Windows 10

[Dicer]

My screensaver stopped working at random, seems to be a thing and no fix in sight as of yet, what a weird thing to stop working...

Otherwise it's Windows, awe fast upon install and then it slowly slogs, and I keep a lean system, pretty free of too many unneeded programs always keep registry clean and whatnot, just Windows being Windows...

[geise]

I love it.  Everything I do works well with it.  I was worried there would be some things that wouldn't work quite right since I have a lot of programs to do my work.  Even my virtualization stuff in VMWare is working.  Edge is a crappy browser though.  No one will use it anyways so it's not really worth mentioning. 

[BlueBMW]

I guess I've been lucky so far and havent had any issues really.  One program broke on me upgrading from 7 to 10 and that was sony vegas.  I havent tried uninstalling and reinstalling it yet but that may fix it. 

Only thing I kind of miss is the aero look from vista/7.  I like the rounded transparent window corners etc.  Windows 10 is kind of industrial looking.  Reminds me of Windows 2k or NT.  I also dont care much for the way the all apps list organizes / looks.  Icons are too big and spaced out.  I like the more concise list style of windows 7.

[Black Tiger]

I had problems with my PC chugging whenever I'd switch between open programs, but I just updated my video card drivers and it's been fine since.

[ClodBuster]

YES, Dell confirmed that they tested the Win10 upgrade for my Vostro 3360 and thus officially support it.

I made a backup of my harddrive and then the Upgrade last weekend from Win7 Pro 64 bit to Win10 Pro 64 bit.

Everything went allright. The upgrade downloaded and installed the majority of important drivers from Dell automatically. Windows 10 works fine now.

The only thing missing during the upgrade was the newest chipset driver, which prevented further Windows updates from being installed. So I went to the Dell support website using Microsoft Edge browser, ran an automatic driver check (using my Dell service tag) and was prompted to install the chipset drivers.
Windows updates are now working fine, too.

I like Windows 10, since it co-operates well with my Lumia 620 smartphone, e.g. calendar sync and other things.
One fear I had about Win 10 was that it could make my laptop slow down. But fortunately, it runs the same or even better than Win 7.

[wilykat]

My desktop has 10 installed and on a high performance SSD connected to SATA 6G.  When it does regular shut down and power up, it only takes a few seconds.  The BIOS screen takes longer than Windows takes to boot.

[BlueBMW]

One add on you guys might consider is a program called Classic Shell.  It replaces the start menu with a more windows 7 like menu.  Its all windows 10 needed for me to like it.

[ClodBuster]

Thanks for mentioning.

To be honest, to me personally the Win10 start menu is fine as it is. But then, I'm already accustomed to tiles since I got my Lumia in 2012.

[NightWolve]

Update on my Win10 experience: I've had trouble with the upgrades for my tablets, but the new 1511 ISO/release restored VLC media player​ to full speed and no more buggy choking on MP4 movies (just as it worked when the device was running 8.1) on my Microcenter WinBook 7.1", so hooray, it works like before... Because these 7" models are 16GB, it's impossible to upgrade with such little space so you need to wipe the drive (preferably), create a bootable USB memory stick and do a clean install.

I also ran into the reverse operation bug of the headphone jack where the internal speakers only work when a 3.5mm plug from a pair of headphones is plugged in, but I solved that by uninstalling every audio related driver in Device Manager and letting it reinstall the drivers again... This method did not work with my bigger 10.1" 32GB tablet on the older Win10 build, so I'll have to try it again after doing a clean install with the new 1511 update/release.

Conclusion: If you're already using Windows 10 and it's asking to update to with this 1511 labeled release, do it.

* A Windows 7 add-on does sound good. Am getting used to the current style, but could try that some time.

[BigusSchmuck]

Update on my Win10 experience: I've had trouble with the upgrades for my tablets, but the new 1511 ISO/release restored VLC media player​ to full speed and no more buggy choking on MP4 movies (just as it worked when the device was running 8.1) on my Microcenter WinBook 7.1", so hooray, it works like before... Because these 7" models are 16GB, it's impossible to upgrade with such little space so you need to wipe the drive (preferably), create a bootable USB memory stick and do a clean install.

I also ran into the reverse operation bug of the headphone jack where the internal speakers only work when a 3.5mm plug from a pair of headphones is plugged in, but I solved that by uninstalling every audio related driver in Device Manager and letting it reinstall the drivers again... This method did not work with my bigger 10.1" 32GB tablet on the older Win10 build, so I'll have to try it again after doing a clean install with the new 1511 update/release.

Conclusion: If you're already using Windows 10 and it's asking to update to with this 1511 labeled release, do it.

* A Windows 7 add-on does sound good. Am getting used to the current style, but could try that some time.

Yeah my buddy at work had a similar issue with his desktop and headphone jack issues. Installed the update and blamo fixed it. Fixed my wireless trackball too. Overall, I'm still with 7 over on my home pcs as I still haven't found a compelling reason to upgrade yet..

[Sadler]

I had VLC stuttering issues as well that seem to be fixed, super happy about that! The two other issues I have that seem to be Win10  specific are WiFi dropping and my Surface waking itself up after being put to sleep. The WiFi dropping can be fixed by disabling, then re-enabling the wireless adapter. This is a pain, but fortunately I don't see it much. The sleep issue apparently can be solved by selecting all your input devices in device manager and disallowing them from waking up the machine. This works, but honestly I'd like for my keyboard and mouse to wake up my machine!

Overall, I remain pleased with the upgrade. My ancient Atom netbook and crappy i3 desktop both work way better than they did on Windows 7 and the touch controls on my Surface still work well. Some of the default apps I like quite a bit. I use the calendar, mail and weather apps probably daily. I haven't messed with Xbone streaming, but it is pretty awesome that a micro USB cable will allow you to use your Xbone pad on Windows 10.

[NightWolve]

The WiFi dropping can be fixed by disabling, then re-enabling the wireless adapter. This is a pain, but fortunately I don't see it much.

Aha, so that's what's happening, it's OS level bugs causing dropouts! Yeah, I too randomly discovered disabling/reenabling the adapter got me reconnected... See, I thought I was randomly being punished by Windows 10 for my...ahem...BitTorrent usage as that's the only time this happens, when a gigabyte+ download gets going...

[EvilEvoIX]

Finally upgraded from 8.  It's certainly better than 8 but not as good as 7, I was a fan of 95, XP (Best Ever), and 7.  Ten can grow on me I think.