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Steven (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
#151: Aug 5th 2015 at 3:32:31 PM

It keeps everything you have on your hard drive. It only reformats it if you want to do a clean install.

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Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#152: Aug 5th 2015 at 4:24:35 PM

Either way, back up anything you do not want to lose just in case.

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#153: Aug 5th 2015 at 8:17:13 PM

So after getting Best Buy to fix my computer and install Windows 10 properly I've gotten a chance to try it out. So far I like it. The lack of a start menu is good although I wish I could get rid of the "Search the web and Windows" bar in the corner. Is Microsoft Edge as great as I've heard? I tend to use Firefox but might switch if it's really that good.

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#154: Aug 6th 2015 at 12:15:34 AM

Perhaps they could store it in the Start menu or something.

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#155: Aug 6th 2015 at 12:43:54 AM

[up]x5 you will only lose data if you are upgrading from XP which is the same as upgrading to Vista and up as they use a different data system.

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#156: Aug 6th 2015 at 1:20:50 AM

You can get rid of the search bar in the corner by unpinning it from the task bar, that's one of the first things I did.

edited 6th Aug '15 1:21:09 AM by Silasw

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#157: Aug 6th 2015 at 4:10:30 AM

[up][up]That's odd, I was able to upgrade from XP to Vista without losing any data. I thought the OS that had a dramatically different file storage system was Windows 9x with the FAT16/32 system?

Addendum to that: And that's how I managed to go from XP to 7 without losing any data, namely by using Vista as a halfway point...

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#158: Aug 6th 2015 at 7:26:30 AM

So I got the notification that my free upgrade to Windows 10 is ready today. What's the general assessment of this new iteration?

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Steven (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
#159: Aug 6th 2015 at 7:44:11 AM

It runs pretty well for the most part. The revised Start menu is miles better than the silly Start screen, though it's not like the old Start menu from eons past.

Edge is ok, but it's terrible with organizing bookmarks and it had put my list of bookmarks from Chrome in reverse order.

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MarqFJA The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer from Deserts of the Middle East (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
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#160: Aug 6th 2015 at 10:14:58 AM

Wait, are you comparing to Win 7 or Win 8? Because I've been using the former since I bought this comp in 2012.

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#161: Aug 6th 2015 at 10:27:36 AM

My download finished yesterday; I'm going to wait until tomorrow to install though.

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#162: Aug 6th 2015 at 11:20:23 AM

I'd give Windows 10 a try, but on my Windows 7 laptop when I try to open the 'Get Windows 10' window in the bottom right all I get is a spinning loading icon that never stops, so it never loads. Can't find specific results on this problem on Google either.

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#163: Aug 6th 2015 at 3:07:34 PM

What's the background footprint on this? I might bite if it uses less RAM when idle.

Krieger22 Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018 from Malaysia Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
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#164: Aug 8th 2015 at 3:44:40 AM

My laptop went from Windows 8.1 Pro to Windows 10 Home.

Am I missing out on anything? My memory could be a bit rusty...

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#165: Aug 8th 2015 at 4:40:21 AM

Yeah, if you had 8.1 Pro you should've gotten 10 Pro.

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#166: Aug 8th 2015 at 7:20:00 AM

Question: If I were to download the 64bit iso, would I be able to do a clean install and get 64bit for free that way? My current system is only 32bit, but I plan to do some major upgrades in the near future that would let me take advantage of 64bit.

Krieger22 Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018 from Malaysia Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
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#167: Aug 8th 2015 at 7:57:58 AM

[up]From the articles I've seen, you can choose whether you want to create install media for 32-bit or 64-bit versions of Windows 10. You still are limited in terms of the edition (Home or Pro) you can upgrade to, though.

As to my problems, a restore yielded a single-language Windows 8.1. Well, I'm commiting regardless...

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Wyldchyld (Old as dirt)
#168: Aug 8th 2015 at 11:16:07 AM

Hm. I'm on a 32-bit Vista machine. It looks like I'm better off buying a brand new computer than upgrading to Windows 10. Everyone I've spoken to seem to quite like Windows 10, certainly in preference to 7 or 8, anyway.

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#169: Aug 8th 2015 at 11:21:31 AM

If you're on Vista you're not going to be able to upgrade anyway.

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MarqFJA The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer from Deserts of the Middle East (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
#170: Aug 8th 2015 at 11:23:02 AM

So does anyone have a reliable pros-vs-cons comparison between Win 7 and Win 10? I don't want to make the switch only to find that I was better off with the old one.

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Wyldchyld (Old as dirt)
#172: Aug 8th 2015 at 11:42:36 AM

Yeah, I did the compatibility check just out of curiosity, and the report back was that I could upgrade my machine from Vista - but I would have to buy the upgrade product. I don't see the point, given how old my machine is. My graphics card can't handle Vista updates without crashing my media players, so I'd have to buy a new graphics card anyway. I've held off buying the new computer until I heard what Windows 10 was like, but I'm buying a new house at the moment, so I may as well throw in a new computer while I'm at it... and may be set up a computer/tv entertainment centre in the new house. Yeah, that sounds like a plan, actually.

edited 8th Aug '15 11:45:01 AM by Wyldchyld

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MarqFJA The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer from Deserts of the Middle East (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
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#173: Aug 8th 2015 at 11:55:40 AM

[up][up] I assume that you're responding to the poster above that post of mine.

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#174: Aug 9th 2015 at 7:41:56 AM

Windows 10's compatibility with some modern games appears to be a little dicey. Criterion Games' Need for Speed: Most Wanted almost always crashes on launch, and then loads and plays normally on the second attempt.

Is there some command to get the task manager to be able to display in full screen mode like in Windows 8.1? I've managed to become stuck several times because the task manager wasn't what the computer focused on no matter how much I tried.

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#175: Aug 9th 2015 at 2:44:29 PM

here's a list of games that have been verified to be compatible, keep in mind that some of them may not work on your computer after updating, even if it says they should.

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