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I had some fun here lately with the new laptop getting things including creating a full system image backup which I would also recommend you consider there once you have it all set to go! While the 2010 flavor of Acronis True Image Home edition works fine on the main build it simply wouldn't even detect the laptop's drive unlike when going to back up the previous laptop being an older model HP that came with 7 and upgraded to 10.
This newer Toshiba model just came out in September with a choice of either 8.1 or 10 depending on where you shopped for it! Naturally 10 was the choice as well as finding the best deal. I would say a 750gb drive with 6gb of memory compared to the older 32bit 7 model with only 3gb and a 500gb drive as well as a higher type of optical drive only lacking the open button is otherwise a good deal for about the same price 3yrs. later. :)
You'll get there sooner or later however being this is more of a new type of experience for you there. Here having installed a variety of OSs over the years and often taking a day or two to get everything on or on again for any reinstall I tend to keep busy with secondary tasks until a restart is needed until everything is where it should be. With 10 the first thing noticed right away was the installer would go for more updates right from the start and also why it takes a full hour for Windows alone to go on compared to 7's 20min. by dvd or flash drive even, 12min for copying the setup files over to the drive.
The amount of programs you add afterwards however are usually what will chew up the most time as well as seeing all the latest updates downloaded. That's another one of the main reasons many will opt for some imaging problem in order to see an image made of the OS drive immediately afterwards in order to avoid the reinstall everything from scratch task.