Pint . . . I mean, Ping!
You’ve restored to Win 7. Why not just stay there? Win 7 is a fantastic OS. And it’s not nosey.
Off-topic hijacking of thread:
I’m in the market for a new setup; going to go laptop instead of desk.
All these comments about Win10 make me wonder if I should steer clear of a Win10 configured laptop?? Are new machines giving trouble with updates or just older ones with other Versions?
DH wants to get me a lower end SSD - anyone have advice on that front? Thanks for any wisdom :)
I updated to W10 on an 8 year old Dell 1525 Laptop. I had a minor problem with sound which I resolved.
Here’s an article about update bugs.
http://windowsreport.com/windows-10-kb3201845-bugs/
Sure glad I stayed with Win 7, a fantastic OS.
Unfortunately, MSFT is forcing everyone to become a computer expert. Lots of folks are not interested. They just want the car to run and not have to worry about what happens under the hood.
On new versions of linux based OSs, you very rarely have to type in the terminal. (at the command line) Works like win/mac. A programs menu, all the keyboard shortcuts are the same, Ctrl+C to copy, Ctrl+V to paste, Ctrl+O to open etc. The program windows and menus are pretty much standard.
We’ve got four thinkpad laptops here and run dual boot setup with win7pro and xubuntu. Windows gets installed first, then when installing linux/ubuntu, it will repartition the hard drive to make room for ubuntu. During system startup you get a screen to choose which OS you want to start. This way you have a windows system to run windows programs when necessary BUT updates are turned off completely and wifi and network cards are disabled so that windows never connects to the web.
We do all our surfing on ubuntu and never get viruses because those are mostly aimed at windows(the hackers don’t like Bill Gates), Libre Office is a direct replacement for MS Office, Gimp replaces PhotoShop(and finally has a “save for web” feature), Inkscape for PNGs, firefox for a browser, thunderbird for email client, VLC media player plays pretty much everything without bloat, Calibre is and e-reader library management tool and will convert between all the different formats, Gramps genealogy program, CherryTree is a personal notebook/database, Gourmet is a recipe book program, Convert is a desktop unit conversion program, Dictionary, Thesaurus, Calculator(basic or advanced), Catfish file search with which you can index all your files(like a search engine does) for fast results, any kind of programmer’s libraries and utilities, python comes pre-installed on most linux builds, every kind of text editor imaginable for programmers/code, any kind of little geek utility imaginable, all for FREE. If you need more software, you can get most anything without having to go surfing the web and downloading potential viruses because all the software is in trusted repositories that you access with a desktop program(and the software is free). There is linux software available outside the repositories but most is open source which is generally safe.
Adobe for pdf editing (not just the pdf reader), is one of the few things I go to the windows side for. I haven’t found a linux equivalent, especially when it comes to making pdf forms. That and a little drafting program because I’m so used to it. There is a CAD program for linux(librecad) which is the equivalent of autocad(only free) but I’m used to TurboCAD.
For gaming, windows has a lot more available. For multimedia production, Ubuntu Studio comes with all kinds of software pre-installed for video editing, audio production etc.
Setting up a home network with linux SUCKS. If we need to share a file, we have usb thumb drives.
I didn’t care much for the Mint versions. They seemed to run slow compared to ubuntu based linux.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions#Official_distributions
I have one pc with a dual core and my main pc with a quad core.
Both of them as least 5 years old. I also run CC Cleaner.
Both of my pc’s work fine with Win 10. The last updates were installed yesterday. Didn’t notice any problems.
I give a thumbs up for Win 10.
I had this exact same problem. Dell desktop upgraded from Windows 7 to 10. Automatic updates. Now it will not go to home screen, will not restore. It’s 10 years old, so may be time to get a Mac. Swore off any future Dells (I had never bought anything else) after my last tech [non]support call a year ago.
I had put together a new pc about a year and a half ago. I tried Windows 10 but I switched back to Windows 7 as Cortana caused the Start button to be unclickable. You could not right click on the taskbar buttons and Cortana would not work (from what I read as I did not use it)
3 times it happened to me and none of Microsoft fixes worked for long. There were issues with websites not loading while others did (all 3 browsers). The fix was to go back to Windows 7.
This problem as I found out was known during the Beta testing. In short they will never fix it.
Here is a very cheap pc that beats Microsoft Surface Pro.
The youtube reviews on the right side say wifi stops working but that is a KNOWN Windows 10 issue. Not hardware but software from Microsoft.
We Compare The Surface 3 to a RCA Cambio Windows 10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXAlvxUFeRQ
The RCA tablet was able to start up the video quicker then the Surface Pro!
RCA Cambio 10.1” 2-in-1 Tablet 32GB Intel Atom Z3735F Quad-Core Processor Windows 10 $108....
http://tinyurl.com/zy88zf3
Sadly, Microsoft takes control of your computer to do updates and you have no power to opt out. My new laptop has Win. 10 and I despise it!
I have an older desktop with Windows 7, but a very slow processor. I need to check to see if it’s possible to replace the processor with a faster one. Probably not. :(