Thread: Microcrosoft!! Windows 10!!!

My current used computer, courtesy of my tech son, was wiped and installed with Windows 10. He also installed the hard drive from my old computer. I synched the two through Chrome settings and can switch back and forth easily. Yes everything is faster but in general 10 is fussier and mimics a lot of 7 but adds steps. All in the name of progress.

Cangooner, my Chrome pops up immediately, wonder why the difference in mount time.

Originally Posted by Razorfeld

Cangooner, my Chrome pops up immediately, wonder why the difference in mount time.

I likely need to do some plugin pruning. I suspect I just have too much going on in the background with Chrome.

Just read that new computers will not run earlier versions of Windows. Leave it to their way of forced upgrade s. I have many useful legacy programs I paid for. Drat!@%+$%9!
~Richard

I use Windows 7 Ultimate...... A buddy of mine who worked at a computer repair place years ago, hooked me up with a salesman copy of Windows 7. I think the disk has all the different versions on it too..... Pretty sweet eh? My wife switched from Windows 8 to 10..... PITA!!!

I have 10 and for me it's not that bad. I usually take the computer to the tec. at least once and some times 2 times a year to ck and de-bug or what ever you call it and it runs fairly fast considering my connection rate. I really don't know how he set it up but it has to be idle a long time before it goes to sleep. The programs i have work ok. A lot better than i do.

I'm running virtualized WinXP on Virtual Box for a few programs that won't run on Win7-10. Oracle Virtual Box runs really well on my Win10 machine, I run Linux that way as well

Originally Posted by Geezer

Just read that new computers will not run earlier versions of Windows. Leave it to their way of forced upgrade s. I have many useful legacy programs I paid for. Drat!@%+$%9!
~Richard

I'm involved in the SETI project of collective computing. These are some of the hardest core computer cruncher around and do not like anything happening to their crunchers. They have been battling W10 since released. Here is an on going thread of their battle with W10 and W10 trying to update their rigs. It is a long read but go to the end and read backwards a little to get the feel of what they are trying to do. From the message boards of SETI@home.

Windows 10 - Yea or Nay?