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I call Windows10 the "Adware" version of Windows. I don't care for the GUI, myself and they have yet to show me a single feature worth upgrading for. Wait ... I know, the Services applet remembers it's window dimensions and position between sessions - Time to upgrade! 
I played with it on-and-off for awhile. Even upgraded my development box to it just to see if I could live with it. I found it irritating to use so I re-imaged back to 7. All the machines on my network are on 7 ... I locked 10 out. The only one that's different is a little box the wife has and it's running 8.1. I keep a VM loaded with it to tinker with from time-to-time and test software I deliver in case something breaks but that's it.
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After the Win 10 Anniversary Upgrade, there was a brief period when herself's desktop was plagued with sudden freezes. On the web we learnt that this was a common issue on machines with multiple drives installed. However, Microsoft seems to have fixed it with the next update. All Windows 10 machines in our household are now very stable, and I am very pleased with the fact that I did upgrade to 10.
I feel that 10 is now as good as 7 was, and better. I wonder what the experiences of other CPians are with Win 10?
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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You see that scaffolding at the top of the building? That's like Windows. It's never quite done right, so there's always some work being done on it.
Marc
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Surely that applies to the latest version of any operating system.
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Ah, so that's where they keep the horsesh*t.
Time it was mucked out.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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All but one machine I have run Windows 10. I haven't had any real issues other than older software not updating to support Windows 10 and all of the spyware that comes with it. You have to jump through hoops and install more software to slow the bleeding of information on to the net.
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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It's not as good as 7 was - it still doesn't feel "together" with a massive difference between "Metro" and "Actually usable" apps. It's still ugly. It spies on you constantly, does it's damnedest to annoy you into using Bong, and it's forgotten the gentle art of "letting the user decide when to reboot or upgrade the OS".
There are hard stats on usage here: Windows 10 market share growth just barely has a pulse • The Register[^] and the graph makes interesting reading: Win10 is pretty much only used on the monitored sites at weekends. Which means that private users have installed it - because it was free, probably - and businesses have said "no way, Jose".
Interesting that MS couldn't even give it away successfully, even when they tried (and boy! Did they try!) to force it down users throats.
It's stable, yes. But ... so was Win7 on the same machine in my experience. And "Joe Average User" (rather than us technical bods) generally finds it confusing and annoying - especially the apps which come with it.
Do I like it? No. I use it, yes - but mostly so I can provide support to friends who are using it. Not because I think it's better in any realistic way than Win 7.
Sorry, MS. But it's a clunker that's far too much "Windows 8 SP2" than "Windows 7 but better".
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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At work, we use Win 7 and will be slow to move to anything past that point. When working with thousands of computers, that is a major undertaking to ensure all applications used work on a new version of an operating system for all users.
So, even though Win 10 is 'new', we aren't jumping on it... we are still using Office 2010 for the same reason.
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OriginalGriff wrote: "Metro" and "Actually usable" apps
Perfect definitions.
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I vehemently dislike it. Even though they bandaged many of the UI problems I had with 8 they are still obviously pushing for a more "cellphone-style" UI. Easier and safer for your average user yet frustrating and unwieldy for your advanced users. Then you slap on top of that the fact Microsoft is installing even more bloatware than ever even going so far as to install some that measurably impact system performance (I'm looking at you XBox Game DVR). Add to that the fact 10 has been plagued with OS-breaking bugs basically since it came out and I'm fine sticking with 7. I could rant more but that's the gist of it. I like something simple, efficient, and customizable. In that regard even 7 isn't perfect but with a little bit of command-line magic you can beat it into submission. Bye bye Security Center, see you in hell 
Of course all of this is my opinion 
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Quote: Of course all of this is my opinion
I concur with that opinion!
I so wanted it to be an "Improved Win7" rather than a "Patched Win8" but I was bitterly disappointed.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Jon McKee wrote: even more bloatware than ever even going so far as to install some that measurably impact system performance (I'm looking at you XBox Game DVR)
How does the Xbox game DVR "measurably impact system performance" if you don't even run it?
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Apparently something I'm saying in my original response is marked as spam. So to summarize: automatically runs in background and can't be disabled without registry tweak unless you have a MS account.
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I know the hotkey to activate it is always available (I forget what it is), but that doesn't mean the whole application is running at all times.
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Again I can't respond in full due to spam filter *sigh* Summary: Streamer frame loss, game FPS drop. New versions possibly fixed, I dunno. Why even have it auto-run when many users don't even own the console though? Useless feature that should have been optional to begin with.
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So.........what's the name of the process responsible for this?
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dandy72 wrote: I know the hotkey to activate it is always available
Therefore it's TSR, and therefore it's using system resources, even on business and work machines, where games are either not permitted or wanted.
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"TSR"...how DOS-like of you. 
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Unix as well, wasn't it?
But no-one's come up with a better term ("service" really doesn't qualify, because it's hugely ambiguous), so why not use the one that's not broken?
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I dunno. Sounds overkill for what is essentially nothing more than a keyboard hook.
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The way they've been going, the last few years, you'll probably find that it's a 20Meg "keyboard hook".
128b for the functionality, and (20Meg - 128b) to keep xbox live informed of what games you're not playing, at the moment.
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So I take it then that's not much of an issue if you've never created an Xbox Live account, as it wouldn't have a clue what account to associate that data with...
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... But still it runs...
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Therefore it's TSR
Not necessarily.
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