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Win 10 free upgrade - 6/2/2015 11:20:46 AM

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Anyone else have a little white windows icon on their task bar that gives you a free WIn 10 upgrade when released? Very happy about that as I was going to upgrade to 10 at some point after hearing the testers comments.

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RE: Win 10 free upgrade - 6/2/2015 11:28:51 AM

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I have TWO icons, one on the PC and one on the laptop

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RE: Win 10 free upgrade - 6/2/2015 11:33:04 AM

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well i've been testing it before it was called win 10, so for me it's not much different from win 8.1, plays well, have no issues with loads etc, all games so far work same as win 8.1 that i've tested, not got all my tools to be fully updated atm, but they will come in a few weeks or when it's out etc, for free it's worth it, if your on a older pc with a older version like vista or xp, you need to buy mind you as that's not supported in the roll out...

so thumbs up from me, but i'm waiting as always for some of my pc's to be upgraded, will do a few odd ones, then wait for 3 to 6 months before doing them all, if at all.

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RE: Win 10 free upgrade - 6/2/2015 5:00:55 PM

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Oh dear..Win 8 was awful...if it's like Win 8 then I shall stick to 7. I had heard 10 was designed for the PC again and not just the tablet like 8 was.

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well i've been testing it before it was called win 10, so for me it's not much different from win 8.1, plays well, have no issues with loads etc, all games so far work same as win 8.1 that i've tested, not got all my tools to be fully updated atm, but they will come in a few weeks or when it's out etc, for free it's worth it, if your on a older pc with a older version like vista or xp, you need to buy mind you as that's not supported in the roll out...

so thumbs up from me, but i'm waiting as always for some of my pc's to be upgraded, will do a few odd ones, then wait for 3 to 6 months before doing them all, if at all.

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RE: Win 10 free upgrade - 6/2/2015 5:09:02 PM

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8.1 nothing like the tablet version, or it isn't after a few updates anyway, plays and looks no different that win 7 tbh, just faster and as a few more bells and whistles, loads faster, reinstalls faster, has more drivers in data base so work with more hardware out of the box, so for me it's worth it, but for win 7 users, win 8.1 maybe not every ones cup of tea, same as win 10, no need for most to upgrade and it's a choice, until they retire more versions of windows, then most won't have that choice anymore

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RE: Win 10 free upgrade - 6/2/2015 5:17:20 PM

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8.1 nothing like the tablet version, or it isn't after a few updates anyway, plays and looks no different that win 7 tbh, just faster and as a few more bells and whistles, loads faster, reinstalls faster, has more drivers in data base so work with more hardware out of the box, so for me it's worth it, but for win 7 users, win 8.1 maybe not every ones cup of tea, same as win 10, no need for most to upgrade and it's a choice, until they retire more versions of windows, then most won't have that choice anymore

Couldn't say better. :)

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RE: Win 10 free upgrade - 6/2/2015 5:18:52 PM

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OK cool. SO Win 8 became much better once upgraded to 8.1?

OK well looking forward to my Win10 upgrade.

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RE: Win 10 free upgrade - 6/2/2015 5:25:14 PM

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in a word yes

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RE: Win 10 free upgrade - 6/2/2015 5:34:28 PM

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8 was very poor, and wasn't a upgrade from windows 7, but a move sideways and backwards and hated by almost anyone with a brain, kind of a windows ME / vista version but not as good tbh, windows 8.1 and windows 10 alters all that as they have listened to what users liked and didn't like and tried to help and keep all happy, while some are mixed with it, for me it's good, with windows 10 being better still, but i don't like pay by year model at all, so 365 office is rubbish, and if they do make a model of windows 10 with the same model, a pay be year one, then i hope it gets some really bad marketing and soon that will changed also, but atm it's speculation and only for office for now, where hopefully it will stay for ever...

images are the way forward in my opinion, so place any image on a usb thumb drive and install, so quick and easy, with a reinstall and back up image also being very quick and easy to do, half the time of win 7, and slightly quicker that win 8.1 so 10 does have many advantages, with speed, load, less resources, faster and easier recovery and image back up and reinstall / fix etc.

could bore all to death and harp on forever, but i'm not selling it, it will be free so doesn't need a sales person anyway.

so take or don't it's a free choice.

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RE: Win 10 free upgrade - 6/2/2015 6:07:32 PM

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For our Windows 7 systems (three of them around the house), I take the attitude: If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix it.

That said, there's a good chance I will be buying a new PC, with Windows 10, come August. I've been boycotting Windows 8*.

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RE: Win 10 free upgrade - 6/2/2015 11:59:31 PM

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I have found it to be noticeably faster and I still have a very good system.

As for gaming, I have not found anything that will run on Windows 7 not running on 10.

And the OS has optimizations when using memory and DX 12 so it should be a good OS for gamers.

I do not know for sure, but it seems that you can 'reserve' your copy and put it on a USB drive and install it at a later date.
So it might be a good idea to go ahead and download a copy and save it for later.

I will be upgrading on day 1. I had a preview copy running and I really enjoyed the performance enhancements. It really seemed to take advantage of high memory and multi threading.

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RE: Win 10 free upgrade - 6/3/2015 4:26:10 AM

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I was sent the message for an offer for the Windows 10 full version. I put it on reserve for july 29th.I'm a sucker for new and free things.

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RE: Win 10 free upgrade - 6/3/2015 4:28:28 AM

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I have found it to be noticeably faster and I still have a very good system.

As for gaming, I have not found anything that will run on Windows 7 not running on 10.

And the OS has optimizations when using memory and DX 12 so it should be a good OS for gamers.

I do not know for sure, but it seems that you can 'reserve' your copy and put it on a USB drive and install it at a later date.
So it might be a good idea to go ahead and download a copy and save it for later.

I will be upgrading on day 1. I had a preview copy running and I really enjoyed the performance enhancements. It really seemed to take advantage of high memory and multi threading.

My reading of the "reservation" offer was that you could download the upgrade (3 gigs) and then choose when (and if) you wanted to actually upgrade. That seems to imply an installation file or disk image that you can keep and use for a reinstallation (crashed disk, upgraded computer etc) as opposed to some form of online streaming installation whereby what you downloaded from MS would just initiate the "real" download and not leave you with an actual installation file.

I posted in the "Death of Windows" thread about this but didn't get a response to this question:

Will utility programs like IOLO's System Mechanic Pro work with Win 10? IOLO is completely silent on this on their website and also just offered renewal extensions for 85% off (which I took). Now I'm wondering if it will be useless if I upgrade to Win 10 on July 29th. It would seem that a complex maintenance toolkit like System Mechanic might need to be completely re-written to cope with Win 10. Anyone have any insight into this? Acronis TruImage 2015 also punched out a huge discount for the upgrade and I'm wondering if this could present a problem. Any of you beta guys using either of these products with you Win 10 test?

Thanks for any help.

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RE: Win 10 free upgrade - 6/3/2015 5:16:16 AM

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Just wanted to thank all of you for posting on this. I will soon need to retire my 6-year-old Dell Win7 and take a maxed out Dell i7 8700 with free Win10 upgrade out of the box. I am dreading it of course. But for $802 delivered, I had to make the move.

One thing I will say is the customer support from Dell has gone completely down the tubes. They farmed it out to Somalia or so it seems. So hopefully won't need any tech support

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RE: Win 10 free upgrade - 6/3/2015 5:16:57 AM

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no not me sorry, and that's why i didn't reply, but both programs you mention will support it but only once released, maybe in a patch format or an update one, but until release they i guess won't say, as it's still a beta product atm in name

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RE: Win 10 free upgrade - 6/3/2015 6:04:22 AM

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I'll be holding off on upgrading for a while myself. Experience has taught me that early adopter = free beta tester. I want to let everyone else find out what doesn't work rather than dealing with the frustration of having my stuff not working.

Besides I like to keep things as simple as possible, something that Win 8 didn't do at all, and Win 10 may make worse.

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RE: Win 10 free upgrade - 6/3/2015 6:54:16 AM

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Well, it sounds all well and good, but for the most important issue:

Will it play War in the Pacific-Admiral's Edition without any hiccups?
Will upgrading foul up games that are already in progress?

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RE: Win 10 free upgrade - 6/3/2015 7:17:10 AM

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RE: Win 10 free upgrade - 6/3/2015 8:58:52 AM

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Besides I like to keep things as simple as possible, something that Win 8 didn't do at all, and Win 10 may make worse.

Just buy Start8 ($5) and you won't use the metro interface again unless you want.
You'll have the advantages of having Windows 8/8.1/X with the same lookout of Windows 7.
There are some free Start buttons that you could try, but the ones I have tried didn't worked as well as Start8.

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RE: Win 10 free upgrade - 6/3/2015 11:58:37 PM

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are the system requirements for win 10 high? my laptop is from 2011 and with win 7 and still performs very well for me - i7 8gb ram and all that

i think for me though would be the compatibility with older games - it has taken some effort to get some games going on win7 but i have managed it with most

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RE: Win 10 free upgrade - 6/17/2015 1:55:05 PM

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if your on a older pc with a older version like vista or xp, you need to buy mind you as that's not supported in the roll out...

That's not necessarily so. I am on VISTA and when windows 8 came out they had a free upgrade for it and it's still active though I never installed it. But, I've found I can install it if I want to and thus my VISTA OS will go all the way to Win 10 once I install the free Windows 8 OS and get to upgrade it for free to 8.1 and then onto Win10.

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RE: Win 10 free upgrade - 6/18/2015 7:42:15 AM

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are the system requirements for win 10 high? my laptop is from 2011 and with win 7 and still performs very well for me - i7 8gb ram and all that

If your PC can run Win7 fine then it can run Win8 and Win10 even better. Win8/10 are designed to run on both desktop and tablet PC so they are lighter on resources than Win7.

Win10 brings back the start menu and if on Win8.1 then you should get free ClassicShell to give you back the start menu.My Win8.1 functions no differently than Win7, unless I boot into Metro, which I rarely do.

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RE: Win 10 free upgrade - 6/20/2015 1:55:36 PM

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I agree that WIN 8 was awful! But WIN 8.1 is many times better. And it is better than WIN 7.

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RE: Win 10 free upgrade - 6/20/2015 2:38:52 PM

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Im still using Winxp on this desktop (for gaming) and use a 4GB flashdrive with Ubuntu Linux for surfing. All downloads & saves got to my 2TB Toshiba external. I dont get why people actually believe that changing their operating system so frequently qualifies as an actual upgrade considering theres more adware, kidware & spyware with each new edition?

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RE: Win 10 free upgrade - 6/20/2015 4:52:17 PM

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Im still using Winxp on this desktop (for gaming) and use a 4GB flashdrive with Ubuntu Linux for surfing. All downloads & saves got to my 2TB Toshiba external. I dont get why people actually believe that changing their operating system so frequently qualifies as an actual upgrade considering theres more adware, kidware & spyware with each new edition?

It's a human nature thing for some that they just gotta have the most recent and what they consider the best or highest quality and soon find out nothing works and go screaming on the forums about their graphics or the slowness or blah blah blah about their problems.

I get a kick out of it. I've always stayed right in the middle of the road on new stuff. Everything I have and use works just fine. I don't need the latest graphic card like those that gotta have the best (so they think) for my games to work and run well and at near top settings. Course I never have been into the graphics age so most games I have don't need the top end card like say for GTA V.

Just as an example my computer is 7 years old now with a PowerColor 5500 hd graphics card with 1gb of ram and 6gb memory installed and I haven't run into a single game that I play that won't work and work well. Using Vista 64 OS.

Some people just gotta spend that money though as it's burning their pockets.

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RE: Win 10 free upgrade - 6/20/2015 10:46:20 PM

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If you play wargames and some other strategy type games you don't need a powerful PC but if you play some of the newer 3D games, such as Battlefield4 or The Witcher3 then you need a fairly beefy system. I can play pretty much any game well with i5 3570K, 16GB ram and GTX 780 but wouldn't mind having a GTX 980 instead.

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RE: Win 10 free upgrade - 6/20/2015 11:13:54 PM

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Yeah I don't get into that shooter stuff or hack n slash games where a blood splotch splatters your screen. I could probably run them though anyways. I've tried demos of things and they still run well though at not peak settings.

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RE: Win 10 free upgrade - 7/10/2015 2:01:42 PM

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Oh, crap1 I'm rethinking accepting Windows 10 free upgrade when I saw this. Free support will only be given for 2 years home users and 4 years for windows pro users . While having windows 8.1 guarantees free support and till 2020. now i'm seriously thinking about rejecting Windows 10, which I have pre-scheduled for my computer.
I think I have to send off a advisory to them or they will automatically update my computer or will they inform me before it happens so I can reject it?
Paying for support with Windows 10 in 2017 with my home version as opposed to free support windows 8.1 till 2020 seems to be a no-brainer to me.

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RE: Win 10 free upgrade - 7/13/2015 11:01:39 AM

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Just wanted to thank all of you for posting on this. I will soon need to retire my 6-year-old Dell Win7 and take a maxed out Dell i7 8700 with free Win10 upgrade out of the box. I am dreading it of course. But for $802 delivered, I had to make the move.

One thing I will say is the customer support from Dell has gone completely down the tubes. They farmed it out to Somalia or so it seems. So hopefully won't need any tech support

I could tell you horror stories about Dell Computers from when I was working at my last job. The support for business computers is almost below zero.

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RE: Win 10 free upgrade - 7/29/2015 7:23:08 AM

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well who apart from me then is using it?