Windows 10 - The upgrade

[melek]

If you have a PC with a SATA drive, one thing that will provide you with a noticeable improvement in overall performance is the use of a SSD (solid state drive).

Windows will start much quicker, and programs also will launch faster.

I have a very small Sony Vaio ultraportable PC running Windows XP, and I swapped out the original 30GB hard drive with a 1.8-inch 60GB SSD. It improvement performance noticeably. Much more than I expected.

[P C Headland]

If you are looking to save some money over a larger capacity SSD, I've had good results with the Seagate SSHDs (hybrid drives).

[melek]

That's an understatement ...

I upgraded my wife's laptop to Win 10 from Win 7.

After downloading the 3.5+ GB installation, I was forced to uninstall the Office 2010 "Click to Run" installation before I could continue.

It took more than an hour to get do this point.

Fine - but before I could do anything more, I had to reboot her computer. When it came back up, I had to restart the upgrade from scratch.

At some point, I dozed off and when I woke up about an hour later, the upgrade process had only reached the 30% mark. I started at about 4 p.m., and I was able to use the PC after the Win 10 installation at about 9:15 - more than five hours for the upgrade.

The laptop seems to be running correctly.

If you are planning to upgrade, set aside plenty of time.

[Martolod]

yep the upgrade is a perfect excuse for a Nap.and a Beer.and a Nap. and some Pizza.and reading War and Peace.and watching a Greek Tragedy.and another Beer.more Pizza or Chinese Take out.a good night's sleep.Breakfast(eat last night's Pizza and Chinese).have a Cup of Tea.followed by a Valium.because you will have a Borked Task Bar; so you will have set up another Profile in order to get it working again.
and then get up and go to work because the weekend is gone and you realise it is Monday 7.00am and you spent the last 48hrs getting Win 10 working just the way you want it.


my Desk top upgrade took around 4 Hours going from 7 to 10. but i downloade the 64bit iso image and burned it to Disk.

[TobaccorRoad]

I went from Windows7 to 10, big mistake for me. My printer and scanner both were de-commissioned and 10 doesn't recognize either.
I tried reinstalling them but that didn't work. My pictures link is all mixed up also.
I am going to take my puter to the Geek Squad and re install Windows 7 if possible ?

Ron B

[Martolod]

going back to win 7 should not be an issue, if you go into settings-maintenance-etc you can roll back to 7 at a mouseclick.

there is actually nothing wrong with Win 7......if people don't need to upgrade...then don't. oolder hardware will not get the full use use out of win10, so if win7 works....no need to fix it.(my opinion only....ok back of my soap box )

[melek]

Update: So, apparently, you can shut down Cortana, but you shouldn't disable the Microsoft Store. Doing so prevents you from installing certain software, such as software that controls your keyboard and mouse.

On a positive note, the most recent Win 10 upgrade seems to have made my desktop PC peppier. It's a fairly strong PC with an AMD 3.10ghz three-core CPU, 8GB RAM, a very decent nVidia 5xx video card and a 256 Plextor SSD. I've been pretty happy with the nVidia video card, as it works with Sony Movie Studio (Vegas Lite) to accelerate video rendering.