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Well I have bitten the bullet and signed up for the upgrade from 8.1 to 10.
If it makes Windows a bit less fussy, then it should be a good step forward.

Harry - please post your experiences here - I'm thinking of doing it either this - or more likely next weekend.

Will do. I have registered for the download, so Microsoft have slotted me into their queueing system.

Make sure that you create Restore point before upgrading! :-)

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/media-creation-tool-install?ocid=ms_wol_win10


If you do not want to wait use the link
Download was 30 mins update about 10 + a little fiddle with speakers /headphones 5mins
Easy to use no probs at the moment A friend took 10 hrs to download

Thanks Digger - any obvious glitches so far?

A few windows 10 upgrade thoughts and experiences:

Had a complete 'freeze-up' on the newly upgraded Vaio laptop. Every time I clicked on a tab on a chrome browser, which had about 8 tabs open in total, so as to open the browser window, that tab closed instead of opening. and then total freeze up.

I couldn't do a thing other than pull the plug (I don't use the battery) and go back to a previous Restore point.

The Vaio laptop has Vaio-Care installed as standard. I didn't know whether I should have uninstalled it before doing the W10 upgrade, but anyway rightly or wrongly, I just ignored it. It typifies the fact that there is a lack of upgrading info' out there at the moment.

I'm sure you know the kind of help you tend to get: eg. "It might be a good idea to take a back up of your Registry Folders," says one guru.

Hmmm? So how do you do that then? And where would you keep said backups? And what if you ever felt a need to use them for a Registry Folder Restore?

In other words, the info' is mostly for 'experts', written in 'expert language' and 'somewhat unthorough' and is also 'poorly explained'. Try doing something and disaster easily looms.

My two machines each had three W10 Update download failures and so I burnt an ISO version of Windows 10 onto a disk and did my upgrades with that.

I am very disappointed to have had to call it a day with Windows 10 and go back to Windows 7.

Windows 10 doesn't yet cater adequately for my own personal requirements of using Google's Chrome browser, upon which I now greatly rely, complete with the Adblock Plus, Ghostery and LastPass plug ins. In fact, you quickly read into things that 'Google and Chrome' is a deadly enemy of 'Windows 10 and its Edge browser'.

If you, say 'Import all your Chrome browser Favorites' into W10's Edge, then they also arrive in a 'very difficult to handle listed order'. With no 'plug ins' and no 'Favorites' and no browser 'History' either, I quickly became phenominally 'surfingly inconvenienced' too. The Windows 7 methodology, which I had carefully perfected over the last 3 years or so, all became instantly trashed.

One really needs to very thoroughly and carefully research exactly how one is to do everything and not just 'hope for the best' and 'hope to quickly re-learn new methodology'. There is simply far too much to have to research and learn to be able to do it all reasonably quickly.

It's possible, that whatever Microsoft planet the Windows 10 guys feel they live on, doesn't seem to closely ressemble the computing and Internetting one I inhabit and frequent.

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I am glad it is not me alone who wants to throw 10 out

Thanks for the info - my initial instinct to update later rather than sooner, seems justified!

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No 8.1 updates available to me any more. Update to Windows 10 the only option via the updates page. Will have a go later today!

Well, it took about 40 mins to download (I appreciate that it is dependent on download speed) and then took about another 90 mins to install. Have instructed it to use Chrome as my default browser.......and that's about as far as I have got so far. The immediately noticeable thing is that it now boots up to the desktop, rather than to the apps (icon) page, which is what I want. System tray looks a bit more congested.......otherwise so far so good!

Harry - I have mentioned before, but with 8.1 it was a 15 second mod to get it to boot straight to desktop - anyway, I hope you took note of post 164 above! :-)

I regularly back up my PC and laptop. All data stored on USB stick, so I didn't create a restore point for this particular update. My laptop is porn free, so no worries on that score!
Seems that you can still access the apps page by left clicking the 'Start' button.....not that I will be doing that much. I wonder if 10 is very different from 8.1. Much of the old system is still available, just less intrusive......though 'Edge' does replace IE.