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Re: Window 10: Yes or No

Post by Mags » Wed Mar 27, 2019 3:08 pm

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back when it was free, I cloned my W7 desktop hard-drive and then did the free upgrade to W10 on the cloned drive. Now with a hard drive swap I can run either W7 or W10. The bi-annual W10 updates since the free days have made W10 much more user friendly. I'll soon stop using the W7 drive altogether. My laptop has been W10 from the beginning.
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BrokenolMarine wrote:I wasn't going to change but the computer died.
Yeh, I understand :) that's exactly why Carol had to change. ;)
Unfortunately,

"After 10 years of servicing, January 14, 2020, is the last day Microsoft will offer security updates for computers running Windows 7 SP1"

I should have got 10 when it was free, I understand you didn't have to install it right away. Looks like a OEM version is going to cost me around $100 or $150 for Pro.
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Re: Window 10: Yes or No

Post by dave77 » Wed Mar 27, 2019 3:41 pm

The main reason I didn't want to go to win 10 was the automatic updating of video drivers, I don't mind automatic updates of Windows but I want to decide when to update my video drivers and prefer to update them with Nvidia's updater. I understand there is now a workaround to prevent auto driver updates.
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Re: Window 10: Yes or No

Post by Mags » Wed Mar 27, 2019 10:16 pm

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Know the feeling, except for me it's the Realtek Wifi driver. Won't auto-connect to Wifi after the laptop is powered on. The Wifi driver that came with the laptop works fine, but then the auto driver update over writes it a few days after I roll the driver back to the original.

I have Nvidia on my desktop. I went through W10 updates a few weeks ago. I was surprised to see the Nvidia updater only update the Nvidia User Experience App. Saw the driver update would only come through the W10 updater. But then I have auto driver update enabled.

Anyway, here is how to prevent auto driver updates...
https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/disa ... windows-10
dave77 wrote:The main reason I didn't want to go to win 10 was the automatic updating of video drivers, I don't mind automatic updates of Windows but I want to decide when to update my video drivers and prefer to update them with Nvidia's updater. I understand there is now a workaround to prevent auto driver updates.
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Re: Window 10: Yes or No

Post by dave77 » Sun Sep 29, 2019 1:08 am

I guess I have to update to win10 before win7 support ends in January. Don't think I'll have any trouble with the install but there is one thing I can't seem to find a definitive answer to.

I will be installing win10 on my 256gb ssd. I have the My Photos, My Music and My Documents folders and some other stuff on a HDD. I have a few programs installed on the hdd but I can remove them and re-install them later but wondered if I plug in the hdd after installing win10 will it see the folders or will I have to reformat the hdd.

I do have everything on the hdd backed up to a usb hdd so maybe it would be better to move everything back to the hdd after moving the Win 10 My photos, etc. to the hdd. I do want to do a clean win10 install rather than a upgrade install.
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Re: Window 10: Yes or No

Post by Mags » Sun Sep 29, 2019 11:58 am

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Yes Win10 will see the folders. You might see some warning messages the first time you do it.
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... wondered if I plug in the hdd after installing win10 will it see the folders ...
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Re: Window 10: Yes or No

Post by PT7 » Sun Sep 29, 2019 5:24 pm

Completely forgot about the "Windows10: Yes or No" thread started on July 23, 2016. Just over three years after that discussion, I bought a Chromebook this last August 7, 2019. It runs on the ChromeOS system, and I no longer use any version of MS Windows. I will not go backwards now that I'm enjoying this new operating system.

The Lenovo PC I've been using before the Chromebook purchase had Windows10 running. I never liked Windows10, and constantly had challenges with it.

Now I can easily answer the subject question, ""Windows10: Yes or No?"
It is a definite :!: NO :!:

I really like my Chromebook. It shines for me! ;)
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Re: Window 10: Yes or No

Post by Mags » Sun Sep 29, 2019 6:35 pm

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Ya the user experience with Chromebook is pretty nice. Hardware version of the Chrome browser.

Though we had a devil of a time performing regulatory testing on them. First up the Chromebook requires a network connection to be usable. Only software that runs on it, from the Google app store. That stopped us for few days until we figured out that ChromeOS is just a windowed version of Linux.
With some magic key presses we could abort the loading of ChromeOS and get to a Linux prompt that would then allow us to load our test suites.
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Sun Sep 29, 2019 5:24 pm
Completely forgot about the "Windows10: Yes or No" thread started on July 23, 2016. Just over three years after that discussion, I bought a Chromebook this last August 7, 2019. It runs on the ChromeOS system, and I no longer use any version of MS Windows. I will not go backwards now that I'm enjoying this new operating system.

The Lenovo PC I've been using before the Chromebook purchase had Windows10 running. I never liked Windows10, and constantly had challenges with it.

Now I can easily answer the subject question, ""Windows10: Yes or No?"
It is a definite :!: NO :!:

I really like my Chromebook. It shines for me! ;)
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Re: Window 10: Yes or No

Post by JEBar » Sun Sep 29, 2019 8:31 pm

we still have the same computers using Windows 10 + updates that came on our computer .... all I can say is, it works
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Re: Window 10: Yes or No

Post by dave77 » Fri Oct 04, 2019 3:21 pm

Got Win10 installed and it's not as bad as I thought it would be. I had a short experience with Win 8 on a laptop I later sold and I hated it, probably why I was so hesitant to go to Win10. Win10 seems a lot more like Win7, just a lot of stuff is in different locations. I bought a new, larger SSD and did a clean install, Win 10 did see my folders and stuff on my 1Tb HDD when I hooked it up but I went ahead and reformatted it and moved most everything that was on it back on from my USB backup drive.

I tried using the new Performance Monitor (replaces the old Windows Experience app). I was concerned as it rated all my computer components at zero but I knew my computer couldn't be that bad so I checked at it userbenchmark.com and it scored quite well for a 5 year old computer. If I was to get back into high end gaming I would probably need a better graphic card but it's a great score for a desktop.

I'm getting rid of a lot of accumulated stuff I don't use and am going to try and use my folders more and keep my desktop a little less cluttered. As you can see I tend to put a lot of shortcuts and other stuff on it. That's an older photo, it was actually almost completely full.

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Re: Window 10: Yes or No

Post by Mags » Fri Oct 04, 2019 3:32 pm

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Happy to see you got it done and worked out. :P
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Got Win10 installed and it's not as bad as I thought it would be. I had a short experience with Win 8 on a laptop I later sold and I hated it, probably why I was so hesitant to go to Win10. Win10 seems a lot more like Win7, just a lot of stuff is in different locations. I bought a new, larger SSD and did a clean install, Win 10 did see my folders and stuff on my 1Tb HDD when I hooked it up but I went ahead and reformatted it and moved most everything that was on it back on from my USB backup drive.

I tried using the new Performance Monitor (replaces the old Windows Experience app). I was concerned as it rated all my computer components at zero but I knew my computer couldn't be that bad so I checked at it userbenchmark.com and it scored quite well for a 5 year old computer. If I was to get back into high end gaming I would probably need a better graphic card but it's a great score for a desktop.

I'm getting rid of a lot of accumulated stuff I don't use and am going to try and use my folders more and keep my desktop a little less cluttered. As you can see I tend to put a lot of shortcuts and other stuff on it. That's an older photo, it was actually almost completely full.

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