I am probably crazy for asking.
There’s a little thingie in my system tray telling me I can upgrade to Windoze 10 for absolutely freely nothing. I haven’t clicked enough to see if they ask for a credit card “just in case” but the stuff I’ve seen on the Interwebs make it look like it’s legit.
So, anyone planning on trying Windoze 10? They’re still trying too much to make a PC behave like a phone (IMO) but they’ve heard us on the Windoze Hate so the worst of the worst is gone (it would have been really hard not to improve Windowze Hate).
Will it make my 8GB Windoze 7 machine slow to a crawl? Can I make that personal assistant thingie go away (what do they call it, Cabana)? And can I use good software instead of the Microsquish software they pre-load?
Anyone daring to go there?
I think that my current eXPerimental computer system should answer that question for you.
Windows 10 has automatic updates by default, and you can’t change it.
Oh, and your video drivers get “updated” too, as a bunch of nvidia users discovered.
Now whether or not they have changed that yet I am not certain.
But several “important “ updates that got pushed into the users were nagware designed to nag you with that message once win10 was released.
It was advertised as an update to “improve” the update experience and make it “easier” to update to 10.
Why would you think that asking about anything the evil empire does is crazy?
Theres a little thingie in my system tray telling me I can upgrade to Windoze 10 for absolutely freely nothing.
Here's what I have gathered so far. The 'free' thing is true and good for a year, so you don't need to run over the cliff with the lemmings right away. Also it seems that it will stay free meaning that they won't come back in a year and want you to pay for it. I think the 'Get WinX' thing that you are seeing looks at your machine to see if it can run WinX before it starts nagging you to take the leap but I'm not sure of that. I have at least one machine here that runs Win7 fine but the processor is incompatible with WinX. Since I knew it wouldn't run WinX I didn't let WinUpdate install any of the Get WinX 'important' updates. If I had I would know for sure about that. I suppose I could go to Win Update and let it install the Get WinX stuff and see what happens...
I have a machine here that I am seriously thinking of allowing the update on but as with anything Windoze, I'm not going to rush into it. Reports for the most part say that they have fixed most of the egregious crap they foisted off in WinhAte, and WinX is supposedly faster than Win7.
One down side is that it seems you cannot 'deselect' any updates, although I did read somewhere that there's a way around that. I saved a link to that article in my email for my future reference so I should be able to find it for you should you want it. Supposedly the install routine figures out what kind of device it is being installed on and configures WinX accordingly for either a touch screen or a desktop.
My take for now? Sit tight and wait for the reports of the earlybird lemmings. Since you have that year, and since you have Win7 which I guess is running fine you can afford to hang back and let others play guinea pig. Presumably if your machine runs Win7 it should have no problems with WinX although earlier configurations might not. For instance, AMD PhenomII socket AM3 stuff should run WinX, but earlier AthlonII socket AM2 stuff might not. Don't know the cutoff point with Intel chips since I don't build machines with Intel stuff. That's an economic decision - I can get more processor for a given price with AMD - if someone wanted a screaming gamer machine and cost was no object I could be coerced into using an Intel chip.;-)
Most programs should run on WinX if they run in Win7. I don't know if WinX has a compatibility mode like Win7 Pro does (you know - 'run as Win 98' or whatever). WinX no longer has Win Media Player so if you use that, you'll need something to replace it (like VLC media player).
If you are seriously considering doing that I'll feed you info as I hear it, and since the machine I'm talking about on this end is a 'sacrificial lamb' (meaning not my main box) I have the luxury of experimenting with it. Maybe you can wait until I do this machine and give you a report so you don't leave yourself dead in the water?? (Unless you are really really in a rush - my time frame is going to be somewhere between now and when I get a roundtuit.. ;-)
I talked with Dead Corpse yesterday who just installed Win10 and yes, it’s free. He also said it was surprisingly easy to navigate.
Also, some friends on Facebook (one owns a computer store) say it is free and you have to have and “appointment” for the download. If you do it while they offer it free, it is, FREE. Otherwise, if you wait, you will have to pay for it. It sounds like in six months, if you haven’t installed it, you will have to pay for the privilege.
And IE is no longer in existence. It is now called Edge, but is only available when you download Win 10.
Hope this helps!