Should I have gotten the notification by now?. I see the little windows icon on the right side of the screen. But it just prompts me to let Microsoft notify me when its ready.
Windows 10 releasing tonight @ midnight. Are you intrigued yet?
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No, they said they were staggering the launch. I had to force mine with this:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
They don't want everyone hitting the servers at launch.
You can go here and manually dl it. That is what I did.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
Don't have it yet. I'll let you know though. I'm going to be putting my gtx 980 ti through a bunch of benchmarks.
So far according to Guru3D Windows 10 game improvements are NIL at the moment except for BF:Hardline.
To be expected considering lack of native Dx12 games.
Link to more benchmarks....
To be expected considering lack of native Dx12 games.
Link to more benchmarks....
Wow. He certainly makes a grand effort of pointing out its flaws. I guess we need people like this to improve the system though.
Didn't read all that, but their points about the start menu being a step back seem way off.
I think the interface is great and the best is it is customization so you can go more Win 7 type, or the newer, or even back to 8 if you like.
I never spent more than a second or two searching for anything. In Win 8 I still have to stumble around to find things.
As for bugs, well when people update an existing install, every single piece of software isn't going to work. I'm sure some morons are putting this on work/important PCs on day 1 and that's not wise. Wait for vendors to catch up.
Some people are just going to bash MS. That's just the way of the world.
Seems the machine I am going to update to Win 10 has all it's Win 10 drivers out, I am going to proceed once it gives me the green light.
My only problem was a slightly dated version of Symantec Endpoint AV and Firewall (corp version). A message came out and told me right away that it would cause problems and allowed me to uninstall.
Honestly I was shocked how well my update went.
Obviously the preview/beta has been out awhile so it isn't like vendors haven't been updating.
Things went smooth on my end. Working with my Radeon card and ran some Evil Within on Steam. Before, the game used to do brief loading pauses and now that's fixed.
One question I have is if only the first year is free ?
One question I have is if only the first year is free ?
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My favorites are saved in Chrome so it did not affect me. It kept my documents and applications / games. It popped a dialogue box for my video card, but I really didn't need to reinstall anything.
You keep Windows 10 forever, but you would have to make the upgrade within the first year period.
I upgraded from Windows 7 and all my documents, plus programs seemed to have carried over with no issues.
Everything came over for me. The setup asks you what you want to keep. I was going to see if my wife even noticed the difference.
My version finally activated too.
My version finally activated too.
Quite a few of my friends were asking this and I have been confused as to why people would think otherwise. Yes it does.
I've been using Windows 10 since build 9841 (since 10166 on my main computer). To everybody on the fence, I just want to say this one thing, and one thing only:
It's not a grand effort. It's ready to notice issues like the All Apps tab of the Start Menu not showing all of his applications because Microsoft put a limit of 500 applications on it.
What the F is up with the Runtime Broker process? It hogs like 40% CPU power. I had to disable it via the registry, but now the Start menu doesn't work.
I thought the Runtime Broker was simply for distributing access/rights for the apps? how the hell does that need 40% of the CPU power?
I thought the Runtime Broker was simply for distributing access/rights for the apps? how the hell does that need 40% of the CPU power?
You should have read the new EULA. Microsoft now reserves the right to search your computer for pirated software at will.
My main concern with upgrading my old Windows 7 PC to Windows 10 is making sure that I can still stream video from my Xbox 360. After reading a Microsoft help thread and some of the replies I think I'm going to pass. Seems like most of the people who responded were having major troubles. Since I basically use the PC to pay bills and stream stuff, its not worth it to mess with something that is working.
