Question? Have you installed Win 10 and use it everyday?

gregrocker said:

Yesterday I Macrium Imaged my Windows 7 partition to external, then deleted it and recovered the space into TP. I hadn't been back to Windows 7 since early October.

I don't even remember what Windows 7 looks like!
I haven't been back to Windows 8.1 since October!
I should probably flip over there and do some updates! :)

Trying to spend as much time in 10 as possible. A couple of hours a day on average. It seems to be stable to me. I have important business to do now and then in 8.1. However, I received permission from MS to install a copy of Office Pro 2013 on 10 during the trial period, so perhaps I'll be spending more time with it. I'll see how it goes.

HippsieGypsie said:

Did a lot and continue to do some building contract estimate/bid work using a calculator and Excel spreadsheets. A numbers key pad is an absolute must with a calculator and Excel. I’d go nuts having to use the top row numbers. One of the drawbacks of a lot of laptops, although I’ve seen a few with them.

Me too, Hippsie, me too! Believe it or not, I started out on a manual typewriter and got up to 55 WPM, even using those numbers way, way up there. Then we got IBM Selectrics and I got better, but when I started using computers with the keypad, I thought I'd died and gone to Heaven! I can't live without mine any more!

My dv7-1245dx laptop is a 17" jobbie with a keypad, which means the keyboard is easy to type on, but the 15.6" g6 Series is a pain in the tookus.

HippsieGypsie said:

BTW, the Modern Store Calculator app is an absolute must to use. Try it once and I guarantee you’ll not use another. Perform multiple +, -, *, , or / without Enter (2+2+2) > It keeps track at the top. The multiple memory feature is great. It also has the Scientific and Conversion modes also.

Hmmm, I'll have to try that out, although I have a "real time" Canon calculator with all the bells and whistles within reach of my right arm when I need to do a calculation. The calculator that comes with Windows is pretty easy to use; click on the icon in my QuickLaunch Bar and use the keypad for input.

HippsieGypsie said:

Frank1 said:

I've spent quit a bit of time with it the last two days. I expected to have some problems with it since its the beta. But so far I have had no problems at all.

Hello, Frank1. Welcome to Windows TenForums. :)

Hello Hippsie..

lehnerus2000 said:

I'm using a VM for the W10 previews.
I wont be installing and running W10 full time, until I can install a version that won't self-destruct (i.e. the final release).

I hate having to install and install things.

This is the reason that I almost never install "trial" programs on my PC.
If I do install a"trial" program I image my PC first.

I agree that I would not install on my main computer. But I got lucky. I have some good friends who work in the computer dept. of one of our local universities. They have always helped me a lot. One of them emailed me a few days ago and said that the university has a laptop that they don't use any more. The guys at the university installed 10 on it and he asked me if I wanted to play with it. It is technically the universities, but I can use it as long as I want. So I went to the café to have coffee with him and he gave me the computer. How lucky can a young guy like get??? Actually I've had no big problems with it.