Fortunately, Windows is not my problem anymore. (except when I have to help my father with his computer)

Have both work and home laptops running 10.

Getting used to it now!

Still prefer good ol 7!

Just swapped to it today. Much faster.

Quote from: koko64 on March 13, 2016, 12:59:36 AM
Just swapped to it today. Much faster.

Faster than...?

Quote from: ducpainter on March 13, 2016, 04:44:10 AM
Faster than...?

Carrier pigeon.

Quote from: ducpainter on March 13, 2016, 04:44:10 AM
Faster than...?

Faster than 7.

Quote from: koko64 on March 13, 2016, 05:16:10 AM
Faster than 7.

Did you have to update drivers for the hardware?

My wife went from 8.1 to 10 and her touchpad barely works. I looked online and there are roughly 100 drivers that need updating to get the thing working right again.

I'm slower than I used to be. I'm still thinking 10 is useless.

Free upgrade complete with drivers, all other upgrades and free security offered by ISP. All files unmolested as they were, etc. 7 was slowing down so I guess it"s all rigged to get you onto 10. A few clicks and it was all done in 10 minutes or so. I held off as long as I could but 7 was really starting to struggle so I caved to the free offer.
Still have 8.1 on the workshop compact laptop (thanks GK). 10 is better.

Quote from: koko64 on March 13, 2016, 05:31:39 AM
Free upgrade complete with drivers, all other upgrades and free security offered by ISP. All files unmolested as they were, etc. 7 was slowing down so I guess it"s all rigged to get you onto 10. A few clicks and it was all done in 10 minutes or so. I held off as long as I could but 7 was really starting to struggle so I caved to the free offer.
Still have 8.1 on the workshop compact laptop (thanks GK). 10 is better.

The included drivers wasn't the case with my wife's laptop.

Hope you can get the thing to work.

Quote from: Mendo Dave on March 13, 2016, 05:52:45 AM
Hope you can get the thing to work.

It works fine...I haven't upgraded.

Quote from: ducpainter on March 13, 2016, 06:01:57 AM
It works fine...I haven't upgraded.

What about the Touch Pad and the 100 drivers? or did you just throw it away?

a neighbor did the upgrade . . . she runs a business' accounting from home and has a "SoHo" style network and all printers were un-available and the MFC(wifi) was unreacheable; had to back up her C drive and format to re-install W7Pro64 . . .  issue with printers taken care.

W10 would not allow to name printers and every re-start(shutdown-start), the printers would have a different name and MFC would not connect to network . . . That is one annoying issue I need to study deeper since it is annoying and it has a solution, at the time, not shutting down computer

Quote from: Mendo Dave on March 13, 2016, 06:08:34 AM
What about the Touch Pad and the 100 drivers? or did you just throw it away?

Ohhh...that's her problem. I told her not to upgrade.

My Win7 laptop works great.

Quote from: ducpainter on March 13, 2016, 06:46:03 AM
Ohhh...that's her problem. I told her not to upgrade.

My Win7 laptop works great.

My best advice (other than to switch to apple) is if you find that you must upgrade at some point to windows 10, just buy a new machine from Dell. If it doesnt work then send it back. My experience with Dell is that they get the hardware & software to run right, most of the time.

That eliminates hours and hours of screwing around when you could be installing new security lights or something.