Topic: Windows 10

[EarlyMorningRain]

it takes all of 3 minutes to add a start menu, disable "hot corners" and set it to boot to desktop.  There's also a way to disable the lock screen that take one second or less.  It really is a great os once you forget about the "metro" gui which I spend zero time in.

currently have 8.1 on a laptop at home, but will have to look into these said tweaks......

[Bruce Watson]

Sounds a little unscrupulous to me.

Only a little? It sounds a lot unscrupulous to me, and highly unethical. It should be illegal; at least it should be illegal to force this privacy invasion on customers who do not want it.

I guess this means the end of MS in most government offices around the world, eh? I wonder how the NSA / CIA / FBI feel about being spied on my MS?   

[Sloan Simpson]

My understanding is that data collection is from members of the Windows Insider Program, and only for the Technical Preview. I imagine it would be removed before the real release.

[anhisr]

You are correct.  Anybody who signed up for the Windows 10 preview was plainly told that Microsoft would collect data.  I take that as anything you do.  I do not know why anybody would use this operating system as their primary system.  I have it set up as a Virtual Machine and testing it out with different software to see if I can get it to crash.

[spyder9]

I'm up and running.  Initially, download kept failing.  Found a work around on the 'net.  The rest went smoothly.  Had to remove the Class StartUp Shell app after the upgrade. 

Nice to see manufacturers like Asus and Nvidia ready to rock with their W10 drivers by launch.

So far, so good.

[anr]

I must admit I'm very impressed.  I upgraded from W7 I had 2 minor problems.  Soundforge needed uninstalling and re-installing.  No big deal.  I found some features, like "Channel Converter" were no longer available, but ok after re-install.  The other is my dual-band wireless dongle now defaults to 2G.  Can't get 5G.  That'll hopefully get resolved if TP-Link decide to issue a new driver.  Well done Microsoft.  Not often I've said that!

[rocksuitcase]

Bump to follow thread. i am in charge of about 60 PCs. Most are WIN7, 3 are WIN8; haven't yet decided what I am going to do as a company policy. I'll keep reading on forums such as this and other non IT forums so I can see how most users feel.

[Gene Poole]

Although I'm not totally disgusted by Windows 10, I'm very disgusted that they still have no native support for USB Audio 2.0.  Come on M$, it's been like 8 years since the USB consortium standardized on that.

[anr]

If I may just qualify what I said earlier.  Not since XP have Microsoft included WinHelp.  They did issue updates for W7 & 8, but made clear their corporate policy was not to provide help for legacy software.  Assuming customer pressure made them issue updates, it's strange they didn't just include it in W10. 

Anyway, for our purposes, this means Soundforge and (mostly non-Sony/Sonic Foundry) plug-ins don't behave properly if you do a clean W10 install.  But works ok if you upgrade from W7 to W10. 

So, I decided to do a clean install of W7 and wait for an update.  I withdraw my "well done"!!   

[EarlyMorningRain]

Haven't jumped on this yet, but are they sending out a license key or anything to you? Thinking in terms of the Win 7 folks who choose the upgrade option......

[flipp]

Of everythng I've read about W10 the primary reason I won't "upgrade" is the end-user has no control over updates. Can't deny them, can't delay them, can't select which they want to install, etc, and with MS's history of severely impacting some systems with their patches and updates, even bricking some boxes, I won't "upgrade" until absolutely forced to. I'm going to keep using some variation of Linux/BSD for my everyday online box. Sticking with 8 for my windows box which only went online once to register and get a few updates for Samplitude and now is used strictly offline as a DAW.

In the meantime I'll read your impressions of the latest OSAS (operating system as a service) from MS.

[jbell]

10 is working with classic shell on my computer!! 

I'm up and running.  Initially, download kept failing.  Found a work around on the 'net.  The rest went smoothly.  Had to remove the Class StartUp Shell app after the upgrade. 

Nice to see manufacturers like Asus and Nvidia ready to rock with their W10 drivers by launch.

So far, so good.

[Gordon]

disable classic shell and check out the new start. not bad at all.

[spyder9]

disable classic shell and check out the new start. not bad at all.

This ^^

[ilduclo]

Can't find a way to disable login screen.....not password log in, but login itself. Why, mr gates?