it's not called the bleeding edge for nothing...
Posted on 10/26/2015 3:58:46 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
I did the Windows 10 download yesterday and, boy, do I wish I had waited awhile.
Many (MANY) of my apps were disabled. MS Office, all my antivirus/anti-malware programs...all of the stuff I use in my everyday work life.
My advise is to ask those who know better than I do...and wait until Windows 10 is developed enough to accept all your programs...Help!
That said, all advice is invited. Please enlighten us re: Windows 10.
I requested mine in August and it was available about a week after Win10 went live. I just waited until this past weekend to see how it worked out for others first.
But, then I got to feeling brave and decided to do it anyway. ;-)
If your computer is over four years old forget about it. You will be DOOMED! DOOMED I TELL YOU!
I upgraded to 10 from 8, and it was an upgrade. Windows 10 is actually better for backward compatibility on many old favorite computer games, like Age of Empires and Panzer General.
If you don’t plan do revert back you can download instead of MS Office
It’s free and works very well
Did the install activate? If not, certain things will not work, maybe including Office. I had problems with activation and lots of things wouldn’t work until that got resolved.
Me too. Works just fine. In fact, I have one app that I couldn’t run in Win 7 or 8.1, and it runs fine in Win 10.
Can you restore your computer to a previous date/time?
Thanks!
I’ve had a very similar experience. I’ve upgraded four laptops and 2 desktops 6 months to 10 years old, various brands and software configurations. differing versions of office (2007 pro and 2010 pro) full installs. MS Project and Visio Pro 2007 and 2010. All sorts of other programs. Windows 7 and 8.1, various AV programs. The only programs that haven’t worked were some AV (which a used MS Security Essentials to replace) and my HP Printer software. The HP software had an updated version that worked fine.
Frankly I’m starting to wonder how many people are experiencing problems due to having some really crappy “Free” software on their PC’s or might be just spreading FUD.
I’m pretty sure you’re joking around. I’ve upgraded an eight year old laptop from win7 to 10 as a test. Went very smoothly without a single hiccup.
My only beef with MS latest OS is the heavy handed mandatory windows update scheme, specifically driver updates. I would prefer to choose whether to install drivers.
I am getting Linux up and running. The install is considerably less painful than a windows install.
It does have some downsides. WINE (windows emulator for linux) is complete crap — I don’t know why they bothered. So I plan to run virtualbox and install Windows 7 in it.
It doesn’t handle switching CDs without unmounting and remounting the drive.
Linux has problems with my USB scanner (but not with the printer), probably another mount problem.
I’d be surprised that if it worked under Windows 7 if you couldn’t just use the Windows generic driver for it. You may lose some bells and whistles, but it should still print.
Start by formatting the hard drive and then installing from the WIN 7 DVD ROM.
It might be useful to name the apps and versions that have the issues.
There are things I don’t love about OS, but boy am I glad it isn’t Windows! I have a Macbook and an old PC. I was forced to switch to 7 on the PC earlier this year and now it runs like crap. Every time I look down and see that annoying “switch to 10” spam in my tray, it reminds me that my home will soon be Windows free.
it's not called the bleeding edge for nothing...
I upgraded a 10 year old Dell Inspiron 17 laptop with a core 2 duo and all sorts of proprietary hardware. It cam originally with Vista 32, I previously upgraded that one Windows 7 64 even though Dell refused to provide any support or drivers. That update was very difficult. I was beta testing Windows 7 on the Laptop and I needed to restore the vista install and then install Windows 7 and fix all of the issues. Same Laptop, I made sure all Windows 7 updates were installed, clicked go on Windows 10 and everything went off without a hitch.
Yes. I just did it yesterday. It’s under recovery options. Google “revert to Windows 7” and it will tell you where to go. Reverting went nice and smooth for me. Took about 45 minutes.
Did you follow the instructions to revert back to Windows 7 like in this video? You should have 30 days to revert back.
CGato
I upgraded to Windows 10 and liked it. No problems with already installed apps and programs.
I was one of those rare ducks that really liked Windows 8.1.
I’ve kept 10 on my desktop but went back to 8.1 on my touchscreen laptop....
I had 7 on the desktop and like 10 much better. Just had to go in and “tweak” it to my liking.
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