Windows 10

[PCH (Paul)]

Originally Posted by Bassnut

I was very sceptical, but based on experience on this thread, I just upgraded. It must have predownloaded, because the upgrade only took about 20mins. Everthing seems fine!. It is a welcome change from the cant-even-revert-to-factory brutal hard crashing upgrades ive had on Apple devices a few times.

Hi Fred,

I haven't taken the plunge yet, but maybe in a couple of days time you could tell us if everything worked ok, if there were issues with any particular program.

Cheers

[Bassnut (Fred)]

Its been a couple of days and alls well !.
My PC had win 8.1, 16gig ram, SSDs, i7, usual stuff.

Almost all applications worked straight up. Usual business stuff, Office suite, Outlook, MYOB (latest), just cloud, hightail (integrated with Outlook).

DL5/6, SkyX, CCDstack, Startools etc.

Photoshop, Lightroom (both CC), an old Adobe Premier version 6, all other typical photo/video software including supprisingly very old classic legacy apps such as veedub64.

All engineering apps such as express PCB, Bonzia 3D, and other dev apps , some old such as Zelio soft.

The 2 exceptions were, classic shell was deleted, fair enough given that the win 10 interface is the same (and pretty good really) and FITS4WIN2 (one of if not the most usefull astro apps ever made) which was fixed with installing the latest version, mine was old.

It might be the placibo effect, but win 10 seems smoother and faster than win 8.1, im well pleased with the upgrade.

[astroron (Ron)]

I have heard it takes a long time to download,does one have to watch it till it finishes or will it close down itself.
As it's so big I can only do it after midnight when I have plenty of bandwidth.
I am a bit hesitant in downloading it as there have been so many negative posts about it.
After reading Fred's post I thought I might go ahead,but am still not 100% sure.
Cheers

[RickS (Rick)]

I have upgraded 4 computers at home and only had minor teething problems, Ron. Some irritating problems with older Win 7 installations have gone away. Overall a net positive

The only computer I'm not upgrading yet is my imaging PC

Cheers,
Rick.

[PCH (Paul)]

I got W10 last night and so far so good. I like the classic view that looks very much like W7.

So far, everything is where it should be and nothing not working.

You just schedule the download, and for me it was all done by morning with the PC sat there waiting for a couple of setups.

[astroron (Ron)]

Thanks Guys
Cheers

[multiweb (Marc)]

Updated 3 laptops.

Bricked one. My boy salvaged it. Runs better than ever now.

Nearly bricked another one (my daughter's). Rolled back to win7 automatically so will try again (if she let's me within 10m of it)

And the third laptop (old TOSHIBA) wasn't compatible so no harm done (yet).
So far 100% failure rate.

Having said that my notebook flies now. Haven't plugged in the mount or any camera yet so I don't know about the various drivers.
With my current track record this week I'm a little apprehensive plugging any USB cables into it.

Might give it a couple of days when I decide my life is too simple again....

[michaellxv (Michael)]

I got a call from a friend the other day wanted me to check their computer. Turns out they might have caught and interupted the upgrade and now their pc won't boot.

We are in the process of backing their data before we try to undo the damage.

[luka]

The "good" news is that Micro$oft has today removed the dreaded X button which automatically scheduled the update and confused everybody.

Originally Posted by PCH

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We have a 3 licence copy of Office 2007 and an old version of MYOB which we have no reason to upgrade.
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Quickbooks 2012 cannot export to PDF since the Win10 upgrade. Not sure about MYOB.

Today win10 just decided to install updates at 11am, in the middle of the working day. I was typing an email when the screen suddenly changed to blue background with "installing updates" and then it rebooted. No forewarning, nothing at all. Had to retype the email.
So definitely change the automatic setting for updates to "notify".

And the main thing, go to privacy settings and disable everything.

[jwheel69 (Joe Wheelock)]

Originally Posted by tandum

i think this says it all.

[Hol_dan (Holly)]

I did the upgrade on my laptop and everything works well.....except now My external monitor is not working, when I use to close my laptop screen and had the external monitor plugged in the HDMI the external would just take over.

Also the laptop does not go into sleep mode by itself and there is no sleep option in the shutdown menu

T other then these it seems ok

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by Hol_dan

I did the upgrade on my laptop and everything works well.....except now My external monitor is not working, when I use to close my laptop screen and had the external monitor plugged in the HDMI the external would just take over.

Also the laptop does not go into sleep mode by itself and there is no sleep option in the shutdown menu

T other then these it seems ok

Funny you say that. I have exactly the same issue with an external monitor plugged into a HP laptop as a dual screen setup. I reckon display drivers are at fault. Also had a bit of fun finding compatible display drivers that worked for another TOSHIBA laptop.

Originally Posted by michaellxv

I got a call from a friend the other day wanted me to check their computer. Turns out they might have caught and interupted the upgrade and now their pc won't boot.

We are in the process of backing their data before we try to undo the damage.

The upgrade process seems fairly redundant. I had the same issue with an interrupted download that resumed, then installed then failed. It automatically rolled back to win7. I tried again, this time making sure I downloaded the whole ISO in one go and it worked.

Although I ended up to a blank screen after login. The windows explorer wasn't kicking in. So after a CTRL+ALT+DELETE and reboot I got in and no problem since then.

[N1 (Mirko)]

Originally Posted by PCH

We have a 3 licence copy of Office 2007 and an old version of MYOB which we have no reason to upgrade.

It appears you need the latest version of MYOB. Decided the cost of that was more than any improvement Win10 would heve given us, so out it went.

[PCH (Paul)]

Originally Posted by N1

It appears you need the latest version of MYOB. Decided the cost of that was more than any improvement Win10 would heve given us, so out it went.

Hi Mirko,

The MYOB is on an XP machine, so it doesn't qualify for a free upgrade anyway. But I agree with what you're saying - I wouldn't have bothered either!

[Exfso (Peter)]

Originally Posted by luka

The "good" news is that Micro$oft has today removed the dreaded X button which automatically scheduled the update and confused everybody.


Quickbooks 2012 cannot export to PDF since the Win10 upgrade. Not sure about MYOB.

Today win10 just decided to install updates at 11am, in the middle of the working day. I was typing an email when the screen suddenly changed to blue background with "installing updates" and then it rebooted. No forewarning, nothing at all. Had to retype the email.
So definitely change the automatic setting for updates to "notify".

And the main thing, go to privacy settings and disable everything.

As far as I know you cannot alter the setting to notify in windows 10 unless you have the top-end version and then it is only to defer non critical updates.
This is one of my pet hates about the damn OS.

[Visionoz (Bill)]

Originally Posted by Exfso

As far as I know you cannot alter the setting to notify in windows 10 unless you have the top-end version and then it is only to defer non critical updates.
This is one of my pet hates about the damn OS.

Try >this one< - it does somewhat allow you to "control" when you update - but you cannot avoid updating in W10 anyway so this helps to prevent what the another poster experienced ie the damned update doing its thing any old time it likes!!

HTH
Cheers
Bill

[Exfso (Peter)]

Thanks Bill, that is a handy site..