windows 7 to 10

[Woody218]

What is the opinion of members about changing to windows 10 in july, the good, bad, ugly

 

[Jesse Williams]

I plan on doing it.

 

[AddRAM]

Not doing it on this machine, No way

Windows 7 Forever

 

[sgage]

What is the opinion of members about changing to windows 10 in july, the good, bad, ugly

I've tested it extensively. As far as I'm concerned, it offers nothing useful to me for the desktop, and I am strictly a desktop user. I will not be upgrading. I'm sure my next computer will come with Windows 10, and I'll just roll with it. But not until this machine dies.

I mean, I don't need any of the metro/modern/universal/whatever-they're-calling-it-this-week stuff. The desktop works, and they've made it easy to just ignore the other stuff for the most part, but it's ugly, flat, and not nice to look at, compared to Windows 7. I don't want my desktop to look like a phone. That's just my aesthetic judgement - YMMV.

 

[Woody218]

Isn't it supposed to be more secure plus other things, I do not use metro or any modern apps they are going to have

 

[remm]

What is the opinion of members about changing to windows 10 in july, the good, bad, ugly

I've tested it extensively. As far as I'm concerned, it offers nothing useful to me for the desktop, and I am strictly a desktop user. I will not be upgrading. I'm sure my next computer will come with Windows 10, and I'll just roll with it. But not until this machine dies.

I mean, I don't need any of the metro/modern/universal/whatever-they're-calling-it-this-week stuff. The desktop works, and they've made it easy to just ignore the other stuff for the most part, but it's ugly, flat, and not nice to look at, compared to Windows 7. I don't want my desktop to look like a phone. That's just my aesthetic judgement - YMMV.

From the sounds of that I don't want it either. I also don't like the phone/W8 look.... but a couple quick questions:

1. Is there a way to make it look and feel like W7? (classic DT, aero, etc) I ask because the first thing I did with W7 is put back the functionality of XP they took away... like the quicklaunch, the "show desktop" icon, etc. Sometimes the OSs come out of the box in annoying configurations but can be 'hacked' to be 'retro'. ??

2. Is it worth bothering? Is W10 faster? Better? I heard it was supposed to boot in like 20 seconds, but of course the OS always boots fast when nothing's installed on the machine.

Thanks for your input!

 

[sgage]

As of now, no, there is no way to make it look like Win7. No Aero, and MS seems almost militantly unwilling to bring it back. And you still have the new start menu, which is like a junior start screen a la Win8. The desktop functionality is more or less the same, only ugly. Some people like it, or say they do. It might be marginally faster - I'm not really convinced. Maybe faster at some things, slower at others. It seems to boot quickly, but once you see your desktop it is a few minutes before you get anything like responsiveness.

So, no, I would say it's not worth the hassle. Like I said, I'm resigned to getting Windows 10 on my next computer, and I'll be able to live with it, but I will not be upgrading this machine. Classic Shell is your friend.

I really like Windows 7, and I wish they'd kept it as the desktop line of development. Oh well! It's supported until 2020

What is the opinion of members about changing to windows 10 in july, the good, bad, ugly

I've tested it extensively. As far as I'm concerned, it offers nothing useful to me for the desktop, and I am strictly a desktop user. I will not be upgrading. I'm sure my next computer will come with Windows 10, and I'll just roll with it. But not until this machine dies.

I mean, I don't need any of the metro/modern/universal/whatever-they're-calling-it-this-week stuff. The desktop works, and they've made it easy to just ignore the other stuff for the most part, but it's ugly, flat, and not nice to look at, compared to Windows 7. I don't want my desktop to look like a phone. That's just my aesthetic judgement - YMMV.

From the sounds of that I don't want it either. I also don't like the phone/W8 look.... but a couple quick questions:

1. Is there a way to make it look and feel like W7? (classic DT, aero, etc) I ask because the first thing I did with W7 is put back the functionality of XP they took away... like the quicklaunch, the "show desktop" icon, etc. Sometimes the OSs come out of the box in annoying configurations but can be 'hacked' to be 'retro'. ??

2. Is it worth bothering? Is W10 faster? Better? I heard it was supposed to boot in like 20 seconds, but of course the OS always boots fast when nothing's installed on the machine.

Thanks for your input!

 

[lehnerus2000]

Quadrant Window Snapping (Desktop) is a nice improvement.
Virtual Desktops are handy, but I think MS could have implemented them better (W10TP b10041).

I won't be installing W10 over my W7 install.
If I get a new machine with W10 on it I'll keep it (I would've wiped W8 in the same scenario).

 

[remm]

As of now, no, there is no way to make it look like Win7. No Aero, and MS seems almost militantly unwilling to bring it back. And you still have the new start menu, which is like a junior start screen a la Win8. The desktop functionality is more or less the same, only ugly. Some people like it, or say they do. It might be marginally faster - I'm not really convinced. Maybe faster at some things, slower at others. It seems to boot quickly, but once you see your desktop it is a few minutes before you get anything like responsiveness.

So, no, I would say it's not worth the hassle. Like I said, I'm resigned to getting Windows 10 on my next computer, and I'll be able to live with it, but I will not be upgrading this machine. Classic Shell is your friend.

I really like Windows 7, and I wish they'd kept it as the desktop line of development. Oh well! It's supported until 2020

Well I'm out too, then. I love W7 and am not ashamed to say I like eye candy. I stare at my computer 12+ hrs a day and I want it pleasing to my eye. I can't stand the 2D tile look of W8 and the newer GUIs. Give me lovely 3D shading, fat curves and highlighted contours any day!

As for buying a new machine down the road, unless something drastically happens between now and then to make W10 like W7 GUI-wise, I will just migrate my current W7 system over to any new machine using Paragon Adaptive Restore. It works like a charm... just restore a BU image to the new machine, then boot from an Adaptive Restore USB stick and let it detect the installed system, read the hardware, and inject the correct drivers. Also fixes the MBR... and voila... you can boot into your completely wonderful system on the new machine.

Like you say... they are patching W7 until 2020... we can hope by then that Win20 will be out and they will have come full circle back to an aero type GUI.

 

[remm]

Quadrant Window Snapping (Desktop) is a nice improvement.
Virtual Desktops are handy, but I think MS could have implemented them better (W10TP b10041).

Sounds like an interesting integrated feature.

I won't be installing W10 over my W7 install.
If I get a new machine with W10 on it I'll keep it (I would've wiped W8 in the same scenario).

Well they skipped from W8 to W10 and are burning through OS versions almost as fast as FF updates. So who knows what the OS will be if you don't need a machine for another year.

 

[ThrashZone]

Too soon to say but All of the above Good bad and Ugly

Most of all really offers little in the word "upgrade" would imply compared to 7's out of the box perfection
But I suppose that's a individual taste thing,
If you enjoy a mobile interface 10 was your idea not mine

 

[lehnerus2000]

Quadrant Window Snapping (Desktop) is a nice improvement.
Virtual Desktops are handy, but I think MS could have implemented them better (W10TP b10041).

Sounds like an interesting integrated feature.

Here are a couple of screenshots.

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[jadinolf]

I am dual booting one computer with 7 and 10.

10 behaves like 7 to me so I may use it on just this computer.

Things may change but that's what I THINK I will do.

 

[remm]

Quadrant Window Snapping (Desktop) is a nice improvement.
Virtual Desktops are handy, but I think MS could have implemented them better (W10TP b10041).

Sounds like an interesting integrated feature.

Here are a couple of screenshots.

Thanks for those. I can see where that could come in handy in lots of situations. I use a 14" laptop though and have enough trouble reading fonts when I have only one screen filling the LCD. Neat though. I suppose the best features will be improved upon and carried forward... hopefully into an OS with a prettier GUI. I know it sounds silly but I could not live with those sys tray icons. Call me shallow, I can take it.

 

[Mellon Head]

I'll be upgrading my Win 8 partition to Win 10, but I'm leaving the Win 7 system I have alone. I like it too much to go messing with it.

I'll dual boot for a while and see how I like 10 before making a final commitment.

 

[eatup]

Guys, W10 doesn't have to interfere with your current W7 setup. I don't condone an upgrade from 7 at all. But, I wager you can install W10 freshly from an ISO and use it alongside W7 without changing your system.

It's called native booting. You basically install W10 into a .vhd file and add it to your boot menu (or let the install do it automatically). That's all there is to it, just an extra file on your hard drive containing the entire operating system and what else. No need for a 2nd hard drive or to repartition it...

It's just like downloading a song. Since when did having an extra .mp3 file [except it's a .vhd file] on the hard drive affect your current setup?

 

[lehnerus2000]

Thanks for those. I can see where that could come in handy in lots of situations. I use a 14" laptop though and have enough trouble reading fonts when I have only one screen filling the LCD. Neat though.

Virtual Desktops are more useful to people running laptops, than Quadrant Snapping (due to monitor size).
You can open a folder (full screen) on its own desktop and simply repeat that as often as necessary.
Thus you can have multiple program and document windows open at the same time.

I suppose the best features will be improved upon and carried forward... hopefully into an OS with a prettier GUI. I know it sounds silly but I could not live with those sys tray icons. Call me shallow, I can take it.

I don't mind the Sys Tray icons.
I have a 23" monitor though.

I can't stand the "Diamond White" default theme.
The faint grey writing and invisible separators don't help.

 

[RoasterMen]

Installing Windows 10 on an LGA 775 platform is a bad idea . I keep my good ol' computer with Windows 7 until the support dies.

 

[Stevekir]

I have just ditched my iMac and have a new Windows 7 setup, which I really like. The current and last (November 2013) OSs on the Mac have become ever more like portable devices in appearance and in operation, which for a desktop user like me is not good. Windows seems to be going the same way. Lets hope that the fashion cycle will come round.