Windows 10 [Did you upgrade?]

[KisaiTenshi]

Yeaaaah I'm kind of wondering how Microsoft is going to like my license for Windows 8.1, since I got 8.0 for free from school and have no idea what my codes were at the time.

Right now I'm still getting the "we'll let you know when it's available!" message.

I think they're handing out upgrades to OEM's (eg HP, Dell, Sony, Acer) first, because those computers have the serial number written into the BIOS. I assembled my system myself and have a OEM Win 7 Ultimate License, but it's not a branded one, so it's still "we'll let you know what it's available" too.

I'm not opposed to just outright buying a new license should I build a new system, but I can't justify building a new system that will only be 10% faster then the existing one. (Mines the i7-4770 non-K, the only thing faster is a i7-4790k, the Intel Core i7-5930K is actually 20% slower per core despite having 2 more cores)

[Fyce]

Just a little warning for everyone: the key you get when updating to Windows 10 is some sort of OEM generic key.
Yes, even if you had a boxed version of Windows 7 or 8.1.

This means that if you change some parts from your PC, like the CPU, Motherboard or even HDD, the Windows 10 key might not be valid anymore.
You would have to go back to 7/8.1, change your hardware, and then go back to Windows 10 via the free update.

They might change that later down the line, but for now, that's how it works.

If you plan to do some upgrades, do the BEFORE updating to Windows 10.
(Be also careful of what kind of Win7/8.1 licence you have as it might becore invalid with new hardware if you have an OEM key.)

[Gilraen]

I'm not touching it even if Microsoft were to pay my a salary to use it. I don't like Windows, I hate Microsoft, I don't see the point. I was already forced into using Windows 7, I think I'll just keep it at that.

[AsteriaStarfall]

1. Right at the release time

2. No issues

3. Runs great, still the same 70-90FPS

4. None

5. Horrible, OS is slow and chunky. Takes 1.30-2 mins to boot to the login, where 8.1 would take 10 seconds to land me on the login screen, everything has delays, opening start menu takes 2-3 secs, every app takes 2-3 secs to start, even the calculator. 8.1 was everything instant 99% of the time. Reverting back to 8.1 today.

6. Did a clean install from the start, nothing saved, format etc etc.

And i know its not my system. 8.1 ran perfectly flawless. If anything it feels like a downgrade to 7 again, with XP boot times.

For future reference: i7-4790@4.0Ghz; 8GB 1600MHz; GTX960; 2x500GB 7200RPM HDD

The problem will be not with your system hardware but the software itself. I deployed Windows 10 to all employee computers today at work, still waiting on some of them to get back to me on whether it finished or not, but it is lunch time.

Only one so far had to be re-installed as clean, and as it turned out it was the Bit Defender antivirus on the system causing lockups. Windows Defender is on by default after the upgrade and it may conflict with an antivirus on your system. You should try disabling or uninstalling any antivirus programs before the upgrade. Then reinstall after.

[Bishop81]

5. Horrible, OS is slow and chunky. Takes 1.30-2 mins to boot to the login, where 8.1 would take 10 seconds to land me on the login screen, everything has delays, opening start menu takes 2-3 secs, every app takes 2-3 secs to start, even the calculator. 8.1 was everything instant 99% of the time. Reverting back to 8.1 today.

Did you defrag after the upgrade?

[Myric]

Everything went fine with the upgrade except that it deleted the files needed for the feature to go back to windows 7. The game seemed the same, but the benchmark scored lower. I'll be going back to 7 because 10 doesn't seem done yet and missing some features. I can't pin to start menu, windows open wherever they want instead of the last place I had them, and I had to turn off about 20 privacy options because Microsoft wants to know all of your business now. There are some other issues, but as a whole win 10 is just "meh".

[Akira]

yeah i have had none of those issues windows 10 feels just as fast as 8.1 did if not faster

[Sensual]

words

I did a clean install as in no programs, no personal data or anything left behind, wiped the whole partition. I do have bitdefender, but i made sure to disable windows defender, i'll try unninstalling it to see how it goes. Still dont think that would affect the inital boot.

Did you defrag after the upgrade?

No need to defrag after formatting, there's just a bunch of nothing to re-organize

[UltimateAoe2]

Anyone that has a GTX 970, have you experienced any graphics driver crashes? Seems like it'll only crash if FF and chrome is on at the same time.

[Fortified]

Anyone that has a GTX 970, have you experienced any graphics driver crashes? Seems like it'll only crash if FF and chrome is on at the same time.

Did you install the Windows 10 driver?