Anyway it's all installed, looking pretty slick and running as well as a C2D can run anything, which isn't super fast on a good day.
I'm disappointed they recycled the old IE icon for the (allegedly new) "Edge".
I'm thinking something like a straight razor on a throat, or a cliff with a bunch of lemmings would have shown more imagination.
C2Ds are alright, i'm sure some on here are still using them as their main PC. Maybe. At least in 64bit mode, anyway.
My desktop still has a Core 2 Quad in it. Not that it's been switched on in a long time, mind. Might try and upgrade it to windows 10 :C
Mine has apparently hung up at 82% of the install process. I'm not hugely surprised, the fucking computer seems to struggle to do things like shut down and restart without having to have the power button held in for five seconds at the moment. Hmm.
So what's the verdict? My laptop hasn't told me I can upgrade yet.
Mines still downloading, but tracy's is upgraded and the xbox one streaming is pretty cool.
Edit: and flaky as hell over WiFi.
EDITED: 29 Jul 2015 19:24 by KOSWIX
You don't need to wait, go to that link I posted up thread and kick it off.
I'm now trying to install 8 over the top of 8.1 because a Repair install won't work either for me :(
Yes that's true. Thought I'd check if it's worth it before diving in with the upgrade.
I'm just waiting for the usability reports to come in.
But since you lot don't seem to think that Win8 sucks shit out of a monkey's butt-crack, I think I'll have to look further afield. Win7 seems about as good as Windows has ever been TBH.
The worst thing about Windows 8 IMO is the tiles shit. 10 makes that easy to get rid of. Otherwise it all seems like a pretty bog standard de. To my surprise it kept ie 11 on board.
Didn't like 8/8.1 (well, I didn't mind it once it was set to boot to desktop and classic start menu was installed).
Only had 10 for about 10 minutes, and so far it seems pretty slick. Cortana is being a dick, tells me I need to change some settings (the LET Microsoft SPY ON ME settings), but when I click to open the settings page it opens then closes again immediately.
Actually, can't get into settings at all. Very annoying.
I did start to download the ISO but I just noticed that the Service Host process is using the network connection so probably downloading the update too.
I can get control panel, but not into PC Settings, the app store or anything related to that stuff (personalise desktop, windows update etc.) It's a bit annoying as I need to change some security settings in PC Settings in order to get my uni email to work.
I've run SFC, which reports there's a bunch of corrupt files that it can't fix. Was going to do a windows reset thing, but that's in PC Settings. (fail)
Must be a command prompt command you can run to open certain settings dialogs?
Windows Store is now working, but not PC Settings or Windows Update.
>>P.S. is Win 10 any good? do I want it? should I be upgrading my laptop to it in the middle of exam revision?
I guess that was a no.
We have 6 PCs waiting for an update. 5 of them failed to update with Windows error 80240020 (which a lot of people are reporting on t'interweb). My daughter's Windows 8.1 laptop updated without any problems.
I followed some suggestions to delete the update files from Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Downloads and restart the update from an Admin started cmd prompt with wuauclt.exe/updatenow
The Windows 7 PCs updated OK. The Windows 8.1 ones have failed so far.