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megaresp said:
I upgraded my Win 8.1 Pro laptop this afternoon.

I'm running Kaspersky. After Win 10 booted there was a message from Kaspersky that I managed to miss. Anyway, I fired it up and clicked the update button because it said it needed updating.

Within a couple of minutes all was well.

I'm running a 3-PC license aimed at households, so maybe it's different for an Enterprise system.
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It is. Running Endpoint Security, managed by Security Centre. There are recent updates that mean it will install, which is quicker than they managed for Windows 8, but they are not without the sort of problems that we wouldn't want to have on production machines, and it was months last time before they were ironed out.
 
John Jones said:
Well shoot! TeamViewer isn't working well between a Win10 host and a Win7 client. I'll have to look into it this weekend.

I miss a certain ex-member, who at this point would hearken me to 'RTFM!!!' No one gets tired of that kind of assistance. :)

ETA: Oh, and no joy getting my Dell Win 8.x tablet to upgrade. I guess I better check with Dell.
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I TVed into my work machine to kick off the upgrade last night, then when I got to work, TVed back into my home machine and did the whole upgrade process so it was all sorted by the time I got home. Admittedly, that was using 8.1 at both ends before the upgrade, but I did go to a 7 machine in the interim, while one of them was rebooting.
 
I've been granted a temporary reprieve, as my employer has decided not to make me switch until next year. :)
 
Rat said:
I TVed into my work machine to kick off the upgrade last night, then when I got to work, TVed back into my home machine and did the whole upgrade process so it was all sorted by the time I got home. Admittedly, that was using 8.1 at both ends before the upgrade, but I did go to a 7 machine in the interim, while one of them was rebooting.
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OK. It took two more reboots, but Teamview is working from a WIN7 Client to a Win10 host.

Now about this Win8.x tablet upgrade to Win10. It ain't working yet.
 
Trebuchet said:
Given the pace of prior upgrades, I figure my former employer will probably move to Win7 sometime next year. We were still on XP when I left.
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I still use XP at home, and the Win7 box my employer stuck me with a few years ago has been heavily customized to look and act as much like XP as I could get it to.
 
Looks like my video card just misses out on DirectX12, at least for the moment, which is a real shame - there goes my chance of reaching peak performance in the occasional Sudoku game...

I might actually be annoyed if I'd ever bothered to do anything about the several-generations-obsolete other components - the only reason I have a newish GPU is because the last one died of old age. On the other hand, I am kind of peeved that, despite it working fine on my phone for months, I can't get Cortana in Australia on the big box. And when I do it will have a local accent. I suppose having distances measured in miles is a small price to pay for functionality and form...
 
I upgraded my laptop earlier this evening. Still playing around with it but I'm not overwhelmed. Cortana seems like a gimmick. Most of the time it just returns a webpage with the Bing search results. Just to test it, I typed "Where is the nearest McDonald's", expecting it to show me a map with the closest location. What I got was the Bing search results for "McDonald's." Big deal.

Having the tiles in the Start menu is nice because I can clean all the icons off my desktop. I like having the wallpaper uncluttered.

Steve S
 
steve s said:
I upgraded my laptop earlier this evening. Still playing around with it but I'm not overwhelmed. Cortana seems like a gimmick. Most of the time it just returns a webpage with the Bing search results. Just to test it, I typed "Where is the nearest McDonald's", expecting it to show me a map with the closest location. What I got was the Bing search results for "McDonald's." Big deal.
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In Cortana's defense (not much), when I tried it it did come up with the McDonald's store locator as the first hit.

Having the tiles in the Start menu is nice because I can clean all the icons off my desktop. I like having the wallpaper uncluttered.

Steve S
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Have you ever checked out Fences? It's a desktop organizer which lets you sort out your icons into separate resizable windows (among other features) and if you want you can hide all of them with just a double click, leaving nothing but your wallpaper until you click again.

One newer feature lets you open any folder in its own window on the desktop. So, for example, you could have a picture or document folder always right there if you need it.

The program's been around for a while and managed to survive the upgrade process okay.

It's worth a look. I've found it to be really helpful.

There's a 30 day free trial version out there somewhere, and if you like it it's only $10.
 
I've had the upgrade. Two things stuck out. The first was all the permissions Microsoft wanted and add in if you pick the express install. I went with custom and deselected all the crap.

The second surprise is the 20+ gigs of memory they took in a new folder called, Windows.old - apparently in case I wanted to roll back to Win8. In my situation, that's a lot of memory to lose. Deleted it.

Otherwise, no different on my end than Win8, except it boots a little slower.

ETA: Also ran Windows Defender after the install. Full scan took almost 6 hours.
 
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My wife's laptop has 8.1, and she ran the upgrade last night....About an hour and essentially painless. She went right back to Facebook and Pogo without a bobble.

I have 7 on my desktop, and have not yet gotten the "you're ready" message...They say it's rolling out in waves. Perhaps 7 users are later on the list.
 
Upgraded my media server last night, took about an hour or so. It was probably the smoothest OS upgrade I've done and I like that there wasn't very much in the way of interaction required during the process. I was able to let it do its thing while I went off and did mine.

So far I'm not seeing any compelling reason to switch from Win7. It's kind of neat that Netflix and Hulu can run as apps rather than via their website, but I can't say it's a huge improvement. And I know this is silly, but I am a bit miffed that they appear to have done away with the start up and shut down .WAVs I used to rotate through different movie clips just for giggles, and kind of miss that a little. It's also clearly designed to work with touch screens, which doesn't apply to that machine so can't say how well that was done.

Not impressed with the movies/tv/video app so far. For the files on that local HDD array it's listing the titles under the file meta-data where present, which is making it screw up how things sort, and in at least one case displaying the title in Kanji or Arabic or Elvish or some such script. I'm going to assume it'll do the same thing with my audio files, which is something that's annoyed the hell out of me WRT media players for the past decade or so. I name my files and sort them in folders for how I want them to appear. I do NOT want the player to pull in meta data from the files and sort based on that.

Startup appears to be a wee bit faster than the Win7 install. Nothing that leaps out at you, but enough to register if you (like me) were geeky enough to use a stopwatch to time your startups pre and post upgrade.

So far I've just not seen anything which would sway me one way or the other on an upgrade. No big red flags, but no "oh, I SOOO have to get that feature!". But I've not been using it for even 4 hours yet, so who knows what I'll find over the next week.
 
The migration took hours on my old Toshiba laptop (it was 21% done after 3 hours so I just let it get on).

The new music app is adding 10 songs to the music library every few seconds - that's going to take a while....

I'll have a look at it tomorrow but I hated the process. I could not "confirm" about not having Media Player so opted to bin all my own apps. It's just a browser PC. I'll need to think long and hard about the Thinkpad.
 
Does it really matter how long the upgrade takes if it isn't your primary or only machine?

I had plenty of other stuff to do while mine was grinding away, and if Web Withdraw had gotten to be too much to cope with I always had my tablet or phone to fall back on.

Turns out I didn't to, anyhow.
 
Gawdzilla Sama said:
Same with AVAST for those who missed my post on that.
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I've just updated my Avast and it's now telling me that it's fully compatible with Windows 10. (I haven't upgraded yet.)
Looking on the Avast forums, it seems that people who were having problems were either using the early Beta version of Windows 10, or hadn't fully updated their Avast before switching.
 
Bikewer said:
I have 7 on my desktop, and have not yet gotten the "you're ready" message...They say it's rolling out in waves. Perhaps 7 users are later on the list.
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It is rolling out in waives, but I got to upgrade my laptop two days ago from 7 to 10, so it isn't that. Mine's a Dell; it may have something to do with the brand.

No issues for me. I haven't done the desktop yet; I'll have to see if my video card is one of the ones having trouble.
 
Rat said:
It is. Running Endpoint Security, managed by Security Centre. There are recent updates that mean it will install, which is quicker than they managed for Windows 8, but they are not without the sort of problems that we wouldn't want to have on production machines, and it was months last time before they were ironed out.
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I've subsequently discovered that while Kaspersky is running, Win 10 doesn't know it. The security centre area tells me I'm unprotected - so perhaps that's what the message I missed was about.

Another issue is that Kaspersky tells me my wifi isn't secured, which it is. Not just mine, but also the wifi at work - which is an enterprise router managed by the IT department.

So a few glitches with Kaspersky that don't matter at home. Apart from that, so far everything else is working well. I love the new look too, a big improvement over Win 8.1's retro-boxes. And all without sacrificing Win 8's speed. If anything, it may even be faster.

I'll know for sure when I get around to upgrading my wife's laptop, which is the computer equivalent of an Austin 1100 - of the sort of vintage that listed 'heater' as an expensive option.
 
Took exactly 24 minutes yesterday night for upgrading (via Windows Update) my Surface Pro 3 tablet from Win 8.1 to Win 10.

Only one BSOD since then (nice new BSOD screen, BTW :D), triggered by its sound hardware, which was fixed with a single reboot.

I do expect a much more rock'n roll-esque upgrade with my new DIY desktop (currently out of order because of a watercooling issue).
 
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I updated my desktop yesterday. The video driver didn't get automatically updated, but when I selected update from the Properties tab, it went fine.

The only problem I've had is with vmWare player. I updated to the latest version, but from time to time (I haven't narrowed it down yet) there's a message shortly after logging in to the guest machine saying there was an error with the nVidia graphics driver, but it's recovered. The vmWare virtual machine has hung, however, and needs to be reset. Other times, it starts up fine.
 
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