WINDOWS 10? ANYONE USE IT AND LIKE IT?

We have started testing Windows 10 at work. I am running it on a Dell Venue tablet. I like it better than Windows 8. The edge browser is almost useless but IE 11 is also on Windows 10. We have had almost no issues at this point.

It was a pretty easy transition if you didn't like the "tile" view in Windows 8. They put all the Control Panel under "Settings". Everything else seems to work about the same. It does need a fairly new computer though.

rvten wrote:
Set my computer to run Chrome. My MSN. Put them in Start up. No need to screw with Edge.

Got all my Favorites list back also with MY MSN.

Hey, go with what works for you but a simple click on the "Hub" icon (upper left) in edge shows "import favorites" that does just what it says.

shum02 wrote:

road-runner wrote:
If I'm wrong I'll be paying the price.

Actually when most are wrong these days your machine ends up becoming someone else's BOT and we all pay the price.

Quit pretending you know what's best and take the updates.

There are some of us that do know what's best for our systems. Computers have been a hobby of mine for the last 20 years.

Nothing automatically updates on my 2 computers. Not Microsoft or any other software. I'm not saying that I don't do updates but I do research them to see if I need them. There have been a lot of updates from MS I don't need nor were they for any type of security purpose. I find that when other software wants to update it's for a feature that I have no interest in or need. I've heard of to many systems that were bricked by MS updates.

I'm pretty unhappy with the way MS went about attempting to install updates to my system for the sole purpose of gathering information in preparation to Windows 10. It's my Internet connection that I pay data rates for not MS. In my opinion they tried to install spyware and ad ware. If I wanted 10 then OK fine but they should have informed people as to exactly what was going on and made it an optional but they didn't. I think it was pretty sneaky. Nothing is free there is always a price to pay sooner or later.

I will not be going to Windows 10 nothing there worth the 8 GB or so downloads to update both machines.

Besides if I updated both systems, one each month, I wouldn't be able to use the Internet for 2 months under my data cap. When Windows 7 reaches the EOL in 2020 I'll decide what to do then,. Hopefully there will be a new alternative to Windows.

shum02 wrote:


Quit pretending you know what's best and take the updates.

I give up! 45 years as a software engineer, working with Windows as a developer since windows 3, and I don't know squat.

Set my computer to run Chrome. My MSN. Put them in Start up. No need to screw with Edge.

Got all my Favorites list back also with MY MSN.

Well.. I multi-task so I have two Laptops here both low end,, one is a Toshiba I got a couple years ago (2013) as a Christmas special at Staples.. I upgraded it to both windows 10 and 10 (actually 12) Gigs of memory (do not know where the other gigs are but it says there's 12 of 'em).

The other is a 200 dollar Wal-mart HP Stream (now 179) I dropped it and broke it so I got a new 179 version (For that 179 I get a spare 125 dollar battery and a new (much needed) power supply, about 50 bucks retail so that is one not-all-that-Expensive computer (4.00) since the drive was clean I had room to install Win-10 upgrade there too... I like it better than 8.1 but not as much as XP.

road-runner wrote:
If I'm wrong I'll be paying the price.

Actually when most are wrong these days your machine ends up becoming someone else's BOT and we all pay the price.

Quit pretending you know what's best and take the updates.

strollin wrote:

Oldme wrote:
... Note: the "secret menu" that people talk about (rt click on windows icon)
is also on W8- W8.1.

Yup, and has never been a secret!

burlmart wrote:

you may get a kick out of the awesome, secret alternative W10 popup menu that awaits anyone who right clicks the windows lower left taskbar icon

deja vu

yup

Not being that techie I took my W10 to my repair guy and he explained how to do everything that was different from the way I did it on W7.
Don