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| Thread ID: 139927 | 2015-07-24 03:17:00 | window10 for beginners | bonzo29 (2348) | PC World Chat |
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| 1405275 | 2015-08-03 07:51:00 | Hi Tut, I cannot find any post of yours about download times. Thanks Jen, I will try again. What I wanted to know was how long it should take to download. I get a page saying W10 is downloading in the background but after leaving it for over 12 hours I reckon something might be wrong. |
tut (12033) | ||
| 1405276 | 2015-08-03 08:19:00 | Thanks Jen, I will try again. What I wanted to know was how long it should take to download. I get a page saying W10 is downloading in the background but after leaving it for over 12 hours I reckon something might be wrong. My download was well under an hour. |
CliveM (6007) | ||
| 1405277 | 2015-08-03 08:36:00 | Thanks Jen, I will try again. What I wanted to know was how long it should take to download. I get a page saying W10 is downloading in the background but after leaving it for over 12 hours I reckon something might be wrong. Time can depend on many things. If its the ISO, its a bit over 3GB, so depending on your internet speed, time of day - internet traffic etc will depend. If its the auto download Via Windows - then it can take weeks, as its not coming through all at once, its dribbling through small parts at a time. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1405278 | 2015-08-03 22:00:00 | Any news from the user friendliness and interface yet. I am not so keen on it and have shifted to Mac. Much better experience but honestly I miss Win7. I have to upgrade my partner's laptop and wanna know if it is worth it? | Alexandersim (17382) | ||
| 1405279 | 2015-08-04 00:46:00 | Any news from the user friendliness and interface yet. I am not so keen on it and have shifted to Mac. Much better experience but honestly I miss Win7. I have to upgrade my partner's laptop and wanna know if it is worth it? A lot of personal preference comes into it, I like the new notifications and settings options for the most part and find it easier to find and alter most options compared to windows 8/8.1 with it's split personality. I think the default appearance is a little nicer than 8.1 also. The new start menu is like a hybrid bastard child between windows 8's start screen and windows 7's start menu but it will probably be a bit easier for a windows 7 user to come to grips with than the windows 8 menu was. However even if you disable all the live tiles and just use the menu part of it the icons are still much larger and grouped differently than they were in windows 7. they are easier to read and identify at a glance but it tends to require a bit of vertical scrolling to get to things that would have been visible on screen in windows 7. Over time though all your most frequently used tasks are likely to end up on the top of the menu for easy access. I think generally it's an improvement over 8.1 (which I don't mind at all these days) but there are still features that some will like and some won't. Some silly niggles are still appearing, I like to set my background as a slide show using a directory of pictures. Windows 7 and 8 did this well from a network shared folder but windows 10 refuses to use a folder that's not included in the pictures library, won't let me add a network share to the library unless it's indexed (which it isn't), and when I follow the help link for how to enable indexing the option is greyed out - a lot of hassle for a simple feature that worked in the past. In frustration I linked a local backup of the network folder to the pictures library and that worked. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1405280 | 2015-08-04 04:10:00 | Apart from the Windows Update, it's very similar to Win8.1. It was very slow when starting/shutting down and restarting in the beginning ( I think Windows auto update is doing it's work in the background) but after shutting down/restarting many times in the past 2 days, it running very much faster than before (7 and 8.1). I can accept it. :) |
bk T (215) | ||
| 1405281 | 2015-08-04 05:35:00 | Given my known ineptitude with computers would it be best to get a local Techie to install it & save W8.1 to something? PJ:blush: | Poppa John (284) | ||
| 1405282 | 2015-08-04 05:55:00 | Be like me PJ and stay with 8.1 and let the dust settle. | Bryan (147) | ||
| 1405283 | 2015-08-04 05:56:00 | Not at all PJ. Just do it and you have a month when you can revert to Win8 if you don't like it. I can pretty well say you won't go back though. www.pcworld.com Ken |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1405284 | 2015-08-04 06:31:00 | Not at all PJ. Just do it and you have a month when you can revert to Win8 if you don't like it. I can pretty well say you won't go back though. www.pcworld.com Ken Thats OK if everything goes OK. Can tell you from experience if something goes wrong you can end up with a Computer that cant go back, and wont go forward. Some people have no problems others have nothing but problems. In the link posted, theres another - the first thing they say is Back it up first. www.pcworld.com |
wainuitech (129) | ||
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