As much as I like Win X, I had to revert to Win 7 due to privacy issues. Also, this forum and Win 7 forum has been helpful is getting rid of the telemetry windows updates. Wanted to extend a note of...

@groze - Thank you for the link. I will check and do the needful.

For one, I'm not concerned about pirated software, hardware or other things, because I do not use any of that. I use legal...

Thanks once more, because I just read my motherboard manual and found that AHCI or RAID on Sata 5 or 6 will need third party drivers installed before it can actually work. I may have plugged in my...

This is outright Scary!!! I'm thinking to switch back to Win 7 now. Can experts here on the forum come up with guide to disable such "data collecting" processes? I have everything switched off for...

@groze - I will definitely dual boot this PC with lubuntu or xubuntu as per suggestions.
Thanks again for the details.

PS: Checked the screenshots for Xubuntu and it looks great. Will be trying...

That is exactly what keeps me happy with IDE and no AHCI. I burned my fingers with Win 7 destroyed within seconds!

Dave,

If you have other AV program installed, then Win Defender will be turned off by that program.

I installed AHCI drivers from AMD, MSAHCI from MS and tried various other things. I also tried the usual advise that everyone has about registry edit and then change in BIOS. The last time I did...

Thanks for the details. So, does it mean that AMD chipset has an issue here? Any solutions for the same?

I tried to set ACHI for my SSD (and other HDD, SDD) before installing Win 10. Apparently, some SSD don't support AHCI? Or may be the firmware on my SSD is old. In either case, IDE is working fine...

My vote goes to Avira. I'm currently using that on my desktop - Win 10. Had been using the same on Win 7. Before that have used AVG, Avast. In latest AV scores, I found AVG and Avast a bit lower than...

Finally, I installed Win XP SP3 on the machine. The OS is dated, but runs OK. Linux ran much better, I ran Linux Mint 11 on it a few weeks back. Linux Mint 11 is EOL now.
But I do not have another...

Not sure if anyone has posted this earlier, but one way to do it is to increase the scaling to 125% and then reduce the size of individual fonts. I think that would definitely work out. Not sure...

I'm not a technical expert, but I read that the source code of Win 10 is well optimized so now it runs closer to the processor. And that will help it run smoothly over older hardware as well. And it...

Not sure if I understand that correctly, but being on internet doesn't mean that MS can steal your bandwidth. Especially, when you have a metered connection and are paying steeply for it. Also, being...

@alphanumeric and @frankenhooker - Thanks for the details. I did not read those details on my PC when I turned off that option. The font wasn't clear and I did not want to read a lot! But yes, I see...

Sorry, but I don't understand how MS can use your internet and bandwidth?

May be you should just wait for a few days. MS servers may be overloaded with so many people upgrading to Win 10.

I had the same problem - high and continuous disk activity. I noticed this after I had enabled the option "File History". Once I disabled this option, the disc activity stopped. Would your case be...

Oh man! That is seriously sad. Well, will see if I can use tricks from this forum - like installing Win 7 again and upgrade to Win 10 or using other HDD

Thank you for your suggestion. I have used Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Elementary OS and Puppy Linux. I'm fairly comfortable with using Linux. Installation and configuration is the part where I get stuck as...

Thank you :)


Hahaha... Him is short for my name. I'm not sure if there is her(moine)... in here...

Thank you for a warm welcome: Gary, HippsieGypsie, BunnyJ (Jeff), Lee

Thank you. I will try this in my free time definitely. Currently, the PC is being used on a daily purpose and for long duration. Cannot risk another failure, as I have only one PC.

Agreed! But I am too lazy to do a Win 7 install and then a Win 10 upgrade and then download/configure/install all the software and apps. It's just too much work. And the PC is at home, which means it...

I have not tried Win 8.x but I can say that I find Win 10 much better than Win 7, although the post says that it is slower than Win 8.x and in a lot of scenarios slower than Win 7. I found Win 7 to...