Anyone upgrading to Windows 10?


 
I'm planning on it. My PC of 6 years crashed earlier ths year. I restored it with the CDs I had,but recently,it was getting worse. If I was lucky,it would only crash once a night! I got a new one two months ago,and when I was setting it up,it said that I'd get Windows 10 for free when it came out. I'll probably do it this weekend.
 
Phil Perrin said:
I'm planning on it. My PC of 6 years crashed earlier ths year. I restored it with the CDs I had,but recently,it was getting worse. If I was lucky,it would only crash once a night! I got a new one two months ago,and when I was setting it up,it said that I'd get Windows 10 for free when it came out. I'll probably do it this weekend.
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Nice - let us know how you like it (I will too!)

Bob Correll said:
Not unless they stop supporting 7.
And I can get 10 for free.
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It's free with win7 & newer, at least for the first year.

I'm a big fan on win7, other than the hardware restrictions. With XP I could build a bunch of machines, clone a drive several times, & pop them in no problem -OR- say you have a motherboard go out with win7, or wanted to use a different processor. You can't! (at least I had a lot of trouble). And then the pesky "this copy of windows is not genuine", even though it was, the boxes were just disconnected from the internet & microsoft didn't like that.
 
I have been a Mac User for a long time, but they seem to have gone from "the computer for the rest of us" to just being all about the money.
My laptop is over 6 years old, and I will check out the new Windows 10 as I shop for another.
 
Bob H. said:
I have been a Mac User for a long time, but they seem to have gone from "the computer for the rest of us" to just being all about the money.
My laptop is over 6 years old, and I will check out the new Windows 10 as I shop for another.
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Yeah, I miss Apple's "underdog" mentality from years past. I'm still runnin' Snow Leopard 10.6.8 because my Mac Book will only upgrade to Lion, while my iMac can go to the current OS. Tried Lion but my internet kept dropping so I went back to SL. My iPod is limited to IOS 5...seems Apple makes owners buy new hardware by not supporting older hardware when they release new software. And my old hardware still works great!

And it's not just Apple...my Canon film and photo scanner won't work if I upgrade past SL. So here I sits....:confused:
 
Might look at 10 because 8.1 is such a PITA, I use desktop which is kinda, sorta, almost nearly like XP.
 
I tried a few times today - now I'm trying the iso file (optical disc image). Many errors so far.
 
I made the mistake of upgrading to 8.1 which is better than 8.0 but not better than 7. I am downloading 10 to a DVD as I post this - with finger crossed :cool:
 
good luck! I keep getting error messages............ I've downloaded Win10 Pro 64 bit twice to a flash drive but wasn't able to get it to boot from it, so I clicked on the exe & it said click on the 64 bit option (downloaded this twice). I downloaded both versions, downloaded the iso (disc image), selected "upgrade now".... all with errors from can't initialize the db to "Something Wrong".

I guess that's what happens to early adopters :)

I want a clean install.... if you get it to work let me know and I'll try it again
 
I've heard you can upgrade for free within a year, my IT guy suggested I wait until they have everything more fine tuned
 
I was gonna download it this weekend,but have been hearing some issues. So I'm gonna wait a few before I pull the trigger.
 
I plan to upgrade my desktop (running 8.1) and my wife's laptop (running Win 7) just to get them both on the same system. Win 8.1 is fine if you run it in desktop mode. Win 7 is fine, too, but it's a pain in the rear when I have to troubleshoot or make any changes on the laptop just because of the little differences. I spend more time figuring out how to do in Win 7 what I could do in half the time in 8.1. We have two identical tablets running the same version of Android, and that makes life a lot easier for the spouse who has to answer all the "how do I do this" or "why won't it (fill in the blank)" or "what is this little icon that just appeared" questions.
 
upgraded the surface pro 3, two desktops, one laptop, and a win tablet already with it. I like it. The price was right, too. Too bad my work surface pro 3 wont allow the upgrade due to corp policy ..
 
Something to remember

I seem to learn things the hard way most of the time so hopefully this will help someone out.

In order to use your older-version windows key (7, 8, 8.1) you first need to do the "upgrade" option from your old software, verify that your windows 10 copy is activated, then you can do your clean install.

I didn't do that - I booted from the flash drive, formatted my 250gb SSD drive, & it just wouldn't accept my code. So I skipped it, finished the install, & it still wouldn't accept the code. It was happy to offer a link to buy a license for $199....which I considered for almost 10 seconds.

So I re-installed win7, activated win7, rebooted and then did the upgrade from win7 to win10. I tried to do a clean install (format the drive again) but it wouldn't accept my key.

I'll probably just run it like this. I'm kind of kicking myself...and no, Windows 10 is not FREE in any stretch of the imagination. Without an activated copy you can't even change the display resolution.

I'm kind of kicking myself for even doing the update but now is as good as time as any, I guess.
 
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