i was a hanger on, maybe had 10 a year now, but it's alright! I find having almost 2 sets of settings annoying - one old style standard windows and one set of "tablet" settings. why i can't turn the second set off i don't know. otherwise, it's excellent.
Looks Like I’ll Finally Have Run Windows 10...
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****. I might be in the same boat.I am still on windows 7. When i went to check my motherboard they have not got any drivers for windows 10. So it has to be a new motherboard etc to move onto windows 10 in the future
Can you please share the link to where you checked for drivers?
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****. I think I might be in the same boat.
This is my motherboard https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-P35-DS4-rev-11#ov . Goto support and from there you can choose drivers for the operating system you would use. As you can see i need a new motherboard
Had a quick look at your motherboard and they do window 10 drivers here https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P8P67/HelpDesk_Download/ so you be fine upgrading
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Have a look for the LTSC version of Windows 10. I tried both Pro and LTSC and the difference is night and day. The amount of garbage that comes pre-installed with the Home/Pro versions is disgusting.
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Thanks all for your help.
Good to know that my MB is compatible.
Good to know that my MB is compatible.
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At the cost for a license for LTSC it isn’t worth it. It’s used in businesses who need to strip the content.
You can do yourself with a script though.
Still Windows 7 on my main desktop - I have a bunch of systems on 10 from tablets to desktop and still hate it - even with newer updates still an eyesore compared to 7 and running multiple systems the amount of times update messes up is ridiculous - for instance I've got a couple of systems that periodically force 2004 on me but fail mid-update and revert with no explanation then says it isn't available for a few weeks before doing the same thing all over again.
One of the reasons I've not hurried to move my gaming machine on from X79 despite having other newer hardware based systems as newer hardware needs 10 really. I literally breath a sigh of relief every time I move back to my Windows 7 PC from using one of the others.
Also some of the security vulnerabilities that crop up on 10 make a mockery of it being a newer, actively supported OS even if they do get patched fairly quickly in most cases - too many should never exist in the first place and some are definitely being exploited so I highly recommend running the latest updates :s I have no idea why they get so little attention.
One of the reasons I've not hurried to move my gaming machine on from X79 despite having other newer hardware based systems as newer hardware needs 10 really. I literally breath a sigh of relief every time I move back to my Windows 7 PC from using one of the others.
Also some of the security vulnerabilities that crop up on 10 make a mockery of it being a newer, actively supported OS even if they do get patched fairly quickly in most cases - too many should never exist in the first place and some are definitely being exploited so I highly recommend running the latest updates :s I have no idea why they get so little attention.
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What do you get when you download the free Windows 10 upgrade from Microsoft?
Is it a full install iso or just a Win 7 > Win 10 iso?
If it’s the latter, I’ll pick up a sensibly priced Win 10 key from somewhere as I want a fresh install on a new SSD.
Is it a full install iso or just a Win 7 > Win 10 iso?
If it’s the latter, I’ll pick up a sensibly priced Win 10 key from somewhere as I want a fresh install on a new SSD.
Yeah 7 you set it up, make a few tweaks the OS respects the end user, 10 you are MS's bitch with little to no respect for the end user and quality of life improvements (like the changes to update scheduling, etc.) mostly coming only when the source can't simply be ignore i.e. high profile streamers.
I am still on windows 7. When i went to check my motherboard they have not got any drivers for windows 10. So it has to be a new motherboard etc to move onto windows 10 in the future
Shouldn't be an issue, got a family member running my old Q6600 (from 2007!) system on Windows 10 no issues at all.
Yeah I've stuck some LGA775 systems on Windows 10 and no issues in respect to drivers. However they are prominent amongst the systems that have a somewhat common recurring issues of the start menu and/or Windows explorer increasingly becoming sporadically unresponsive - supposedly fixed with a more recent update but I'm still sometimes seeing cases of it - for some reason those systems are plagued by it - a fresh install only solves it for a few weeks until it starts coming back. I ended up putting my old Q9550 system back on Windows 7 because of it.
Do the update, then download the iso and do a fresh install. It licenses against your hardware so will activate automatically, but I think you have to do the free upgrade first, if that makes sense. The free upgrade still works, I did one just this past weekend.
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Windows 10 will run on pretty much anything. You don't even need drivers half of the time. I only ever install GPU drivers and AVG and I'm away gaming as usual.