Windows 10 free upgrade anyone taken up the offer?

[Paul240z]

I'm running windows 7 on my PC, keep getting pop ups offering free upgrade to windows 10.

Bit apprehensive as I purposefully chose windows 7 over version 8 when I had the PC built last year.

So just wondered if anyone has taken the offer and what you've found.

Cheers
Paul

 

[markjay]

It works fine.

Some minor issues with Outlook, some with printer/scanners drivers, but generally OK.

Beware that from next year the Windows 10 upgrade will be part of the 'recommended updates', and if your PC is set to automatically update itself including recommended update... then it will upgrade itself to Windows 10.

 

[millo777]

I've upgraded from windows 7 and much prefer 10. Its caused no problems at all in the last 2 months.

 

[whitenemesis]

As above, no problem with the upgrade from 7. Much prefer 10, so much quicker to start and shutdown.

 

[kid-jensen]

I had a, let's say, "unofficial" copy of Win 7 so had to make it official before I could upgrade.

Two months on, and I've had no problems, everything still works, and as above, starts up and shuts down quicker than before.

Can't help thinking MS will be demanding money with menaces some time soon....

 

[roger574]

I've had Win 7, then 8 and then Win 10 in Beta and now full install and it's very stable and looks good too (still prefer OS X though!).

You shouldn't have any problems getting used to it, but it's worth checking out the new features so you get the most out of them.

 

[ioweddie]

Yep All OK here, works well

 

[Dave Richardson]

Took up the offer on week 1 & never looked back, works well but printer drivers had to be searched for.

 

[tec]

I had a, let's say, "unofficial" copy of Win 7 so had to make it official before I could upgrade. .

Microsoft will upgrade any PC with Windows 7 for free, not just genuine ones.

https://techjourney.net/non-genuine...-upgrade-to-permanently-activated-windows-10/

 

[grober]

Be wary-- upgrade success heavily depend's on your hardware. If its pretty modern with good processor, video processor and memory you will be fine. If its slightly " past its best" - be careful. All iterations of Microsoft Operating systems tend to make use of hardware improvements -it would be foolish not to. Although they promise its backward compatible often its not. Lots of problems emerging of video problems = BSOD due to a lack of suitable video drivers for old hardware. [this appears to particularly effect laptops] All new systems like more memory another source of problems on older machines. And don't get me started on peripherals-- that faithful old printer/scanner that's given sterling service for years --- its a dead stick- nobody is going to write a driver for a machine they stopped making years ago. Result is that "free upgrade" may end up costing you more than you reckoned.

 

[Paul240z]

Thanks for the replies everyone, all sounds very positive I will download it later.

Paul

 

[boxbrownie]

Go for it, my comp although quite up to date, fast and full of memory had some issues trying to install 10 a few months ago, but tried again two weeks ago and it installed all by itself, I assume MS has tweaked something in the install as there were loads of complaints online showing the same original install error I had, but I had given up and then had another prompt out of the blue two weeks ago and this time it was error free and slick.

 

[zipdip]

Well 10 is far better than 8 that was a complete nonsense,I was forever trying to put my partners laptop right,the main problem was the magnifying gizmo on it took me ages to disable it,but now she has 10 it seems to be plain sailing you have a menu which most people know how to use.

 

[AMGeed]

If Win7 is working without issues I'd hold on downloading Win10 for a while longer.

In my case, since July, about every 2 weeks the Start menu and Cortana are inoperational and I cannot receive emails until the main Tuesday update solves things. Literally had at least 6 episodes of this and its annoying to say the least.
I'll take a screenshot of it when it inevitably occurs again but its classed as a "Critical Error that MS will attempt to fix when I next log on. It doesn't, and trying a system restore point doesn't work either.

IMO, Its better than Win8.1 when working, but still too many bugs for my liking.

 

[daveenty]

I put it on my laptop when it first asked for it.

It was a newish machine with nothing really personal on it, so just thought "what the heck?"

I'm indifferent to it really, as I seldom use the lappy for anything other than browsing, but was very concerned that my games (Solitaire etc.) had gone. I managed to download them again though so all was well. Even kept my statistics.

The desktop is another matter though. I use this for work everyday and would be concerned about losing anything and also working in an unfamiliar environment. I'm currently running Windows 7 on it, after eventually upgrading from XP, and will probably stay with it now until it's no longer supported. It keeps trying to upgrade as, like an idiot, I expressed interest in it at the start but I've now deleted KB3035583 and am hoping it won't keep pestering.

If it all goes TU, I suppose I still have a copy of 98SE I can fall back on.

Or an old set of floppies containing Windows 3.1

 

[AMGeed]

^ I'd buy an external HD Dave and copy all work related stuff onto it.
I know from past experience what a pain and expense it can be recovering photos etc from a failed disc.
When the time comes, the update to 10 is seamless anyway, but your work stuff will be safe on the other disc.

 

[markmifsud]

If it all goes TU, I suppose I still have a copy of 98SE I can fall back on.

Or an old set of floppies containing Windows 3.1

Nah, stick to windows 2000, for me that was the fastest OS going

 

[Stratman]

If you're in any way jealous of your privacy, you may want to do some interwebbing about how often Windows 10 reports back to mothership.

Agreed, some of the conversations are updating live tiles and the like so that just leaves the rest...

I'm not saying it's a massive data slurping exercise, but I'm not discounting it either.

Do your own research if such things concern you.

 

[daveenty]

^ I'd buy an external HD Dave and copy all work related stuff onto it.
I know from past experience what a pain and expense it can be recovering photos etc from a failed disc.
When the time comes, the update to 10 is seamless anyway, but your work stuff will be safe on the other disc.

Quite covered with back ups Roger.

Acronis runs every night, one full copy to a spare internal drive, one to an external. All the days modified files go to another system in the garage (separate building) and all files automatically transfer to One Drive.

Think I have most bases covered there.

Still not updating this machine unless I really have to though...

 

[KeithJG]

Why do Microsoft bring out latest editions that do not allow your existing hardware to run properly unless you know the way out?

Just simply to make money and also try to keep you a prisoner like iPhones and iPods do.

I have Samsung and are free to do what i want with my phone.

I use WIN 7 64bit with Google Chrome and it does all i want it to quickly including starting and shut down! This is mainly to do with what you have running in the background that you don`t know about.

I looked at what WIN 10 can offer but why just click in a different place for the same thing?....plus some hardware won`t work unless you upgrade?

I think this is a no brainer.


Forgot to add...i use 3 external drives for backup and 1 for my main use ....the internal drives are 1 for the operating system and 2 for more backup.