The free DVD player is now being installed on eligible machines: it's KB3081704 if you tend to pick and choose which updates you install.

To be eligible, you have to upgrade from Windows 7 Home Premium/Professional/Ultimate/Windows 8/8.1 with Media Center. Windows Enterprise doesn't qualify, nor do clean installs.

If you don't qualify for free, it's $15.

Well, I've now taken the plunge and installed Win 10 on my H.P. Win 7 lappie.
The installation was uneventful, taking a few hours and the new OS does work - just. It takes ages to load and most of its utilities fail to work. This is because it needs to load all my old software titles before anything happens - and it gets slower and slower till, after an hour I give up. The much vaunted new version of internet explorer doesn't work either. Fortunately it let me keep my copy of Firefox which still gives me internet access. It seems to let me access my files on my other networked machines so I can still use my old Office software, but my Microsoft games (solitaire, spider, freecell and so on) have vanished and I cannot find any replacements.
I had few problems with Win 7 and even fewer with XP which I am still running on my main desktop machine. If the stories about Win 8 are anything to go by then I can understand why these users will find 10 better but. so far for me the upgrade was a complete waste of time and effort.

P.P.

P.Pilcher posted:
I recently applied for the Win 10 free upgrade having read through this thread and decided, on balance, to give it ago. Your post has got me re-thinking as I also have Win 7 and am happy with it. The upgrade has yet to be made available to me so I think I´ll give it a miss when it does. As mentioned, it may be an improvement on Win 8 but not so much on 7.

My ten year old Samsung N130 driver a 21" monitor downloaded it OK but it dumped my Adblock. Now everything has slowed up whilst adverts are painted on and I cannot find Adblock for Edge. I tried extracting Microsoft games and putting an application shortcut on the toolbar but that hasn't worked. I am going to try and load IE11; if I cannot and also cannot find an adblock for Edge I am going back to W7.

IE isn't uninstalled. Just click on "more actions" (the three dots, top right) and select "open with Internet Explorer".

IE11 on Start Menu
 

Start menu – All Aps – Windows Accessories - IE :ugh:

I was getting fed up with Edge then I found a shortcut to IE in the recycle bin. Sanity is restored.

Well, I must correct myself a bit. Although I left my lappie in standby overnight Win 10 appears to have still been working to sort itself out. Most of its facilities appear to be working now and I am trying them out. Yesterday, Firefox was always whinging that it was not my default browser. When I clicked on "make it default" the whole system locked up as the facility associating software with certain functions refused to function. When I tried this again today it all worked nicely. I am now a happier bunny!

P.P.

I would wait a long time before doing this upgrade.
Many problems.
Main one is you cant turn Automatic updates off in 10.
I also had things on a 8 month old Dell laptop that don't work anymore after allowing the up dates to complete that I cant stop.
Wi Fi, even the sleep modes and times.
This stuff is so bad they cant even give it away.
Yes its better than 8, keep 7 if you can.
The Microsoft ones should look at why there are not used or allowed in Jeppeson for our charts or manuals.
IPads only approved for flying.
FAA told me MS has never been reliable like Mac and getting worse. so they wont allow the use.
Can you imagine doing a pre flight needing important data and all of a sudden its says I need to update.
MS needs to to better or just shut down.
Cant depend on them any longer.
They have been on a downwind spiral 3 or 4 years now.

Hmmmmm, having registered, gone through all the checks and downloaded it, at the end of the process I got a message saying it couldn't be installed on my machine (Lenovo B320 running Win 7 home edition).

Fired up my i7 Sony this AM with the intention of upgrading. I hardly ever lug its mass anywhere, so felt it would be the ideal testing ground. But now I'm not sure. An ISO perhaps? But would that, having been sent on a specific date, be forever, or would you have to load it within the timespan?

Haven't quite finished reading in on this thread, but this arrived this AM.


https://us-mg205.mail.yahoo.com/neo/...2ev92vl5i#mail


Mods. If posting this link is a no-no, then please zap, but perhaps retain the date for The Best of PC World = 8 7 15, which will get you there.

I'm reasonably in control of W10 except I cannot delete items. The normal right click-delete brings up an administrators permission panel. I press continue; after all, it's my computer and my password that starts it up, and it tries a few times and says it cannot do it without this permission.

I checked on the internet and a website working windows 8 suggest right clicking the bottom list and selecting Admin Administrator from the list. All that gives me is the 'Do you want to make changes to this computer' panel, the same as in W7.

How do I make it delete shortcuts on the desktop?

Thank you all for confirming that this is NOT the time to change from Windows 7 to Windows 10 - or from 8.1, for that matter.

M$ seem intent on self-destruction. Useful programs such as AutoRoute have been discontinued, as was the user-friendly Outlook Express. In came junk like Windows Live and various subscription programs.... They also canned the simple yet powerful Photoeditor. Windows 8 was a disaster, Windows 8.1 was at least less awful. And as for Office 2013.....:yuk:

As for the creepiness of that latest TV ad, which is almost Orwellian in nature, with M$ seeming to want to control the minds of children....:(

I have found a few sites that claim there app will stop win auto updates, but none from M/S.
Has anyone else here found a fix for this from M/S?
I also see Firefox does not like win 10 at all.
Really hope they can fix these issues, airlines use apple now for jepps and important documents, QRH, Abnormal procedures etc because M/S unreliable.
Those of us left for searching the web emails etc on the ground at at a loss here using windows.
I do think one thing , if apple could allow the use of external hard drive for storage then WIN would be finished forever.
But they only allow the cloud drive and force us all to buy space on the limited area after what they give us for free.
Money games all of them.

I would suggest leave W10 with views to update from W7 for at least 6 months. I have my doubt's my old girl Samsung lappy could handle the speed/ram et al required.

If the pc/lappy came with W7 let it be so.

I've taken the plunge, as it shiny and new, and installed W10. Went well, the PC gradually got faster, so now its running ok, except the hyperlinks on Outlook 2003 do not work. Hover over one and its says it's blocked, try it and I get the window "locate link browser" appearing, running IE 11. Any suggestion would be welcome.

Thanks

Firefox works just fine in Windows 10. So does the spell checker.

The minimum system requirements for Windows 10 are the same as they were for Windows 7.

Windows 10 is a fine piece of software. It is of course new, which apparently is a dirty word to some people.

After reading above post maybe this might help in some problems.......

WINDOWS 10 NAGGER AND SYSTEM CRASHES

If your pc gives an error message that GWXUX won't start it's referring to the Windows 10 update nagger that has appeared over the past couple of months. There are numerous posts on the outerweb, some claim that the nagger is even making their systems crash.

If you're not interested in Windows 10 you'll need to uninstall the "PUP" (potentially unwanted programme) that came in the form of a Windows update number KB3035583. You'll know it's in there if you have a little "windows" logo at the bottom right of your screen in the quick start menu.

To remove this go to:

Control panel > Programs and features > View installed updates

Next, search for the windows update KB3035833 and select uninstall. By date it will be sometime July or August 2015.

Daz

done that several times, next time you go to Windows Update it downloads the darned KB3035533 again :ugh:

I am running Win10 on both a Dell Dimension 5100 and a Dell Latitude D610 laptop. Each case, the 'free' upgrade was refused due to varuous excuses, but downloading the .iso file and installing it all myself worked fine and everything works as it should even on these 'antique' machine! However that said, I opted for a Custom install and turned off all the privacy issues, but you can always turn them off later via 'Settings > Privacy'
For a browser, I use Pale Moon (a Firefox derivative) together with Adblock Latitude.