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| DaOld Man:
There is also a thread discussing Win 10 over at Software forum. http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,146597.0.html |
| Xiaou2:
--- Quote from: Ond on August 06, 2015, 05:17:33 pm ---I didnt get a 6.5 gb download more like 3Gb but anyway Ive both upgraded and done a few fresh installs, all good here. Maybe they' ll all crap themselves next week...... --- End quote --- Unless you disabled the NSA Spybot stuff... it probably uploaded 3.5 GB of your data back to them. >:D :badmood: :banghead: :soapbox: |
| dkersten:
--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on August 07, 2015, 02:27:23 am --- --- Quote from: Ond on August 06, 2015, 05:17:33 pm ---I didnt get a 6.5 gb download more like 3Gb but anyway Ive both upgraded and done a few fresh installs, all good here. Maybe they' ll all crap themselves next week...... --- End quote --- Unless you disabled the NSA Spybot stuff... it probably uploaded 3.5 GB of your data back to them. >:D :badmood: :banghead: :soapbox: --- End quote --- Oh, that's another win10 "feature".. unless you disable it, MS will add your computer to the torrent-like update system and you will be using your upload bandwidth to update other people's computers. In my case, win7 doesn't do that, the 6.5 gb file is just a download. It looks like MS did indeed start to throttle them, I am seeing some of my branches start up in the morning and the bandwidth usage spikes to 100%, then throttles back to about half. It still sucks but since I still can't find a way to stop this from happening, at least these computers are only using half my total bandwidth and not all of it, and I can still get other updates (I don't have to block the update servers, throttle the BITS service on each computer, or shut off updates completely on each computer). |
| Ken Layton:
I'm running 10 on my backup laptop (old Compaq Presario from 2007 which was originally Vista Home Premium then updated to 7 because of a hard drive crash). The "upgrade" caused me to lose all sound. The problem was traced to 10 loading the wrong audio driver (Conexant Audio old driver) instead of the Microsoft provided one. Once the correct audio driver was installed, all sound was restored. Then came the crashes, lockups, and excessive battery consumption. The crashes and battery troubles were fixed in a couple of the Windows updates. The lockup problem which I thought was being caused by Firefox, was actually caused by Avast Anti-Virus. I had been reading about lots of other people also having problems with Avast lately causing lockups and excessive CPU use. Avast was not listening to the complaints and people dropped Avast and switched to Avira instead. That's exactly what I did and guess what? No more lockups! Computer is running smoothly now. One thing though is 10 removes the ability to play DVD movies. However, I installed the free "VLC Media Player" and can now watch DVD's again on this machine. Surprisingly, this old 2007 machine works fine now with 10. I don't like how Windows 10 has moved around everything and changed the names of stuff I was familiar with. I'm going to install the "Classic Shell" free program and make this machine look like an XP install. A couple of things did surprise me though. The free Paperport Viewer utility I use to view/print my .MAX files from my old Visioneer scanner works perfectly fine in 10. So does my old vintage 1998 HP Deskjet 882c printer. I had to use the original installation cd to add the printer, but by golly it works! Something else that works is the "Cute PDF Writer" program. I decided to NOT install the latest Adobe Reader DC program because it has become so bloated. I installed PDF X-change PDF Viewer (the free version not the paid Pro version) instead and am very happy with it. |
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