Free up grade to win 10 only few days left, should i ?
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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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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.
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For sure the upgrade is trouble maker for laptops.
In my work on all desktop pc went smooth but on laptops 100% failure.
In one made a clean install and then it went smooth.
In my laptop just the previous week I found and removed a killer process checking for Windows 10 compatibility… having 100% disk usage…
This was just one of the many troubles i faced.
I must do a clean install for sure.
In general doesn’t give me a feeling of assurance as Win7 gives me. And many things, small stupid, but everyday usage is getting to my nerves.
Maybe after sp1 or sp2 that all those will be fixed.Sent from TapaTalk
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This is one thing that’s splitting some in the I.T. world. MaddogK is partially right. You can disable most of the annoying things by opting out and with reg edits. Even if you do that, you won’t be able to disable a couple of things. It’s those “things” that are bothering us. For instance, taking full control over what information is being sent over the wire.(Privacy and potential sercurity risk) Another is controlling what is installed. (MS sponsored apps and advertising)
So far, the only way to bypass this is to have a Enterprise subscription license or Education. That’s about $84 per year per instance. As for normal end-users, Home and to some extent Pro, you’re out of luck. The lastest major update, 1607, dubbed “Anniversary Edition” will take away more configuration options such as being about to edit group policies that block some anoyances. That was the last bastion for Pro users.
All in all, I would hold on to windows 7 or 8.1 if I were you, and keep them offline after they are phased out. If you need more info, I’d be glad to share.
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All in all, I would hold on to windows 7 or 8.1 if I were you, and keep them offline after they are phased out.
Perhaps the best advise I’ve read today…
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But no more support for win 7
Stop spreading disinformation please. win7 will “enjoy” security fixes until at LEAST 2020. win10 is such a privacy / bloat nightmare I really really do hope we’ll have an alternative to run BMS on by then.
All the best, Uwe