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benarcade:
I'm guessing you are running a non-Activated version of Windows 10, which works for now, until Microsoft decides they don't want people to do that anymore.

I haven't installed an anti-virus since MS introduced Defender. But I'm also careful about not clicking on landmines (.ru) and generally stay away from torrents.

I used to build PCs, but it's hard to beat the prices on Dell Outlet and Craigslist.

javeryh:
yeah - non-activated right now. I think I'm going to bite the bullet and get a license though.

So yesterday I learned of the existence of a display port cable... never heard of such a thing in my life. The Asus monitor I bought supports 144hz refresh rate but I had hooked it up via HDMI and wasn't that wowed by the performance. Anyway, I was messing with the settings and noticed that it was set to 60hz and couldn't be changed in Windows or in the monitor's settings. After talking to a buddy of mine he told me about the display port cable and after about 30 minutes of messing around I got the monitor connected properly and it made a world of difference. The picture is buttery smooth and there is no screen tearing. The colors appear a little more vibrant too. I can imagine tons of people like me buying the fancy monitor and never realizing it wasn't connected properly.

I still haven't updated the motherboard BIOS/drivers. I'm just not sure how. Gigabyte has an app but I keep getting an error message when trying to use it so I think I'd be better off downloading the BIOS and drivers manually and installing them one by one. I just don't know where to get the right files - the website is confusing.

Overall I'm enjoying the new computer and learning a lot about it.

fallacy:
Windows 10 seems pretty good about installing your device drivers for you I have found anyway. For years and years and years my job plus my personal computers was in windows xp and I still have nightmares on what a crappy operating system that was; between the amount of malware you would get just being online, the constant freezing and rebooting you would have to do when you would go back to your computer once it was in sleep mode; just using the computer would ruin the registry slowing down your machine. Of course not 1 dame device would install by itself on a new copy of windows xp, you would have to find all that out in the wild.

Windows 7 was better but like you would still have to install your graphics driver every time as an example.

I don't have a lot of experience with new installs of windows 10 but the few machines I built and installed windows 10 I watched the device manager as if it was some kind of borg nano-bot self repairing itself fixing and installing every single device driver.

Mr. Peabody:
Windows 7 on my machines has installed the majority of 'necessary' drivers, or updates to them. However, the first thing after OS installation is install drivers: chipset, then other stuff. The chipset drivers seem optional..... XP auto-downloaded drivers at least in most of my experience. I can bet any average person's use messed/messes up any machine, let alone in a commercial setting, adding onto 'location configurations'....

Howard_Casto:
I've had to work on all of them and win 10 is just better in most cases due to the fact that it forces updates and the average user will do everything in their power to prevent normal pc maintenance, even if auto-update is turned on. Like fallacy said, it also seems to deal with video cards better than any version of windows. Xp wasn't nearly as bad as people thought it was.... 90% of problems were due to user error, but you know, since the whole idea of a pc is to use it....

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