The Windows 10 Free Upgrade

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I had a friend over yesterday, and I was telling him about the Windows 10 upgrades I did.

He stated that at the last job he worked at three months ago, there were three guys in their office, and each had a Windows 10 computer. And that Windows 10 drove him batty - things that he could do in 10 seconds in Windows 7 was taking him 5 frustrating minutes trying to figure out how to do in Windows 10.

I said - "But Windows 10 is easy - hardly any different from using Windows 7 - you just right-click on the Start button, and lots of the Windows 7 commands that you are used to show up."

He looked at me dumbfounded - "How come nobody told me this before!"
Cheers,
Renato

That's in part what I don't get. If you need to 'fool' or work around Win10 to get things to look and behave like Win7, why change?

BTW this morning I got the 'free upgrade to Win10 before the end of July' message thing. At least I'll only have the annoying message - which I assume will appear every time on boot-up - for a week or so.
 
On my main PC I upgraded to Win 10.
I now seem to have trouble burning discs, Windows Movie Maker does not seem as good as it was on 7 (making slideshows from photos), get some other error that causes the machine to hang after an update. I forget what the actual message is but Googling it only shows other users have the same issue with no known solution.

At work I still use XP and I'm happy with it although my computer guy cringes.
My 2 laptops also have Win 10.
 
That's in part what I don't get. If you need to 'fool' or work around Win10 to get things to look and behave like Win7, why change?

BTW this morning I got the 'free upgrade to Win10 before the end of July' message thing. At least I'll only have the annoying message - which I assume will appear every time on boot-up - for a week or so.

The only real reason to change is to add life to the computer.

Though I had another reason - my wife's computer was slowing down with CPU usage at 100% a lot of the time, due to the computer trying to get Svchost Netsvcs to work - a common problem apparently, though Google didn't provide any answers that worked to solve the problem. The upgrade fixed it.
Regards,
Renato
 
On my main PC I upgraded to Win 10.
I now seem to have trouble burning discs, Windows Movie Maker does not seem as good as it was on 7 (making slideshows from photos), get some other error that causes the machine to hang after an update. I forget what the actual message is but Googling it only shows other users have the same issue with no known solution.

At work I still use XP and I'm happy with it although my computer guy cringes.
My 2 laptops also have Win 10.

First thing you can do is go into the Program File folders of the troublesome programs, right-click on all the .exe ones, clcik properties, go to Compatibilty mode and set to Windows 7.

If that doesn't work, check the program manufacturer's site and see if there are any Windows 10 updates/patches.

Also check the drivers of the DVD writers, and the manufacturer's site to see if there are firmware updates for Windows 10 on the DVD writer. And that the unit's driver is actually installed and working, and the Windows 10 hasn't replaced them with a generic driver (if not, try reinstall the original driver in Windows 7 Compatibility mode).

Good luck.
Renato
 
Not a fan of Windows 10... From my experience the OS is very data hungry... Not a issue of using ADSL type connections but if you mainly use mobile data connections could be a reason you go over your data limits
 
Finally got the update through last night on the 6th attempt by using the Microsoft Web page to initiate the upgrade, not the task bar nagging app.

Removed AVG, Acronis an a few other things. Disconnected all peripherals other than keyboard, monitor and mouse.

Downloaded and burned .ISO image into DVD, disconnected PC from internet and ran upgrade from DVD. This finished after 2½ hours.

(Each failed attempt took 5+ hours - I was doing this over two weeks.)

Now have all systems transferred, although one netbook is having an issue with the lack of a Symantek 3600 Graphics driver for windows 10.
 
Not a fan of Windows 10... From my experience the OS is very data hungry... Not a issue of using ADSL type connections but if you mainly use mobile data connections could be a reason you go over your data limits

I haven't found this on mine. I used to have an Optus 3G dongle when on Win7, but gave it up and just use my phone as a hotspot now with Win10. Doesn't chew my data at all, even when using it to VPN to my office to access files etc. Win 10 seems a happy compromise with traditional windows interface and tiled display. I use a Toshiba Kira laptop that came with Win8 from memory, and then I upgraded to Win 8.1, but happier with Win 10.
 
Not a fan of Windows 10... From my experience the OS is very data hungry... Not a issue of using ADSL type connections but if you mainly use mobile data connections could be a reason you go over your data limits
There's an option to mark a connection as mobile to limit data usage. GIYF
 
Finally got the update through last night on the 6th attempt by using the Microsoft Web page to initiate the upgrade, not the task bar nagging app.

Removed AVG, Acronis an a few other things. Disconnected all peripherals other than keyboard, monitor and mouse.

Downloaded and burned .ISO image into DVD, disconnected PC from internet and ran upgrade from DVD. This finished after 2½ hours.

(Each failed attempt took 5+ hours - I was doing this over two weeks.)

Now have all systems transferred, although one netbook is having an issue with the lack of a Symantek 3600 Graphics driver for windows 10.

Phew, that was a lot of work!

Get the Symantek 3600 Graphics driver for Windows 7, click on the exe file that installs it, go to properties, and put it in Compatibility Mode for Windows 7. That has worked on all my computers with their graphics drivers - even when one of them initially gave an error message.
Regards,
Renato
 
Anniversary update being pushed through now.

Got it yesterday - seems to be no dramas so far. Did take quite a long time to finish, however.

A few minor UI changes here or there. I wish Skype Preview didn't pop up automatically, but after the next reboot it seemed to have calmed down without further intervention.
 
Phew, that was a lot of work!

Get the Symantek 3600 Graphics driver for Windows 7, click on the exe file that installs it, go to properties, and put it in Compatibility Mode for Windows 7. That has worked on all my computers with their graphics drivers - even when one of them initially gave an error message. ...
Nup, that did not work, I'll keep trying by may have to revert to Win7.
 
The Windows 10 upgrade has been great on our desktop computer (where the Acronis 12 imager ensures it will stay great), but earlier tonight I pulled out my Toshiba Netbook which I use on trips, as we're off to Brisbane for a week.

I thought I should fire the Netbook up and let the updates take place here, rather than at the hotel.
All was fine, the antivirus and Skype updated themselves, and then my CPU hit 100%, running amok with the dreaded "svchost.exe-k netsvcs" problem, which has dozens of solutions on Google - none of which seem to work.

I had had that problem on an XP computer, and sort of overcame it by using Process Explorer to set a low priority for that process, and then to kill it. So I tried doing the same on the Netbook, only I couldn't do it because Windows 10 wouldn't let Process Explorer adjust the priority or kill the process, as it had in XP.

So I was exasperated - the netbook was stuffed, and it was several months since I did the upgrade, and it was supposed to be impossible to roll back to Windows 7 after a month has elapsed. But then I saw the Old Windows files still listed in the C-drive directory. So, I tried the roll-back to Windows 7, and it worked.

The "svchost.exe-k netsvcs" problem was still there (which it hadn't been before I did the Windows 10 upgrade), but I killed it off with Process Explorer, and the Netbook has been working fine since then.

So that was a good thing about Windows 10 - for some unknown reason, it did let me go back to Windows 7 much later than was supposedly allowed.
Regards,
Renato
 
Did you try running process explorer as an "Elevated"/"Administrator" task?

Other than that it was interesting you could roll back.
 
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