Gnarly Gnu Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 I always stay one operating system behind but with Windows 10 going past 8 im staying two behind with Windows 7, a lot of organisations are doing the same an upgrading from xp to 7. That seems a bit silly, I found 8.1 to be faster & more reliable than 7. Not in a rush to update to 10, maybe next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbo Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 That seems a bit silly, I found 8.1 to be faster & more reliable than 7. Not in a rush to update to 10, maybe next year. Has a lot to do with being more user friendly and also software compatibility. There are skins for Windows 8 that make it look like Windows 7 such as the below but it all comes to giving them time to iron out the bugs and also the compatibility of sofware. http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fly_tornado Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 so windows 10 started playing up, it had halved the battery life on my netbook. boy I had forgotten how quickly win8 boots up. installed classic shell and now it looks and runs a lot like win7. I had forgotten what a clumsy mess of icons and tiles win8 was. what where M$ thinking? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pearo Posted September 6, 2015 Share Posted September 6, 2015 FWIW, I have the pro version of win 10. I was using a 3 modem the other day when the thought occured to me that windows has a nasty habbit of downloading updates and chewing up my data allowance. So I decided I better tell it not to download updates without my permission and... No can do. cant see an option to prevent automatic downloads, just an option to prevent automatic installation of the updates. Annoying. Have not tried to find a work around yet, but I am sure its possible somehow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbo Posted September 6, 2015 Share Posted September 6, 2015 If you read back through the topic you will see that discussed earlier. It is not possible to stop this in windows 10. Only way to block all updates is to block the microsoft update servers within the hosts file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ozzie Posted September 6, 2015 Share Posted September 6, 2015 And i can bet that as a new OS it will be loaded with huge updates for months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fly_tornado Posted September 6, 2015 Share Posted September 6, 2015 win8 is running gr8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nightmare1 Posted September 6, 2015 Share Posted September 6, 2015 windows 10 is terrible for what it is. not recommended to anyone till they sort out the bugs. Its hard to see how MS can release such bad o/s year after year and still make a profit I believe Win 10 has been in beta for at least a year, so a lot of the bugs would have been addressed. It's a free upgrade if you have Win 7 or 8, I'm still waiting for my turn to download, so I wait in anxious grimace. My wife has it with no issues, so does 2 of my step sons again with no issues. One of them was participating in the beta process. He was very positive about the new OS, well before they released it. I think the secret with computers is, if you have an old computer, it will run best with an older OS, if you have a newer computer it'll run great with the latest OS as the latest OS is designed around the new hardware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fly_tornado Posted September 6, 2015 Share Posted September 6, 2015 what put me off win10 was it just sucked the guts out of the battery. 5hrs of win8 versus 2.5hrs of win1o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pearo Posted September 6, 2015 Share Posted September 6, 2015 If you read back through the topic you will see that discussed earlier. It is not possible to stop this in windows 10. Only way to block all updates is to block the microsoft update servers within the hosts file. Funny you should say that, because that is exactly what I had in the back of my mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ozzie Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 spent all last night downloading and installing W10. seems to work OK except I can't play my music un compatible message. VLC player keeps crashing grrr i'll give it a few days then may go back to old version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yenn Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 Still using XL and the only bad thing about it is the window that pops up whenever I start it saying install W10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrZoos Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 its horrible..glitchy and absolutely hates chrome.. the installation process for me was smooth... i will persist, but i HATE it so far my fan runs full speed all the time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kasper Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 I moved the two laptops from 7pro and 8 to 10 through download at a public web point (save my home bandwidth) ... then watched the entire months 21gb of home data get gobbled up in 10 days of the damn win10 updates ... rolled back to the old OS and suddenly the months data lasts a month. Outcome - Simple update process and mostly fault free BUT far too many HUGE bug patches and you cannot stop it downloading them ... though I believe of the the patches AFTER I rolled back now allows the use to chose to download and apply patches - may return in a year or two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdseye Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 Still using XL and the only bad thing about it is the window that pops up whenever I start it saying install W10 You can remove that update and get rid of the 'nag'. I forget the update number, but a Google will bring it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazza 38 Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 Interesting, I have been using 10 for a few weeks and it has been working fine. Although I don't use chrome. Having said all this, I dont use my laptop much, I am always using my Ipad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ozzie Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 I moved the two laptops from 7pro and 8 to 10 through download at a public web point (save my home bandwidth) ... then watched the entire months 21gb of home data get gobbled up in 10 days of the damn win10 updates ... rolled back to the old OS and suddenly the months data lasts a month. Outcome - Simple update process and mostly fault free BUT far too many HUGE bug patches and you cannot stop it downloading them ... though I believe of the the patches AFTER I rolled back now allows the use to chose to download and apply patches - may return in a year or two. around 500mb plus in background downloads today. i'm on 15gb wireless per month so this can't go on if it keeps happening then out it goes. not real impressed nothing special for me with this OS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nightmare1 Posted October 6, 2015 Share Posted October 6, 2015 I migrated to Win 10 a few weeks ago. I started getting program crashes and weird things happening like my sound world randomly stop. I figured that Win10 does not automatically update your drivers. After updating my video and sound drivers, plus whatever else I could think of, Win10 is finally running a whole lot better, probably better than Win8.1 that I migrated from. I use chrome with no problem, if you're having a problem, check that you have the latest plugins, older ones designed for Win8 could cause problems I can't play my music un compatible message. VLC player keeps crashing grrr i'll give it a few days then may go back to old version. I would maybe suggest checking your video drivers... careful though, if you are using a laptop, get the video drivers from your laptop manufacturers site not the video card site, there is a difference! Eg: If you have a ASUS laptop with a NVidia card, go to the ASUS site. Update your latest sound card driver from Device Manager. That should fix your VLC and music problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrZoos Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 My saga continued...i finally snapped and rolled back to 8.1. Bad move it kilss virtually every 3rd party executable path...took about 6 safe boots to get running ... Then i eventually had to reinstall the horrible wi dows 10 to get the thing running againg This fixed half the third party software Still had to reinstall Norton, Chrome and several others... Around 20 hours later its runing fine, but still no where near as good as 8.1 which was virtually perfect for its duration Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrZoos Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 My advice dont do it...if you do either create a full disk image first if you know how or at the minimum a restore point and make sure you back up EVERYTHING carefully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbo Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 Don't you have the windows 8 recovery dvd's that came with the machine? Or if its a laptop did you create your recovery dvd's? There should be a hidden partition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrZoos Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 Na mine didnt come with any but i made a bootable usb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrZoos Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 The scary thing is Im an IT whiz, this must be horendous for most people Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbo Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 Should have a recovery partition. I prefer to fresh install operating systems instead of upgrading. Prevents the problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fly_tornado Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 yeah i just hit the old reinstall old operating system from within windows 10: painless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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