Windows 10 [Did you upgrade?]

[Myric]

You can't use the word "ugly" on this forum? O.... K....

lol now you're just trolling. More like sh*tty

[sirDarts]

lol now you're just trolling. More like sh*tty

Shitty and crappy are both pretty much the same words. Both imply that the thing is BAD. Thus both are wrong if you want to describe something as ugly.

[Myric]

Shitty and crappy are both pretty much the same words. Both imply that the thing is BAD. Thus both are wrong if you want to describe something as ugly.

Ugly=bad. You're such a troll. I don't even know who you are anymore. You've changed man.

[AndyTheGeeky]

I upgraded from Windows 8.1 Pro N to Windows 10 Pro N two days ago. The only issue was that I needed to reinstall my Nvidia graphics drivers.

FFXIV would not start initially, but installing the Media Feature Pack for N and KN versions of Windows 10 fixed it. Seeing as N and KN versions have been around since XP days, I'd call that shoddy programming on SE's part.

DX11 seems to work fine with no noticeable changes.

Windows 10 seems better than stock Win8.1, but possibly worse than Win8.1 with the third-party Start8 start menu - I needed to manually add my system-wide start menu to the indexing service to get search to work for those programs.

I am prepared for a clean reinstall, but I don't think it'll be necessary. It seems to start up slower, but otherwise seems just as fast as Win8.1.

[Amiantos]

For those who are thinking of installing W10. Read this and then think again about your choice.
http://imgur.com/gallery/8OJ4t

[TitaniaZero]

I believe that is wrong, but since I cannot locate that piece of information that told me, that if I change my hardware in any way that I can do that up to 10 times, I'll just have to nod my head and disagree.

But whatever floats everyone else's boat. I'm happy with my choice.

[Seig345]

For those who are thinking of installing W10. Read this and then think again about your choice.
http://imgur.com/gallery/8OJ4t

I've heard about this before pertaining to OEM copies of Windows, but I've only heard that it's locked to the motherboard/processor. I've swapped out graphics cards and ram several times on both computers I've assembled myself with OEM copies of windows, and have never had the OS suddenly invalidate itself over it.

At the same time, the deal is that the first year after W10's launch, any machine running Windows 7, 8, or 8.1 can upgrade to W10 for free. That doesn't mean you can move the upgrade to a new machine as many times as you like even after that 1 year period is up. I'm still fairly sure though that you're not likely to find yourself stuck with downgrading to your previous version of windows over a stick of ram or a graphics card.

[wicked-one]

/doubleposted

[wicked-one]

I could not leave Hand´s and Upgraded.


On my PC, it really went well, but due to the reactivation with hardware exchange... lets see how this works out (it´s not news anyways)
Game overall performance seems increased, Menu´s popping up more undelayed etc...

Downsides are the immense data-gathering it does, and it somewhat overrules the user, what is up to be seen in produktive state on my work notebook. this lack of control made me stick to xp long time, every OS released more and more hides what it is doing from it´s user, making it hard to troubleshoot.

Which i needed to clean reinstall, after Cisco VPN Client messed up the Network settings, and a rollback to 7 failed it even more, so i had to do a clean setup again.
what still annoys me is i cant use the energy saving mode/closing the notebook - because at restart, the graphics driver fails, resulting in a BSOD end reboot.

ill give intel/hp some weeks to fix that, shoudl have known not to upgrade day-1

for my PC, ill stick with it i guess, dx12 making it mandatory for gamers anyway.

with my notebook, ill see how it works out with all my 3rd party software and networking tools, might consider setting up win7 again...

[Whiteprincess]

Love win 10. Stuff loads fast. My old problem is something Is making mine freeze forever until a hard reset. It happens zero to 5 times a day so far.