Windows 10 question

in my opinion, you need to spend a good few hours personalizing/configuring Windows 10. After that, it's great.
Also, PinMore is a must

Ok, here we go....
Been playing with my pc all evening.
Everything seemed to be working fine, until my internet connection dropped. I couldnt get it working, but it did work the first time I started win10.
Anyway, advice was to do a clean install so I did.
Everything fine, games seem to work, programs seem to work. Doesnt look too bad and its fast.
The most of the time I spent on is configuring my shared folders so my Popcorn Hour can see them and stream the files to my tv.
I cant get it to work. I will get there, I hope, I had problems getting it to work with win7 but eventually figured it out. So fingers crossed.
I got some good exercise though, tv is downstairs, pc is at the attic.
Thanks for all the input, I will read last additions tomorrow, I need some sleep;)

Win 10 is ok but for better stability wee need wait for SP1 ;)
And MS give free Killer Instinct * on MS store for anyone on Win 10 :)
If you want go for Win 10 make clean install updating from Win 7 to Win 10 generate a lot bugs :(

i switched to Win10 in their alpha testing period, haven't regretted it once - only good experiences here

Games and other programs ran smoothly when I had my laptop that I upgraded to Win 10. If privacy is a concern, then stay with Win 7 or Win 8.1 by all means. To me, I think privacy has been long gone - first significance is the Internet itself, second significance is then the social media, and third significance is the smartphone.

Windows 10 is one of the best Microsoft operating system for now. Do not worry too much about that.

Most applications that run on Windows 7 should run flawlessly on Windows 10 currently. If you're worried about the telemetry and updates, take a look into UWT4 and Group Policy. Windows 10 offers a bunch of positives it seems, and almost no negatives once they're taken care of. Also, in upcoming builds we'll have *Nix Bash support, which will be wonderful!

That's so f*cked up and unacceptable
I'm glad I haven't updated windows for almost a year XD

If you switch off several notifications (gotta google that, it's a work on a bit lower level with W10), I'd say it's the best system I've ever encountered. Although my weather addon and calculator broke down (noooo!). :'(

W10 isn't as bad as you hear from all those loud haters. Best thing is not to just blindly jump on the bandwagon and try it for yourself.

I've been running Windows 10 on at least one of my machines since day one of the public beta. Beyond a few hickups on the insider builds (Beta's) and Microsoft or nVidia fucking up day one of it's RTM release by pushing out some buggy drivers, I've had no issues.

In fact I would have to say this is the second best RTM of Windows ever. 7 is the mark to beat, it came out rock solid and feature complete, but no other Windows versions came close to that. 95, 98, 2000, XP, Vista, all had major issues on launch, most of which demanded either a service pack (or two) or a new version of the OS to fix. Simple fact is people got spoiled by 7, they expect it to work perfectly right away when realistically it's always taken a year or so to get good. That said, I haven't had many issues. I can't think of any since the major update in Nov.

There are apparently a handful of games I'm told that don't play nice in 10, but I haven't come across any (the only ones I have that don't work here, didn't work in 7 or 8 either so thats not 10's fault lol). The one thing they did do was disable an old form of DRM, because it was just a big security hole, it can be re-enabled if you need it, but don't :p.

As you said you did a Clean install, and thats smart. Upgrade to get the legit licence, then a clean install. It's always nicer to just start with a clean slate in Windows. Just makes things run smoother.

There's a lot of paranoia about the tracking, but really it's mostly just that, paranoia. About what MS maybe could do possible if so motivated but there's been no sign of it. You want to be worried about your movements being tracked best look at your Browser first :p Always lol at the people who go on about MS tracking what they do in 10, meanwhile they are sitting in a vanilla Chrome install with no adblock or anything. Real world even if MS DID get the right info to ID you, and see what you're doing, I got news for you, you're probably not that interesting. Also, I'll be honest, if you do disable all that stuff, I don't want to hear any complaining about why XYZ doesn't work better, or why they changed the way you do stuff. The telemetrics they get really does get put to work.

Anyway, end of the day it's a solid OS, it has some stuff that will likely annoy you, but you'll get used to it, like you did with every other version of Windows you've used :)

I've not used Win10 myself, but talked about it with people who have. It seems to be a pretty good opsys, except that data leak thing, but I heard good about ShutUp10, and probably going to use that when/if my one of my computers gets rape-installed Win10 some day.

One last edit (see fp).
Might help someone who considers switching.

Thanks a lot for all the input!
Its working great! I only have some finetuning to do.

I plan to move to Linux. I'm stil learning it on VM tho. If I get Win10 by force, I will install Linux.

Last working Windows for me was Windows7. All these new are failures imo.

I have had windows 10 on my laptop since it came out and I have loved it honestly compared to the previous one I had, Windows 8. Its really really handy in my opinion.

this weekend i helped my father with buying a new laptop.
which means i had to migrate all his stuff from the old to the new one.
brand new, it had a nasty problem: the windows store refused to work.
i spent many h trying all the possible solutions found at the various help sites, powershell tweeking and even restored win10 from the start, but the damn store refuses to work.
... my advice was to buy a mac but he wanted some cheap stuff, there it is his brand new lenovo, without store (not that the issue worries him at any extent) ...

Hello everyone. If any one of you using a Skylake system with Windows 10, please share your experiences with me here. Still have problems on 8.1 especially with the built in VGA (my discrete is under servicing right now). Thanks in advance. :)

Bumping to help the guy above me, he was kind enough not to create a new thread.

probably coming late as i havent seen this thread before. This video will make your windows 10 run smoother than windows 7 on "Windows Classic mode".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwiHog2leMM&index=12&list=WL
It will not change any of the appearance. I'm a happy windows 10 user. Ive been so for 2 months now or more. There are no problems with compatibility except for ancient softwares that were made for windows 98 (ive tried running some good ol' stuff). Even so, some of them might work if ure interested.
anyway, i've been using windows 7 for 4 years and i dont regret a second switching to Windows 10. I'm experiencing less bugs, errors, crashes. I could probably say i dont experience them at all. They've done a good job actually. You just gotta do everything the guy in the video says because there are some trackers and useless processes that drain some of your performance. If you've done all that, than you're good to go.

(and ya you can still use pirated software)

I prefer W7 but i dont know if its getting obsolet at the moment because i installed W10 at his first times, that means a few errors in that versions but actually everything is ok, aand in W10 you have cortana that doesnt do a shet :D

Then actually W10 could be a preference

Lots of great info on this thread, many things I will have to tweak later. I have had very few problems with Win10 at the moment, still figuring out what I like and what I want to turn off.
A few useful points that I have not seen mentioned directly on this thread yet:

• If you are having problems with SecuROM games and running an Intel Skylake CPU (Burnout Paradise was my particular issue), Intel messed up the chipset and BIOS, so if nothing else works, update to the latest BIOS for your motherboard and it should solve the problems.
• If you have your Win 7 key to hand (the one you are upgrading from), you can do a fresh install from the latest Win10 iso images from Microsoft, and when prompted, use your Win7 license key to activate Win10.
  This saves doing the in place upgrade and then a reinstall. This has worked fine for 2 attampts, both using OEM COA keys. (note it must be the most up to date version from MS and I suspect it only works during the free upgrade period).
• Another here that I suspect only works during the Free Upgrade period. I had an old desktop with a Win7 Pro COA serial sticker on it, and a laptop with Win 10 Home on it, and I was able to upgrade from Win 10 Home to Pro (bitlocker on my laptop was important to me) using the old serial key from the Pro COA sticker.
  I had to use the generic Win 10 pro upgrade key first (please see here), and then change the default key to my key to get it to activate, but it may well upgrade just using your Win 7 Pro key.
  NB: please read the link fully, the default key will not activate, you still need a Win7 pro key. Also you need to make sure you have updated Win 10 to the November update... effectively make sure Windows is up to date.
  Not condoning this particularly, but one of my friends was able to buy a Win 7 Pro key online for about $15 and use that to upgrade from Win10 Home to Pro using the same method I did and it worked fine.

Hope some of you find that useful, the SecuROM issue was bugging me for ages.