[Mount Athos]

forgot to mention classic shell is free and easy to install.

[mmichaels1970]

I've been downloadin' my windows......

All the live-long day!

Going on about 3 hours or so and I'm at 39%.

[Fiddlstix]

[Proud2BeRight]

Thanks, I’ll save this post for later. I’ll be glad to get rid of 8.1 but I think I’ll let 10 soak in with the general public for a while first.

[dayglored]

Win 10 upgrade info ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

[EternalVigilance]

Why would you need “classic shell”? I don’t get it.

[Mount Athos]

I should have said that most people won’t need to manually update their video driver. I have an odd-bird CPU that doesn’t have integrated graphics so maybe that’s why I needed to.

You don’t need classic shell, it’s just my biased opinion that many would prefer it. But then again maybe people would adapt and learn to like the new start menu.

In any case classic shell is a 30 second free install, and even quicker uninstall.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

The great news is that this version of Windows finally clears up earlier issues we all struggled to overcome:

1. No ongoing danger from viruses
2. No ongoing danger from malware
3. No ongoing danger form flash-eating memory bacteria
4. No need to reinstall drivers regularly
5. No more constant need to act as an unpaid MS tech employee to keep your Windows 10 system running.

There is much excitement and rejoicing today online!

Discussions are breaking out about how people will now use their Windows 10 “cold war” time surplus!

Please install and then join the discussions.

[doorgunner69]

So once this downloads, is it going to be possible to write to a DVD for backup or does it need to stay on the hard drive?

I suppose MS supplying an *.iso file is asking too much.

[MaxMax]

Took me 30-min to update, twerking to my liking will take YEARS.

LOL, ok not really. Win score is 8.1 and had to run it though a shell.

[jkeith3213]

I personally hated windows 8, thought win 8.1 was tolerable with start 8 installed, but I like windows 10 so far. It’s a lot faster on my system than 7

[SgtHooper]

Ok, let’s discuss spoofery. What file do I need to download on my Win 95 machine to get the free upgrade? :-) Oh ok, I’ll check out bittorrent.

[McGruff]

Thanks for the report. I’ll probably wait a few days to do this. I have 3 partitions one WinXP, one Windows 7 and the third already running Windows 10 pre release.

[The Great RJ]

Updated this morning and generally OK. I was having driver problems and opted for a reinstall, but I will have to reinstall some applications. If I were to do this again I would backup my files and do a clean install. However, I am growing to like Windows 10

[Author Mike Carnegie]

Thank you. Using it now to download on a Win 7 machine. Already did an upgrade to an 8.1 machine this a.m.

[MaxMax]

I can't get Alt-Tab preview to work, there's no way that I can find. When running
multiple apps I use Alt-Tab to skim through various notepad pages to find the
one I want, and pausing while holding Alt used to show it full page without
stopping or selecting.

Now I have to click each page to see what's on it instead of seeing the preview.
This is a Huge time sink.

Any idea how to get this function back without trashing win-10 back to Win-7?

[drunknsage]

Better get a system image backup before installing. So far my venue 11 failed the upgrade. I had no network adapters despite them being installed in device manager.

I’m trying to upgrade my gaming system tonight. Hope it turns out better than the venue. I couldn’t even activate windows so I could clean install.

[snooter55]

bfl