Windows 10: What You Need to Know

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by vienna

So, while the those of us who are running Win 10 are doing so with little or no problems, others are struggling to get a dubious OS to even boot; interesting...


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I want Win 10 to succeed, I really do. And it probably will... after a lot of open beta testing by us.


So far, after 5 days I have had 3 BSOD. Something I almost never got with Win 7.

At least I was able to get Windows start menu under control.
With Classic Shell it looks like this



instead of this freakin' cartoony hodge-podge of mess



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Also, if you are like me, and you have a severely limited amount of bandwidth to use each month, you do not want Windows burning through itfor you with updates, and even worse, I discovered that Windows 10 uses your bandwidth to help other PC users update.




Here are details and how to put a stop to it.

http://lifehacker.com/windows-10-use...s-d-1721091469

http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2015...eople-updates/

Sheesh, no wonder I am 4GB over my limit this month.

[vienna]

I had the same BSOD problems at first, but they seem to have been resolved by the updates to the Win 10 system. So far, the only problems I'm having are related to some BIOS issues due to the PC's maker not having been fast enough to deal with some tweaks between Win 10 OS and the BIOS. The manufacturer just a few days ago released some new BIOS updates and it has drastically reduced issues; I have also been really carefully scrutinizing the web support sites for the add-on hardware/software so as to keep up-to-date on the latest drive releases...

I, also, am no fan of the "improved" UI that MS has been using lately. I changed the UI to more closely resemble the older UI and thus be something more familiar to me. I have old age and relentless stubbornness on my side: I will not be dragged into the 21st century...


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