Bad Win-10 upgrade experience

[Rich46yo]

Anybody able to do the free upgrade without problems? The only good thing about it was the ease to roll back to 7. Just everything very slow, files missing, seemed like a lot of ram used needlessly. I hate passing on a freebie but it just didnt seem worth it.

[FESS67]

I did it from 8.1 and have never looked back.  Have done it on 3 of our PCs and 2 laptops without issue.

[Condor]

Worked fine for me but I downloaded the win 10 installation tool to a USB flash drive and the did the upgrade by booting from that. Everything was there working fine. Unfortunately that included the bloat ware originally installed by Dell. So I than did a clean install of W10 from the flash drive. No more bloatware. If you want the clean install you need to do the upgrade first.

[Lusche]

Anybody able to do the free upgrade without problems?

Yes. Upgraded yesterday from Win 7, no problems so far.

[BaldEagl]

I upgraded my laptop from 8.1 late last summer/early fall.  That one took about 8 hours to update for some reason but it got through it and has been fine since.

Installed Win7 on my new build last winter and immediately upgraded to 10.  That one went very quick and again, no issues since.

[TequilaChaser]

Does anyone have a good/great solution for upgrading to Windows 10 Pro, from Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit and Windows 8.1 Pro, then getting a complete iso burned to a DVD-R of the Windows 10 Pro, before I roll each OS back to what they are now....

So I can use my free upgrade at a later time if I ever decide to go to Windows10.....

Any thoughts/recommendations would be greatly appreciated

I think it said last time I looked, I have like 2 or 3 days left before I run out of time to still get all my free upgrades to Windows 10, for all the different PCs, then I'll be stuck having to buy it

TC

[68falcon]

Anybody able to do the free upgrade without problems? The only good thing about it was the ease to roll back to 7. Just everything very slow, files missing, seemed like a lot of ram used needlessly. I hate passing on a freebie but it just didnt seem worth it.

All kinds of error messages here. Hit try again and after a while of downloading received a new and different error message. This went on 4 times and 4 times going to Microsoft for clarification. Talk about run arounds and lawyer speak WOW they could give the politicians lessons. Stopped the update and have not decided on what to do.

BTW I reset the computer twice and received a message, each time, that their where other computers connected and if I continued they might loose information (paraphrasing). That was really eye opening and very disconcerting.

As a side note my wifes computer and laptop updated to windows 10 last month without a problem

[Bizman]

Does anyone have a good/great solution for upgrading to Windows 10 Pro, from Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit and Windows 8.1 Pro, then getting a complete iso burned to a DVD-R of the Windows 10 Pro, before I roll each OS back to what they are now....

So I can use my free upgrade at a later time if I ever decide to go to Windows10.....

Any thoughts/recommendations would be greatly appreciated

I think it said last time I looked, I have like 2 or 3 days left before I run out of time to still get all my free upgrades to Windows 10, for all the different PCs, then I'll be stuck having to buy it

TC

Good/great? I don't know... Fool proof: Yes!

Before installing 10 to your 7 and 8, clone the hard drives. I know the cost of that method, but that way your original OS'es will stay uncorrupted no matter what.

A little more cost effective way would be to make a full backup image of both on an external hard drive. The image can be reinstalled by booting from the Windows installation disk using the repair tools.

[Chalenge]

As long as everything is on one disk now I would buy two disks for external images like Bizman said. Then I would install Macrium Reflect (it's free) and clone from Windows 7 to one of the drives, and then Windows 10 to the other after you have it installed.

My system has all of the Libraries installed to their own disks. My Documents, Pictures, Videos, and so on, plus a large SSD for Steam, Adobe, Autodesk). That way the boot drive can be Windows 7, or 10 and everything I use regularly is still there. If I want to reset Windows 10, which I do about every third month now, I only have to reinstall the programs and then point to the data files, cache, or whatever. That's actually what I did when I "free-graded" to W10 was get everything installed, upgraded, and then reset the OS to get rid of cobwebs.

I still have W7 on a single system disk and used Never10 to prevent the update.

Windows 10 is like Microsoft have a court order to force feed you through a tube. Eventually you forget about the tube, but at that point they can feed you anything.

[FESS67]

I have 2 sure fire ways to avoid the upgrade issues:

• Don't upgrade
• Buy a full copy and do a fresh install

It is an investment in your life.  For all the MS haters that will chime in here - stop using it FFS.  Sure it is not perfect, it never will be, but neither are, nor will be, the other options.  Kinda like a PC or MAC debate, each have their merits, choose one and be happy. 

[Skuzzy]

Bricked my Wife's laptop.  She sent it back to ASUS to get it fixed.  Did not tell me about it until it was back.

[TequilaChaser]

Well got up and the counter for Windows 10 says 13 hrs + and counting down......so I appreciate the information Bizman and Challenge, but I got to much to do today for my parents that I don't have time to go through all the computers

I'll keep what I got and if I ever have to go to Windows 10, I will simply by some oem copies and do fresh installs

thanks again for the information, it is helpful and I have bookmarked this thread

TC

[Randy1]

I went from W7 to W10 on two computers.  No problem except that I had two programs that were not compatible with W10.  Both had updates that I never installed so it was my bad.

It took me a good day of piddling with W10 to find everything.  Now, i would not go back to W7 and i really liked W7.  On my computer w10 is faster to start and shutdown.  All the programs run quicker. 

My only advice is turn off the active apps you don't use and or delete them.

[Ack-Ack]

Anybody able to do the free upgrade without problems? The only good thing about it was the ease to roll back to 7. Just everything very slow, files missing, seemed like a lot of ram used needlessly. I hate passing on a freebie but it just didnt seem worth it.

Nope, got hit with a Windows bug that won't allow me to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10.

[68falcon]

Same here. It wil not let me update. It shows a screen which states the hardware are all good to go (green checked) and ) apps show 0 incompatible. Yet it will not update