Now that W10 is out, are you a W7 / W8 refusenik?

[taz420nj]

Vista was actually a good OS. I had it for 4 years on a Gateway PC that was made to handle it before I got my HP envy in 2014 for Christmas.

I lol'd.

 

[dorsetknob]

Vista was actually a good OS. I had it for 4 years on a Gateway PC that was made to handle it

Had ( for its time and still own ) a reasonably high spec laptop ( core 2 duo 2ghz cpu and 2gig ram) came with Piss-ta pre installed
it run like a pig in a Tar pit
reverted to Xp-Pro (unsupported ha ha ) and laptop then Flew like it was on crystal meth.

 

[AsRock]

Vista was actually a good OS. I had it for 4 years on a Gateway PC that was made to handle it before I got my HP envy in 2014 for Christmas.

I still run it on one of my systems without issue at all.

 

[Atomic77]

That comment about Piss-ta made me think of something funny. What if Microsoft actually made a OS and actually named it Piss-ta ?

 

[taz420nj]

That comment about Piss-ta made me think of something funny. What if Microsoft actually made a OS and actually named it Piss-ta ?

They'd get an award for truth in advertising........

 

[Atomic77]

Ain't that the truth. I'm sure they would get a lot of interesting calls from users of it lol.

 

[R-T-B]

Difference is it was done by Microsoft, not by you the end user.

It's a toggle option.

 

[RejZoR]

I lol'd.

I also had Vista and it was perfectly fine.

 

[R-T-B]

I also had Vista and it was perfectly fine.

It was a case of hardware not being prepped for software really. WinME on the other hand was a real stinker...

 

[RejZoR]

How is that Microsoft's problem? I still remember how people were bitching over constant Vista BSOD's. And when I've requested photos of these BSOD's in 90% of cases it was nv*.sys driver that was causing them. How is that Microsoft problem when NVIDIA driver was pissing all over the OS?

 

[P4-630]

Well on W10 you're never truly going to turn off...eventually it is going to update.

With 7 and 8.1 set to manual and you can select what gets updated, looking up descriptions of every update.

Thats the reason I did not upgrade to windows 10.
Also on my windows 7/8.1 systems I decide when and what driver gets installed.

 

[qubit]

Vista was actually a good OS. I had it for 4 years on a Gateway PC that was made to handle it before I got my HP envy in 2014 for Christmas.

Don't say that, you'll get pelted with rotten tomatos!

I ran it too and it was actually decent after SP1 and solid after SP2. It looked beautiful too and easily the best looking interface I've seen on a Microsoft OS, with that black glossy wow factor look. I miss it.

Unfortunately performance was never really that good, even after SP2.

 

[P4-630]

I never had problems with Vista and I loved the DreamScene animated desktop background!

 

[AsRock]

Don't say that, you'll get pelted with rotten tomatos!

I ran it too and it was actually decent after SP1 and solid after SP2. It looked beautiful too and easily the best looking interface I've seen on a Microsoft OS, with that black glossy wow factor look. I miss it.

Unfortunately performance was never really that good, even after SP2.

And yet my z68 ( Vista ) setup starts up a little faster than my Z77 setup with windows 7. Although that could be due to how many USB devices their is .

 

[Delta6326]

Hey guy's I'm finally almost ready to go W10 waiting on 6700k chips... So I was just wondering has Microsoft changed/fixed this annoying Maintenance running in the background?
Happens all the time on my PC sends my Disk to 100%. slows everything down.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

Vista was pants

Still possible to get win 10 free?

 

[AsRock]

Not to people who use pants , Jokes aside yes.

 

[R-T-B]

How is that Microsoft's problem? I still remember how people were bitching over constant Vista BSOD's. And when I've requested photos of these BSOD's in 90% of cases it was nv*.sys driver that was causing them. How is that Microsoft problem when NVIDIA driver was pissing all over the OS?

Did I say it was Microsoft's problem?

Either way, it was Microsoft's problem because the consumer perceived it to be. That's how these things work. It wasn't however, their FAULT.

 

[P4-630]

Hey guy's I'm finally almost ready to go W10 waiting on 6700k chips... So I was just wondering has Microsoft changed/fixed this annoying Maintenance running in the background?
Happens all the time on my PC sends my Disk to 100%. slows everything down.

Usually maintenance starts only when idle (not sure if the 98% disk usage is normal),
if maintenance is running while you are using the computer something is wrong, it should not be like that.

 

[RejZoR]

Did I say it was Microsoft's problem?

Either way, it was Microsoft's problem because the consumer perceived it to be. That's how these things work. It wasn't however, their FAULT.

So, anyone can just be uber lazy with their own drivers and then just blame it on Microsoft because customers just "perceive" like it is Microsoft's fault. Ooooook...

 

[silentbogo]

Running Win10 for a few weeks now - no problems. The only issue I've encountered was yet another horrible port of a wireless driver from ASUS. They've patched the older version to run on Win10, but instead of full 300Mbit/s bandwidth I had 144Mbit/s max. Also I seem to be unable to find a 5GHz band, while my phones/tablets/other unspecified devices with 5GHz support can easily connect.

There are few other minor complaints:
- Annoying ads in Solitaire collection
- New versions of old games are ridiculously slow (almost impossible to play my favorite minesweeper)
- Problems with sharing: Win10 <=> Win10 does not work so far (except when password-protected sharing is disabled), Win10 <=> Win7 works flawlessly
- Network and Sharing center became even more complicated: takes some navigation skills and agile index finger to check current WiFi connection speed (not the bandwidth usage)
- The new start menu makes me like Unity and Gnome more and more. I've skipped win8, so I'm really not accustomed to using search in the start menu (especially when I only have 5-6 programs installed).
- Too much crapware, but it is easily removable
- Retarded and very non-informative update messages, a-la "Windows is making some stuff - go eat a sammich", "We've installed some new cool features, which we won't name or list", "Windows is taking a dump... You might wanna bring some TP =)" Good thing that we don't have to deal with this every day, only when some major updates are installed. Makes me feel like I'm a 10 year old, when even my PC talks like that.

Other than that I really like it. I even installed it on my SFF PC and it runs very fast, considering I put a 5400rpm 2.5" laptop hard drive in it.
Specs are the following:
- AMD A4-5300B
- AsRock A55FM2-VG3+
- 2x2GB DDR3-1600 OCZ Platinum @1333MHz CL8

RAM usage is around 1.1GB, which in combination with 512MB VRAM leaves a nice chunk for running productivity software, multimedia and DOOM-III.
Overall it runs just as good as Win7 on that machine, but looks better even on an old Syncmaster 710N.
On both computers I had no OS performance issues whatsoever.

Microsoft did a really good job on this one, plus it was a free upgrade. I guess I can deal with ads and survive without minesweeper if MS keeps improving it.

 

[rtwjunkie]

- Retarded and very non-informative update messages, a-la "Windows is making some stuff - go eat a sammich", "We've installed some new cool features, which we won't name or list",

I nearly spit my coffee out it was so funny!! And so true....it's the most non-intelligent messaging from an OS ever. Funny because it's true!

 

[dorsetknob]

Hey windows 10 refusenik

Microsoft just wont accept your refusal to upgrade
The nag screen has just changed and they seem to want to push even harder

full story or update as you like here
refusenik http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/15/microsoft_sneaky_about_pushing_windows_10/

 

[rtwjunkie]

Hey windows 10 refusenik

Microsoft just wont accept your refusal to upgrade
The nag screen has just changed and they seem to want to push even harder

full story or update as you like here
refusenik http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/15/microsoft_sneaky_about_pushing_windows_10/

This goes right along with twice in the last 2 months they have sneakily had it checked on the optional updates, with none of the recommended updates checked.

The Register article is right, this is not the type of behavior befitting a major corporation. I pity the unsuspecting regular users who still aren't sure about upgrading and have their automatic updates on. They won't have a choice.

 

[Octopuss]

This reminded me about something I already posted on reddit (and I was downvoted to shit). I had to recently completely reinstall someone's PC which I installed in may, because he "upgraded" to Windows 10. The guy makes roofs for living and knows fuck all about computers, and I perfectly understand he can't tell the difference between Windows updates and some obscure upgrade that's being mushed into his face on daily basis. Apparently (according to that reddit sewer of the internet) he's an idiot, retard, dipshit who can't read, and I am a troll.
I really hate this crap, because as someone pointed out, OS upgrades should never work and be done this way. Just do a clean install if you want different OS. And you could read all that klingon all day long and still don't understand a single word of it if you're like the guy from my example.

I'm glad I managed to delete and block that GWX shit in my mother, father, and father in law's PCs before disasters started to happen.