Removing that annoying "get windows 10 message"

[flynnaus]

Well, I decided to give Win10Pro a run on my Win8.1 box....

Upgrade process went smoothly, no issues experienced. Once installed it was pretty simple to set everything up the way I want it to work and in the end, I can't really find any negatives. I'm using the Desktop interface that very closely replicates what you expect to find as a Win7 user and is very easy to navigate one's way around. All my applications work without hiccups so, all in all, no complaints at this stage...

Mal.

Windows 7 is MS's best release. Win 8.x was a mistake though some liked it. Win 10 is a worthwhile upgrade if you don't mind that things aren't where they used to be. My 4 year old laptop starts up and runs faster under Win 10 than it did under Win 7. I also found Office 13 loads and runs faster under Win 10 than under Win 7.

Then there is the problem that compared to any other OS it's slow and uses so much RAM

It's certainly the case but MS has slowly addressed that. I've used various Linux distros, MAC OS X (and older Mac OS versions) and nearly all Windows since version 3.0 and each has its good and bad points. MS has made the mistake of putting out buggy versions and continually having to patch them, but so has Apple and Linux.

There are plenty of Windows haters but in the end, it isn't a competition, it's a preference. I've been using Mac OSs longer than Microsoft ones but my next computer will still be Windows based. I appreciate the advantages of other OSs.

Perhaps eventually, all computers will be running on mobile OSs like iOS, Android. Indeed, Win 10 is built to run on Windows based portable devices as well as desktop and laptop devices.

[Dimal]

Well, I decided to give Win10Pro a run on my Win8.1 box....

Upgrade process went smoothly, no issues experienced. Once installed it was pretty simple to set everything up the way I want it to work and in the end, I can't really find any negatives. I'm using the Desktop interface that very closely replicates what you expect to find as a Win7 user and is very easy to navigate one's way around. All my applications work without hiccups so, all in all, no complaints at this stage...

Mal.

[rrm]

Agree about the UI. But Windows 7/8/10 X64 certainly isn't "slow" when run on premium hardware.

Everyone tells me how unreliable windows is. Bit I've never had a stability nor reliability issue after Win 2000 came on the market.

[speleomike]

... and there are multiple copies of the registry on Windows because its unreliable.
I think one of the worst aspects of Windows development is that the user interface keeps changing.
Then there is the problem that compared to any other OS it's slow and uses so much RAM.

[TampIt]

For those who value their privacy, both Win 7/8 and Win 10 64 bit have a way to prevent the "call home to mama constantly" feature. The little add-ins also do a whole batch of other useful stuff.

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/ultima...r-4-windows-10
Ultimate Windows Tweaker 3 for Windows 8
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/ultima...indows-7-vista

probably the best win add ins I know. Ghostery and ad-block+ then sort out most of the browser spying & tracking issues.

TampIt
PS: Irrelevant tech history. I am 62, and I started my IBM compatible story with a PC (i.e. the three slot one, early 1981?) followed by a PC Model Two (the five slot one) and then an XT (the eight slot one: early 1983 by then). The first one ran PC-Dos Version 1.0 (I still possibly have the disks somewhere) whilst the "new" XT ran PC-Dos 2.2. As usual, Java "TANSTAAFL" phile is correct: my Windows version one betas are dated 1984 (hard to forget, think Orwell). The final Win 1.0 release was a year or so later and still needed every bit of my 4Mb expanded memory card (in the XT) to sort of work at a snail's pace (badly - it still crashed quite a lot). I upgraded to an AT at about the same time the second beta was released (still '84). No way was it free - the hardware hit was very expensive at the time... Considering my current machine has 32Gb of RAM and an 8 core processor running at nearly 1000x the old XT's 4.77Mhz (a figure all us old techies will have embedded in our brains forever), hardware sure has come a long way over the years.

OS/2: IBM was up to its neck in an anti-trust lawsuit at the time and really had to let OS/2 lapse as a strategy to head off the worst of the fallout. They still had to split up a lot of their operations (e.g. Lexmark). They believed (as did guys like me at the time) that the Windows registry was such a mess it could not last over the long term. OS/2 used a proper data dictionary from day one. Apart from the best spaghetti coding that India can provide, the registry is still windows worst feature IMO.

[rrm]

When I got Windows 1.0 it was had tossup between Win 1.0 versus DESQView with DOS.
I still have my Win 1.0 install floppies somewhere, I think there are about 8.

Mike

WFW (3.11) was 11 or 12 1.44 floppies. I can't remember much further back. except for DOS 6.22 and the compatibility issues with DOS 5.0.

OS/2.1 was so far ahead of it's time, especially OS/2 Warp. But M$ won the race because IBM decided the "personal computer" market wasn't worth entering. And the M$ /IBM joint development fell part. I've lost one of my 6.22 floppies.

All part of ancient history. And many would say irrelevant today.

Cheers

Rob

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

Actually it's LXII.

Yes, I'm still in last year and my birthday hasn't "passed".

'When I get older, losing my hair......' not too far away I guess that's owned by Apple Music.

[speleomike]

So true JP, an un-intentional subtraction error when calculating decades. During the 70's we were using the DOS series of OSs and running in a text based environment.

Although a few of us may have been using IBM PS/2 and later OS/2 (1987)

When I got Windows 1.0 it was a tossup between Win 1.0 versus DESQView with DOS.
I still have my Win 1.0 install floppies. There were 7 x 3.5 inch disks.

Mike

[rrm]

Surely that would have been LXIII when you were born?

Actually it's LXII.

Yes, I'm still in last year and my birthday hasn't "passed".

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

Surely that would have been LXIII when you were born?

[rrm]

I'm 51

You are a spring chicken, I'm 63

[Vinitasse]

It is good Win 10 does what want, It certainly runs Matlab slower than W7 for me. Especially when doing waveform analysis.

You must be young and one of those people who can have a dozen conversations simultaneously and not miss a word.

Because 20 tabs open at once would not happen and would be an absurdity for me to use.

Enjoy Win 10.

I'm 51

[rrm]

On my laptop with Win10 I can run Fallout 4 on HIGH video settings with 20 something Chrome tabs still open in the background while simultaneously streaming music for my wife to listen to. I couldn't do that with Win7... and definitely not with Win8 either... all of which would seem to suggest that Win10s resource management is rather robust and most likely an advancement on what MS came up with years ago. Also... when taking a break I simply close the lid of my machine and flip it back up when ready and it bursts back into life within seconds. Try that with Win7.

Lastly... there's nothing really new to learn with the UI either. It's a step back from the touch screen centric approach of Win8 and far more like Win7 with the added bonus of additional social media-esque features there if you CHOOSE to use them.

It is good Win 10 does what want, It certainly runs Matlab slower than W7 for me. Especially when doing waveform analysis.

You must be young and one of those people who can have a dozen conversations simultaneously and not miss a word.

Because 20 tabs open at once would not happen and would be an absurdity for me to use.

Enjoy Win 10.

[rrm]

I've been ignoring the prompt on a couple of machines but I also know a few people happily running Windows 10.

What I've found funny though is the number of times that the GWX process falls over.
Doesn't instill much confidence in the new product if the nag screen crashes.

Nice to meet you Andy.

Yes, some people really like the new UI. I'm perhaps an "old dude" who likes the XP/ Win7 layouts and prefers to have everything in same place in every OS. Which is pretty well the jump from XP to Win 7 : bar some very sensible and logical changes.

My main apps are Matlab and Protel/ Altium. With a bit of Autocad and Inventor. So the faster the system runs the better.

Many people love W10 , however I'm not as convinced. There will be a catch somewhere I believe.

cheers

[Vinitasse]

On my laptop with Win10 I can run Fallout 4 on HIGH video settings with 20 something Chrome tabs still open in the background while simultaneously streaming music for my wife to listen to. I couldn't do that with Win7... and definitely not with Win8 either... all of which would seem to suggest that Win10s resource management is rather robust and most likely an advancement on what MS came up with years ago. Also... when taking a break I simply close the lid of my machine and flip it back up when ready and it bursts back into life within seconds. Try that with Win7.

Lastly... there's nothing really new to learn with the UI either. It's a step back from the touch screen centric approach of Win8 and far more like Win7 with the added bonus of additional social media-esque features there if you CHOOSE to use them.