Windows 8.1 or Windows 10?

[xnoobftw]

I cant decide whether to upgrade my windows 8.1 to windows 10 or stay at 8.1

Would all my apps still work as per normal? Like games etc

Anyone who had any experience upgrading from 8.1 to 10 please leave me some feedback! Thank you dearly  

I'll let LTT community decide

[Bazadar]

I've had no issues at all with Windows 10 going from 8.1

[dominic860]

Many of the preexisting apps and games will work on windows 10, with very few exceptions.  When I had upgraded, I hadn't lost any of my files or applications. The only driver that Needed to be updated was that of my wireless internet adapter. Also windows 10 was made highly adaptable, So even old games from windows xp would run. an example being Half life 2.

[ShadowCaptain]

10 all the way

 

upgraded everything in my house to 10 (clean install on my desktop, upgrades on my laptops)

every game, app, program and file works fine

 

 

[xnoobftw]

19 hours ago, DarkShadowUK said:

I've had no issues at all with Windows 10 going from 8.1

19 hours ago, dominic860 said:

Many of the preexisting apps and games will work on windows 10, with very few exceptions.  When I had upgraded, I hadn't lost any of my files or applications. The only driver that Needed to be updated was that of my wireless internet adapter. Also windows 10 was made highly adaptable, So even old games from windows xp would run. an example being Half life 2.

18 hours ago, ShadowCaptain said:

10 all the way

 

upgraded everything in my house to 10 (clean install on my desktop, upgrades on my laptops)

every game, app, program and file works fine

 

 

42 minutes ago, ghgmc said:

I still want to say that I think Windows 7 is the best one.

 

Welp guys i updated to windows 10 and my desktop is all screwed up. And it says it doesnt detect any AMD hardware installed D:

 

 

[Bazadar]

5 minutes ago, xnoobftw said:

 

Welp guys i updated to windows 10 and my desktop is all screwed up. And it says it doesnt detect any AMD hardware installed D:

 

 

How did it screw up your desktop? And just make sure lastest drivers are installed for your AMD card

[ShadowCaptain]

5 minutes ago, xnoobftw said:

 

Welp guys i updated to windows 10 and my desktop is all screwed up. And it says it doesnt detect any AMD hardware installed D:

 

 

You will need to remove and reinstall your graphics drivers

 

how is it screwed up?

Also you should have ideally done a clean install

[xnoobftw]

45 minutes ago, DarkShadowUK said:

How did it screw up your desktop? And just make sure lastest drivers are installed for your AMD card

44 minutes ago, ShadowCaptain said:

You will need to remove and reinstall your graphics drivers

 

how is it screwed up?

Also you should have ideally done a clean install

After reinstalling drivers and replacing the shortcuts that windows10 removed (screwing up part)

It's working fine now

Thanks guys! Looks like the win 10 jump aint that bad!

And i dont think i wanna do a clean install... having a 1mb/s internet isnt fun to reinstall with  

Is there a way to remove the windows.old file? or should i keep it? Im not in need of space or anything but yeah

 

[ShadowCaptain]

1 minute ago, xnoobftw said:

Is there a way to remove the windows.old file? or should i keep it? Im not in need of space or anything but yeah

Yeah run a disk clean up and there is an option to delete old windows installations

 

or if you have the space keep it there for a few weeks in case you need to go back

[xnoobftw]

7 minutes ago, ShadowCaptain said:

Yeah run a disk clean up and there is an option to delete old windows installations

 

or if you have the space keep it there for a few weeks in case you need to go back

And i just got a BSOD D: system thread not handled atikmag D:

[ShadowCaptain]

1 minute ago, xnoobftw said:

And i just got a BSOD D: system thread not handled atikmag D:

Use a driver cleaner to get rid of old drivers, and replace them all with the latest W10 drivers

[xnoobftw]

2 minutes ago, ShadowCaptain said:

Use a driver cleaner to get rid of old drivers, and replace them all with the latest W10 drivers

how?

[xnoobftw]

9 minutes ago, ShadowCaptain said:

Use a driver cleaner to get rid of old drivers, and replace them all with the latest W10 drivers

I've used DDU to reinstall the latest AMD drivers. After which i had a BSOD

[ShadowCaptain]

6 minutes ago, xnoobftw said:

how?

http://www.guru3d.com/content-page/guru3d-driver-sweeper.html

[xnoobftw]

2 minutes ago, ShadowCaptain said:

http://www.guru3d.com/content-page/guru3d-driver-sweeper.html

This links me to DDU in the end.

Can i just use the windows built in disk cleanup and delete old drivers? They have that option!

[Bazadar]

3 hours ago, xnoobftw said:

This links me to DDU in the end.

Can i just use the windows built in disk cleanup and delete old drivers? They have that option!

Yes you can, Should have an option to select that says windows old.

[typographie]

6 hours ago, xnoobftw said:

This links me to DDU in the end.

Can i just use the windows built in disk cleanup and delete old drivers? They have that option!

Sure, give it a shot.

 

DDU is just the latest version of Driver Sweeper. It got a name change some time ago, but it's still useful for the same things. If the Disk Cleanup utility doesn't fix it, give DDU a try. If it comes to it, a clean install of Windows 10 should fix just about anything.

[xnoobftw]

9 hours ago, typographie said:

Sure, give it a shot.

 

DDU is just the latest version of Driver Sweeper. It got a name change some time ago, but it's still useful for the same things. If the Disk Cleanup utility doesn't fix it, give DDU a try. If it comes to it, a clean install of Windows 10 should fix just about anything.

 

12 hours ago, DarkShadowUK said:

Yes you can, Should have an option to select that says windows old.

 

Turns out using diskcleanup built into windows 10 fixed everything

Windows 10 is amazing!