks shared by my friends as it sends my data too.

XBOX Settings changed here to BLOCK for everything https://account.xbox.com/en-GB/Settings

I hope this helps

[Josieb1]

Originally Posted by kennyc

I'm no expert, but I did turn everything off when I installed. I don't see it as being much more intrusive than what Google, Apple, Facebook or Twitter are doing. You've got to watch them all the time these days.

One thing (somewhat like google) is that if you disable the location/privacy items the Cortana assistant will not function. That's okay with me.

Thanks for this, I'm having trouble with Cortana (when I've tried it) so I'll check if that's why.

[wodin]

Originally Posted by Apache

So windows 11 is going to suck.
Apache

There used to be a adage back in the MSDOS days that went "Never buy an even numbered DOS."

[jhowell]

Originally Posted by wodin

There used to be a adage back in the MSDOS days that went "Never buy an even numbered DOS."

The do have long history of success/failure/success/failure in their release history.

Perhaps by skipping Windows 9 they can break the cycle...and have two failures in a row!

[wodin]

OK, after wading through pages of arguments about skipping Win9 and privacy issues, I didn't see a single post about battery life.

After upgrading my Surface Pro to Win10 and embarking on a marathon reading session on Saturday my battery was dead in FOUR HOURS, and the machine was running noticeably warmer than usual. After rebooting several times, it seems to have cooled off a bit so the issue might be moot, but I was wondering if anyone else has noticed either reduced battery life or their machine running hotter.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by DustyDisks

I do not trust Microsoft backup anything!

I use Macrium Reflect free addition, it works very well and is simple to use!

Have been bitten in the neither region's using Windows backup way too many times to trust it.

I don't use windows backup, but have used the create recovery disk -- I think that is in the windows install, or has been in the past....didn't see any such thing this time....

Thanks!

[DustyDisks]

Originally Posted by kennyc

I don't use windows backup, but have used the create recovery disk -- I think that is in the windows install, or has been in the past....didn't see any such thing this time....

Thanks!

It's still there, left top menu choice in backup/restore. Tho to keep being bugged go to task manager to turn off the automatic backup scheduler.

Win10 first time seems to instantly want to do a backup when the screen is opened.

[AnotherCat]

Originally Posted by Purple Lady

If you set up the start menu like you set up the start screen, isn't the start menu easy to use as well? Is there something on the start screen easier to use than a properly set up start menu? I know most people don't set up the start menu, and using it as is is a pain.

Yes, the Start Menu is easy to use and in my view is a major improvement over that in Windows 7.

As far as using "Use Start Full Screen" instead is concerned it probably gets down to how many Tiles one has. For us it is useful that "Full Screen" has far more real estate than non Full Screen, especially if one has some non small tiles (for ease of identification) so the need to scroll is far less.

Also, for us, that is even more so if one likes the Groups of tiles one sets up with the equivalent of "whitespace" around them for clearer grouping.

[mr_nihilism]

For those that might be interested, GodMode does indeed work on Windows 10

http://winsupersite.com/windows-10/e...ode-windows-10

It's really handy-dandy.

[MikeB1972]

Originally Posted by wodin

OK, after wading through pages of arguments about skipping Win9 and privacy issues, I didn't see a single post about battery life.

After upgrading my Surface Pro to Win10 and embarking on a marathon reading session on Saturday my battery was dead in FOUR HOURS, and the machine was running noticeably warmer than usual. After rebooting several times, it seems to have cooled off a bit so the issue might be moot, but I was wondering if anyone else has noticed either reduced battery life or their machine running hotter.

My two updates continued to update / run background processes for several hours before it had completely finished (As an example when I went to the settings the search didn't work until at least an hour after the install looked completed), so there is a good chance that it is a one off to do with setting up the tablet.