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Richard Deeming wrote: I thought System Restore was turned off by default in W10?
It seems to have been ... er ... restored ... to default on for the system disk. Other disk/partitions remain default off.
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I've been pondering for a while whether to upgrade to Windows 10 or not and would like the opinion of the brave ones out there that have been working with it for a while.
The old Dell Vostro 3500 has been running well on Win 7 and I don't really need to upgrade so it's more out of curiosity than anything else.
Cheers!
Andrés
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it's fine. it's not going to change your life or anything.
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Chris Losinger wrote: it's not going to change your life or anything
Thanks, I figured as much. As long as it doesn't ruin my day (or week)
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I played with it on and off for awhile and finally decided it just didn't offer anything I needed for the little headaches I had to work around. My DEV machine is solid running on Win7. I have "10" confined to a VM where I can use it for testing but I doubt that I'll go to it (at least on that equipment) at all. There's just no features compelling enough to upgrade right now, IMHO.
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You do need to have at least Windows 8 to develop or play with Universal Apps and use the emulator.
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson
Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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I pondered this question quite a bit a few weeks back when I was upgrading my disk to solid state. I ended up just keeping my Win7 install (dual boots to Linux Mint) because well... it works. I also have a few expensive pieces of software on there that would really piss me off if they didn't work after the switch (notably, Matlab), so why mess with it.
If you don't have anything to lose, you can always back everything up and give it a try. In my case, I was more concerned about improving my boot times... I mostly use Linux nowadays anyway.
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Albert Holguin wrote: (notably, Matlab)
I'm sorry. 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Love Matlab! ...great tool for modeling.
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In my opinion, Kate Upton is a great tool for modeling. 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Well...... can't argue with that! 
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I agree. I put (avoiding the word upgraded) Win10 on my Vostro 5740. Most noticable issue was that Autocad stopped working reliably. Some other programs refused to start and I got fed up with the automatic updates maxing out my SSD so that I couldn't use the machine.
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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I wouldn't ditch 7 for 10.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote: I wouldn't ditch 7 for 10.
That's been my general recommendation. Ditch 8.x for 10, but not necessarily 7.
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I am waiting another 6 months, before installing/upgrading.
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If it's only for curiosity and you've got the capability install it on a VM and give it a try first. That way you'll know if you're one of the (very, very) few unlucky ones to have issues.
I went from 7 to 10 via that route with a full upgrade in August and (much to the annoyance of Original Griff and others!) have had not a single problem since.
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I also had a flawless upgrade but it was from 8.1 to 10 so may not be relevant.
The move to Office365 on the other hand has been a complete PITA.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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No.
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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I'm holding out for Windows 11 - from what I hear - it will have a new and improved Edlin.
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Out of curiosity, do it!
It will, at the very least, make your computer faster! 
Other than that, except for the disappearance of the usual start menu icons (replaced by a different start menu which will not have its previous links) it's no big deal..
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I took the leap a couple of weeks ago. Here is IMHO what I think about it:
+ booting is faster
+ shutting down is faster
+ more similar to win7 than to win8
- UI "upgrade", trying to look "hip" whatever that means. They made it look dull (personal taste)... Look up for screenshots first.
- Experimenting with the new and improved "simple" design which leads to the point below.
- The treatment of users as having zero PC knowledge. I need to elaborate here: The phrase 'We are preparing everything for you' is all you can see when installing win10 for almost 30 minutes or so (which hit my nerve). Stuff like the screen resolution is now an advanced setting, etc. This is the direction that you should expect from this new "simple" design. They did not abstract stuff, they just removed them to make it "simple".
- you cannot stop the windows updates (without a tremendous registry related effort). the only thing you can do is to decide whether to let it restart your PC automatically or wait for your decision to restart it. Now as of why you would want to stop, well that's not the point. But in any case, whether you are playing an MMO, or you are in a hotel with limited bandwidth, or simply streaming movies, The user should decide what is the priority of his downloads.
- several privacy stuff that you would automatically give up for a better "user experience" such as your location.
* EDIT *
I didn't want to compare Edge and Firefox...
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I am not sure.
I upgraded in early august and all went really well up until mid november.
Since the "Threshold 2" update all sorts of stuff is going haywire.
Interfacing with drivers is particularly bad: some peripherals no longer work or work erratically.
Other new ones install and work perfectly well under windows 7 but don't under Windows 10 although the driver is reportedly windows 10 compatible ( FTDI CDM drivers ).
I wouldn't be surprised if it was compatible with the "original" windows 10 but not with the new one.
Don't they know at microsoft they shouldn't fix it if it ain't broke ?
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That happened on my laptop too. I booted to recovery, rolled back to the previous Windows 10 build and turned on "defer upgrades" in system settings once everything was up and running again.
Anna ( @annajayne)
Tech Blog | Visual Lint
"Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"
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I have "taken the leap" on two of our PCs here, both Win 7, one 32 bit, the other 64bit.
The 32 bit upgrade went fairly painlessly and everything worked except for the MachineID having changed and forcing re-registration of a couple of bits of software (CfosSpeed and SmartFTP).
The 64 bit is another story, it is on an Asus Z87-Pro with an i7-4770K - so fairly recent hardware. After the various reboots during the upgrade it lost the Ethernet connection and all USB2 ports luckily the USB3 worked so I could get a mouse and keyboard connected. Looking in the device manager the NIC and USB ports were there and 'working' - only they didn't. Re-installing the chipset and NIC drivers from Asus fixed the problem. Same problem as for the 32 bit with needing to re-register the same software.
HOWEVER, it has just gone and upgraded to build 10586 and I had to go through the whole driver and license rigmarole again.
An even bigger HOWEVER is that one of these computers is also my PVR for UK Freesat. I went away for the weekend having set Downton Abbey to record and came back to find a screen saying "Howdy, we've got some delicious updates waiting for a reboot, we reckon 3 am tomorrow would be a good time for this, whad'ya think?" - well I think that it sucks because the message appeared to have halted all other programmes (or at least inhibited the task scheduler from starting new ones) and I didn't get my recording of Downton.
I don't find 10 any faster than 7. I have upgraded a single core Sempron laptop and performance is just the same (once you have waited 2 days for 10 to finish indexing everything again).
I hope that this helps
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