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Yes, I'd be a bit leery about doing that--although Microsoft hasn't said anything about the Preview being non-upgradable to the final version of 10--if I could count on a consistent update process from preview to final that I'd probably bite the bullet myself and upgrade...
So far...I'm liking it a lot and have it installed on a separate partition, so I dual-boot between 8.1 & 10...both are UEFI installations with secure boot ON...which was nice. Win10 saw that ball and just ran with it, no problems. Still have lots of questions of course, which I will get to as time goes on.
At any rate, it sure looks like Microsoft is firmly back on track--this OS is firmly in the "desktop/workstation/server-first" class, and that's what I like--mobile & cloud "first" PR notwithstanding....
Had some difficulty getting in installed, ended up using the "upgrade" option. Seems to have kept all my options in place, even my taskbar which is essentially the taskbar as seen in XP.
So far so good.
That little search thing at the bottom, how do I get rid of it..??
So far my experience has been rather poor. I can't figure out if it's because of windows, or something specific to onedrive, but even though I set it to use the same onedrive folder on my windows 7 partition, it insist that the files in the folder are completely different from the files already synced, so it's says it has to upload all 200 gb of stuff again. After finally getting most of my important programs installed, I realized I forgot a couple of drivers. After installing them, my keyboard stopped working. After exhausting every other option, I had no choice but to do a system restore. The only restore point was from when I installed the very first driver, so now I get to reinstall EVERYTHING again. Such joy.
Edit: sorry about any bad grammar. Posting from my phone.
Last edited by Petey7; 02 Oct 2014 at 19:31.