Here are the features that will no longer work when you upgrade to Windows 10

Neowin ^ | June 3, 2015 | Steven Parker

[dayglored]

ollowing the exciting news that Windows will be free for everyone currently on Windows 7 or 8.1, providing they upgrade within the first year, users should also be aware of a few features that will no longer work with Windows 10 after that upgrade.

The features that will no longer work are taken from the official specifications page on Microsoft's Windows website, and reproduced below. The good news is that in some cases alternatives are available.

• If you have Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows 8 Pro with Media Center, or Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center and you install Windows 10, Windows Media Center will be removed.

• Watching DVDs requires separate playback software

• Windows 7 desktop gadgets will be removed as part of installing Windows 10.

• Windows 10 Home users will have updates from Windows Update automatically available. Windows 10 Pro and Windows 10 Enterprise users will have the ability to defer updates.

• Solitaire, Minesweeper, and Hearts Games that come pre-installed on Windows 7 will be removed as part of installing the Windows 10 upgrade. Microsoft has released our version of Solitaire and Minesweeper called the “Microsoft Solitaire Collection” and “Microsoft Minesweeper.”

• If you have a USB floppy drive, you will need to download the latest driver from Windows Update or from the manufacturer's website.

• If you have Windows Live Essentials installed on your system, the OneDrive application is removed and replaced with the inbox version of OneDrive.

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[FunkyZero]

I just can’t hack it. I swear, I gave win8 and 8.1 an honest shot, I suffered with it for months before I finally reinstalled win7 and went back. I’ll move to linux before I deal with that smartphone looking tile BS. I sure as heck won’t be dealing with wind10. Heck, I stuck with XP until the cypher stopped working on all the newer stuff we run at work.

[__rvx86]

That’s what I said about Windows 2000—in 2005.

Look how fast that came and went. :-)

[dayglored]

> For the same money that my parents paid for a decent computer in 2003 (~$1600), I could get a high-end gaming computer, and maybe have a little left over. I never imagined computing power to ever be so cheap—even though I have fully understood the implications of Moore’s Law for quite a while...

Heh.

In 1989 I bought a Toshiba T-100 portable computer. A 20MHz 386 CPU, 8MB RAM, 100MB hard drive. Read those again, that's MB.

Cost me $8500. Eight thousand, five hundred dollars in 1989 dollars.

Two years later I needed a BIG hard drive for my desktop system. Bought a 500MB full-height SCSI drive from AVID. $1600 in 1991 dollars.

Tell me about it. :-) LOL.

Every day, I'm amazed.

[__rvx86]

Did you have TLS1.0 turned on?

In a default Windows NT 5.x installation, TLS has to be turned on manually. It’s in the Internet Options control panel, under Advanced. This is where you also turn off SSL2/SSL3.

In this day and age, you would be limited to 128-bit ARC4, or 112-bit (nominally 168-bit) Triple-DES.

[dayglored]

> I don’t see where Microsoft could recover the consumer marketplace after two major OS disasters in a row.

They're very careful to only schedule the major OS disasters on alternate releases. :-)

[Norm Lenhart]

You need some Skyrim in your life. Modded Skyrim on the PC (console Skyrim games are very good but the mods are unavailable). It’s a great place to go and escape liberalism.

[dayglored]

> I just can’t hack it. I swear, I gave win8 and 8.1 an honest shot, I suffered with it for months before I finally reinstalled win7 and went back. I’ll move to linux before I deal with that smartphone looking tile BS.

I feel your pain.

[topspinr]

” Also I like watching movies on my PC and MS 10 will prevent me from doing that.”

Watched an old DVD movie just yesterday on Win 10 Build 10074.

I also watch free movies from Amazon Prime streamed to my PC.

Nothing wrong with Win 10 in my opinion.

[Norm Lenhart]

If time is money, then add up the hours spent being an unpaid Microsoft tech dept troubleshooting your driver issues and software incompatibilities. And still not get full functionality of your stuff.

Bet it will come up to more than what a stable/sorted version of W10 will go for in Service Pack 1 trim.

[FreedomOfExpression]

I’ve automatically signed up for it~ how can I stop it now?

No need to stop it. It will download to your computer, but it does not install automatically. You install it when you're ready. I suppose at that point you can delete cancel the upgrade if you wish.
You have a whole year after it is released to install it for free. If you don't like what you hear by then, you haven't lost anything but a few gigabytes on your hard drive.

[SkyDancer]

Earlier on someone posted that you’d loose your ability to watch movies on CD, like that Windows Media Center won’t play them anymore unless you buy an add-on package from some other company.

[SkyDancer]

M’Kay .. well I’ll watch it real close. Thanks.

[dayglored]

> Seems they’re beginning to purge some fluff. They need to purge a lot more.

They could lose those freakin' colored tiles on the desktop and non-touch laptop installs.

I don't mean "they can be mostly hidden so they only come up sometimes". I mean they're freakin' GONE.

I'm 63, I graduated from PlaySkool and Fisher-Price many years ago.

And they can lose the mandatory Candy Crush Saga. I mean really, WTF is up with that???

Just sayin'...

[arthurus]

Same here. Actually my MGI photo program goes back to W95 and I wuoldn’t change it.

[arthurus]

Vista was pretty bad. I never had it but my wife did.

[hsmomx3]

I am not tech savvy so I may just pass on this update

[FreedomOfExpression]

Sorry, I’m late to the party. I didn’t realize that you received many answers by the time I submitted mine. Hope you have a good night!

[dayglored]

> Vista was pretty bad. I never had it but my wife did.

Vista was beyond awful.

It was well intentioned, but incredibly poorly executed.

Windows 7 is in many ways "Vista, fixed". And it's arguably the best Windows OS ever. I love it.

When I have to use a Vista system I nearly lose my mind all over again.

[SkyDancer]

Oh Hey, not a problem. I always enjoy those that answer a question I have. I learn quite a lot from FReepers. Thanks, and you have a good evening as well.

R/Janey

[dayglored]

I’m going offline for the rest of the night, see y’all on the morrow. Thanks to all for making this such an interesting and useful thread!