Windows 10

[Bill A]

Microsoft is making a concerted effort to get me (and millions of others) to upgrade to Win 10. Supposedly a seamless process?
Or, is t is fraught with danger?
Comments and observations?

[GriffMJ]

My son.... accidentally triggered the upgrade..... switched the laptop off half way ......and totally buggered the laptop. The upgrade had created two partitions and the Win 8.1 system was trying to "mend" itself but was being blocked by the Win 10. Took a month to figure it out and get it working again.

ANY new Windows should not be installed until at least 2 years "after" its release date!!! In that way you are not going to get shafted by the bugs.

[54Bty]

I eventually decided to upgrade from 7 to 10, "what a mistakea to makea". It took three (3) days over Christmas to do this on a very fast broadband connection.

What a load of crap. I had to reorganise my internet Favourites, reload ALL my passwords to forums, on top of some of my programmes not working. So it was back to 7, took about 5 minuets, then I was told I would have to reload some of my programmes, it was only 1 in the end. But my email is still not working properly. It still wants to down load millions of deleted emails, even those that have been deleted using the windows instructions. Where it gets them from is now beyond me. Not recommended and crap, that was the comment sent to windows when asked. Of course this is only my opinion and experience.
Marc

Forgot to mention it lost all my home Security CCTV connections, so they had to be reinstalled when I got home.

[Phil2M]

It buggered up my mum's laptop. It uninstalled the touch pad , keyboard and mouse drivers, left her sitting on the password screen and unable to do anything, she couldnt even switch it off without removing the battery. £200 later at the local repair shop she had to have an entire new win 7 installation, lost all her files and programs etc.

Wouldn't recommend it to my worst enemy.

[magpie]

I was told xp was the peak of Windows and its been going back down hill since then.

[JerryBB]

My personal laptop has the old version and works fine and so far I have ignored the attempts to get me to upgrade to win 10.

I was recently supplied with a new laptop by my company which as it is brand new came with win 10 already on it and it works fine, though as I am comfortable and familiar with using the older version, it is a bit of a pain to navigate around it when doing stuff, so I only use it for company emails and for logging into the company vpn's.

Perhaps over time I will become more familiar with it and will see the benefits, though I tend to think that upgrades are largely done to keep the software designers in work and to get us to keep shelling out for the newer versions.

[David Tremain]

I've noticed too that it's trying to get me to switch. Now that I've read everyone's comments it's confirmed that I was right in not doing so. I'm perfectly happy with what I've got (Windows 9, I think, which came with my new computer last year), so why would I want to change? The buggeration factor and the visits from Mr Cock-up are too big an incentive to leave things alone. As the saying goes, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

Thanks to everyone for the warnings.
David

[John L]

I used for less than a week. The only time I ever had a "blue screen" The browser that goes with it I do like nearly as well. I had many shut downs using 10.
When I went back I lost all of my emails.

I get the pop ups to make the change at least three times a week

John

[Bill A]

The pop ups can be removed. Check on-line for instructions on how to remove them.

[dak580]

Took over 6 weeks to finally install on my computer. Lost all my bookmarks and e-mails. Unable to use Outlook email (which is Microsoft) so how does that work not compatible with itself.

Also cost me over $200 buying hardware it didn't like.

My tablet which was only 8 months old and working great is now so slow is virtually useless.

Not a fan of Windows 10
John

[Phil2M]

Originally Posted by Bill A

The pop ups can be removed. Check on-line for instructions on how to remove them.

Found and done, Thanks Bill