I did it. I finally upgraded to Windows 10. What was your upgrade experience like?

[handymanshandle]

So I had kinda been holding off and ignoring gwx.exe ever since it introduced itself to Windows 8.1. 

 

I had tried the gwx.exe upgrade method but that got stuck so I had to get it back to Win8.1 and I left it alone for about a couple weeks. Then just tonight, I decided to try to create a bootable Windows 10 installation key with the Media Creation Tool from Microsoft which had been having some issues in the past.

 

Fast forward a few hours, I've gotten the two local accounts for my mom and I set up. When I was setting W10 up, I made sure to disable everything under the custom settings. 

And now I've mostly finished up what I wanted to do at least with appearance, I still need to figure out what to do with that search bar.

 

My desktop, or whatever you want to call this.

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This one is just the basic view of some of the info about the PC.

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A slightly different but similar system info view as the one above.

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So I guess to make this more fitting of it being a thread, What was your upgrade experience to Windows 10 like? Were you reluctant to upgrade? Or were you a day one kind of person who upgraded right away?

[vanished]

I was super hyped and downloaded the image to manually force the upgrade - no way I was waiting for that icon to offer it

It installed just fine, but I noticed a few bugs and odd behaviour with the installed system.  A clean install cleaned that right up and I haven't looked back!

[Skiiwee29]

I did mine on day 0 and had no issues since. Glad I did it personally. 

[BbsMentos]

I did upgrade on day one because a friend of mine was an insider (beta tester) and he told me it was good, despite some bloatware I removed with a little batch of mine and some other slighltly annoying "features", I'm happy with my upgrade to W10 (note that I upgraded from a Ultimate 7 to W10 pro) It improved the performance of my aging PC.

 

[SageOfSpice]

11 minutes ago, wcreek said:

So I had kinda been holding off and ignoring gwx.exe ever since it introduced itself to Windows 8.1. 

 

I had tried the gwx.exe upgrade method but that got stuck so I had to get it back to Win8.1 and I left it alone for about a couple weeks. Then just tonight, I decided to try to create a bootable Windows 10 installation key with the Media Creation Tool from Microsoft which had been having some issues in the past.

 

Fast forward a few hours, I've gotten the two local accounts for my mom and I set up. When I was setting W10 up, I made sure to disable everything under the custom settings. 

And now I've mostly finished up what I wanted to do at least with appearance, I still need to figure out what to do with that search bar.

 

My desktop, or whatever you want to call this.

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This one is just the basic view of some of the info about the PC.

  Reveal hidden contents

A slightly different but similar system info view as the one above.

  Reveal hidden contents

 

So I guess to make this more fitting of it being a thread, What was your upgrade experience to Windows 10 like? Were you reluctant to upgrade? Or were you a day one kind of person who upgraded right away?

Wow, they still haven't fixed that available ram issue in Windows 10? Sheesh.

Don't forget to fix that, I guess.

 

MSCONFIG-> BOOT -> ADVANCED OPTIONS -> MAXIMUM MEMORY = Total installed memory

[ddswh1pk0s]

I upgraded as soon as it asked me, I remember it being a few days after the 29th for some reason, and after upgrading everything was sweet but had a couple of issues. BTW I upgraded from Windows 7. So when I got round to it, a few months later, I did a clean install from a USB and it's perfect. Had absolutely no issues since. Would definitely recommend over Windows 7

[paprikman]

I can't really find any reasons to move from linux to windows at all

Imo, there was no point of releasing this system, since 8.1 works perfectly.

[SageOfSpice]

1 minute ago, ddswh1pk0s said:

I upgraded as soon as it asked me, I remember it being a few days after the 29th for some reason, and after upgrading everything was sweet but had a couple of issues. BTW I upgraded from Windows 7. So when I got round to it, a few months later, I did a clean install from a USB and it's perfect. Had absolutely no issues since. Would definitely recommend over Windows 7

Why would you recommend it over 7? Genuine curiosity. I've heard a lot of people bashing it, of course. 

[Murasaki]

When I got an SSD, decided it would be good to start fresh and move to 10. Had a bit of trouble with making the bootable USB to work but it worked out in the end. OS has its share of small bugs but nothing important, overall runs like butter.

[OsuMasterz]

Im just waiting for microsoft to stop peeking through my privacy on the PC. I know there are settings you can change, but there are something you can't change. Until they fix that, I'm staying in windows 8.1, performs nice still.

[vanished]

4 minutes ago, SageOfSpice said:

Wow, they still haven't fixed that available ram issue in Windows 10? Sheesh.

Don't forget to fix that, I guess.

 

MSCONFIG-> BOOT -> ADVANCED OPTIONS -> MAXIMUM MEMORY = Total installed memory

it works fine for me 

 

[handymanshandle]

3 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

I was super hyped and downloaded the image to manually force the upgrade - no way I was waiting for that icon to offer it

It installed just fine, but I noticed a few bugs and odd behaviour with the installed system.  A clean install cleaned that right up and I haven't looked back!

Yeah I decided to do a clean install because Lenovo put a lot of bloatware on the way we got it from Best Buy.
So far it hasn't tried to re-install any of that cancerous stuff like McAfee.

2 minutes ago, legacy99 said:

I did mine on day 0 and had no issues since. Glad I did it personally. 

So far I'm liking the activated version of Windows 10 rather than the version of Windows 10 Education I installed on to a VM.

2 minutes ago, SageOfSpice said:

Wow, they still haven't fixed that available ram issue in Windows 10? Sheesh.

Don't forget to fix that, I guess.

 

MSCONFIG-> BOOT -> ADVANCED OPTIONS -> MAXIMUM MEMORY = Total installed memory

I'm using the iGPU because it's an APU based laptop, that was the same amount of ram dedicated to the iGPU in the APU.

2 minutes ago, ddswh1pk0s said:

I upgraded as soon as it asked me, I remember it being a few days after the 29th for some reason, and after upgrading everything was sweet but had a couple of issues. BTW I upgraded from Windows 7. So when I got round to it, a few months later, I did a clean install from a USB and it's perfect. Had absolutely no issues since. Would definitely recommend over Windows 7

I tried the gwx.exe upgrade a couple weeks ago like I said in my OP, and that got stuck at like 95% so I kinda freaked out but it eventually got back to Win8.1. But yeah the fresh install went with out a hitch which was nice.

2 minutes ago, paprikman said:

I can't really find any reasons to move from linux to windows at all

Imo, there was no point of releasing this system, since 8.1 works perfectly.

I like Linux and Windows equally. Before upgrading I had Debian on a VM in Virtualbox

 

[FloRolf]

i waited a Little while before getting it but since then i'm 100% satisfied and it wasn't much of an Adaption from win7.

 

The Thing i love most is probably that you can easily calculate things down in the taskbar lol

[SageOfSpice]

1 minute ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

it works fine for me 

 

Yeah. It happens with some systems for whatever reason. If you look in the OP, instead of having his total system ram available, it says, "X usable" in brackets behind the true value.

 

2 minutes ago, wcreek said:

I'm using the iGPU because it's an APU based laptop, that was the same amount of ram dedicated to the iGPU in the APU.

Oh, okay. Just thought I'd bring that up, it's always been an annoyance of mine when Windows just randomly decides it doesn't want to utilize all the system memory.

[handymanshandle]

10 minutes ago, BbsMentos said:

I did upgrade on day one because a friend of mine was an insider (beta tester) and he told me it was good, despite some bloatware I removed with a little batch of mine and some other slighltly annoying "features", I'm happy with my upgrade to W10 (note that I upgraded from a Ultimate 7 to W10 pro) It improved the performance of my aging PC.

 

I'm on an A8 6410/Beema based laptop, with like a 500GB WD Blue (2.5" 5400rpm). W10 hasn't made it feel slower. Not sure I notice it being faster either. So that's good I guess.

[ddswh1pk0s]

5 minutes ago, SageOfSpice said:

Why would you recommend it over 7? Genuine curiosity. I've heard a lot of people bashing it, of course. 

Boots faster than 7

Runs faster than 7 (very noticeable on low end systems)

Looks better than 7

DirectX 12

But that's just my opinion

[ddswh1pk0s]

4 minutes ago, FloRolf said:

easily calculate things down in the taskbar lol

TIL hahaha... Really cool feature!!!

[handymanshandle]

1 minute ago, ddswh1pk0s said:

Boots faster than 7

Runs faster than 7 (very noticeable on low end systems)

Looks better than 7

DirectX 12

But that's just my opinion

Coming from 8.1, like I just said... So far the difference hasn't been too noticeable. At least it's not slower.

2 minutes ago, wcreek said:

I'm on an A8 6410/Beema based laptop, with like a 500GB WD Blue (2.5" 5400rpm). W10 hasn't made it feel slower. Not sure I notice it being faster either. So that's good I guess.

 

 

 

[Almighty_Spoon]

i run an elementary OS/Win10 machine.

Upgraded to win10 pro from 7 home as a fresh install, ive not had a single issue, not sure how so many have had problems or are really deterred.

[SageOfSpice]

8 minutes ago, ddswh1pk0s said:

Boots faster than 7

Runs faster than 7 (very noticeable on low end systems)

Looks better than 7

DirectX 12

But that's just my opinion

I dunno... windows 7 can look pretty good....

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[handymanshandle]

1 minute ago, Almighty_Spoon said:

i run an elementary OS/Win10 machine.

Upgraded to win10 pro from 7 home as a fresh install, ive not had a single issue, not sure how so many have had problems or are really deterred.

When I build my PC, I'll probably be running Win10 Education/Debian 

Though I might go with Ubuntu or Fedora instead of Debian. Idk. I like Debian but I also like Unity and I like some of the features that Fedora has. Also Ubuntu and Fedora are a little more user friendly I think. But I think I'll probably go with Debian. I mean my profile pic is the Debian logo...

 

 

I guess for some people installing Debian is hard, but I just kinda figured that I wanted a 64 bit Graphical Install. 

VirtualBox Guest Additions didn't really want to work in Debian. Worked flawlessly on my Win10 Education Insider Preview VM.

[handymanshandle]

2 minutes ago, SageOfSpice said:

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That's a pretty cool wallpaper. 

 

I thought Windows 8.1 could look pretty good too. But many would disagree  

[vanished]

10 minutes ago, ddswh1pk0s said:

Boots faster than 7

Runs faster than 7 (very noticeable on low end systems)

Looks better than 7

DirectX 12

But that's just my opinion

Well, looks are subjective, but overall yes to everything

2 minutes ago, wcreek said:

That's a pretty cool wallpaper. 

 

I thought Windows 8.1 could look pretty good too. But many would disagree  

Yes.  Yes I would

[FloRolf]

8 minutes ago, ddswh1pk0s said:

TIL hahaha... Really cool feature!!!

i'm serious :D

I calculate a lot of Little things, even if it's just +/- or whatever, it's the greatest Innovation ever.

[handymanshandle]

1 minute ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Yes.  Yes I would

Tbh 8.1 probably was just as invasive on privacy as Windows 10 is. Though Win10 probably has more stuff that reports to Microsoft than 8.1 but, 8.1 probably still had a fair bit of data collection going on.