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Windows 10 rebels. 3
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BionicJohn
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I'm being nagged frequently by MS to upgrade my Win7 laptop. However it's about 6 years old and previous experience with the Win10 upgrade was horrendous - so if it ain't broke, don't fix it!
Iechyd da! John
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GWXcontrolpanel will stop the nags.
Fixing a group of 7 capable systems to get the upgrade before time runs out. Never thought I would be saying that. May have started a couple of days too late.
Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.
Fixing a group of 7 capable systems to get the upgrade before time runs out. Never thought I would be saying that. May have started a couple of days too late.
Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.
Nelviticus
Programmer
The nagging will (probably) stop in a couple of days anyway, as that's when the free upgrade to Windows 10 offer expires.
Nelviticus
Nelviticus
Two examples here. One is a friend in another state, she has a Windows 7 laptop but no internet. I sent the Win10 install disk but she did nothing, confused by it all. Another was a sibling, also some distance away, the rural area only has very slow internet. Her Windows 7 laptop had stopped getting security updates over a year ago and the service refused to start.
The ones who didn't upgrade were the confused or no-access users. I had access and the smarts but neither sent me the old computers. They'll be buying new laptops. Sure, they'll be faster and better but not that much faster IMO. (I have two desktops - one was Win7 with i7-4770K and I was shopping for the two-generations-newer i7-6700K I think, but I checked passmark site and the newer is maybe 10% faster.)
The ones who didn't upgrade were the confused or no-access users. I had access and the smarts but neither sent me the old computers. They'll be buying new laptops. Sure, they'll be faster and better but not that much faster IMO. (I have two desktops - one was Win7 with i7-4770K and I was shopping for the two-generations-newer i7-6700K I think, but I checked passmark site and the newer is maybe 10% faster.)
dilettante
MIS
Well if confusion etc. drives a new PC sale, Microsoft will probably call it a victory.
Some people are scary though. It is almost like somebody who buys a new car when the old one needs a set of tires. I'm not one for promoting the shade-tree PC repair market since they tend to overcharge and often push unneeded hardware upgrades, but for something like this... why not pay a reasonable fee for having it taken care of?
Some people are scary though. It is almost like somebody who buys a new car when the old one needs a set of tires. I'm not one for promoting the shade-tree PC repair market since they tend to overcharge and often push unneeded hardware upgrades, but for something like this... why not pay a reasonable fee for having it taken care of?
I upgraded for free to Windows 10.
1st Problem: could not use Microsoft Virtual XP so I installed Oracle VM
2nd Problem: On a remote site with little internet on my first journey out with windows 10 it decided that I needed to log on to Microsoft to be able to log on, fixed that one.
3rd Problem: The network priority does not work - you can work around it using Metric for each notwork but with many network connections both real and virtual this is a problem.
My opinion is that they are moving towards a Unix style GUI with requirements for to 'run as administrator' even though I am the admin on the PC.
The desktop does not suit me, it might suit a domestic user but not me.
So today I am not rolling back (I waited over a month to try it)
Fresh install of Win 7 and hopefully it wont ask me to upgrade to Win 10 until it is more mature.
1st Problem: could not use Microsoft Virtual XP so I installed Oracle VM
2nd Problem: On a remote site with little internet on my first journey out with windows 10 it decided that I needed to log on to Microsoft to be able to log on, fixed that one.
3rd Problem: The network priority does not work - you can work around it using Metric for each notwork but with many network connections both real and virtual this is a problem.
My opinion is that they are moving towards a Unix style GUI with requirements for to 'run as administrator' even though I am the admin on the PC.
The desktop does not suit me, it might suit a domestic user but not me.
So today I am not rolling back (I waited over a month to try it)
Fresh install of Win 7 and hopefully it wont ask me to upgrade to Win 10 until it is more mature.
Of the 12 I tried it was a mixed bag of results:
5 were disasters from 7P64 but upgraded from 7P32. Since reloaded to 7.
2 ended up with a completely different GUI/desktop
1 wouldn't activate 7, didn't bother trying any further
1 lost a MB since it was last turned on
Out of the 12 I probably put W7 on 20 times to work around the issues then let them update over the net. I did have install media but let the machines update like they would in customer sites.
Ended up a day before the deadline.
Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.
5 were disasters from 7P64 but upgraded from 7P32. Since reloaded to 7.
2 ended up with a completely different GUI/desktop
1 wouldn't activate 7, didn't bother trying any further
1 lost a MB since it was last turned on
Out of the 12 I probably put W7 on 20 times to work around the issues then let them update over the net. I did have install media but let the machines update like they would in customer sites.
Ended up a day before the deadline.
Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.
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