Should i download windows 10?
There were never any compatibility issues to begin with, I play everything and I never had any problems.
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what about old drms like SecuROM? i've read somewhere that M$ removed support for those, so you can't run old games (well at least those original, digital rereleases on steam/origin/uplay/gog probably will work)
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This is true ... I personally don't care and use no CD crack. It is even more comfortable. Some publishers published patches for the old games to remove DRM.
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to tell the truth, I haven't played anything from CD for quite a long time
but I also nearly always have used no cd cracks if the game was asking for it
it's good to know that there are companies that release those patches
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I also think it is good. There was even an official noCD-Crack from Rockstar for GTA IV in the past, but they revoked it later for some reason ...
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ok, didn't know that
I am celebrating my last days on XP ^_^ finally, after 11(?) years, I am buying new hardware :D probably with Win10 so ...
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XP.. shudder I mean it was a good OS (eventually, I remember XP RTM and SP1, made Vista look polished).. But it's scary now lol
10 isn't that bad. It's different, sure, and has a few less Techie-friendly (forced updates for example), but as someone who provides tech support to my family, and others, I know why they did it lol. Once you get passed the UI changes, it's really good imho :)
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Yeah, there are some games that are hard to run ... but by now google helped in any case to ge it running ...
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The only Windows OS that ever came out decent on day one was 7. People forget that.
Windows 95 took 2 releases, 98 needed SE, ME was never fixed, 2k didn't get good still SP2, XP was a nightmare in RTM and SP1, SP2 is where it became the OS everyone loved. Vista needed SP1, 8 was just messed up from the start.
As someone who has used every Windows on launch (and several times in Beta), Windows 10 is only second to 7 for release day stability, and thats only improving with the Nov update, and now the new Anniversary update this August.
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LOL!
Going through your list brought back sooooooo many memories.... Were you also there for the fun days of the MS DOS releases? D
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Nope, I started with 95. Before that I used some old Mac's at school. Got some DOS/MSDOS and 3.11 experience on the awesome old Mac's that had the 386 card letting them run both OS's at the same time.. good times.
95RTM though.. oh man.. Plug and Pray indeed. Also fun times with ISA slots, and setting IRQ Switched on the cards so the modem and soundcard wouldn't conflict lol
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I used PCDOS4 until MS DOS 6.22 came out - after that was window 3.1 then 3.11 for those network games, Doom 2 RoT etc - setting up the NE2000 cards was always a nightmare. 95 Made it easier. 98SE was probably the best OS Ever until you upgrade past a 400Mhz chip.
After that they all sucked ME was the worst - until 8.1 - that was good. But I've been using 10 now since release and It's very stable.
Just installed Ubuntu this afternoon though - and it was hell to start with - slowly getting there but I can't see myself getting rid of Windows for a while yet.
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It's usable, but there are still issues present.
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Nothing locks up randomly and there's no problem with sound. Your Windows installation or hardware must be broken. You can turn off driver updates easily. But its true, that CCleaner can damage system registry. Also there's no need to use it. Even a registry full of trash and leftovers won't slow down your system :)
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I get it all the time. A quick fix for lockup on start menu is to run powershell and paste
Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}
And before anyone asks, clean install. Happened on a laptop I upgraded, and a new computer I built.
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What the fuck are you using? did you upgrade from win 7 or what?
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Microsoft recently released a fix for this recently.
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If Ccleaner is outdated then yes it will be removed.
Solution: update Ccleaner before upgrading.
Source: personal experience.
Other than that, I haven't seen issues you listed. Perhaps try to reset your own Windows 10 PC first to see if it goes away?
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It was never broken. There is the odd program that has issues, but as someone who has upgraded >400 computers to 10, apart from OEM Crapware, I've only come across 2 programs that had an issue, both office related, both XP erra.
Unless you are using really obscure and old software, it'll be fine.
Really the best thing you can do is upgrade, if you don't like it you have a few weeks where you can rollback to your previous version of Windows.
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Voted: Yes, go ahead and download.
even if you don't want it ;P
why? upgrade to Win10, get the key/serial, reinstall to 8.1, you will use this key, when you will be sure, that you're ready for Win10
don't ask me how to get the key/serial, I've read it somewhere, you'll have to look for it yourself
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When W10 is installed, it validates with a server based on your PC components. So when you later re-install windows 10, skip the 2 places it asks for a serial and just install. Then when W10 is installed it will communicate with the server and see that your PC is validated and get the serial. Works if you want to do a clean install after the upgrade (like me).
Also if you have 'simple' XP software you need to run, you can always use VirtualBox (with 'simple' meaning that it has restrictions and lag, so you don't want anything with critical timing. For example an audio editor works in VirtualBox, the sound is just a bit later than it should).
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Why would anyone want to reinstall to win8.1/win7? A reinstall wrecks the system, uninstalling all programs--it takes hours and hours to get the system back to its original state. I suppose one could do a full image drive backup, then restore the old image file.
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whatever you will do, you'll be back to you old OS that way, and that's what I meant, method doesn't matter here
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They will charge companies monthly fee at some point (just like for Office 365) - people already found files with "substription fees" in Insider program.
The only question is - will MS start to require subscriptions for their service (when they already stated that they won't release WIn 11, so WIn 10 will be their last OS)? I find it probable. How else they're going to make money, when people won't have to buy new OS every 3 - 4 years? Only alternative are ads all over the system.
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There is a difference between companies and common users. I highly doubt anyone would pay a monthly fee to use a computer to watch cat gifs and play Candy Crush. I also doubt that Microsoft would even consider screwing their customers like that. Their PR would take a huge hit and we would see tons of people transfer to Linux.
As for the companies, I have no idea what they may do and I will avoid commenting on that.
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Gamers won't turn to Linux, as there are no big AAA games on linux.
Elderly people won't change to Linux, as they were most of the time barely able to get how to use Windows menu start to open up google and browse through cooking recipes.
Lots of young people won't turn into Linux, as they are used to Windows, and they can'e even do something as basic as fully format harddrive. Not to mention install new OS which needs some tweaks.
So no, MS can do whatever it want and noone will stood agains them. As they have total monopoly on OS market.
And MS will find a way to monetize Win10. They're multi million company, which needs to constantly raise their income to make investors happy and pay them divident. They won't be able to do it if they will offer OS for free to >500 mln of users. So it's either ads or subscription.
Maybe it's gonna be "ads in some places and free OS OR small subscription and no ads". That's most reasonable way in my opinion.
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I agree with your points yet I don't see MS forcing people to pay a monthly fee in order to use their OS. They had the absolute monopoly more than 10 years now, yet they never did anything like that. I just don't see them doing now either as it is a suicide.
BTW if this ever happens, the piracy on Windows would skyrocket (not that now it is not high).
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People had different opinions back then and there was no high-speed internet. Right now it's normal to pay subscriptions to have programs, which don't belong to you in any way and you can't use them after you'd stop to pay for them. Office 365, CAD, Photoshop and so on are all based on subscription model.
Something which was unacceptable few years ago is normal now. Like multiplayer on PS. On PS3 it was free, and because it was "pay to be able to pay" on Xbox Sony changed their strategy and people started to happily pay for PS+ just to play in multiplayer games on their consoles. If it wouldn't be succesfull Sony would resign from it to rescue their PR and good name. But people pay for it without starting riots, Sony is making more money so everyone is "happy".
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I was hesitant myself about whether to upgrade or not. I eventually did and I wouldn't say I ever regretted it.
IMO, it is extremely great OS. It is what 8.1 should have been in the first place. Only issue I came across with is the search which sometimes just outright refuses to locate an .exe but finds the folder the .exe is located in.
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They are often called Orthodox File Managers, originating way before the Windows era, but useful even today.
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Ah, Norton clones <3 Second program I install on a new PC (after a proper browser).
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Many of the people I know do, but strangely almost nobody at my work place use the local favourite, Total Commander (it has probably over 90% of the orthodox file manager share in this country). Honestly, I can hardly use Windows explorer any more if I need to.
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Win 8 is like Vista.
win 8.1 is a bit better.
win 10 is similar to win7 imo...
either go back to 7 or go 10. and yes, i've had them all (well, expect Vista, i wouldn't go near that thing)
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My Vista crashed like 4 times in 3 years. Same for Win 7. Win XP was crashing a lot more, and one dead process was able to hang the the entire system. Win 8 I have skipped, because the new interface was too much for me. Win 10 is OK, nothing spectacular, but you can see improvement. Anyways, most people hating Vista had shitty low end computers, and the new OS was demanding (full of new features and stuff).
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I was using Vista for many years on something that I'd not call a low end computer. It had it's problems, mostly not responding processes that could just get your whole computer stuck but I'd not describe it as not usable as many people tend to do.
It was the step forward from the XP interface (which I really didn't like) and it was offering a lot of new features. It was indeed demanding for back then yet I don't think that this justifies some flaws it had. Thankfully they improved Vista and gave us W7 :D
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but vista wasn't a complete OS.
it was made of patches. that alone should deter people...
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If you perform a clean install (as is tradition), then you won't have any problems (probably).
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No. I bought a new windows 10 laptop and it had wifi connection issues out of the box.
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oh yeah on any upgrade or custom install i can easily see driver issues especially in 64bit os versions, but he said out of the box. out of the box windows 10 laptop would mean it already had windows 10 installed and the proper drivers installed straight from the manufacturer, err well at least if the manufacturer is any good (in which case i'd lay blame on them rather then MS)..
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It makes sense to stick to 7, but from 8? Just do it.
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counter question: is win 7 fixed?
windows will never be "fixed"
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Rock solid and every game I've tried so far worked fine here. I'd say it's very much 'safe' to use.
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I've had it since day one and haven't had any issues. All my games have worked fine so far
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fwiw, I updated from XP to Win 10 just a few months back w/ new system build and have had no problems at all. It's very friendly to someone who's comfortable w/ XP.. I undertand there may be some issues with older software (like my Outlook 2003 won't work, and my Money 2001 wouldn't install), but that's going to be expected. As a plus my Excel 2003 still runs fine.
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office 2003 was the pinnacle to me. I got lost w/ the ribbon
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I have Libre Office too, but I use Excel a lot and it's just so much more functional than Libre Office for what I need to do. I'll try to use Excel 2003 until the sad day that it just won't run anymore. I actually like google docs best for basic word processing - simple for what I need. I looked at updating to most recent Office, but MS wants to charge so much (or wants subscription model) that I'll stick w/ what I have since I like it and it works fine.
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Never have problems with Windows 10 so anecdotally, get it.
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I have been riding on Windows 8.1 for a while now and I haven't upgraded to windows 10 because many people have been saying it comes with compatibility issues. So is it safe to download yet or should I wait?
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