Windows 10 A breath of fresh air.

[dannyboy]

Another question,do any of the free antivirus programs work properly?

No antivirus programmes are 100%, (even the paid for ones). I use Avast along with Malwarebytes and have never had a problem. Avast will give you a sign that a site is ok and it has on a couple of occasions warned me that a site is not okay. I feel quite confident in my security using these two programmes.  The main thing is not to open unsolicited links in emails and to use different passwords for each site - 'LastPass' is good in this respect. David.

[MikeDunn]

Another question,do any of the free antivirus programs work properly?

Do you mean in general (see DannyBoy's answer) on in Win10 specifically ?

[Calnefoxile]

'Win10, breath of fresh air'-----Really!!!!! 

Decided to take the plunge and upgrade my daughters Asus laptop running 8.1 to Win10....What a nightmare!!!

Take one working machine, running reasonably fast, considering all the crap she's got on it like Spotify etc. Add 1 free Win10 upgrade, which actually worked fine to install = 1 disappointed daughter as her machine now runs like me doing a marathon (if you know me then you'll understand  ) Basically, when it boots she gets a very nice picture, but cannot get past this picture unless she presses CTL-ALT-DEL to get to the login screen, it then takes an age to boot, then if she selects the Notifications flag in the bottom right of the Taskbar, brings up that 'window' and selects any of the notifications, the process just hangs. "Press CTL-ALT-DEL and select Task Manager" I hear you all cry, did that and then the whole Machine just sits there, looking at me, goading me into pressing them again....so I do and that's it the Laptop just does nothing then, the HDD is active so I think that either 1. She has a bad sector on the HDD or 2. I just need to re-install Win10.

So how do I do that then??? When the Laptop itself won't work properly, long enough for me to navigate around to find the said install, or regression link???

The result is I've now had to drop it off to a PC shop I know to fix, as I don't have the time, as she needs it for Saturday morning. 

I think I'll be hanging on for SP1 before I upgrade my Win7 Home PC, even though I have done a Recovery Disk.

Oh one more question, if I've partitioned my HDD to create a Windows Partition & Data Partition, does a Win10 upgrade override these partitions or will it just install straight to the Windows Partition??

Cheers

Neal.

[Oldman]

Another question,do any of the free antivirus programs work properly?

Do you mean in general (see DannyBoy's answer) on in Win10 specifically ?

Windows 10 specifically, currently using Avast on 8.1

[MikeDunn]

The result is I've now had to drop it off to a PC shop I know to fix, as I don't have the time, as she needs it for Saturday morning. 

Shame you didn't ask here before dropping it off; as all it may need is some time (day or so) running to settle down.  It may have been indexing things ...

CTRL-ALT-DEL is just because at some point (either before or during the upgrade) a password was set; useful in multi-person households, essential for business - but not really needed as you described.

Oh well ...

[MikeDunn]

Windows 10 specifically, currently using Avast on 8.1

No reason why not ?  Are you on the latest version of Avast ?  Current free release is 10.3.2225, definitions 150812-1 ... might be time up update !

[dannyboy]

Another question,do any of the free antivirus programs work properly?

Do you mean in general (see DannyBoy's answer) on in Win10 specifically ?

Windows 10 specifically, currently using Avast on 8.1

I should have added that I have upgraded to W10 and am using Avast and Malwarebytes. As others have stated, there were one or two teething problems after installing W10, but now I am quite pleased with it.  David.

[Geoff]

All our computers are running fine with Windows 10, the 64 bit laptop would not run Edge but since an update night before last all is now fine, Microsoft do say that you do not need any antivirus programs but me being the sceptical person I have installed Avast and AVG on separate computers and all seems well at the moment.

Sorry to hear there are some of you having problems with the install, I have noticed with Dell Computers that they have published a compatibility sheet stating which models will run with Windows 10.

Yes Windows 10 is a breath of Fresh Air for some of us.

Maybe if you are having problems it could be down to certain hardware and might need investigating a little further with the manufacturers.

[Cape Town Trev]

Well I have taken the plunge and updated. BUT cannot activate Windows 10 because the product key is blocked. Illegal copy? I am frustrated but a month to decide to revert or pay for a new product key at 2400 Rands, divide that by 20 and you'll know how I feel 

[Malc]

When I installed on my 2 machines, I was all ready with the key, but it never asked me. When I checked in the help section, under activation, it said activated.

[Cape Town Trev]

When I installed on my 2 machines, I was all ready with the key, but it never asked me. When I checked in the help section, under activation, it said activated.

Thanks Malc that really makes me feel better  this process seems hit and miss. You got the hit and me 

[Malc]

Hi Trev, it may be because after I burnt the ISO files, I couldn't boot from the Cd drives because I was dual booting with Linux. So just ran the startup.exe files on the cd instead.

[Geoff]

Been doing more investigations and Edge was not going as fast as I would like it so I uninstalled Java from my machine and reinstalled it, then went to Start/All Apps/Java/Configure Java and in the security tab there is a tick box "Enable Java Content in the Browser" just untick, this made Edge work faster for me.

[Steve Brassett]

I installed W10 a couple of weeks ago, and all has been fine since.  Quick bootup, and stable so far.  The only thing I find annoying is that all of my favourites have got the associated URL with them, which means I get fewer on a screen, and I can't work out how to switch this off.

[GrahamB]

W10 decided to do an update this evening. That's 45 minutes of my life I won't see again.