Free up grade to win 10 only few days left, should i ?
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I cloned my win7 drive and updated the clone with free win 10 for future examination. Meanwhile continue to use original win 7
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No major issues with 10 myself.
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You can download the full installer and create a dual boot system with win7 and 10 as options
In that way you have your free legal copy if win 10 should you need it at a later stage and you can still use win7 as much as you want to.
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Win10 here and works great. Go for upgrade, but be sure to check out youtube vids on how to disable all the bloat Win10 natively enables with upgrade. Its all Microsoft bloat, but its easy to disable/ditch.
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I’m in the sticking with Win 7 until it isn’t feasible crowd. There are too many privacy concerns with Win 10 and I have a natural aversion to not having ANY control over what updates are installed on my own computer. Personally I don’t have any good reason to move to Win 10 but many reasons to avoid it like the plague.
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Anyone remember “trusted computing”…Nuff said on W10.
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I’d say no. I almost installed it by accident. Luckily I declined the agreement thing and it put me back to 7. I hope the free offer ends soon but my guess they will keep on extending it forever.
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Win 10 is a ‘service’ and MS maintains the registration on their servers so I’m told. Supposedly you can ‘upgrade’ to w10, let it register then roll back and still keep you’re free access to w10 in the future. I read you can install it to a flash drive using the W10 ISO from MS’s site, and register it with your w7/w8 keys.
I did a clean install to a spare hard drive since w10 is married to the motherboard, unlike earlier windows versions. BMS is quite stable on my w10 64 install, but I don’t stack processes in w10 like I do w7. -
Got my free upgrade quite a while ago. Never experienced any issues at all since the switch.
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+1
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Been using W10 for awhile now. Had some issues wth 4.33, but I recently just updated my entire computer. Works like a charm now and I am finding out features about W10 that make life a breeze. I’d upgrade for sure. Windows 7 won’t last forever.
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I did a clean install to a spare hard drive since w10 is married to the motherboard, unlike earlier windows versions.
If it’s married to the motherboard then the free version will become invalid as soon as you swap the mb out. Sounds like a waste of time to me if that is true. I remember reading that if you are upgrading from retail the the free Win10 retains those same rights so why they marry it to the mb?
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+1@Migbuster:
No major issues with 10 myself.
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I have W10 on my laptop. Do not like it. Bloated software, privacy concerns and no control of updates. Keeping W7 on my sim rig as long as possible.
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DO it no problems with BMS on win 10. Just think in a couple of years win 10 issues will be sorted. Admittedly there are a few problems with this release. But no more support for win 7
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I have W10 on my laptop. Do not like it. Bloated software, privacy concerns and no control of updates. Keeping W7 on my sim rig as long as possible.
I didn’t keep a list of sites I found answers on those, but all those ‘features’ can be removed. I’ll see if I can resurrect the list, but replacing the start button with the classic W7 start button is easy, the ‘bloatware’ apps can be removed with a simple text entry in powershell, and a simple registry edit will get your control back of windows update scheduling. The only thing I couldn’t permanently break was cortana, but at least it’s managable now and doesn’t call home on every powerup.
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That list would be helpful, thanks MaddogK. Can you tell me how to back out of the Microsoft account they hooked me into?
I really don’t like the spying and forced updates either. Simple maybe, but I do not know how to rid myself of these scourges/? Look forward to learning how.
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That list would be helpful, thanks MaddogK. Can you tell me how to back out of the Microsoft account they hooked me into?
I really don’t like the spying and forced updates either. Simple maybe, but I do not know how to rid myself of these scourges/? Look forward to learning how.
IIRC the MSLive account has to be terminated when you log into their server via a browser, tho I’de be wary of doing that if your running office later than 07 since the current office is a subscription service.
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Thanks, I think I am going back to W7. Too many things I do not like.