Windows 10 Announced - Released 29-Jul-2015

Success this time. Only one problem and taking a full 2 minutes to boot I'm liking it. I'm guessing the slow boot will improve. Naturally the problem is with a software I use daily. I've contacted them. Other than that, everything I've tried seems to work.. I'm liking Win 10 so far. I even like the Edge browser. Haven't tried snooping around in the internals to adjust things yet.

 

My boot time was worse than that at first too, but once things got settled, it's now booting normally, about like 7 did.

 

My PC is pretty old. Everything went fine but could not get the video card drives to work correctly. Had to roll back to 7. Time for a new pc. :\

 

Why time for a new PC??
Windows 7 is supported till January 14, 2020.
Still four years, five months and 14 days to enjoy your old PC and to decide what you want to have next.

 

Thank you Ron!

 

What video card do you have? I've sucesfully installed Windows 10 on a 9 year old laptop.

 

Trying on a 4 year old desktop right now, at 68%, we shall see how it goes.

 

great! why Gpedit is not listened under administration tools,is there a way to add to the lsit?
thanks Minimalist

 

You can create shortcut to C:\Windows\System32\gpedit.msc and put it where you want.

 

Has anyone forced the Windows 10 update?
Did it work for you?

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@Hadron I forced the update using a different method, using Essential Update Manager. On my Windows 8.1 computer it worked, on two Windows 7 laptop it did not progress beyond the first upgrade window - maybe due to language settings. I had to use an ISO to upgrade from Windows 7, and that worked.

 

always precious

wonder why haven't they added it

 

I've been running the Win10 previews on a couple of old laptops here quite successfully over the past months and so, after a rush of blood to the head, decided yesterday to 'upgrade' my stable Win7 desktop.
I took a complete system image using Macrium Reflect (V6, full version) and verified it. No problems and so I started the upgrade process. After about an hour Win 10 came up but with a number of issues; no network adapter, no EIS, no printers, a number of small utitilies missing etc. With my wife looking on doing her lemon sucking impersonation I thought s.. that and rebooted into the Macrium recovery partition to start the revert process. At its initial screen it hung for a couple of seconds and crashed to a black screen and hung. Rebooted from a recent Macrium start up disk - same result.
Rebooted into Win 10 to find that system restore was turned off (by default I wonder?) but I found the option to roll back to Win7 which worked flawlessly.
I think the lesson I've learned is if at all possible do a clean install BUT more importantly wait a few months before doing so.

PS Mods. Is there a case to create a new thread here for WIN 10 issues to keep the collective wisdom together in one place?

 

@faircot I think you were just unlucky. I upgraded from Windows 7 and none of my drivers were missing, and all my 60 apps were there.

The missing drivers would have easily been fixed, but I don't know what happened to your apps.

 

Sure. Easily fixed issues but I just wonder how many people without a good technical understanding are/were in trouble with this upgrade.

 

Windows 10 Review – The Good and the Bad (by thewindowsclub.com)

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Out of curiosity, had you tested the Macrium rescue disk previously?

 

Yes. Tested and used quite recently. Also when I reverted to Win 7 I accessed the Macrium recovery environment both by boot CD and the start up option to test it. Both worked fine. I don't know the technical answer why it didn't work with Win 10. I can only assume that Win10 somehow intercepts the Macrium environment at MBR level.

 

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/windows-10-issues-problems-solutions.378465/#post-2511995

 

I think we are seeing a somewhat successful first cut with W10. Well maybe yes, maybe not. MS states that approximately 14 million were participants in the July 29 upgrade. One assumes that 5 million of those were the Insiders who tested the OS over several months and were familiar with the OS. Just for argument sake I will refer to the 14 million as a 'The Pilot'. It would be interesting to see the breakdown of success and failure for the Pilot. In particular the success/failure rate for the non-insiders who reserved W10.

If a non-insider succeeded in getting a device bootable, but the system did not perform well, had issues or the user did not like W10 and they chose to restore the previous OS, the process to upgrade and fall back was a success, but W10 was denied a platform. That in my book is a failure. MS was smart to give everyone a year to keep trying. If at first you do not succeed, try try again. .

Consider that 1 billion is the goal for W10, 14 million is about what a Pilot would be. The impression of W10 from media, insiders and skilled users has been positive to mixed. It is a relatively simple process to get W10, but problems and issues exist. A 'Pilot' usually runs anywhere from 3-6 months. Usually migrations/upgrades are done in waves - which MS has announced it is doing. Once MS announces the next wave, 'the Pilot' will have been deemed a success (for them). If the next wave is another 14 million, there should be a greater number of lower skilled users entering the fray, so hopefully some of the issues that were discovered in the Pilot will be addressed. If not they can not expect a high degree of success.