Windows 10 Upgrade

[Garuda]

I thought I'd share my experiences with the Win 10 upgrade thus far.

I have a small home network with four computers: two still run windows 7. Two ran Windows 8.1.

I upgraded one laptop from 8.1 to 10, without any problems.
I did do the 'custom' upgrade instead of the express upgrade, and that allowed me to
a) keep all the default programs I was using
b) avoid activating those pesky privacy-robbing 'features'.
The whole process took about 1 and a half hours.

Today I upgraded my main PC, i.e. the one I constantly use.
Again, this was an upgrade from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10.
And again, the upgrade went smoothly, taking the same amount of time as was the case for the laptop.

What is annoying is that apparently none of the settings and data of the Windows 8.1 Metro / Modern Apps (from the Start Screen) are saved.
Each and every one of them gets replaced by a new Windows 10 version, that starts from scratch.
News, Sports, Weather, ... all had to be manually reconfigured.
Worse was that all the 'collections' I had made in the Food App (read recipes etc.) have gone too.
Apparently there are some freeware programs that allow you to keep and/or upgrade some of the old Apps, with their settings.
You may want to install that before upgrading if you have information in your apps that you want to keep.

What is a bit perplexing, too, is that the title bars in all windows now, by default, are white.
The remedy for that is to either use themes, or to use a (freeware) utility like Winaero.

Speaking of themes: none of the Windows 7 / 8.1 themes I had installed seem to work anymore.
I had to manually reactivate the background slideshow, and manually select the folder to choose the images from.
And unlike in Win 7 and 8.1. you can no longer select which images in a folder are shown: in win 10, all are shown.

Apart from that, everything seems to be working fine.

Edge (the new browser) is an oddity. You can't use it to open local HTML files. Well, you can, but it won't read other files it links to: CSS, JavaScript, images... all of which I typically use. So it's useless to open local HTML files.
(And, funnily enough, Edge then offers you the option to open the files in Internet Explorer instead).

[calikid]

Useful info. I too have upgraded from Win8.1 to Win10 on my HP Stream7 tablet. Much smoother than my Win7 to Win8 upgrade where MS Office2007 disappeared from my system! Chosen to wait awhile on my main i7 desktop system running Win8.1Pro with Media Center.
Anyone out there upgrading from Win7 to Win10 that can share your experience?

[Garuda]

Good to note: once the upgrade was installed, there was no loss of productivity.

When I got my first machine with Windows 8, things were different: there was a considerable loss of productivity. because you were constantly confronted with 'what the ...' moments where you either couldn't find out how to do things you wanted, or you were confronted with unpredictable reactions from the machine.

So the transition to Windows 10 is smoother.

[Garuda]

Useful info. I too have upgraded from Win8.1 to Win10 on my HP Stream7 tablet. Much smoother than my Win7 to Win8 upgrade where MS Office2007 disappeared from my system! Chosen to wait awhile on my main i7 desktop system running Win8.1Pro with Media Center.
Anyone out there upgrading from Win7 to Win10 that can share your experience?

I may upgrade one of my Win7 machines over the weekend.
If I do, I'll keep you posted.

(The other one is too old. I would have to add at least 1GB more RAM for it to be able to get the upgrade, but it's 8 years old so I won't bother).

[Garuda]

Further update: Apparently during the upgrade process, some files got corrupted, which caused two programs to crash.
(One of those two was Dreamweaver, which I use on a daily basis).

It's unclear whether it was the newer patches for Win 10 that corrupted the files or whether it was the actual upgrade.

Anyway, a 'sfc / scannow' from an admin command prompt fixed those, and now the programs work again.

[Garuda]

Two useful links with regard to Privacy and Windows 10:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-...ranoids-guide/

http://www.zdnet.com/article/want-to...-app-for-that/

[calikid]

Further update: Apparently during the upgrade process, some files got corrupted, which caused two programs to crash.
(One of those two was Dreamweaver, which I use on a daily basis).

It's unclear whether it was the newer patches for Win 10 that corrupted the files or whether it was the actual upgrade.

Anyway, a 'sfc / scannow' from an admin command prompt fixed those, and now the programs work again.

I just ordered up a new SSD for my primary system.
Figure to preserve Win8.1 disk.
If the Win10Pro upgrade kills my RATs, I'll be out of business!

[Garuda]

Some further updates:

1. Some fonts have gone missing. All fonts that were not installed in the default fonts folder are no longer available.
(It's not really that much of a problem in my specific case, as they're all together in a separate folder so I can just read them all in again).

2. Art work for CD sleeves has gone missing, too. For about a dozen albums Media Player had not found the album art, so I had looked for it on the Net, and then copied and pasted it in Media Player. You guessed it: those were gone, too, and had to be redone.

[newyorklily]

Further update:
- on the Lenovo Win 10 is rock solid
- on my custom PC, it is not. Every other day some program either crashes, or more often freezes for up to 2 minutes.

I also discovered that my microphone no longer works in Firefox and Chrome.
(I used to use an online app to tune my guitar, but that's no longer possible).
In Skype and other programs, the mic still works.

Maybe it works in Skype because Skype is from Microsoft?

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[newyorklily]

Also, I've heard that free apps are disappearing because there is going to be a charge for apps now. Has anyone else heard this? Is it true?

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