Thoughts about Windows 10

I'm dual booting Win7/10. I'm happy with Win7, but eventually everything will move over to 10, so I've grabbed it whilst it's free. If I had to choose between the two, I'd stay with Win7 for now.

 

Only if you would like the upgrade to be free during the first year, then yes but you still have 10-11 months to do the upgrade.

 

You can revert back.

 

That's exactly what I was looking for. I'll hold off for now.

I knew there was a 1 year period. When I upgrade it will be within that time period.

Good to know. Thanks

I mean I know I'll upgrade eventually. But it seems the older I get; I'm more resistant to change. Maybe I'm just lazy

 

Anybody had this error when clicking on the Start bar in Windows 10?
"Critical Error: Start menu and Cortana aren't working. We'll try to fix it the next time you sign in."
Restarting doesn't work, also at the same time Firefox kept insisting it wasn't the default browser?
There seems to be a lot of different solution on the web for this. What worked for me was "system restore" just went back a couple of days.
Everything has been allright since, tempting fate here

 

Only on the basis that support for Windows 7 will end; mainstream support is finished, and critical updates appear to be ok until 2020 (if the article I read was correct). Only benefit really for upgrade is it is free and being developed for.

As to legit, i'd certainly expect those using a cracked version will definitely need the upgrade, i've legit versions but will still upgrade when it offers me to.

Yes, I believe you can force the upgrade however i'd suspect it is more sensible to "wait until called" as might be a reason, eg incompatibilities. I'm not in a rush, as long as I get it.

 

Usually signing out worked for me. I get that on random boots. You could try restarting explorer from Task Manager like Syclops mentioned on a quote.

 

If one cannot kill Explorer anymore, then how can one solve the problem with Explorer hogging USB disks? :/

 

Scratch what I said. Explorer crash, tried restarting it by task manager by right clicking explorer.exe. Just hung, restarted it again, hung. Needed a reboot. It's probably a service causing this but I have no clue what.

 

explorer process can be killed and restated fine for me....

 

I haven't really had any problem with Explorer, but that's just luck I guess.

I'd hold off for a few months (the upgrade doesn't take much longer than installing any other version of Windows, but you will have to download it, I don't think they're offering discs). I'm using a 7/10 dual boot too (I upgraded my 8 partition to 10, 8 was not good). The good news is I haven't had an issue with compatibility yet, and I did have problems when I was using 8.

 

I was tempting fate!!! It did it again yesterday and again, cured by using system restore?
Windows 10 is working fine for me apart from this recurring error?

 

I'm experiencing mouse cursor glitches when using windows 10 at 4k.

Besides that, it's solid.

 

Yes while it's responding. Once it stops behaving normally, I go to kill it and start it again, fails to start.

 

I used Windows 10 since the earliest public betas and I can say it's a solid upgrade from 8 or 8.1. That being said I still run 7 on the main PC as I feel that even Windows 10 can't touch it.

 

I've yet to experience ANY operating system than beats Windows ME. Oh the memories, oh the nostalgia! They don't make 'em like that anymore!

 

Allllllllright, I found out what makes explorer unresponsive. If you press Win+R to open run, it causes explorer to bug. Well for me anyway, does this happen to anyone else?

The effects are: Unable to expend the start menu after clicking start, unable to expand calendar after clicking the time and date area.

 

These are the effects I'm getting, I'm not sure I want to try the Win+R keys to see if it causes it, W10 is working atm
I will try at some point and report what happens. I need to do a full back-up while it's working first... Thank goodness for Macrium Reflect

 

It fixes after a restart, it's not like it permanently ruins the OS.

 

Mine doesn't, I also loose the app store? The only way to get mine working again is a system restore, or from a backup image.