qubit finally upgrades to Windows 10 permanently!

[qubit]

Summer. It's not worth trying, again. Obi Wan Vulkanobi is my only hope.

Well that says it all. The W10 available then was far rougher around the edges then than now since there have been hundreds of updates under the hood, so a retry would definitely be in order. It sounds like you just don't want to run it rather than it actually causing you problems. That's obviously fine if you just don't want it, but be honest about why, because it's certainly not because it will screw up your computer.

 

[R-T-B]

Just to break my own rule about not being a spoil sport (I do this all the time, I'm no saint), and prove I am still a windows 10 critic, I decided to see if they've unborked regedit's search function yet.

They haven't. It still freezes when searching the registry, woo.

 

[TheGuruStud]

Well that says it all. The W10 available then was far rougher around the edges then than now since there have been hundreds of updates under the hood, so a retry would definitely be in order. It sounds like you just don't want to run it rather than it actually causing you problems. That's obviously fine if you just don't want it, but be honest about why, because it's certainly not because it will screw up your computer.

Oh, cmon, now, windows will nearly always screw up. It's just a matter of time. Last spring I had to keep restoring from images b/c I would come home to a BSOD and it wouldn't boot. Updates don't mean jack to me. If it's that buggy at launch, then it's going to take years to fix.

 

[qubit]

Oh, cmon, now, windows will nearly always screw up. It's just a matter of time. Last spring I had to keep restoring from images b/c I would come home to a BSOD and it wouldn't boot. Updates don't mean jack to me. If it's that buggy at launch, then it's going to take years to fix.

Well, that's not my experience and not of many others. XP was fairly stable, but Windows got really stable from 7. You can't just say the updates don't mean jack, that's ridiculous. It's a fact that they improve Windows stability a great deal. No, you don't want W10 because you just don't like it and that's fine, I'm not here to try and change your mind. You can't claim that it's because it will screw up your computer however, because it just won't.

 

[apoklyps3]

the worst problem by far is the buzzing (stutter) when playing media or gaming while also having a torrent client active.
it drives me nuts that microsoft has yet to fix this crap.
all well on 7 and 8.1, but not on 10.

 

[Grings]

Its been fine for me, a few bugs but i have had the same with every windows i have ever owned when they are new, its the nature of an os being new, most of the time its older hardware or 3rd party software causing it anyway

tinfoil hats!

 

[Drone]

Registry search works pretty good for me. Never crashes. The only thing that crashes in W10 is Edge. It happens not quite often, usually with heavy sites.

 

[Frick]

Its been fine for me, a few bugs but i have had the same with every windows i have ever owned when they are new, its the nature of an os being new, most of the time its older hardware or 3rd party software causing it anyway

tinfoil hats!

Aye a modern OS is a complicated beast so it's hard to tell exactly what is messing things up. When I was a tech support (that was a while ago though) a first step was always to uninstall whatever AV they had, and surprisingly often that solved the issue. Or rather it didn't, but then we could tell them to contact their AV supplier, which always felt good.

 

[R-T-B]

Registry search works pretty good for me. Never crashes. The only thing that crashes in W10 is Edge. It happens not quite often, usually with heavy sites.

It'll crash on any install that isn't "fresh," ie has upgraded in some form to a new build. If you started on 10240 and updated to TH2, you have this bug. It's due to long strings the upgrade process makes in the registry, and they broke long string handling.

And yeah, it'll work for finding things up to the long strings. But search the whole registry for something that doesn't exist for example, so it has to parse the whole thing? It'll freeze.

 

[Drone]

It'll crash on any install that isn't "fresh," ie has upgraded in some form to a new build. If you started on 10240 and updated to TH2, you have this bug. It's due to long strings the upgrade process makes in the registry, and they broke long string handling.

And yeah, it'll work for finding things up to the long strings. But search the whole registry for something that doesn't exist for example, so it has to parse the whole thing? It'll freeze.

I didn't know that so I just went and checked that. My build isn't 'fresh' [upgraded to 14291]. I started to search for some long non-existent string

Registry search didn't crash but it goes on forever without saying that nothing was found with constant 30% cpu usage. What an annoying bug

 

[R-T-B]

I didn't know that so I just went and checked that. My build isn't 'fresh' [upgraded to 14291]. I started to search for some long non-existent string

Registry search didn't crash but it goes on forever without saying that nothing was found with constant 30% cpu usage. What an annoying bug

Yep, that's what I meant by "crash." Technically it's an infinite loop not a crash, but it's equally annoying.

Ms has it on the bugtracker though, so it will be fixed eventually.

 

[trog100]

i trust my win 10 install enough to feel the need to keep a full system drive image back up no more than couple of weeks old.. if it f-cks up its a ten minute job to revert back to it..

trog

 

[lonewolf]

Registry search works pretty good for me. Never crashes. The only thing that crashes in W10 is Edge. It happens not quite often, usually with heavy sites.

I quit using edge and went back to regular explorer. Edge is a nice concept but still needs work especially on lower end machines.

 

[Drone]

I quit using edge and went back to regular explorer. Edge is a nice concept but still needs work especially on lower end machines.

Yes, unfortunately Edge looks like it was designed for phones and not desktops. It's pretty quick with some sites while it's really bad with others. Its download manager is a joke and it's definitely the worst pdf reader I've ever used. Opening giant pdfs with Edge simply eats 100% cpu and lots of RAM.

In the meanwhile IE in the latest Windows 10 is extremely fast and has no memory leaks.

Btw in the latest build (14295) Windows Search is better and quicker than before. I'm glad MS optimized it and it's not buggy anymore. In previous builds if you looked for some filename (or part of the filename) sometimes it returned zero results. You had to use wildcards like crazy. Now it's working like it should!

 

[qubit]

In the meanwhile IE in the latest Windows 10 is extremely fast and has no memory leaks.

Yes, it's weird how developing a new version of a product can mean that Microsoft unlearn everything put into the old one and release a buggy mess that needs years to get up to the level of the old product. Makes no sense to me.

 

[Drone]

Yes, it's weird how developing a new version of a product can mean that Microsoft unlearn everything put into the old one and release a buggy mess that needs years to get up to the level of the old product. Makes no sense to me.

Because Internet Explorer got really infamous and MS just wants to get red of it. It's like Vista or Millennium. Someone posts some shit in the internet and it spreads all over the world. Remember when every idiot and his wife posted meme or some other crap everywhere about IE or Vista, Windows 8 or WinME. Most of the time all that harsh crap about them was totally unjustified. But yeah, it's teh itnerwebz, everyone is a journalist/reviewer/critic and knows everything lol

 

[qubit]

Because Internet Explorer got really infamous and MS just wants to get red of it.

Well, I dunno about that. All they had to do was rebrand it, change the interface and the features a bit, called it "new and improved!" like soap powder and the masses would have drunk the koolaid willingly.

Whatever, all I know is that it opens my online banking PDF statements perfectly.

 

[BigPaPaRu]

All they had to do was rebrand it, change the interface and the features a bit, called it "new and improved!" like soap powder and the masses would have drunk the koolaid willingly

I thought that was Edge

I've upgraded 4 of my PC's and countless friends PC. I like it, Takes a little getting used to but very functional. Did run into problems with two computers, one gave me a permanent blue screen and the other erased the hard drive. I still do not understand what happened and why this happened. Very frustrating to say the least.

 

[TRWOV]

I'm happy to report that I've got 0 issues with W10 so far. I upgraded all my eligible PCs right after release with the Media Creation tool except for my retro rigs (865/875/nf3 chipsets). I had an insider build installed on my main PC so I already knew what I had coming.

Turned what off? Driver updating? I'm surprised to say I'm the first (and apparently only) person to know that doens't work at all. Even if you disable driver updating, WIndows 10 will disregard that and still auto update graphic drivers and also auto install them whether you like it or not. It is IMPOSSIBLE to to make a clean driver install now.

I don't know if that's what helped me but right after doing the upgrade I run a full system refresh. Back when I first installed W10 insider on my machine I had some problems like that (settings that wouldn't stick, random resets even if I told the OS to shutdown, etc, etc) but after doing a clean install via the refresh feature everything worked fine.

 

[-1nf1n1ty-]

So, what's your upgrade experience been like?

I upgraded once and my RAM died. I took out the faulty RAM stick and turned on my PC, only to find out that my copy of windows was not genuine anymore. Talking to a MS employee, they told me that because I took out a stick of ram, windows 10 thinks it's a new computer therefore not genuine....lol. I ended up returning to windows 8.1 for a while after I got a new set of RAM sticks, and have recently went back to w10 with no problems. I don't think I would have upgraded if it wasnt for DX12, I guess it's a nice upgrade though