Rocking the free upgrade to Windows 10
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Installed quick,
nothing borked (as in all my software - some old, some new - still works)
seems to have turbo charged my system a whole bunch
and best of all ...
it was free.
nothing borked (as in all my software - some old, some new - still works)
seems to have turbo charged my system a whole bunch
and best of all ...
it was free.
that has a good understanding of computer systems to give their views on the upgrade to Win10. The same upgrade has been offered to me but I've waited to pull the trigger based on some www reviews. Thanks for the input!
I was waiting for a guinea pig that has a good understanding of computer systems to give their views on the upgrade to Win10. The same upgrade has been offered to me but I've waited to pull the trigger based on some www reviews. Thanks for the input!
that has a good understanding of computer systems to give their views on the upgrade to Win10. The same upgrade has been offered to me but I've waited to pull the trigger based on some www reviews. Thanks for the input!
Updating my notebook next ...
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Just found out that Internet Explorer is still intact, just hidden from plain view.
It's easy to search it and pin it back on the task bar.
They are pushing this new browser called 'Edge'. It's only useful in tablet mode from what I can tell.
Doesn't matter much to me as IE 11 is still there and all my previous bookmarks and such were retained.
One other thing worth noting,
you can do the full install of Win X and try it out.
If you don't like it and/or you have some critical programs that no longer work,
you can easily one-click go back to where you were before. Painlessly.
It's easy to search it and pin it back on the task bar.
They are pushing this new browser called 'Edge'. It's only useful in tablet mode from what I can tell.
Doesn't matter much to me as IE 11 is still there and all my previous bookmarks and such were retained.
One other thing worth noting,
you can do the full install of Win X and try it out.
If you don't like it and/or you have some critical programs that no longer work,
you can easily one-click go back to where you were before. Painlessly.
You can Google Windows 10 recovery download and get right to a Microsoft webpage that gives you the option to
download what is called a recovery media creator. That small program doesn't only do that but it also gives you
the ability to install - in place - as an upgrade to the machine it is running on. I also used it to create a USB
thumb drive to make an install package for my other machines.
You can skirt the "reservation" thing all together ...
download what is called a recovery media creator. That small program doesn't only do that but it also gives you
the ability to install - in place - as an upgrade to the machine it is running on. I also used it to create a USB
thumb drive to make an install package for my other machines.
You can skirt the "reservation" thing all together ...
Yeah I found other ways to get 10, but I only run my computers from 7pm till 10pm weekdays so I probably miss the window of opportunity during the week. Besides I want to make a clone of my win 7/8 drives before I let MS screw with them. I just don't trust MS to completely be able to undo/revert anything properly. 
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Let's put it tis way...
I have THREE working computers at the moment, and one that is an XP box a friend is supposed to be buying that is ready to go and not capable of going past 7.
I have three monitors, two that are semi-flaky (not enough Crisco man) and I can get one back up okay for now by turning it off again a few times as it sits there are blinks for a fraction of a second during startup, yet the on screen display says Monitor going to sleep without any problems. I suspect something drifting out of spec there and it's on Valerie, the other Micron that is still up at the moment. It's an HP vf15 small standard aspect, the third is an Envision 15"? standard aspect.
So that leaves me with a Gateway using Vista/IE 9 and a dual core Pentium 2.60 GHz that I'd love to use a 64 bit builder's disc for 7 on but for the licensing costing me 150 dollars at the computer shop.
Now, I can troubleshoot monitor problems and video card troubles to a point...and I can reset IE and build back up with some thought but I've got my best computer sitting here waiting to be hogtied by a download that could be handled by a DVD in under an hour regarding the installation, and be done within the day for updating (especially with 7), and I could do that with 4 computers at once.
FREE is not really free if it takes so much time. You're still talking about the same thing no matter which download option you take. Not everyone has the kind of speed that would make this DL comparable to a DVD install. It would seem like 14.4 kbps to some of us. And I haven't really heard a lot about any Blu-Ray ROM discs, which would seem to make for a lot easier and faster loading, IF you could place separate data streams on each layer and multiplex the read.
There are more twists and turns, misinformation and DISinformation out there than it seems to be worth at some times. No wonder it just confuses and vexes so many. No doubt it feels like being taken by a unethical mechanic or a quack to some of them. A computer is a box to them, like a car.
I have THREE working computers at the moment, and one that is an XP box a friend is supposed to be buying that is ready to go and not capable of going past 7.
I have three monitors, two that are semi-flaky (not enough Crisco man) and I can get one back up okay for now by turning it off again a few times as it sits there are blinks for a fraction of a second during startup, yet the on screen display says Monitor going to sleep without any problems. I suspect something drifting out of spec there and it's on Valerie, the other Micron that is still up at the moment. It's an HP vf15 small standard aspect, the third is an Envision 15"? standard aspect.
So that leaves me with a Gateway using Vista/IE 9 and a dual core Pentium 2.60 GHz that I'd love to use a 64 bit builder's disc for 7 on but for the licensing costing me 150 dollars at the computer shop.
Now, I can troubleshoot monitor problems and video card troubles to a point...and I can reset IE and build back up with some thought but I've got my best computer sitting here waiting to be hogtied by a download that could be handled by a DVD in under an hour regarding the installation, and be done within the day for updating (especially with 7), and I could do that with 4 computers at once.
FREE is not really free if it takes so much time. You're still talking about the same thing no matter which download option you take. Not everyone has the kind of speed that would make this DL comparable to a DVD install. It would seem like 14.4 kbps to some of us. And I haven't really heard a lot about any Blu-Ray ROM discs, which would seem to make for a lot easier and faster loading, IF you could place separate data streams on each layer and multiplex the read.
There are more twists and turns, misinformation and DISinformation out there than it seems to be worth at some times. No wonder it just confuses and vexes so many. No doubt it feels like being taken by a unethical mechanic or a quack to some of them. A computer is a box to them, like a car.
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I got the Get Windows 10 icon on the Micron (Valerie) but it complains about my Geforce 6200. Not sure I have one that works with 10 and the main suggestion is to install the driver before them installation at this point based on NVidia posters. But not the 6200 and not even the 7800GTX I gather.
No guarantee that it will install and the computer is from 2003. Maybe Microsoft is dumb.
No guarantee that it will install and the computer is from 2003. Maybe Microsoft is dumb.
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Close to 1/3 of the way through with preparing for installation