I've been using Wins 10 now for a few weeks. Its quite good overall.
One minor complaint is that grabbing a window to move it sometimes has quite a lag before it will let you move it. I think there are more complicated ways of moving windows and this perhaps is slowing down the basic action of grabbing a window by its top frame and moving it. It can take up to 30 seconds to let you move it. i7 laptop.
..grabbing a window by its top frame and moving it. It can take up to 30 seconds to let you move it. i7 laptop.
Whoa, that's not normal! I get zero lag when doing anything like that on the 4 boxes I use running Win10.
Are you using a Wacom? that can cause a lag with clicking unless you turn off the "Windows Ink" thing in the Wacom settings.
Maybe check you haven't got some weird settings in the "Pen and Touch" section of the control panel. Perhaps it's something to do with RMB emulation on long click, or something to do with "Flicks"...?
Upgraded to 10 on both wife's computers (one was 8, one was 7). No issues whatsoever, and every piece of software works - seeing I use the wife's backup laptop primarily as my astro computer (my laptop is for work), I tried MaxIM, PI, PS 5.1 and PS 6, Lightroom, Nebulosity, PHD 1 and 2 and so on - no glitches, all working, including daytime ASCOM slews, image captures etc. No issues to report at all.
Less memory intensive as 8, and seems to run smoother than 7. Total upgrade took an hour from start to finish. No errors during setup. The only non-compatibility it reported was no touch screen, which is standard anyway.
Pretty happy with Win 10 so far - seems like a cleaner 7, and a WELCOME departure from Android/Apple-esque 8 (which was a complete nightmare system!).
Not sure I will go to 10 yet on my own laptop - will keep using the wife's for a while to see if I will. I did reserve my copy in my 7 machine, but not installing JUST yet
For me, the Win 7 to Win 10 transition was a breeze. Two tiny issues:
(1) It did the 3.3GB download without telling me (after promising that it would let me know first) and I was a bit startled when my modem went through a gigabyte in 20 minutes for no apparent reason. (Virus spray at the ready).
(2) My ancient copy of Borland C++ compiler, not supported for at least 10 years, needed reinstalling from the original disc but worked fine.
All of my own written-by-me .NET 4.5 C-sharp code just worked. Nothing to touch.
Incredibly, venerable code written by me using Borland C++ for scope and camera control and using near-real-time multimedia callback stuff that was marked as "deprecated" ten years ago, also just worked.
ImageCraft ICCV8 for AVR cross-compiler just worked. This compiles the hard real time stuff for the micro-controllers that run the mount, scope, dome, focus, generator shutdown, etc.
Anyway, I have a Macbook Pro for years, and use Windows only casually on it for apps like Deepskystacker due to lack of suitable OSX apps for stacking.
And all in a VMware session under VMware Fusion. I upgraded the Win 8.1 guest to Win 10 without a glitch. So I did not need the VMware snapshot before installing W10.
And now DSS runs nicely in the Win10 VMware with ... only 1GB allocated (the Mac having 8GB) in which I already stacked several astrophotos !
a number of users that were still running Windows 7 on their PCs had been forced to upgrade to Windows 10, with Windows Update providing no other option than to restart the computer and start the install.
Just found an oddity with Win10 - some of my CCDStack functions are GONE, and MaxIM has reverted to an un-registered state (and I cannot recall my details for registration!). Weird. Might just reload them entirely.
I notice on my windows 7 machine if I click on updates, I get the message that Windows 10 is available for download. There is no way that I know of to hide this notification, anyone have any ideas. I do not want this damn Windows 10 until it has been de-bugged.
Two weeks ago nuked the Toshiba i7 Win8.1 lappy back to factory reset and then installed Win 10. So far its running without any issues and its quick. No issues SkyX Pro, Maxim 5, CCD Soft, or any Astro programmes I reloaded
I notice on my windows 7 machine if I click on updates, I get the message that Windows 10 is available for download. There is no way that I know of to hide this notification, anyone have any ideas. I do not want this damn Windows 10 until it has been de-bugged.
Win10 installed itself on my Win7 lappy. It ran like a bag of pus until I uninstalled it. I get occasional messages about upgrading and when I update Win7,it hasn't reinstalled Win10, so far.
My Win10 upgrade from Win8.1 has been troublefree so far.
I notice on my windows 7 machine if I click on updates, I get the message that Windows 10 is available for download. There is no way that I know of to hide this notification, anyone have any ideas. I do not want this damn Windows 10 until it has been de-bugged.
Chris, I uninstalled update KB3035583 ages ago, it made no difference. It originally got rid of the windows 10 icon on the task bar, all was ok, or at least I thought it was. Now I am getting this damn advice. I am pretty sure it came with one of the more recent updates, but Microsoft floods us with them and I have no idea which one may be the culprit.
Well, that was a short honeymoon. About 2 weeks at a rough count. I just had to do a full restore because Windows 10 announced it had a Critical Error and Cortana and the Start Menu would not load. How good is that? My system had begun to be a bit flaky ever since I loaded Win 10 - 2 or 3 instances when it reported errors and required restarts. Several times, I have been unable to get the Start Menu to respond to a left-click and at first I thought maybe it's using all its (i7 8 cores) power doing something or other and so let it pass. Last night It happened again but I was able to get it to respond to a right-click only. And today - neither would answer the call. So that was that for me.
I haven't enjoyed the Windows 10 trip I'm afraid. Not one bit. It reminds me of being in a Vegas Casino - all bling and flashing lights. And always, it seems, I have to sign in to Microsoft for this and that. Well, that's me outa here.
Peter
FWIW - just had a similar experience with a variety of malfunctions on my i7 machine (worst being no search function). However, my Win10 worked very nicely for a while and only started playing up well after the amnesty period - so I couldn't get back to Win8.1.
Eventually got so bad that it was only randomly starting up in a usable mode and I was getting close to having a brick with no way to restore a functioning OS. So, the last time it managed to start up in a reasonably usable state I ran reset. That removed all installed apps and I have just been through the painful process of re-installing all of my astro software (and everything else). Now have my fingers crossed in the hope that re-installation of apps will work properly and that this version of Win10 will be reliable.
Although the Win8.1 UI experience was as endearing as a toothache, at least the system was stable. The Win10 experience has not been a good one so far and it is not comforting to be running an operating system that I do not trust.
