Did the dreaded Win10 upgrade yesterday...

...and so far it just works and nothing's broken. It's almost disappointing

Left it running on my office PC overnight. Had to lock down plenty of privacy settings first, a lot of those features are just frightening. The Advertising ID Supercookie from Hell stands out as a particularly bad idea (for users). The ads in the start menu and on the lock screen were most offensive. If I'd just paid $200 for this OS before seeing those I woulda been pissed.

At first the only noticeable problem was that the screen resolution was wrong and multi-monitor support wasn't working. So after a minute or two of searching on my phone for whether Win10 drivers were available for my ancient video card, the screen flickered off and came back on in multi-monitor mode - the video drivers installed automatically. Finally after all these years, an automatic driver install was successful.

Finally Windows has workspaces like Linux has had since forever. They call them "virtual desktops" and if you could move the button that lets you access them, and send windows to different workspaces with a right-click like in Linux I'd have no complaints about it.

This could be an OS I could be happy with for a long time if MS wasn't determined to increase how much user info they harvest, and how many ads they push through it. That's their new business model - to become Google using a desktop operating system instead of web services.

This was pretty much my experience too. Those privacy settings were straight scary, and how many people do you think go through and customize them?

I did the install on my work computer a week or two ago. I customized the install (the smallest link still visible to the human eye, I swear), and basically turned off everything.

No complaints except the AMD Catalyst Control Panel thing for the graphics card does not do Win10 and I had to go into the Regedit to get the underscan/overscan to go back to zero, so there wasn't a black box around the screen (ie not filling up the monitor at it's native resolution). Once I got that squared away, it's fine. I am still figuring out where all the different settings are but then after a bit I usually find the old version hiding at a link at the bottom of a new window.

After turning all of the privacy stuff on I have liked it so far.

I've been running it since last year. No complaints.

Is there a comprehensive list of the privacy/spyware settings that should be changed somewhere and what they do? I want to go over my dad's laptop next time I see him.

I know nothing about computers, and generally find computer speak to be foreign, but the descriptions were scary, so I turned off all the Microsoft phishing things.

Took hours and hours to download, but I don't have a very speedy internet connection. Its certainly an improvement from 8, but like always, they have come up with new and interesting ways to hide stuff that used to be easily available.

I could also use input on what I need to uninstall or delete. The Window's upgrade completed itself or was unwittingly clicked by Mrs. 84FSP during the course of my last business trip. I came home to the goofy home screen and cringed.

No uninstalling or deleting necessary, just some settings changes:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-secure-windows-10-the-paranoids-guide/

http://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-disable-windows-10-start-menu-ads/

http://www.howtogeek.com/243263/how-to-disable-ads-on-your-windows-10-lock-screen/?PageSpeed=noscript

Now this is for my work computer (desktop workstation), I literally turned off every option under the Settings -> Privacy Screen

Well I just ran into my first problem, this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/3ktjod/certain_things_cant_be_clicked_in_start_menu/

I have no Cortana task running to kill.

Edit: Killed and restarted the explorer process and that got it working.

I'm running it on both my work PC's and at home on my 6-year old Toshiba laptop with Ye Olde Intel Core 2 Duo processor. So far, I like it. It's clean, and I like some of added features. You can disable a lot of the BS.

Only had one hiccup: on my work desktop, I had an issue with everything going super slow. I Googled it and you have to change the settings on the virtual memory so it's maxed out. That fixes all the slowness.

It updated on our tablet we have. It can barely function now. It always runs at a minimum of 75% cpu power.

Thinkkker wrote: It updated on our tablet we have. It can barely function now. It always runs at a minimum of 75% cpu power.

Did you think to check the task manager to see what's causing this?

I'd love to see enough people sue to bankrupt the Evil Empire (aka Microsoft)!

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/windows-10-upgrade-unwanted-lawsuit-201634951.html

"According to The Seattle Times, Microsoft has lost a lawsuit brought against it by a woman who says her computer updated to Windows 10 without her authorization."

Last time I upgraded I got that fun error where the start menu stopped working.

That little powershell trick didn't work and I ended up restoring Win7. I guess I'll try upgrading again, I'm not going to have this laptop much longer though.

Edit: Well nevermind then. Now I get the fun "Active partition is compressed error" and of course there's no fix for it. Oh well I'll upgrade soon anyway not like support is going to sunset on Windows 7 as soon as the free upgrade period ends.

Seems like a lot of the problems I've heard about are from people who did the upgrade rather than a fresh installation. I built my computer shortly after 10 became available, so that's all it's ever had. It works well and I've had no issues, though you guys are making me want to go in and make sure I've still got my privacy settings set up correctly.

The comments have almost convinced me to upgrade. Anyone know how other languages on the computer is affected by 10? My wife's computer is set up with Korean language.

I remember at some point it showed which languages it would install based on what I had installed before, at that point you can also add or remove languages.

Remembered I had an old Vista laptop in a closet. Dug it out and turned it on. Going through standard updates now after not being turned on for a couple years. It has always been buggy and slow which is why we stopped using it. After it catches up to today with standard updates I'm going to see if I can push Win10 into it and see what happens. If it works Ok on that machine then I'll push Win10 to our Win7 desktops. The way it's going on the Vista machine it may take all weekend though.

Thanks all - that was some scary ish that they have automatically enabled. Not too much of a black helicopter guy but WOW.

I finally caved and installed 10 on the shop laptop a week or so ago. It pretty much rendered the computer worthless. Rolled everything back to 8.1, and all is well in my world again.

Did the upgrade on my gaming PC yesterday and ran into a big problem, I can't access my home server's shares from it anymore. The Samba server doesn't support the SMB3 protocol and Win10 won't use anything older by default, so I'll have to upgrade the server to Samba v4 to let Win10 access it - either that or set the Win10 PC to only use SMB1 like it's 1999 (SMB2 and SMB3 functionality are tied together). So it's experimental server upgrades tonight I guess.

gearheadE30 wrote: Seems like a lot of the problems I've heard about are from people who did the upgrade rather than a fresh installation. I built my computer shortly after 10 became available, so that's all it's ever had. It works well and I've had no issues, though you guys are making me want to go in and make sure I've still got my privacy settings set up correctly.

Yeah it seems to work ok on fresh installs, privacy concerns aside. Completely wrecked my laptop on upgrade though.

Update: Turns out my server already had Samba 4.3+ and SMB3 support. My problem is a bit different than what others were having since I can't see any of the server's shares by using the IP address or any other method...the server's name is visible on the network but that's it.

Adding "server max protocol = NT1" to my smb.conf got it working again from Win10, have to test from the other Linux PCs but it still works from my GNU/Linux phone using a simple CIFS mount. Obviously not an ideal workaround.