My Windows 10 experience

Resisted as long as possible, but finally relented and upgraded to Windows10Pro 64 bit from win7. Used an image from 7 years back and went for it.

Frustrating would be speaking lightly, but, after days of registry changes, shell additions and freaky troubleshooting, I think it may finally be right.

I am sure a clean install would be superior and it seems that is the suggestion when all else fails. The upgrade process puts users with little to no experience in a really tough situation as the process can be frought with a nightmare of research, registry tweaks and whatever.

Never have had such problems with an OS.

Time will tell, went 10 years with 7, the image used was from 2012.

Over and outski....

Does the phrase "doing it the hard way" sound familiar?

I do have a few lumps on the noggin...

This has been my Windows 10 experience. I ran setup.exe. In 1/2 to 2 hours, depending on the computer, I had a computer that was faster and more responsive running Windows 10. I've got about 10 computers on a home network with 3 users, one of which is my 75 year old mother-in-law. No registry changes, no shell additions, no freaky troubleshooting, no nightmares of research. And every six months or so, I run setup.exe again and do another no problem upgrade to the next edition.

Update. The win 7 image from 7 years ago used for the upgrade had a lot of problems, however, after working on all the issues and adding some tweaks, the Win10 in place upgrade is performing and behaving wonderfully.

It just took awhile to sort it all out...

AddRAM, with all due respect, WHY would I want to do a complete fresh install? I have no problems whatsoever with the OS now. It took awhile, but I ferreted out all problems that came over with the old Win7 image before then after the in place upgrade.

The process gave me insight on how to handle Win 10's quirks. Guess I am old school, I use Paragon for imaging. and it works just fine and dandy.

bldegle2 said:

AddRAM, with all due respect, WHY would I want to do a complete fresh install?

For complete assurance that there is nothing untoward left over...

... I have no problems whatsoever with the OS now. It took awhile, but I ferreted out all problems that came over with the old Win7 image before then after the in place upgrade

The process gave me insight on how to handle Win 10's quirks....

...and given enough insight you are probably correct. How confident are you in your own skills?

I recently rescued an old dead XP machine that had some installed software I needed. The only remaining working part was its HDD. I took an image of that using Macrium, restored the image to a virtual machine, then proceeded to upgrade in stages from XP through W7 up to W10. There were a LOT of leftovers to clean up, including a lot of OEM bloatware. I'm confident that I now have a clean W10 VM that I can image and restore to any physical machine.

However, if this were a physical machine and there wasn't any installed software I needed, then I'd probably have gone for a clean install once an upgrade had gained it a digital licence for W10.

I got skills. Kripes, my system is outdated by today's standards, 8320 @3.8, 32 gig of 2133 ram running @1600, Gskill Ripjaws, first 16 gig bought in 2012, second purchased 6 weeks back, Gskill is the bomb with the ram, never though adding it would work, but it did. NB @2400 and HT @2400 AsRock 970 Extreme4 and an old Radeon HD 6850. Couple of SSD's, one OS and the other for all other stuff. Back in the day when I gamed online, it performed very nicely. Heck, I still have my original OCZ Vertex4, 7 going on 8 years old and still works flawlessly. This same setup in one form or another has gone through many itinerations, including extreme cooling (Teacs and water system combined) for massive overclockages. Those days are over. I cool with air (140 mm slow speed fan) and a monster heatpipe setup now, nice and quiet. I like quiet...and I have a clean image of present OS now. maybe I can go another 7 years, just kidding...

Everything evolves. Someday I may upgrade, but for now it fills the bill, I run my business on this unit. Maybe I will hit the grave before I HAVE to upgrade...in my old age I hate losing sleep over installs, I just want it to run and not give me headaches.

Over and out...