Has anyone upgraded to the free new windows 10?

I tried to a bit ago. It seemed like it took forever to set up, then when it finally started to load (which also took forever), it gave me some error message and started over, at which time I had no more patience for it and cancelled the operation. I was going to toss it on an older machine but don’t know if I want to do that because if it is as great as the pundits say, I don’t want to use an older slower machine to use it (I guess I can put it on the newer machines of they still offer it free). I may try again after I get a new hard drive for my newest machine because I want more space, but I plan to throw Win 7 on it and let it upgrade to 10 to see if I like it. I am kinda wondering that since they have Win 8 and now Win 10 out, they will quickly stop supporting 7, so you are forced to move to 10 even if you do not want to, just as they forced me off Win XP Pro.

My husband did, and then he reversed it. I’m not sure why he disliked 10, but it was enough to go back to 8, and 8 sucks already. I think he has 8. Is that the one that looks very different on the home screen?

I also read on Cnet, that it was only free for a year and then they were going to charge for it. Something about 7 being used by 50 percent of user and 8 only 20 percent, so they are trying to get everyone with 7 and 8 on board with 10. I don’t like the idea of being charged for something after a year without knowing what the price is even going to be. Seems kind of scam from Microsoft.

Wait for 11.

They are only going to charge people to upgrade after the year if they haven’t upgraded already (just like they always did with all other upgrades). If you have upgraded you won’t be charged.

Because you have Windows 7, I would wait and upgrade in June or July 2016 (the free offer ends July 29).

I upgraded 3 computers and they all work great, except for some minor annoyances. They rushed out Windows 10 because 8 was so bad.

So I say wait while they improve 10 and get the free upgrade in its last month.

There will not be windows 11, Windows 10 is the last in the form we know it as. I did my windows boxes and it’s still awkward but not as bad as 8. I have heard they are trying to push it as a subscription service and depending on what they charge I may drop using it at home completely. $5—$20 a year sure, much more than that and it’s a no go. Linux will be the name of the game.

DON’T DO IT! I did and it was the worst mistake computer wise I ever made. Upgraded from the latest 8.something and now nothing works on my tool bar, I cannot access the windows app interface…gone. Search bar doesn’t work and neither does the start menu. I have tried for hours to enact a fix suggested by the help forums and no luck. I have to back door all my programs that I do use and again I could not regret upgrading any more than I do now. POS!

There will be no subscription fee for a computer upgraded to or shipped with Windows 10.

Windows 10 will be supported until 2025. You can see the Microsoft lifecycle schedule here.

@jaytkay Good to hear that.

I have. Better than 8. But nothing special.

That old saying once you go Mac you never go back, and you know what? Their right.

I would rather have ass cancer than use a mac

I’ve tried it out and it has some problems. If 10 doesn’t work out, it’s either 7 or Linux.

I did the upgrade at the same time I installed an SSD. It now boots in 40 seconds. So far no problems to speak of

I have. I like it. I enjoy Cortana, and my cheap laptop likes 10 way better than it liked 8.1 (though, I’m one of the five people that had no real problem with 8)

I’d rather run Vista than 10! Order of preference:

Windows 7
—- boundary of annoyances—-
Windows 8 with cell phone UI hidden
—- boundary of obsolescence—-
Windows XP
—- boundary of acceptability—-
Windows Vista
—- boundary of outrage—-
Windows 10

I went from 7 to 10 and it put a permanent black bar around the top, bottom and both edges of my screen. At first, I thought it was something I could fix by tweaking the resolution. After hours of research and failed attempt after failed attempt to fix it, I went back to 7. Last I read, no fix existed for that particular problem – and from reading forums, I wasn’t even close to the only one experiencing it.

I tried and it took 3 hours. I have no idea if it is working or not.

No, I haven’t, and the pop-ups are annoying.

Doesn’t Windows have a pattern of dreadful, even-numbered versions, followed by good odd-numbered releases? Personally, I’ve been using Windows 7 for a while, and I’m very happy with it.

Doesn’t Windows have a pattern of dreadful, even-numbered versions, followed by good odd-numbered releases?

They skipped the name Windows 9. Windows 10 is the good version that fixes the problems cause by Windows 8.

That’s interesting, @jaytkay. Is there any valid, logical reason why Microsoft bypassed Windows 9 and went directly to Windows 10?

I would never do an automatic upgrade to an operating system. It bothers me that Microsoft has been pushing that on all systems; you can’t predict whether any of your drivers are going to have a problem with the upgrade. I would recommend Googling your computer brand and model with “windows 10” and see if others have successfully upgraded.

That said, I’m looking forward to having Win10 as the preinstalled OS on my next laptop – I never bothered to shift to 8 when it came out, so I’m running 7 on all my aging computers.

@Love_my_doggie – Marketing.

@Love_my_doggie Microsoft as not given a reason, but “here’s an article” examining many possible reasons.

As @Seek says, it probably is simply marketing, 10 sounds better than 9, and it gets them further from the dread Windows 8.

Having experienced Windows 10, I am pretty sure they skipped 9 because it is another stinky bad nasty version, and those by tradition have even version numbers.

I’ve upgraded my desktop and had few issues. Granted, I had to go in and change a few settings to disable some unwanted stuff, but overall it’s not as bad as I’d feared. I’ve had zero driver issues, zero things that worked under Win7 not work in Win10.

Overall I am surprised. Aside from getting used to the Start Menu with has shades of Win8 toned down to tolerable levels and having a few useful features added to the desktop that make file/folder management slightly easier, it’s functionally identical with no annoyances added. Well, aside from not being able to change the color of the borders of my windows; I prefer something darker than bright fucking white!

I’d say that it’s pretty solid.

@Cruiser I have a sneaking suspicion that if you went from Win7 to Win10 your experience would’ve been far better. Win8 did a lot of ass-backwards things that Win7 never attempted and Win10 does differently. If you did anything with the Win8 tile applets, then you’re pretty much locked into Win8/8.1 eternally unless you’re willing to ditch them.

The search bar, in addition to having it’s own button instead of being on the Start Menu, has a setting so that it searches only your computer. I flipped that switch; if I wanted to search online, I’d use a search engine from my browser.

@Zaku I thought the same the first few times I used Win7. And no. One thing that is worth noting is that Win95 and Win98 are things that exist. Win9 would cause a little confusion. I doubt Win8 would’ve existed under than name had Windows used the same naming scheme they used in the mid-‘90s.

@JLeslie I can guess; many people fear change but cover their fear with hatred instead.

@SQUEEKY2 We’ve been through this before, so I will remind you (once again) that I used to have the same youthful delusion. Just because Jim Jones faked his death and put on a black turtleneck, that doesn’t mean I’m drinking the Apple Kool-aid that I spit out upon looking at the facts for myself and making an INFORMED decision.

Based on what I have seen when helping other people move to 10 everything generally works but people don’t want to learn a redesigned os. They have been working in the same layout since 1995 and once it is changed just a little 20 years later they freak out and rationalize their opposition to change by saying it sucks.

@jerv the problem @Cruiser found is not an interface change, it’s a bad bug. The Start Menu/button/whatever it’s called now and the search box become inert. To open applications you have to find the .exe.

I would hope Microsoft has fixed it in later updates but I do not know.

It happened to one of the three machines I upgraded, but I forgot about it until he mentioned it. This fix worked for me.

Windows 7 is great and I don’t plan to change.

@jerv sure take all the bugs and complications that come with wonderful windows, myself I will stick to my mac, and take things less complicated.
Do I think mac is pricey sure, but for some reason they tend to hold their value a lot longer than a windows computer,go figure.
My mac has done everything that I have asked of it, and wow I don’t have to have an anti-virus program running in the background, wow I can see how that would upset windows users.
Yes I know the world runs on micro soft and I think that is a good thing it gives all the hackers and jackers a target and they leave mac alone.
My computer is 98% for fun, and 2% for work related stuff and it fits the bill nicely.
Another thing is I don’t have to get a new computer as often as you do with one running windows, so go away and leave me with my kool aid which isn’t half bad if you mix it with vodka.

@flutherother I’m with you. Windows 7 is terrific.

@jaytkay That is something I personally have neither experienced nor, until just now, even heard of. I’ve heard of a few other flaws that either didn’t affect me or were preemptively quashed, but that particular one is news to me. I assumed that the fact that I skipped 8/8.1 entirely may have been why.

Another possibility that I didn’t think of until just now is that I was not an early adopter; I took the plunge only recently, after a few moths of patches. Those that pulled the trigger before I did got a buggier OS than I did as they lacked the fixes for problems that were solved before I switched.

That one machine of your’s that had the issue though, how soon after launch was that, and were you coming from Win7 or Win8? I’m just trying to figure out if there is a pattern.

@SQUEEKY2 The “and wow I don’t have to have an anti-virus program running in the background” suggests you still believe Macs don’t get malware. Unfortunately it’s getting exponentially worse. (Including one that could infect an air gapped computer and replace its UEFI)

@Lightlyseared The irony is that I’ve only had two viruses since I started computing over thirty years ago… and one was on a Mac! But since Apple fanbois usually don’t actually know anything about computers, it’s really no surprise that one would have that delusion.

@jerv The start menu problem occurred a couple of months after the Windows 10 release. I don’t recall which machine, so I don’t know if it was a clean install or an upgrade from 8.1.

@jaytkay Thanks. I had to ask just to see if either of my theories were totally off-base.

The latest update (a big one) knocked out my anti virus. Had to reinstall.

@majorrich I think that one got yanked. My Windows Update says, “Waiting for Download” and has for hours. Considering I have a 30Mbps pipe, that’s probably not on my end.

Now that everything is up and running, overall performance is pretty good for a 2nd gen core i3. It seemed to help with some heat problems I’ve been having. I need more memory.

@majorrich I ran it fine on a first-gen (Clarkdale) i3 which has half the power of a Sandy Bridge i3. Even my old 1.3GHz SU4100 which has about ¼ the power of the i3–530 does a little better than with Win7. The difference in boot time alone was almost as dramatic as the boost when I finally plopped in an SSD as a boot drive.

i haven’t owned a windows computer since 2012 when chromebooks came to Canada. although i did try my dad’s windows 10 computer a few times and i absolutely hated it. i guess im just use to the simplicity of Chrome OS.