i've got a windows 10 laptop so I'm familiar with the desktop, it's the upgrade process that I'm worried about, from past experience it never goes well.
*Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes*. On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 12:04 AM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey guys >> Anyone got any advice on upgrading windows 7 to windows 10? >> > > Went through the whole process two weekends ago, but on the desktop only > with my developer's hat on (I have only used Win10 on a tablet for about 5 > minutes). Some non-techie friends just look at it and go "it's sort of > prettier isn't it, but where are my programs?" I explain the Start bar menu > and tiles to them and off they go, and that's about it, they don't care > about anything else. > > As a power Win10 desktop user, I find Wi10 to be Win7 with more pretty > clutter to get in the way of what you want to actually do. Internally they > both feel about the same and all of my old apps installed and ran okay. But > everything takes more clicks and more navigation to find and run quickly in > Win10. I spent hours and hours stripping Win10 back to look and feel like > Win7. And I must stress that I didn't do that out of spite, or because I > resist change ... I did it because I had to! Win10 contains so much > worthless garbage and clutter that I had to strip it out to keep my > productivity up. All tiles, flat apps, superfluous icons, wallpaper, > plug-ins, Cortana, etc ... all erased or hidden. I've pinned the dozen apps > I use every day to the start bar and I'm back to working normally. So the > big question is ... why did I do that? Why was it necessary? I'm not the > only one. Somebody in the marketing and art departments that produce Win10 > must be slightly askew to reality. Win10 feels a bit like an unfinished > iMac. > > So overall, I think you'll have little technical trouble going from 7 to > 10, but as a power user I guess you'll spend a bit of time tweaking the > desktop to your liking, as I did. > > *GK* >
