How has everyone's upgrade experience been?

I am kind of disappointed with the update from 10166 to 10240. I have issues with SFC working with no issues to unfixable "corruption". I also had problems with graphics for two monitors. I was running a primary on a Nvidia PCIE and secondary Intel chipset HD 4600. This combo worked fine up to 10166. On 10240 I would get black screens and have to reboot after waking from sleep. I worked around it by running both monitors off the NVidia.

In addition to that, in general, 10166 seemed much more stable than 10240 for me.

As far as coming up from Windows 7, I have no real issues. Windows 10 seems more responsive, even though benchmark results appear otherwise. But from my experience, this responsiveness will erode as bugs are fixed that close timing window's and race conditions, inevitably reducing performance over time. I am on-board for the advancements coming from windows 7: native USB support, USB UASP support, DirectX 12, thunderbolt 3 support and in general new technology support for Skylake and beyond. I don't think it makes any sense to stay on 7 once 10 becomes stable.

Hi there

Update seemed to be to be delivered rather randomly -- people had to wait for different times to get their updates (and a few AFAIK STILL haven't got them).

The update once delivered worked fine --however the instructions should have been better :

1) Use an MS account to get the latest updates.
2) Activation only works (is automatic) if you are upgrading from a PREVIOUSLY ACTIVATED version of Windows.

The whole nonsense with the KMS servers / activation keys being blocked was chaotic and I think only an organisation like National Rail in the UK could have been capable of. That certainly IMO could have been better managed -- and for the poor souls who can't activate their nice shiny new build 10240 -- it can be frustrating as they are unable to personalize their machines (for personalisation Windows has to be activated).

So Ms -- Good points for a decent OS being delivered -- zero though for the manner in which delivery was made. If it works this way after Jul 29 -- your phones will be ringing off their hooks.

Suggestion to Ms -- why not use Bittorrent to speed up delivery to 100,000's of people (maybe millions even). Saves load on your servers and provided your trackers are secure there's no reason in the world why this can't be used as a legitimate distribution process. A lot of Linux distros are distributed this way with ZERO problems.

@lehnerus2000 - did you re-install VMware tools again after updating to your build 10240 VM. The best way is to UNINSTALL the VMware tools package and RE-INSTALL completely (or VBOX additions if using VBOX).

Cheers
jimbo

Ztruker said:

I wonder how many of the preview testers upgraded from Win 7? I would expect most were from 8.1.

I will be upgrading from Win 7 Pro

Gary said:

I will be upgrading from Win 7 Pro

Upgrading from Win 8.1 Pro x64. Haven't used 7 since 8 came out.

Ztruker said:

I wonder how many of the preview testers upgraded from Win 7? I would expect most were from 8.1.

I've upgraded from both 7 (way back at the beginning of the Insiders Program) and 8.1 more recently, and it went surprisingly well from each. I was kind of surprised it worked at all from Win7!

Being able to download the iso image of Windows 10 through bittorrent channels, that's not a shabby idea @Jimbo.

I wish Microsoft would have made it easier to do a clean install. Having to go through the download, then the lengthy upgrade, and then do a clean install seems like more steps to take for me. Back up user data, wipe down the hard drive, deploy and put back user data in place.

I'm going to get an iso image of 10 and install that clean on my system as well as a laptop for someone else. By the way, that tablet mode in the recent builds, that is elegantly done!

I have done mostly upgrades. However I went back to 8.1 pro on one machine and then went back to 10160 and upgrades after and never had any real problems. I plan to do an esd to iso when the final upgrade happens. then keep that copy for until they give us a good iso.
My feelings are that I have the original DVD's created when I purchased and started with 8.0 Pro.
I feel that if I want to I should be able to re install either 8.0 or 10 Pro on this machine as long as I want to.
In following this forum it gets confusing about whether MS is going to take our old license in exchange for 10?
If that is the case then 10 is not FREE?
Will wait and see.
Shipinomore