My experience of Windows 10 was that it was generally better until..... I did an update from 8.1 to Win 10 on my notebook in the first week it became available Silly me. Apart from it automatically updating taking up to 15 minutes a throw without prior warming more than once a day initially , then down to once or twice a week all went fairly well. The updating never occurred till the computer had been idle for 15 minutes or more, but invariably it happened just before I wanted to use it causing delays. The HP driver for the SD card didn't work in windows 10 but no bugs were found in other programs during the short period I used it. I would leave the notebook on overnight hoping the automatic updates would occur while I was asleep and they generally did.
After about 30 days the previous windows 8 system went and I was on Windows 10 without a backwards path. I had wondered how to make Win 10 recovery boot disks at that stage but didn’t progress it as I should have. After about 6 weeks when the notebook was left on overnight the charging plug was somehow dislodged one night. By Murphy's law a new update started and presumably the battery went flat while the upgrade proceeded with the result that win10 files were corrupted. The notebook would not boot at all in Win 10 and obviously it would not do a system restore from the Win 8 cds I had. Data off the hard drive had to be retrieved on to another computer after the drive was removed , then the drive reformatted before I could reinstall the original Windows 8 then upgrade to 8.1 then set up all programs etc again. The local computer shop reported several similar cases that they had worked on over that week where drives had to be reformatted and earlier operating systems installed. Windows 10 was faster, more logical and user friendly than Windows 8.1 in my opinion. Legacy functioned perfectly on it but I will leave it another year until Win 10 is more stable before I venture near it again. For those that have upgraded, just ensure you have a backup that the PC can boot from if not full system restore ability to Win 10 Cheers -----Original Message----- From: William Boswell [mailto:whbosw...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, 9 November 2015 3:33 p.m. To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] LFT under Linux? I know your message was intended for someone else, but I thought I'd let you know about issues I had with Windows 10 and a big caution before you upgrade. Just because Windows 10 says your system and software are compatible, sometimes it may not be. Prior to upgrading, the upgrade assistant said all of my software was compatible. That wasn't true. I upgraded when it first came out and discovered that one program (Symantec System Recovery) which I use all the time for backing up all my drives did not work with Windows 10. Symantec issued a notice that an update would be available in a few months and we could use the software in trial mode since the software wouldn't accept our serial numbers. Unfortunately the trial was only good for two months and today there is still no update. You'd think they would have updated long before the release of Win10. If I had checked the websites for all software on my system I would have discovered this so you might want to make sure you are running software that will work with Windows 10. Windows 10 was also a lot slower for me and crashed many times. Graphics programs that ran fine in 8.1 had a lot of issues in 10 so I would say they weren't compatible either (3D software and Adobe Photoshop/Premiere Pro CS6 versions). Don't rely on Windows 10 giving you the option of restoring your system. I did and discovered it deleted all of my restore files. At the Microsoft website forums they mentioned we needed enough space for the backup. I had more than enough space (enough for several operating systems) and it still deleted my restore files. It's like MS doesn't want us to go back to older versions. Fortunately I was able to restore my system back to Win8.1 by forcing it several times until it finally worked. Since then I've had numerous issues with my 8.1 that are probably the cause of restoring my system and leftover junk hidden in my system. Windows 10 changed the partitions on my hard drive so restoring from a backup was problematic. I still have problems with the system being much slower and crashes that I never had before. I'll probably end up having to do a full reformat and install of all software to get rid of Windows 10 garbage left behind. I still get messages to upgrade to Windows 10. Legacy did run on Win10 for me. It was one of the few programs that I didn't have trouble with. I didn't have Win10 long before I got rid of it maybe a week later. I realized early it was garbage and had to go. Bill Boswell -----Original Message----- From: Steve Hayes [mailto:hayes...@telkomsa.net] Sent: Friday, November 6, 2015 11:05 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] LFT under Linux? On 6 Nov 2015 at 22:57, I Macaulay wrote: > I ran with XP and did not like 7 . When 8 came out I tried it and saw > some potential. I now run only one Linux box, 1XP Just in case and > the rest all run 10. Its not as bad as it seems. The biggest blow > was the loss of a lot of older programs that just won't run on 10, but > they don't run on Linux either. Could you reply to me privately (not really appropriate for the list as we've heard that Legacy will run on 10) and let me know which older programs won't run on Windows 10, but that do run on 7? That's my biggest concern about 10. I suppose I could back up 7 and restore if my stuff won't run, but that's a schlep. -- Steve Hayes E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-6727 Fax: 086-548-2525 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://support.legacyfamilytree.com Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). 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