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Windows 10

Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2019 10:02pm
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Boca J

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Has any one experience with Windows 10 ? How is it compared to Windows 7 ? Easier to use ?

I have Windows 7 at present, got a message from Microsoft that their support will end in January. They recommend to buy new computer with Windows 10. Any one else received same message ?

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Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2019 10:33pm

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Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2019 10:33pm

Windows 10 is good. It is easy to use.

It contains all sorts of features that Windows 7 doesn't have (and that most people don't need).

It overcomes the deficiencies of the Windows 8 iterations.

It is very resource/storage hungry. You will need to take care when you choose your new PC. I bought a Win10 PC 18 months ago, and the major retailers were selling machines that were falling over after six months, when Windows downloaded an upgrade. 

In reality, your Win7 machine is ancient (in PC terms).

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Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2019 11:00pm

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Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2019 11:00pm

Did you buy in Spain ? Which make ? What specifications ?

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Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2019 11:38pm

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Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2019 11:38pm

Sorry, no. I bought it in England (John Lewis).

If you buy a cheap Win10 laptop, it will likely only have 32GB of storage. This will only cope with social media, email etc. If you load any significant applications (e.g. MS Office or Garmin Maps), there will be insufficient storage to deal with routine Windows updates. 

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I originally took part in the development programme for W10, running it in a virtual machine so it didn't impact on my W7 installation. In the early days it was terrible, but it's improved a lot since.

It all depends on how techie you are. If you're the average user then it's perfectly OK, with some good features, but also some unwanted ones.

For me it takes too much control out of my hands and has some very poor features.

I was actually pleased when routine support for Windows 7 was dropped, because some of the updates overwrote registry changes I'd made and I had to redo them. In spite of them terminating security updates, I'll stay with W7 until my computer dies of old age and over work. 

When support for XP ended, there was a lot of speculation about XP users being vulnerable to attack, but nobody I know ever had a problem.

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Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2019 9:05am

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Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2019 9:05am

At some stage you will have to change to W10. I cannot take the risk of losing Microsoft support.

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Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2019 1:17pm

"At some stage you will have to change to W10" 

Speak for yourself! 

I'm with Jim and for those of us with knowledge and awareness to look after ourselves the imminent loss of support for 7 is a complete irrelevance and non event. 

I run a desktop and two laptops on 7 and haven't done any MS updates whatsoever on any for a very long time and even before that I NEVER EVER allowed auto updates

If for some reason 7 did become non viable (although I can't imagine how that might be) I absolutely would NOT be taking up 10, it would be Linux for me and to develop my competence with OS I've been playing around with various distro for some time.

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Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2019 1:55pm

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Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2019 1:55pm

So those who have already switched to W10 (and have only good things to say about it) are misinformed ?

See comment from Kelvin1960 above.

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Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2019 2:43pm

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Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2019 2:43pm

I'm not implying that anyone is misinformed. But if you're someone who understands computer operating systems enough to be able to tweak them to personal requirements, then W10 has removed some of that capability.

To give a simple example, in W7 I've got my start menu organised into folders, containing over 300 items, and sized it such that when I open it, I can see the full folder list. That isn't possible in W10, and to open a program I'd have to scroll down a long list. If the day comes when I have to switch to W10, I'd have to install a third-party program like Classic Shell in order to give me the functionality I want.

As I said earlier, W10 is fine for the majority of users, but not for me.

Like Movington, I'd consider running a Linux distro, probably with the Wine compatibility layer so that I could run Windows programs.

And related to the above, I will whatever happens continue to run Microsoft Office 2007. That does exactly what I want, after I'd tweaked a lot of the settings, whereas I hate later Office versions.

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Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2019 3:13pm

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Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2019 3:13pm

Perhaps I should think twice before going for W10. In truth I am quite happy with W7, but this message from Microsoft has got me worried.

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