Windows 10

[Cupz]

Got yer nose! Its just a silly theme.

[Aerial Boundaries]

Oh haha.

[Negamuse]

My wife just tried upgrading her laptop from 8.1 to 10. Worked for 10 minutes, crashed, and its now stuck in a loop where it tries to repair, fails and reboots. Wont safe boot, revert to a save point, and even full recover wont work.

No optical drive and 8 was preinstalled so now we have to find the 10 license key from somewhere, make a bootable usb stick and hope.

My IT guru mate's machine died with a blue message "something happened". Uh huh.

So really buggy as Vista is... putting my ilok key in causes random memory leaks in the kernel being the worst one... I think Ill stick with it.

[Mexicola]

And this is why I'm happy to be a johnny-come-lately rather than an early adopter.

Good luck man. That sucks.

[vballs]

lol vballs, is that how well its going?

haha still haven't tried it yet, I was just curious... Im being incredibly lazy, I hope no one from work ever reads this but ive now realised I simply cant be bothered.. err at the moment.

[Techboy]

yeah, I'd do a clean install tbh, upgrades never go well. But if you have a license key for windows 8 on the laptop then you can do a clean install of that first - and then upgrade (using clean install option) from Win8 to win10 for free. Had to do that to my work PC, else it just fialed with "something happened" too haha.

[Jonse]

Not voted because: How dare you use apple and linux in the same scentence. 99% linux purist, microsoft can go eat his own shitty asshole. Made the jump after seeing the unholy abomination that is Windows 8 and never looked back. Don't even get me started on apple... The best argument I heard for macbooks is that their powersocket has a magnet. Still aint worth the thousands of moneys for crappy hardware and malware infested operating system.

I run xp on a limited virtual computer for some white hat sandboxing and sony vegas for when jonse is here and we want to dub a movie in less then a week.

"Flies, man...I hate fuckin' fat flies..."

[Cupz]

Their rate of reproduction is frightning I must say.

[FernieCanto]

The download is not yet available for me, but I'm really hoping I can do a successful upgrade without having to do a clean install. I'm not looking forward to formatting my hard drive, having to reinstall all the shit I have

[Cupz]

Plz backup. Don't lose any of yer songs!

[Jonse]

Their rate of reproduction is frightning I must say.

"They reproduce..."

[Lens Larque]

Snappy as all get-out. Hell stories seem to be lousy laptop related.

Those running bizarre OS -- what are you guys hiding from?

[Aerial Boundaries]

'bizarre OS'

Which are you referring to?

[BuShPuPpEt0]

Working just fine for me, took two hours to download, install and update drivers. Was dragging ass after everything but it is starting to pick up. However, I will be one to say, I miss Windows 8.

[747Music]

Windows 10 is up and running on my PC. I upgraded from 7. So far it's been a good experience. The upgrade installed problem free.

I saved my pennies for a while and I recently upgraded my PC with some fancy new guts. I can't wait to see what DirectX 12 will bring.

On Windows 7, my video card drivers would crash somewhat often. With Windows 10 having been installed for nearly 2 weeks now, I haven't had a single crash yet. And with all the stock drivers that are built into Windows 10, my PC runs smooth as butter. And I never knew my mobo has bluetooth built in until Windows 10 recognized it and automatically installed drivers for it.

I've heard that if you have a facebook/twitter/google+/etc. account there are some security concerns regarding privacy in Windows 10. I'm not sure exactly what the problem is, something about the system being too trusting, but I don't use those things, so it doesn't bother me.

[Josh]

I had no issues upgrading from 8 on my desktop computer. I haven't really dug deep, but so far it feels more like 7, which is a good thing. Win 8 on a desktop was annoying as hell.

[portiss]

So, if laptops can run Windows 7 pretty well, can they run Windows 10 without problems as well?

I'm thinking about switching to 10, but am not quite certain if I can run it on my mini laptop.

I'll post the specs here later.

[vballs]

Windows 7 requirements

1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor

1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)

16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)

DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

Windows 10 requirements

1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster processor or SoC

1 gigabyte (GB) RAM for 32-bit or 2 GB for 64-bit

16 GB hard disk space for 32-bit OS 20 GB for 64-bit OS

DirectX 9 Graphics device or later with WDDM 1.0 driver
Display: 800x600

Well looks like the system requirements are the same so it should run fine. You would need a lot of spare hard drive space to do the upgrade though.

[FernieCanto]

I just made the upgrade. Aside from having to reinstall graphics and audio drivers, things went smoothly, and everything seems to be in order.

[Mexicola]

Yeah upgraded yesterday. Touch wood, seems to be working fine...

Just wish the stupid 'Upgrade now' app they installed hadn't wasted a couple of hours of my life giving me a blank dialogue box before I realised the upgrade was already Sa there waiting to install. Grrr!