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Installed Windows 10 as upgrade to Windows 7 Home on my SSD having first disconnected my Windows 7 Pro drive.
It took more than six hours to download and install.
At first it seemed to be working OK but then the updates started. Within the first half hour it had downloaded six updates.
Tried the Edge browser. Not impressed. No faster than IE and definitely not easier to use.
Tried the music player. Why? Why did they bother? Oh yes. I know. They want us to buy an app to play music. Nah!
Tried the news app. Good grief. How the hell do you navigate? The scroll bars keep disappearing and you have to guess where they are. What a stupid idea! Keyboard commands aren't much better. Right cursor key to scroll past the thing you are trying to read. Rubbish!
Then I thought, why not put the other drive back to see if I can read the files.
Ok. Seemed to be ok but then I couldn't access my folders. Locked out. Tried changing permissions but not able to, even as administrator. WTF?
Switched off and had my lunch.
When I switched back on it started a disk check. Apparently the Windows 7 drive was corrupted. Oh really? Cancelled the disk check and rebooted into Windows 7. Oh no! Another disk check but this time the Win10 drive was the suspect.
Cancelled this disk check and continued to boot into Win 7. Everything seemed ok but no access to Win 10 files. Not surprised. Noticed a few extra recycle bins had appeared on the drive. Hmmm...
Shut down and restarted into Win 10 or at least, that was what I wanted to do. The boot failed because the file system was now corrupted. Do I want to auto repair? Ok.
Unable to start Windows 10 because the file system is corrupted. Auto repair? Ok. And round it went, at least six times before I said something on the lines of "to hell with it".
Re-installed windows 7 in less than 30 minutes. Everything OK again.
Overall impression of Windows 10 - I don't like the look of it. Characterless blocks with cheap looking fonts. What happened to the nicely crafted borders that came with earlier versions? Windows 10 looks like early versions of Linux but with more saturated colours. Generally un-impressed with the appearance.
User interface is not as easy to use as older Windows versions. That's not because it's new or different, I have been playing with the pre-release versions for a while now.
Sorry Microsoft. Why would I want to replace a solid, reliable, easy to use OS with this nasty looking plastic imitation?
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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Chris Maunder wrote: Connecting to a VPN now requires 4 clicks (including having the "Settings" dialog open) instead of two clicks almost in-place)
The short version of my current Weven VPN experience in 20 easy steps is:
0) Click start.
1) Click on the Cisco VPN app pinned on the start menu (because I can never remember WTE it's called to use search).
2) Click on the Connect button on the app which opens by the tray.
3) Realize I forgot my VPN password.
4) Start a new explorer instance.
5) Double click on My Documents.
6) Find the GPG encrypted file the VPN password is in.
7) Double click on it.
8) Wait for GPG to open.
9) Click on Decrypt.
10) Enter my password.
11) Click OK.
12) Open the file.
13) Enter the password and token from my RSA key into the VPN app.
14) Click connect.
15) Wait.
16) Click OK to dismiss the welcome banner I get sent by my employer.
17) Close the password file.
18) Right click on the decrypted password file.
19) Select secure erase from the context menu.
It gets even more fun if my VPN password has expired and I need to add steps to change it including waiting a minute for the next RSA token number and then update an re-encrypt the password file. And you're whining about a mere four clicks. 
PS I found a major bug in your markdown implementation. If I turn it on and replace the )'s with .'s it converts my properly numbered list to VB6 mode and starts it at 1.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Network Map no longer available (pictorial relationship between devices, switches, routers etc; NOT map network drive). It appears that this was not in W8 either, but I've jumped from W7 to W10 so I have only just missed it. 
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The people app doesn't let you link a Skype contact to your other contacts. (How much did Micr$oft pay for Skype?). And there is no linking to social apps in spite of how the settings tells you to go download a social app. (To me, the one ground breaking thing that no one ever noticed in Win8 is how you could base your account on an existing Microsoft (Live, Outlook, Hotmail) account and all of your devices would automatically sync. Wonderful if you're a Win Phone user.)
You can't pin a contact to the start... area/region.
You can't delete anniversaries from the people app.
I can't sweep (i.e. delete all from a sender) in the Mail app.
Icon/buttons are annoyingly small on my tablet whilst ala tablet mode.
Splitting screens was so easy in 8.1, but now it hardly ever works. Sometimes it works but I wasn't trying to split screens.
Windows 10 apologizes to the desktop user but alienates the tablet user.
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Picked up a new MSI gaming laptop recently. Came with Windows 8.1 and updated it to Windows 10 Pro (had a spare 8.1 Pro disc to do the upgrade).
1. Installed Start10 (saw a later post that you installed it as well) and rarely look at the Windows 10 menu again.
2. Cortana was the first thing I disabled, along with web search. I want to search my computer, not the interwebs. I have Firefox and Google for that.
3. Disabled as much of the "phoning home" as I could both during the upgrade and post upgrade.
4. Local account creation seems to be hidden away more than in Windows 8.1
Overall, the laptop and OS are working well for my needs. VS2015CE installed without any issues. Expression 4 Suite works well. Still need to install my video editing suite and a number of other small utilities. I've only run across one or two games (so far) that I haven't been able to run at all. And some of the older games no longer spew rainbow colors all over the screen (e.g. StarCraft). Pretty impressed with it overall.
Laptop is an MSI GE62 2QD Apache Pro with 16 GB memory, 256 GB M.2 solid state (with ports for two more), GTX 960M with 2 GB memory, 2 TB hdd, DVD R/W (which can be switched out for another hdd if desired), 15.6" full HD screen. Fast little machine. 
Flynn
If we can't corrupt the youth of today,
the adults of tomorrow will be no fun...
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Chris Maunder wrote: Aero
How to Enable Aero Glass Transparency with Blur in Windows 10?[^]
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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My biggest problem is using a MS account for my computer login; Not going to happen ever. Transmitting the login password across the internet is a Darwinian security flaw. The Man-in-the-Middle sees everything plain text (private key required). Running under a local account breaks everything I was excited about: Cortana, the App Store, Groove, Xbox. They get Kudos for IE11 still being there, demanding IE to be part of the OS was one of Microsoft's greatest mistakes in the browser war. Edge is not ready (meant?) for the desktop. It's strictly a touch based browser for people with really fat fingers (check out that right click menu). Edge security settings are non-existent compared to IE11. I now know why Win10 was free. The only perk I get coming from Win7 is being able to compile Windows Phone apps, but after looking at C++/CX I don't see that happening either. I'm not willing to put a lot of effort into supporting a sandboxed architecture (COM sucks). The rollback to Win7 countdown has started.
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How about
- Edge is weirdly unstable. Can't quite figure out what's broken, because I switched back to Firefox on the first day, simply because I needed to be productive.
- Network subsystem is unstable. For several days after installation, my wired network connection would stop being able to hear the internet after about 30 minutes. I know my connection was live because I could see the local net and also beause I could connect wirelessly and get the internet, for another 30 minutes. A subsequent patch partially fixed the problem, so that now it only occasionally can't find the internet.
This was on a six-month-old Surface Pro 3, so you'd think they would have tested on this device. Win 8.1 and other apps have been rock-solid, so I don't suspect a hardware problem.
I like the look of Windows 10. I want to like it. But I very nearly reverted. Way too buggy. If Microsoft's strategy is to shortchange testing on O/S releases, people better sell their stock. Oy!
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Win10 is just a Trojan in your panties. Said enough.
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The lack of respect for users' privacy and the data-mining model has already put me off. Ditto for Google. Looks like I will be switching to Mac.
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Because Apple is better?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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By all accounts Apple gathers less data. They also have an official stance of not following the data-mining / targeted adds model of their rivals. If I discover otherwise then I will simply avoid Apple too. It really is that simple. Microsoft are out of order and their behavior is totally unacceptable. Ditto for Google.
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Just for curiosity's sake: do you have a credit card and/or are you a member of a rewards program (eg Air Miles, credit card reward program etc)?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Rather than putting it as a comment, wrote a blog about it - Blog[^]
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Your experience is similar to mine. I made it through in one go, but it took close to five hours to complete. The only negatives were that my onboard sound was disabled afterward, and my VPN software for work no longer functions.
Software Zen: delete this;
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My experience installing Windows 10 last Friday...
1) Sit down at my desktop...
2) Check something on my Laptop... Hey, it's ready to upgrade! Click the button.
3) Play some Dota2...
4) Glance at the laptop... 3% done
5) Continue playing...
6) Glance at the laptop... 35% done
7) Play more
8) Glance at the laptop... 60% done... And now rebooting
9) Hmm, still going? Ok, another round...
10) Glance at the laptop... Done!
11) Finish my game
12) Click through a few setup pages
13) Turn off all of the annoying bits where Microsoft wants to collect more data than even Google does
14) Try to get Edge to use Google instead of Bing... Realize it's too much of a hassle, and switch back to Chrome.
15) Mess with Cortana for a while... Decide it's really not worth using
16) Close laptop and go back to gaming on my Win7 desktop.
There. A nice, simple, 16-step process...
Went pretty smoothly... And Win10 is nice so far, but not really that shiny or amazing. Granted, the laptop was already running 8.1, so not a huge change.
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Ian Shlasko wrote: Try to get Edge to use Google instead of Bing...
It's not completely obvious, but this should do it:
- Open Google in Edge;
- Click the "..." button, and select "Settings";
- Scroll to the bottom and click "View advanced settings";
- Scroll down to "Search the address bar with", and select "<Add new>" in the list;
- Under "Choose one", click the entry for Google, and the click "Add as default";
- Close the settings side-bar;
It took me a while to realise that you had to visit the search engine in Edge before it would appear in the "Choose one" list. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: It took me a while to realise that you had to visit the search engine in Edge before it would appear in the "Choose one" list.
Ahhhhh... That's why it wasn't listed... Ok, might try that. Thanks.
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It's a very slow, very annoying process.
I'm still doing extra overnight disk images every night while I wait for the notification to go "Ready to install".
Sigh.
But...since I hear some people have lost networking, apps, and data in the upgrade, I want to wait until I get the "officially ready for you" version rather than download the ISO myself.
Mind you, Win7 is still running fine, so I don't need the upgrade anytime too soon...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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If you are still waiting for the ready message you may be facing the same issues as me. Have a look at your Windows update history for messages such as
Upgrade to Windows 10 Home Failed
Of course, why it failed is a total mystery. I downloaded the .ISO to do it manually. As mentioned before, my wife's 8.1 system upgraded itself in no time and without problems.
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I had 3 'Upgrade to Windows 10 Home ... Failed' entries. Searching the internet eventually gave the answer that this message is misleading. It means that that the upgrade had tried to run without you getting the notification first and the resolution was to wait and wait and wait until a notification came. My notification arrived a week later and ran successfully. Unfortunately, once it came, I could not do a backup first (but my previous backup was done as close as possible to the official release day so was only one week old). Perhaps I was fortunate or perhaps I was one of the silent majority, but W10 loaded OK (including drivers for a disconnected printer) and works straight out of the box.
My set up is slightly unusual as I had set W7 to autologon (no username / password prompt) so I was a bit worried that it would give me a password and not tell me what it was or would fail to install because that was no longer permitted. In fact, it works - even on W10 it autologs on. Even better, it now allows me to join in the homegroup with another W8 laptop in the local domain. W7 had refused to let me join the homegroup because not having a password meant I was a security risk.
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Was Socrates' busiest student the one with a lot on his Plato?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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No, that was his HUNGRIEST student! 
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Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Your suck rate just went up. 
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