windows 10

Duck wrote:
I purchased a new Dell laptop that I received July 30th. When I turned it on the first time in the set up program it asked "Do You Want To Download 10" upgrade. When ahead and did it. I went in to the favorites section it had a button to download favorites from my IE. Said yes it came back it a few seconds and said completed but none of my favorites from my old system show up. Old system was a Windows 7 and IE was updated. Any ideas?
Don

I'm afraid you're expecting a little too much. I believe you opened the new Edge browser and it offered to import your Favorite from IE on that same computer. Since it's a new computer, you probably don't have any Favorites stored in IE yet.

However, if you still have your old computer with all your Favorites saved in IE, you can export those favorites to a file, put it on a USB thumb drive and transfer it to your new computer. From there, you could import it into IE, then have the new Edge browser import your Favorites from IE.

In order to export Favorites from your old computer, open IE and click on the Star (Favorites icon) in the upper right part of the browser. Click the down arrow where you see "Add to Favorites" and you'll see a menu that includes "Import and export...". Select that menu item and then go thru the prompts to select what you want to export. Once you finally get your Favorites saved to a file, copy that file to a thumb drive or transfer to your new computer any other way you wish. On your new computer, open IE (not the new Edge browser) and then click on the Star icon and do an import of those Favorites from your saved file. You'll now have your Favorites in IE on your new computer. Now you can use the new Edge browser and tell it to import your Favorites from IE.

revump wrote:
My Windows 10 works well. It will take some getting used to. Facebook works a little funny

I'm still using my browser for FB. I've never found a FB app I really like.

I purchased a new Dell laptop that I received July 30th. When I turned it on the first time in the set up program it asked "Do You Want To Download 10" upgrade. When ahead and did it. I went in to the favorites section it had a button to download favorites from my IE. Said yes it came back it a few seconds and said completed but none of my favorites from my old system show up. Old system was a Windows 7 and IE was updated. Any ideas?
Don

My Windows 10 works well. It will take some getting used to. Facebook works a little funny

tvman44 wrote:
What I am curious about is if you can down load Win 10 but not install just yet. Just want to get it while I can. I am still suspicious of MS as to what there ulterior motive is, they don't give anything for free, there has to be something in it for them down the line.

Yes, Microsoft has an option to download the Windows 10 software and then create installable media (such as a USB drive or DVD) for use later.

tvman44 wrote:
What I am curious about is if you can down load Win 10 but not install just yet. Just want to get it while I can. I am still suspicious of MS as to what there ulterior motive is, they don't give anything for free, there has to be something in it for them down the line.

The free upgrade will last a year so you have plenty of time. You can download the full install here: Windows 10 upgrade/download

CloudDriver wrote:

PenMan wrote:
I'm not real computer savvy (I know the programs I use but nothing special about the OS) but one private forum I'm on has a lot of talk about Windows 10 passing out your passwords like candy on Halloween. Not sure how much truth there is to that statement but I will not be upgrading from 7 Pro until I hear from those I trust that the problems are no longer problems.

I'm signed up to update an old laptop to Win 10 to try it out, so no personal use experience yet. However, I have read a number of sites online that talk about privacy issues with Win 10.

Win 10 WIFI sharing

Win 10 Privacy Issues

Win 10 is spying on you

How to stop Win 10's prying eyes

You're in complete control of WiFi-sense in Win 10. If you don't want to be a part of it you can turn all of it's options off. Not only that, but if you use a local account instead of a MS account to access your Win 10 machine, WiFi-Sense is disabled.

What I am curious about is if you can down load Win 10 but not install just yet. Just want to get it while I can. I am still suspicious of MS as to what there ulterior motive is, they don't give anything for free, there has to be something in it for them down the line.

PenMan wrote:
I'm not real computer savvy (I know the programs I use but nothing special about the OS) but one private forum I'm on has a lot of talk about Windows 10 passing out your passwords like candy on Halloween. Not sure how much truth there is to that statement but I will not be upgrading from 7 Pro until I hear from those I trust that the problems are no longer problems.

I'm signed up to update an old laptop to Win 10 to try it out, so no personal use experience yet. However, I have read a number of sites online that talk about privacy issues with Win 10.

Win 10 WIFI sharing

Win 10 Privacy Issues

Win 10 is spying on you

How to stop Win 10's prying eyes

I'm not real computer savvy (I know the programs I use but nothing special about the OS) but one private forum I'm on has a lot of talk about Windows 10 passing out your passwords like candy on Halloween. Not sure how much truth there is to that statement but I will not be upgrading from 7 Pro until I hear from those I trust that the problems are no longer problems.