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Just upgraded. So far so good.

I have it on my Lenovo Thinkpad T410.

I can say it's alright, and while I don't dislike I don't have much of a reason to upgrade
from windows 7. The solitaire games are neat, but hardly worth an upgrade. Some things
also got moved around, which is standard, but not too big a deal to find again.

Unless there are support problems, I'll probably be staying with Windows 7. I'll keep 10
on my laptop, but on the machine I do development work on I'll be staying with 7.

I loved 7 as well. Only reason for having 8.1 was it came with the computer. So I figured I would try Windows 10 instead of going to 7. With my gadget program it seems like an updated version to 7. Keeping my wife on 8.1 on her Lenovo Yoga 2. She doesn't take to change very well and it wasn't long ago she had to cope with the 7 to 8.1 change,

I like that they added back the basic start menu components. Command Prompt is wayyy better, no longer stuck at too-narrow of a width and with much easier text selection for copy and paste. It also added Expose-like stuff AND MULTI-DESKTOP like in OSX. It's also smarter that they stopped calling "My Computer"/"Computer" those names that are too ambiguous, and started calling it what it is, "File Explorer".

It's a solid-looking OS that I will use in my next desktop (Skylake anyone?!) but for now it is only in a VM.

I was just thinking about my next PC build....

This PC is now over 5 years old!!!! 5 years and some change (I think 4 months)


Even with a stock first gen i7, this machine really doesn't feel outdated yet.
I'm sure my graphics card might start showing it's age if I decided to play the
latest and greatest games at max FPS but so far this thing is still rocking along just fine.
Maybe the SSD upgrade has something to do with it, but I feel like unless something dies
(knock on wood) then I could probably rock this thing another 2-3 years. Good value
for the money, especially because now I actually earn money with it!

To be somewhat on topic I guess....

I tried over the weekend to upgrade my workstation to windows 10 pro
and well it failed miserably. I got a "first_boot" error after about half an
hour (I was playing Destiny on PS4 so it may have been more or less time).

It auto rolled back to win 7 without ill effect, so I guess that does it for me! Win 7
is here to stay for quite some time.

Yeah the Core i7's have been really solid and I don't feel the age of my system either (its at 4 years old now), it can even play my GoPro's 4k footage! However... the 4k playback is too close to 100% CPU usage for me to be comfortable. That is ultimately what is making me decide that this machine is too old.

Back on topic:
I still cannot trust Windows upgrades and always do a fresh install lol...

I think fresh install's are best also but the Windows 10 is only free as an upgrade. A clean install will cost money.
The upgrade still seems to work OK, only having one glitch so far. My start menu and being able to right click on icons in the task bar stopped working.
I found a fix for the right click issue and I installed "Classic Shell". So, that with my "Gadget Pack" makes it look even more like Windows 7.
I just had to have my old school clock on the desktop.
So far it plays any game I install. Playing Portal again with no issues.

You can actually install windows 10 clean via the free "upgrade"


There are two paths to doing this:

1) Install windows 10 upgrade, and after it's activated you wipe the machine and load windows 10 again.
You machine now has a digital "entitlement" certificate that microsoft stores. All you need to do is load
the appropriate version of windows 10 and as soon as your machine hits the internet it will activate. Your
machine gains this entitlement cert after doing a successful install of the win 10 upgrade on a currently
activated install of any OS eligible for the upgrade.

2) During the windows 10 "Upgrade" you can actually choose an option that will install it clean and remove
all your data and programs as if you formatted and did a clean install. This is just a "one shot" way of doing
item number 1. You'll get the entitlement cert, and can format and do a clean install again.

A lot of the problems you are experiencing (directive) are fixed when you format and do a fresh install.

My problems are fixed and I didn't need to re-install anything.