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I was up to reset my system because Win7 began to run slow after 2 years of service since the last reset. So i thought, he before you deal with the enormously slow MS servers to doenload 10 hours of windows 7 updates, why not install Win 10. It worked just perfectly on the first attempt. I'm running the current RTM build (i know, MS dosn't use that term, but it seems right to use it) and everything just works fine.
To make it even better, i recommend everybody to create a shortcut to the Control Panel, because its a bit hidden and as far as i know only (quickly) avaliable via the searchbar next to the start button, also, create shortcuts for everything related to system control and mainenance, windows 10 seems to hide all the features where people with poor knowledge could screw up things.
I noticed one very strange behaviour so far, ive got an Asus Mainbaord, right after the "Mainboard Screen" while booting, the PC just turns itself off and when i try to boot again, it works all fine. Could be the BIOS battery, i put in an old one lately after having issues with booting in Win7.

Besides that, Win 10 doesn't work with programms which try to add any virtual hardware. (for example: daemon tools, alcohol 52% and also not with hamachi or tunngle in my case)

Regarding the DirectX version, you cant have DX12 if you Vcard can't handle it, it only diosplays the maximum possible version, not the one actually installed.
 
And Hey Cortana misses the prompt sometimes, now I've figured it out

EDIT: I was right, Hey Cortana does just die and stops working. It's unreliable. My mic is picking me up, but nothing from Cortana. It goes comatose and I have to manually click the button
 
Interestingly my laptop is the only one that has been available for upgrade so far and I did so rather painlessly. This had Windows 7 Pro 64 bit installed and I upgraded to Windows 10 Pro 64. Looking over the various programs I use the most I find that Adobe Photoshop CS5 will crash when I try to open a picture and it says it is looking for an answer to the problem. Same procedure using PS CS5 64 bit doesn't have this issue. On the old Win 7 install there were no issues with either. I can't say I'm a big fan of this OS but I haven't been playing with it long. I do get the "free" update scheme as there are missing parts of the old "7" that you can buy for the new "10". Sorta like the printer companies, give us the hardware for cost and charge gold for the ink.
 
Hello all,

I have been using Windows 10 past 48 hours and its good but not don't feel better then Windows 8.1. Most of them say its not baked fully and its correct. Hopefully it will get better after some updates.

Here are the issues I have (Most important to least important) faced/facing:

1. My pc has Via VT2020 audio chip and I had fully working Via driver in Windows 8.1. After upgrading to Windows 10, windows update automatically updated the Via driver to latest as well as other updates and there is no way to select which to be installed. The new VIA audio driver did not work properly and it doesn't have Via HD deck so I had to roll back to previous driver. The previous audio driver works fine except Via HD deck but the latest VIA driver keeps revert back after sometime. Even though I have enabled "Never driver software from windows updates".

2. Windows Mail app is no longer downloading mails from my live account as well as my gmail account. It does try to sync for several minutes but endup stating "We didn't find anything to show here". The app is already up-to-date but still doesn't work. The same app with different UI in Windows 8.1 used to work fine.

3. Quick access in File explorer doesn't show frequently used folders but only pinned folders. "Show frequently used folders in Quick access" in folder options is enabled. Recently used files do show though.

4. Action Center icon in system tray alerts that there is new notification but actually there is none when clicked/opened. It happens on every bootup plus in some other times.

5. The file explorer, new settings and etc are all white which makes eye strain if used for long (not long actually) time. Do you feel same? There is no option to change/set color either.

6. Startup and shutdown is taking more time then Windows 8.1. I have checked startup and other things as suggested for fix but didn't helped. Anyhow its common for most Windows 10 users so I don't mind.

7. Volume slider is now changed to horizontal style which makes uneasy to use or gets confused. Couldn't find any way to make it vertical either.

8. Windows 7 and Windows 8.x icons were great but I don't like the icons of Windows 10. They are too basic, flat and some are old style.

9. Windows update has no option to select which updates to be installed which it had previously. Its troublesome for limited bandwidth internet users. Updates have to be downloaded which are least important.

10. Last but not least. Multiple settings are making more confused or difficult to find. Some are in new settings, some are in control panel and some are in both. Also the new settings crash often.

These are my personal views.

Thanks...
Best Regards
 


This last point is something that's been bugging me too. Why is there a settings page and a control panel page? Seems like something blindly pulled from 8.
 
Having spent 3 days with it, 10 is feeling like a disappointment.
Corrupt files,
software that won't install, or it installs and you can't find it anywhere
software that won't run (those last two are because it's a new OS)
doesn't look/function that differently to 8.1, bits pulled straight from 8.1,
Cortana is bugged,
Game bar is bugged. Doesn't work at all
Mail and Calendar are bugged,
Calendar
There's a settings and a control panel. Why!?
Notifications missing the feature of letting me know there's a notification without having to open the action centre
Broken animations (which have sorted themselves)
Apps force quitting (apps, as many as all inbuilt apps)
Some settings pages did not load/force quit on load

I could have stayed on 8.1 longer, where stuff had finally become stable

EDIT: The ugly UI doesn't help. 8, 8.1 and 10 all use the square pastel design, which looks better in 10, but it's still ugly (where the tiles are currently, to me, looks ugly). 7, XP and Vista were the best lookers, and from the competition, Mavericks and Yosemite look awesome. I don't get why MS' engineers can't design something aesthetically pleasing on the level of XP, 7, Vista, Yosemite and Mavericks

Struggling to pick 10 things I like about it so far. I have two, and one of those is bugged. But generally it does function without issue
 


So many great designers out there, I am shocked that MS can't find one.... Like C'mon!

They can't even get the icons right.... just a quick google search will find tons of better ones.

Microsoft should really go for the WOW effect which would be sooooo easy to do.
 
A guy alone did a better job designing the UI than a multi billion $ company!

windows_10_ui_concept_by_solmiler-d8b2ttz.jpg
 
Hmm, I'm confused.
I've got 4 computers on windows 10 now.
2 of them were upgraded from the same windows 8.1 pro product key.
Neither of them complain about being non-genuine.
And I think all 4 of them now have the same windows insider key.

Belarc now says this:
Microsoft - Windows 8.1 Professional (x64) #####-#####-#####-AA006 (Key: ends with #####)f (i've #'d them out)
f. The full product key is not stored on this computer. However, the characters shown uniquely identify your product key.
Click to expand...

The CMD command that is supposed to show the product key doesn't display anything for me either.

And I found my answer here: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-win_upgrade/windows-10-product-key/3380f59d-c8af-4fda-940c-0c15ce516553?auth=1

But the fact windows isn't complaining about me using the same "product key" to get windows 10 on two computers is disconcerting.
 
I found my key by doing the notepad script trick. For those who don't know that one: Copy and paste this into notepad, save it as a .vbs file (I save mine as getwindowskey.vbs) and run it.

Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
MsgBox ConvertToKey(WshShell.RegRead("HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\DigitalProductId"))

Function ConvertToKey(Key)
Const KeyOffset = 52
i = 28
Chars = "BCDFGHJKMPQRTVWXY2346789"
Do
Cur = 0
x = 14
Do
Cur = Cur * 256
Cur = Key(x + KeyOffset) + Cur
Key(x + KeyOffset) = (Cur \ 24) And 255
Cur = Cur Mod 24
x = x -1
Loop While x >= 0
i = i -1
KeyOutput = Mid(Chars, Cur + 1, 1) & KeyOutput
If (((29 - i) Mod 6) = 0) And (i <> -1) Then
i = i -1
KeyOutput = "-" & KeyOutput
End If
Loop While i >= 0
ConvertToKey = KeyOutput
End Function
 


Really like this one. As it is I have to be careful which wallpaper I put, because the tiles pick their colour from there so if I have this:



Screenshot taken on my MacBook, but both computers get their wallpaper from the same Dropbox folder and that's the wallpaper my PC has atm. Point is, if something like that is picked, the tiles take on an ugly yellow, and there's yellow everywhere. No such problem on my MacBook, because the yellow is only used as an accent through transparency/translucency

EDIT: 8.1 and 10 seemed to auto-corrupt as well (sfc /scannow). I did fix 8.1 eventually, but 10 says source file not found. This has been reported in feedback, a quick Google search shows it also happened in the preview builds, so I have a corrupted install now (happened to others who did clean installs). By comparison, disc utility on OSX cleans it right up first time, and the problem does not reoccur (8.1 had repeated scannow corruptions, caused by unknown things)
 


You can turn that feature of the colors being taken from your wallpaper (if it's what I'm thinking of, I might be thinking of something else) by going to Personalize > Colors and ensuring that "Automatically pick an accent color from my background" is unchecked. Or are you talking about something else?
 


That's the one. Forgot there was that option. I'll have a look later. Maybe my opinion will change back to a more positive one over the next few days, but atm, enough small things have annoyed me, without 10 being much different to 8.1 that it leaves a very indifferent to negative impression

EDIT: Just checked out Amazon.com's reviews of Windows 10 and...ouch, negative reception
 
The only thing that I'm really critisizing ATM is the navigation pane of file explorer. I don't like how "This PC" covers everything, I much liked it when the Libraries was on a different pane, but other than that I've had no problems, aside from ones I've caused by a combination of lack of sleep and still getting used to the OS, especially after skipping 8 completely and going from 7 to 10.
 


And people have said exactly the same, for every MS graphical operating system, back to Windows 95, or even 3.0. Every single one.
oohhh...this sux!...I don't like the colors...They dumbed it down too much.

The only person that it matters to is you. Do you like it?
If yes, keep using it.
If no, go use something else.
 


I'm going to keep using it to form a more complete opinion. I go from it's not bad/it's good to stuff is broken
 


Actually, you keep saying that, but I dont think it was as widely spread as you would think. As for myself I liked XP when it came out. I wasn't a huge fan of vista/7 transparent design, but I didn't really mind.


But it's funny how apple, google and linux can release an OS and no one says it's ugly. Ppl might not be familiar with the os, but no one whines about how ugly it is. think about that.

MS could do much better, but they don't! No wonder they are getting their ass kicked!

 
Yes, I do keep saying that, because that's what happened.
Especially if you go by Amazon user reviews.

Some people don't like change. They want a new OS (for some reason), but want it to look exactly like what they had 3 versions ago. When it looks different, "IT SUX!"
 


the difference between now and then is that when XP came out you could change to the old UI with a simple click. Now, they dont even let users change the start menu! C'mon now!
 


Yes, why not have an option to have it look like 3 versions ago?

We all need new OS for security reasons and of course to support new technology. If you are a gamer you will need win10 for DX12.

If you have a new laptop you are forced to have the new ugly UI, but they dont sell the older laptops with windows 7 or XP anymore.

So yeah... maybe they should simply have an option to have the old look back. For many reasons.... Or maybe they should have a nicer one to shut ppl up.

 
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