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mithridates



Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
PostPosted: Wed Jul 29, 2015 7:32 pm    Post subject: Windows 10 is out Reply with quote
So Windows 10 is now out, Internet Explorer is no longer the default browser anymore. Who's tried it so far?
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sligo



Joined: 15 Oct 2008
PostPosted: Wed Jul 29, 2015 8:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
it looks similar to windows 8. i have a windows tablet and i have been impressed with the way 8.1 works. i probably will upgrade, but i will wait for the second version without the bugs and creaes.
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Hokie21



Joined: 01 Mar 2011
PostPosted: Thu Jul 30, 2015 4:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I downloaded it last night...so far I'm liking it much more than 8.1
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Died By Bear



Joined: 13 Jul 2010
Location: On the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
PostPosted: Thu Jul 30, 2015 12:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
It's good, no problems so far.
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Sector7G



Joined: 24 May 2008
PostPosted: Thu Jul 30, 2015 12:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Non-techie here!

How difficult is it to install? Do I need to back up stuff to be safe?
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mithridates



Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
PostPosted: Thu Jul 30, 2015 5:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sector7G wrote:
Non-techie here!

How difficult is it to install? Do I need to back up stuff to be safe?


It installs like any other Windows update, and after installing it it even remembered that I was 14 minutes through a video in Chrome and restarted it from there. Files, language settings, everything was exactly the same.

It also puts Windows 8.1 into a folder in case you want to revert to it, and you have 30 days to do that if you decide you want to go back.
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Sector7G



Joined: 24 May 2008
PostPosted: Thu Jul 30, 2015 6:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
^^Thanks, but I just read this article from CNet that says it's better to do a "clean install", or otherwise performance will be "adversely affected".

Three ways to install a clean version of Windows 10 onto any PC.


http://www.cnet.com/news/clean-install-windows-10/
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mithridates



Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
PostPosted: Tue Aug 04, 2015 11:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Edge is the default browser now and it doesn't support ActiveX, but if you go to a site that needs it it will still prompt you to use IE:

http://i.imgur.com/KA81ZDn.png

So IE is dead but can still be resurrected at a moment's notice.
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hogwonguy1979



Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: the racoon den
PostPosted: Sun Aug 23, 2015 12:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I got a new laptop running Win 8.1 here in the states and am now in the "queue" to get win 10, keep checking status and it says it's downloading in the backgroud for like a week now
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FMPJ



Joined: 03 Jun 2008
PostPosted: Sun Aug 23, 2015 3:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Watch out.
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Fox



Joined: 04 Mar 2009
PostPosted: Sun Aug 23, 2015 3:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
FMPJ wrote:
Watch out.


Before seeing this, it still wasn't entirely clear to me what I would gain by upgrading to Windows 10 from 7 (I don't care about Directx 12), but if this were true, the matter is more or less settled. Even if I'm going to purchase something, I like being able to download a torrent version of it first and make sure it works well for me. For example, I wanted to download Planescape: