Your Experience with Windows 10

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Has little to do with Windows 10. It's more about where you go on the web and how you use your computer.
 


Do I need to use any Anti Virus if I use Windows 10 so far. Note: I don't use any Anti Virus yet.
 
Defender acts as Anti virus by default if you don't put anything else on. You cannot stop it running, it will restart itself if you try.

downgrading to win 7 feels like a step backwards to me. But its your choice.
 
Overall, I love it. However, after a while of using Windows 10 I tried out the older Windows versions that I used to use. I then realized there are definitely some things Microsoft seems to have taken out.

To start, the installation animations in Windows XP were much nicer, in my opinion. Meaning when you install Windows XP, you have a whole slideshow going on about the improvements of XP over Windows 2000 and prior versions. When you finally get to the point where you set up your user account, I remember (if the default audio drivers worked) a song played in the background. The song was called "title.wav" and was somewhere in the system files.

With Windows 10, all we get is a big loading circle and then waits for you to log in before taking another rather irritating 5 or more minutes to set up. No song, nothing to make you excited about the OS except when it sets up a user account it says things like "There are many things to get excited about" (or something along those lines). But it never says what to get excited about! It's not the "New OS" experience I was looking forward to. Windows 8 also lacked this.

There were also the many themes you could pick from in XP, Vista, and 7, including Classic which I still see many businesses use. Windows 10 is planning on making you buy themes in order to get new ones...They should at least make Aero an option.

Windows Vista was the last OS version that they updated the legacy Microsoft programs, such as Windows Media Player, Paint, and most of those accessories. They haven't changed since then. I personally still prefer WMP over Groove.

Windows 7 looked and felt much smoother than the new UI. Mostly the Taskbar. Hovering my mouse over an open program has the color following the mouse. Windows 10 seemed to go back to Vista on that. Some people prefer Metro, some people prefer Aero. I believe MS should have given us a choice- Why remove a feature many people loved?

Windows 8.1 was the only OS I never had a single bug with. That includes any Linux and Mac operating systems I've used. Windows 10, well, it has more bugs than 7 and 8 ever did. MS seems to be working hard to resolve issues, but in my opinion right now is what it should have been when they released Windows 10 over a year ago. I have never seen the Start Menu freeze before 10 came around. Edge's extensions should have been released with Edge if they wanted anyone to move to it. Now it is too late; people have given up on Edge and it is (if I remember correctly) having less usage than Internet Explorer- Which is quite sad.

My MS Surface 3 ( A Microsoft product!) has many issues with 10, the biggest being battery life and constant freezing (It keeps trying to switch to Tablet Mode and going back). I've exchanged it 4 times and this issue has been on all of them, including the ones on display at the MS Store. Well, when they used to be on display. The touchpad also doesn't right-click easily. All of these issues did not happen on Windows 8.1.

My Dell Inspiron 5547 had many touch-pad issues and low capacity battery issues as well. So did all of it's replacements. They were all fine on Windows 8.1.

The problem with these companies is that they think if it can turn on, connect to the Internet, and browse, then they can release it to the public. It's really unethical, and inconvenient for the manufacturers, businesses, and consumers. I was actually told this directly by a Dell customer service manager- If it can browse the Internet then they don't see a problem.

Now, thankfully, 10 has become much more usable. As did the devices that come with it. Again, overall I love Windows 10- But I wish it was more stable like Windows 8.1. Microsoft especially shouldn't have software issues on their own devices!

Also, if Windows 10 goes into a subscription thing like in Enterprise, I'm definitely not using it. I don't like that way of purchasing at all.
 
Yeah I know. The kicker is I know few people that have it but I can't get any way. Reset the store, made sure I'm signed with correct account, tried with FW of and all the tricks. I just submitted the question and will see what transpires.
 
problem with the store is i haven't found a fix that always works for it and some web sites have advice out there on how to fix apps that will break windows. Shame DISM and SFC don't help with store.

tried the windows update troubleshooter?
 
Yeah, tried that first but no problems, updates go as usual, just this morning several were installed. I can also install anything else in the store except this one. If they pulled it, why is it still in the Store ?
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Installed build 14959 and now it works. Nice APP.
 
Windows 10 looks so amazing for me, especially when I blog at <Redacted by Moderator>. Windows 7 was good, but not good enough as win 10.
 
I really wish I could turn off Cortana after the anniversary update.
Other than that it seems fine. Kind of wish I had an Ubuntu VM or something when I want to use it though.
 


So make one. It costs $0, and an afternoon of your time.
 


Yeah. Install VMware or Virtual Box (Both are free) and download ubuntu.
 
Has the anniversary update really messed up some other people's machine btw?

I've been having issues starting programs. Different program every boot it seems. I can start GIMP, lightworks, OBS, Blizzard launcher, steam or something else and something will start using 100% of my disc, the response time shoots to over 100ms (sometimes over 1s even) and it takes minutes to launch something that should be there after a blink of an eye.
I reboot and it's fine. Then one day later the same happens for a different program.
 


yes, but not mine. Its installed on several 100 million computers so its bound to go wrong on some of them.



Could download Process explorer and use it to figure out whats going on there. This explains what all colors & headers mean and link at bottom of page shows how to use it to find problems.
 




Yep, On both systems that I've let update, things have broken.

It broke Microsoft Office 2016 on my mum's PC. After it installed the AU, MS Word would throw up the "preparing to configure" window for about 30 minutes, then fail with error 1310. Trying to run a repair install of Office caused it to fail almost instantly with the same error.

When I tried uninstalling and reinstalling, office, it uninstalled fine, but would immediately give me "error 1310. Error writing to file C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\OFFICE16\Somefile.dll" trying to install. None of the suggested fixes worked (clean boot, safe mode, running Msiexec /unregister and /regserver etc)

I eventually discovered it only does this trying to install to the C: drive. So her 64GB SSD now has a 5GB partition with nothing but an MS Office install on it. Sigh...


Meanwhile, on my laptop, my docking station no longer works correctly (the USB ports just give the "one of your devices has malfunctioned, and Windows does not recognise it" message no matter what is plugged in, and I can now no longer select the native resolution of my 1080p monitor - it will only allow 800x600, 1024x768, 1440x900 or 1600x1200.), and everytime I reboot it resets my language/date/keyboard settings to "English (US)". Grrrrrr, no Microsoft. I am not in the US. I do not have a US keyboard. WHY WOULD I WANT TO USE A US KEYBOARD LAYOUT???

It also doubled boot times on both systems, which is annoying.
 


Or just use the built in Hyper-V with Ubuntu:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server-docs/compute/hyper-v/supported-ubuntu-virtual-machines-on-hyper-v
 
I thought windows 8 was a pain in the bum during the laptop days but boy was I wrong when Windows 10 came around and started eating my laptop's hardware... But in my opinion I prefer the Windows 10 interface over the Windows 8 interface which I felt was all over the place but Windows 7 won't be topped at this point over windows 10 and 8 in my opinion.
 
Honestly I have had a 100x better experience over 8. My only issues that I have had, have been the stupid issues with DISK, Memory, and CPU maxing out due to memory leaks. Which really is a big problem. I think with me though is that my comps have older components that just don't seem to work well with with 10. At least the drivers seem to cause problems.
 
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