Your Experience with Windows 10

[PHgraphicsguy]

There is a significant increase in performance on my end after upgrading my work station from win 8.1 X64 Pro to win 10 X64 Pro.


Just sharing my results from geekbench

Cheers!

 

[Someone Somewhere]

That's only 1-2%. Wouldn't call it significant, in fact I'd say within margin of error.

 

[PHgraphicsguy]

That's only 1-2%. Wouldn't call it significant, in fact I'd say within margin of error.

Yeah you got a point there. But the point is at least it didn't go backward result compared to 8.1 Pro. Plus I got better look and feel for the UI IMO. Just sayin.. Others have different preferences!

Cheers heaps!

 

[Mike BD]

Sorry, but yes, I am forced to use windows 10 as I have to learn it because of my job and I will need DX12 for gaming.

So ya!

The words 'gaming' and 'need' do not really go together well.
But whatever...😀

Also,please have a read:http://www.pcgamer.com/directx-12-will-not-be-supported-by-windows-7/

 

[USAFRet]

Also,please have a read:http://www.pcgamer.com/directx-12-will-not-be-supported-by-windows-7/

Yes, I know that DX12 is/will be Windows 10 only. My statement was more to - playing a game is not a need. It is a nice to have.

 

[nukemaster]

I think it is just slow. I know my outlook calender works, but it does not sync fast at all.

My outlook calendar works, I am talking about the calendar we can find on bottom right corner in the taskbar.

Ok, yeah that would be great.

Maybe send a suggestion. Even just highlight the day and click it to see the event.

We need more people to think outside the box to add these kinds of useful features.

 

[jediTT]

Small tip I read, you can right click the start menu button to access control panel and a few other things you usually need.

 

[futureal]

i was able to change the settings of Windows Update in windows 10. by default automatically download and install updates. if somebody want to change this see this link :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkzpIzPuvSM

hope it helps somebody

 

[USAFRet]

i was able to change the settings of Windows Update in windows 10. by default automatically download and install updates. if somebody want to change this see this link :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkzpIzPuvSM

hope it helps somebody

Pretty sure that is only applicable for Win 10 Pro.
And why do we need a 2 minute video to read 5 lines of text?

 

[ToineF]

I think it is just slow. I know my outlook calender works, but it does not sync fast at all.

My outlook calendar works, I am talking about the calendar we can find on bottom right corner in the taskbar.

Ok, yeah that would be great.

Maybe send a suggestion. Even just highlight the day and click it to see the event.

We need more people to think outside the box to add these kinds of useful features.

cheers mate

 

[bmrigs]

I have upgraded from Win 7. It has been flawless.

 

[The_Prophecy]

So I have now upgraded a total of 9 personal systems to Windows 10.

1. My main desktop:

Intel Core i7 5930K
Asus X99-Deluxe
64GB Crucial DDR4-2400 @ 16-16-16-39
eVGA Geforce GTX 980
480GB OCZ RevoDrive 350
3 x 4TB Seagate Barracuda
1 x 1TB Samsung 850 Evo SSD
2 x 512GB (RAID 0) Plextor M.2 SSD

2. Gaming Laptop: MSI GS70 Stealth Pro

3. File server:

Intel Core i7 3930K
Asus P9X79 Pro
64GB G.Skill DDR3-1600
OCZ Vertex 3 240GB
3 x 3TB Seagate Barracuda
AMD R9 290X

4. Surface Pro (First gen)

5. Surface Pro 3

6. Dell Venue 8 Pro

7. 3 year old gaming laptop (Asus G53SW)

8. Spare Desktop 1:

Intel Core i7 920
Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5
24GB Corsair DDR3-1600
OCZ Revodrive 3 120GB
eVGA Geforce GT 640

9. Spare Desktop 2:

Intel Core i7 860
Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD3
16GB G.Skill DDR3-1600
1TB Seagate HDD
eVGA Geforce GT 640

The upgrade worked flawlessly on every system except the first spare desktop, and that was only because a different Revodrive I had installed was failing, and finally kicked it when I tried the upgrade. Once I swapped the drive out, reinstalled 8.1 and ran the upgrade to 10 again, it worked just like the other systems. I also had a couple of apps that wouldn't work on my main desktop, but those were remedied by a couple of updates from their respective vendors which solved the problem.

And just so we're clear, every one of those systems except the 2 spare desktops had apps installed on them and were generally used on a daily basis. The 2 spare desktops were blank and had Windows 8.1 installed first, and drivers updated, before they were upgraded to Windows 10.

Hardware failures notwithstanding, this is the smoothest upgrade process I've ever seen from Microsoft. I was a diehard "wipe the system to move to a new OS", "anti-in-place-upgrader" you would probably find, but I'm impressed.

 

[randomizer]

The trouble with the upgrade is that it brings all the cruft from your previous installation into windows 10 as well (partly by necessity). I wondered why Windows was already 21GB before I'd even done anything, then I realised it's because it pulls the C:\Windows\WinSxS and C:\Windows\Installer directories across.

 

[PHgraphicsguy]

The trouble with the upgrade is that it brings all the cruft from your previous installation into windows 10 as well (partly by necessity). I wondered why Windows was already 21GB before I'd even done anything, then I realised it's because it pulls the C:\Windows\WinSxS and C:\Windows\Installer directories across.

That's strange.. mine freed up to 38GB from my OS SSD. Prior to upgrade I only got 25GB left after upgrade it gave me 13GB more. FYI I Cleaned up everything including restoration files and windows.old folder. I don't want to waste my time going back to my old OS that's why. I'd rather perform a clean install than restoring back to it. Registry will go wild if it does. LOL

 

[randomizer]

I haven't removed Windows.old yet. I probably won't bother anyway, since I will be clean installing either Windows 7, 8 or 10 soon enough. I haven't decided which yet.

 

[PHgraphicsguy]

I too will perform a clean install soon. I just need to run this baby first(win 10 Pro) and I am impressed it was pretty good OS for me. My apps are running faster IMO plus a marginal performance increase base from my personal benchmarks.

 

[randomizer]

A few FPS here and there is not what I'm after. I wouldn't care too much if game performance was marginally worse. I only play games infrequently and if I need more performance I'll upgrade my hardware. It's the little things like sluggish calculators with splash screens and volume controls that take 500ms to open that both me far more. These are things I use all the time and buying new hardware won't help.

 

[Darkbreeze]

Curious, has this actually FIXED the issue for some people? Or is this just something you're recommending. I don't want to uninstall and end up in a worst position I was to begin with, because everything IS working (what games I can open), just not GeForce Experience.

Yes, it has. It has worked well on prior Windows versions for driver, and also GeForce experience issues, as well as for SOME users in Windows 10:

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2740176/nvidia-drivers-windows.html

 

[Darkbreeze]

Despite my early misgivings, and barring any future glaring issues that may crop up aside from not having window title bar "focus" change colors as in prior versions of windows, the download, installation and updates have gone without a hitch on a previously two year old windows 8.1 installation. (Well, basically two year old. There have been numerous reinstallations of Acronis True Image disk images after testing one thing or another fubared the system)

There were no driver issues. No problems with network attached storage drives. No GPU card problems. Nothing to resolve with connectivity. Nothing. Pretty boring actually. Aside from not liking the Edge browser and it's constantly hanging up (IE, FF and Chrome all working normally) and the lack of a colored title bar with current window focus behaviors, it's pretty much uneventful.

The biggest problem is that I don't really see that anything is different. Memory usage, benchmarks and the "feel" of the OS overall speed and stability seem to be markedly unchanged. I'm not even sure there was a good reason to upgrade, aside from Microsoft annoying the hell out of me with the reminder icon in my taskbar. At least that's gone.

System is an AMD FX platform, 990FX board, OS installed on SSD and overclocked to 4.5Ghz. Unlike some users indicated previously, I've seen no issues with overclock behavior acting abnormally and in fact one thing I have noticed which seems improved is wake response from sleep. Previously my fans would come on, stutter momentarily, shut off and then return to normal behavior. Now they simply power back up with no hesitation. I'm not sure if that's even related, but maybe worth mentioning.

 

[Darkbreeze]

For anybody NOT aware, in addition to new graphics drivers, there are also new AMD chipset drivers for Windows 10 that were released on July 28th and are located here:

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/chipset?os=Windows+8.1+-+64

 

[Paul NZ]

Got Hello working with a fingerprint reader built into my test machine (an old HP nw8440. Came with Vista or XP). No driver installs needed, which is mildly impressive.

Bit annoying that they require you to have a PIN and a password... I could understand on a mobile device, but why do you want me to remember two different codes? I can probably type my password faster than a PIN, especially on a device without a number pad...

Tried the same thing to see how it works. But had to install Acer touchpad drivers (for a Egistec ES603, I purchased on Ebay). On a desktop, not a laptop.

Windows drivers did nothing. Windows Hello didnt appear, until I installed the Acer drivers first

But after that it worked pretty good. But yup, a bit annoying that you need a pin and password as well. Even though you only have to use one of them

 

[Archgaull]

Two nice things I've noticed after the upgrade, kinda random but I want to put it out there:

1) Multiple Monitors are a whole lot smoother now. I have a regular monitor as my main, and a TV as a second monitor. On Win 7, if the computer was on and I turned on the TV, my main monitor would go black for a couple seconds while the TV booted. It no longer does that, which is a very welcome change.

2) Seems to have actually fixed an issue with the Gameboy Emulator VBALink. On Win7, if you held the "fast forward" button (default is spacebar) for more than about 30 seconds, you would get an audio crackle through your speakers, even if the VBALink audio was muted or off. I no longer have this issue.

 

[lyrx]

After waiting a couple of days for my turn in line, I got impatient and manually downloaded W 10 on all my computers. It went smoothly.

(1) Blue Stacks, that I use to open Clash of Clans, had to be removed and re-installed because I got the error, "Unfortunately, Google Play Store has Stopped."

(2) I turned the login screen OFF because it took too long to get into Windows 10. That was disappointing.

(3) It was great that I was prompted to update Kaspersky to be compatible with Windows 10. I'm not sure if Win10 prompted it or if it came from Kaspersky.

(4) The Windows updates went fast. When installing Win 7 updates in the last couple of years, it took up to two hours to get all of them when I installed W7 on a new computer or did a clean install on my hard drive.

(5) I like how I can still access the control panel and its contents by right clicking on the windows icon.

(6) I mainly use Firefox. I see some hesitation or a jump when I open up some internet sites. Again, I'm not sure if that's Kaspersky or Win 10. With W7, all internet sites opened smoothly. I hope that will go away. I

(7) The icons on the task bar seem smaller and the resolution doesn't seem a good as W7. Not sure if that's my imagination or not.

I'm satisfied with Win 10.

-AMD FX 8350 clocked at 4.3 GHz
-32 GB ram
-Sabertooth 990 FX
-Nvidia GTX 660

 

[lyrx]

Personally, I never understood the obsession with the Start menu.

Most used applications pinned to the Taskbar. For everything else, Win+S.

I agree, but at least after opening the start menu, it's pretty easy to figure out what to do. Even though I mainly use the task bar, I like the options on the start menu.

 

[Proximate99]

So far, it really sucks. I basically can't do ANYTHING, e. g. use the Start Menu, the taskbar search, interact with any of the Windows-own icons on the bottom left, and now the control panel and the task manager don't even work.