Windows 10: Question? Have you installed Win 10 and use it everyday?

Just added my screen capture and email program (Postbox).

Swore I wouldn't do it but I can't live without them.*Sad

 

Using it everyday, loving it so far, a bit snappier than Windows 8 on my old Core 2 Duo. I like Windows 8 but I'm starting to like this better.

 

Hi

I've been using Windows 10 Technical Preview since the hour after it became available.
I'm running it dual boot with Windows 8, but I haven't gone back to 8 since I started using it.

Works great so far, I have almost all of the software that I have installed in 8 running in 10.
Some software, and all of my games ran without being reinstalled all I had to do was create a link in 10.

I'm creating a system backup every other day so if things go wonky, I can get it backup and running in a few minutes.

So far I've restored it twice, once to clear out a software install that went bad, and once because installing Windows Media Center messed up my sound. It did the same thing in Windows 8.1.

Other then that it's working great, and I plan on using it exclusively until it goes live and then I'll make the swithch and dump 8 altogether.

Mike

 

I popped a note on the 8 forums re 10 and was hung drawn and quartered, well not quite that bad. People on forums have to realise they do not rule the world. Silly fools.

 

I have never even seen eight but I sure like ten.*Smile

 

What sort of note was it, was it praising Windows 10, or disliking 8.

 

Hi again.

Here's my desktop...





Mike

 

When you say restored, do you mean a full restore off a boot disk or just restoring within the OS.

 

Boy thats a tiny mono desktop, I love that Aero look.

 

That is a real plain desktop LOL

 

So far I love 10, its working pretty well for an Alpha, but then again its based on 8.1, all MS has to do is get the Bugs out, add some features most of us want and out to retail. Forget 8.......... 10 is where its at.

As far as my original Post, I stopped by an old windows site ( Neo.. something LOL ) and I soon found out the testers are not there. I have not looked back.

 

You have not missed anything, 8 is garbage *Wink

 

Mike, maybe you should read this.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/1...en-forums.html

 

Some people think that the only way to test an OS is to overwrite your existing one. Fail.

I do use Win 10 as my everyday OS. But if my wife needs to do banking, I just restart my PC and boot up on another SSD to use Win 7. I don't understand and trust how personal data is being collected and handled by MS on Win 10 right now. Just being careful.

 

Hi there.

Anybody who uses a Technical preview as a "Production" computer - either doesn't really NEED a computer or perhaps they should go and join the I.T depts. of either those Banks that seem to have their ATM's out of service because of releasing untested software into production or get a job at one of those Governmental I.T projects where several BILLION dollars of hard earned taxpayers money are spent and totally wasted as the system is abandoned part way through.

I'm all in favour of TESTING machines - or even PARALLEL running stuff - sooner or later a cutover from one system to the other will be done but to use "in your day job" an untried OS which expires in April seems to me the height of idiocy.

For starters one doesn't know what security flaws are in it or what data is being collected and sent to who knows where. I have NO problems with Ms wanting to gather as much info as possible about the performance scenarios of their OS, what hardware it's running on, what problems are encountered etc. But I CERTAINLY DO NOT want things like Bank details etc being collected - even if Ms is doing this by accident.

Having adequate backup should be a given anyway whatever OS is being used - but there's a HUGE difference in a home user restoring a few GB of data to a major Bank having to switch systems and possibly recover several PB of data. (Peta bytes -- 1PB - 1000 X 1 TB).

Enjoy testing - but as a production OS -- not yet. !!!!

Cheers
jimbo