Windows 10

Windows has just offered me the upgrade to Windows 10 on my main work laptop. Its currently Windows 7 Pro which is fine, although not perfect.

What are the chances that the Windows 10 upgrade will resolve my longstanding issues with bluetooth drivers? Its a Dell Latitude E7440. Also Bonjour Services never seem to work for me.... might this be sorted with the upgrade?

I may try it out for a day then roll back if i don't like it.
 
Well that was easy and quick!. It's certainly speedy and I like what I see. The retail Pro clean install done and a shame the upgrade didn't work but it's a fresh start. Now for the time consuming reinstall of all my applications.
 
I managed to get a dell e4200 and fixed it up, put windows 10 on there. Its a nice little laptop and runs windows 10 quite smooth. I think it was one of the first laptops to be sold with SSD. Its not amazing but light enough to carry around, only downside is that its got a foreign keyboard but i can still use it. Dated August 2008. Can get them for £70 on ebay. No drivers officially available for it but all worked on win10.
 
:( one note app has stopped working, just get the spinning circle forever. Thought I would just uninstall and reinstall, but you can uninstall built in apps and googles not being useful, any idea or better googlefoo.
 
Okay, so I haven't kept up to date with pretty much anything since becoming aware of windows 10, but to sum up, is it a) worth the change, or does it require a little more time for refinement, and b), when installing, does everything (win 7) get wiped - like when formatting / normal fresh install?
 
A) I find it fine and have been using it on all of my devices for some time now.
B) It's an upgrade. When you've upgraded you can create the media so you can do a 'clean' install but, initially, it's an upgrade which keeps all of your files and applications - some applications may not be compatible and may need upgrading though. Though I don't think I've found anything massively problematic since upgrading.



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Upgraded fine on my work laptop from 8.1 Pro so decided to do it on my win 7 desktop (which I haven't been using too much of late to be honest apart from managing my music) and its been a bit of a nightmare. Start menu, settings, search etc weren't working, tried a few solutions none worked (one involved creating a new user account but that had to be done through settings and i couldn't open settings...) and couldn't go back to windows 7 because that option was supposed to be in the settings app as well - had a bit of time today so was messing about with starting in safe mode and next time I rebooted it had an episode and won't boot at all now. So fine I thought I'll just restore it from my WHS backup but to do that I need to download the drivers from a backup and it now keeps giving me an error in dashboard when I try to access the backup from my now win 10 laptop, grrr...
 
Well, Win 10 crashed again for me. 2nd time since i installed it on 29th July. Said no boot device found but i just rebooted and it all came back ok!
 
Well it was running fine for me ... and then it decided to install patches when I resumed from hibernation earlier. 40mins later my laptop was almost back to normal other then the cooling fan screaming ... and looking I see it has some more patches it wants to install.

I don;t have a problem with them pushing out patches but you created this notification area so give me a notification to say you have updates waiting so I can turn the machine early and let it deal with it before I actually need to use it.
 
So far everything is working as it should. Feels very smooth and now time to look at some customising.

One thing I have noticed from this clean install is that Windows Update is no longer present in the 'old' Control Panel. Does an upgrade still keep it there?
 
Saw this over at Anandtech forums,http://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 ,


O&O ShutUp10 means you have full control over which comfort functions under Windows 10 you wish to use, and you decide when the passing on of your data goes too far. Using a very simple interface, you decide how Windows 10 should respect your privacy by deciding which unwanted functions should be deactivated.
Click to expand...

Yes it is free.
 
So I reserved my copy of Windows 10, it downloaded and asked me to reboot. I said no...3 days later I say yes, go on then reboot and install...it reboots and starts to re-download Windows 10. (sigh)

Let's hope it gets better than this.
 
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