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Windows 10 Makes it difficult to keep your existing default browser. This is how you change it to your choice.



Mine has not arrived yet, but i'm in no rush.

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Running Windows 10 on this laptop HP pavilion g6, took an hour to download and setup, I presume explorer whatever it's called works as I use Chrome that updated no problem, seems to be ok not had any problems, it was a bit slow but has speeded up to it's normal speed, more like windows 8, but changed it to the way I use it on 7, not a problem, still awaiting for it to crawl up and die on me and make me put it back to 7, but it's working, makes me so upset not being able to call it namrs, maybe when they email me to do my next little Asus that should be interesting

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No Cortaana though. Unless you pretend to be in America.

I haven't bothered.

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for some reason I haven't had an icon asking me to upgrade to Win 10, I'm running Win 8.1 64 bit on an ASUS laptop X553M, 4gb ram, 1TB disk, Pentium processor 2.16 GHz all windows updates are installed, I can't figure out why, any ideas? thanks.

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have you reboot the laptop.

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Hello Mark, The laptop is only 7 months old and hasn't been played with apart from installing VLC media player. I switch off every night and reboot the next night.

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If you want to,You can still upgrade.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/default.aspx

Ive not got round to mine yet but am in no hurry.

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I upgraded on Friday, my machine was ready for rebuilding. I was getting a little tired of 7 and just can't get on with 8 / 8.1.

I must say that I'm really impressed. The start menu is good and boot up time is incredible - just 4 seconds from power on.

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Seems that Microsoft have relaxed some of the requirements so my PC is now Windows 10 compatible.

Switched upgrade on this morning and updated to Windows 10 this afternoon - first time it failed (the "10 second" wait carried on for over half an hour), closed the window, started it off again and everything went well.

I'm impressed so far, everything runs as expected and smoother/faster than Windows 7.


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My first roll back.
Sony vio

No network cards detected.
4 media devices unknown.

Would not let me reset the win 10 to fix possible issues. So restore to 7 was the only option, without a network or internet access.

Rolling back it says some programs may need to be reinstalled, but it seems to have come back good.

Roll back, only took 15 - 20 mins.
But it worked drivers come good, my docs my pictures all good.

(This wasn't my laptop) im still waiting for the thumbs up on mine.

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Generally behaving itself here, one weird crash at logging on which it recovered from.

One strange anomaly was that while most settings were Uk as picked up from Windows 7, the "Display Language" was still US which meant it didn't automatically pick up the UK/GB language pack, speech packs, text-to-speech and speech-to-text packs - installing them to about half an hour after I hit the download button.

Zonealarm free antivirus+firewall didn't survive the transition correctly, had to un-install and install the latest version. There was no warning anywhere about this, I spotted in the log files that Zonealarm had failed to install and then realised it wasn't working.

It knew about my printer but didn't bother downloading or installing the drivers until I switched it on which had me panicking for 30 seconds.

Beware when you shut Windows 10 down, it kills the display quite early in the shutdown, the computer carries on for a while after (much longer than Windows 7 did), if you switch the mains off in that "blank" period you will probably corrupt something somewhere.

The weird app that just displays the name "Photos" is good in many ways, but absolutely useless in others - eg you can't even find out in which folder the photo you are looking at is stored. I'm sure this will improve. I chose not to allow Windows to organise my photos in the setup option, I didn't want it moving them around.

Generally I'm very pleased, a lot of buffering and caching going on in the background with better process switching makes it a lot faster than Windows 7 in many instances.


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So after the upgrade you have 30 days to decide to roll back or not, and if you do you can still try again in the future.

My own little laptop is still patiently waiting lol

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Leave it on at night, I clicked yes at about 4am and it was ready to install the same morning.


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Its been on since 29th lol
Its polite it says we will let you know when its ready lol.

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