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Many thanks Mark for running us through your experiences with
Win10. I'm on Win7 on a PC and wife's laptop at present and
I decided to wait a while until the dust settles before going
to 10. I'm sure there will be a number of fixes in the first few months and Win7 has always been reasonable for me. I reverted to IE10 from IE11 because of problems with some
websites but I've now gone to 11 full time. You seem to be having similar issues - so thanks for the info and I'll be
interested in seeing how this progresses.

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I have gone to Windows 10 - concerns so far :-

No DVD player ( you have to pay extra if you want one ) I solved this by downloading a VLC Media Player for free.

CD Player via Windows Media Player - works when it feels like it, very intermittent.

Screensaver wont work at all no matter what settings you try.

Otherwise appears to function OK - have not tried the Browser, stayed with Firefox.

I am still feeling my way around - felt I had no option but to change to 10 as I have heard that all other versions of Windows will become unsupported quite soon as Microsoft wants to get rid.
Only time will tell I suppose.


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I thought that Windows Media Centre PC's got the DVD app free on upgrade to Windows 10. I don't think any other versions of Windows had DVD playback.

Just upgraded my Laptop as well, went smoothly as my desktop upgrade did. Not often that I praise microsoft upgrades but Windows 10 is good.

Recommend that even if you did not do express settings and switched off all the privacy stuff during install, its still worth going through all the items on start-settings-privacy as there are many things left switched on.


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Windows Media Center is no longer part of Windows. In Windows 8 it was a separate download for users who purchased Windows 8 Professional or purchased a device with it loaded already.

Microsoft announced that after a dozen years, it would no longer include support for Windows Media Center (WMC) in Windows 10.





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After saying I wasn't going to upgrade, I have...

I waited two weeks for download to appear after placing my reservation but it has been worth it.

The upgrade process was smooth despite taking two and half hours.

My windows 8.1 pro laptop is now running windows 10 pro.

All my software has gone back on and works well.

In conclusion I would recommend all windows 8 users to upgrade.


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I've had Windows 10 for a couple of weeks now with no issues until today when I got 'Critical Error Start Menu and Cordola not working' Makes computer pretty useless as nothing works. Following the instructions on the link below i started in safe mode (press ctrl+alt+delete, and in the bottom right hand corner you click the power button. Before you click 'restart', hold down the shift key until the next screen is displayed (blue). Then click troubleshoot, advanced options, start-up settings, restart. Once it restarts, press the F4 key, and when it restarts you will be in safe mode.
Nosed about on internet and it seems that there is a problem between W10 and Avast. No problem with AVG.
I uninstalled Avast and installed AVG and seem to be up and running for a while.
Reading the link this seems like a huge problem with no sign of being fixed right now
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...4d7e-b59b-489dcd25a5f7?page=2&auth=1

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Story so far...

I've been running windows 10 for a couple of weeks myself now. I reading reports of some apps such as the new solitaire card game which comes with 10 having annoying adverts popping up. The only way to remove these is to pay for the full app versions.

I have a theory on this, I paid to upgrade to Windows 10 pro and I don't have any such pop ups.

Windows 10 comes as a free upgrade but hidden costs are there..

That said Windows 10 pro has reinforced my faith in Microsoft after the debarkle that was Windows 8.



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Originally Posted by ManxCat
Story so far...

I've been running windows 10 for a couple of weeks myself now. I reading reports of some apps such as the new solitaire card game which comes with 10 having annoying adverts popping up. The only way to remove these is to pay for the full app versions.

I have a theory on this, I paid to upgrade to Windows 10 pro and I don't have any such pop ups.

Windows 10 comes as a free upgrade but hidden costs are there..

That said Windows 10 pro has reinforced my faith in Microsoft after the debarkle that was Windows 8.



I'm playing constantly on the pre-installed Solitaire suite and have no pop ups

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Changed my Acer Aspire laptop over from Win 8.1 to Win 10 the other day. Took approx three hours. All went smoothly. No problems whatsoever.

Can't tell an awful lot of difference though. I've no interest in using Cortana or Edge.

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Edge has the advantage that it does not allow Java which is a security hazard.

If its a dual core processor or above you should notice a significant speed increase in certain operations - though not so apparent when browsing advert laden websites - something that even Google are concerned at and its their major income.

Some programs I use are running at least four times faster, I think this is mostly through better caching on disk intensive activities, the programs concerned appear to be those that access large number of files.


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Here is a weekly graph of the performance of my computer since I installed Windows 10, It started fairly well getting a lot better over the first two weeks, then the updates started coming in and destroyed the performance.



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Timed updates, so the response from new Windows 10 customers at first is, "Its fast and I like it" now they turn the screw.

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Windows update stuck at 1% for ages.

My laptop has been great for ages on the new windows 10 but now is having trouble updating.

Anybody have any help on this please?

Thanks

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Vista had this issue at one time.

1. Reboot and try again.
2. System restore to an earlier date.

There was a few other ways that told windows you had no updates and to scan again, but i forgot how that was done.

Leave it over night, as there servers may be having problems coping with the updates and you get stuck . . .

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