Handy
I'm certainly not in full control yet. The upgrades were possibly after the last - indeed only - restore point, but I'm not sure. Good point though.
However, it's going well, and I like it more every hour. Seems so much more intuitive. I seem to be able to wade into the menus without too many references to Search, and when there, the choices seem to be straight off a Vista user's wish-list.
Crew
I suppose your laptop has a good graphics sub-system...question mark.
So far, Skype is still going strong, after loads of noise on the old OS.