I completely take back everything bad I said about Windows 10!!!

[Morpheus]

Well, as the title says that will explain my beliefs' in what has become known to me as being nothing but a completely kick bellybutton operating system!!! I have an HP that has its time on it. the HP desktop that I have is just over 4 years old. My hard drive want so I got the new one, a western digital 2tb. So far im loving nearly everything that Windows 10 has to offer. I was under a very wrong assumption that windows 7 was still new and had a trillion more updates. But the end of life for windows 7 was just recently called by Microsoft.

I figured it was time to load on an entirely new OS and went with the much newer windows 10! And I am so very impressed with this product. I know it aint new so cut me some slack!

                                                                        <S>Morph!

[Vraciu]

It’s still buggy but overall I can live with it.

[Shuffler]

I like how it works with my new Note 10+.

[Bizman]

The latest versions seem to be quite well behaved. Of course there's quite a lot of tinkering to get rid of all the unnecessary apps and taking care of all the marketing orientated settings. Like: Why would the net browser need access to my camera or microphone, and why does it need to run in the background when I'm not browsing? That said, getting Windows 7 background processes below 40 isn't a simple task either.

[Greebo]

With Windows 7 support ending soon I'll probably have to switch to Windows 10 by the end of the year. Faffing around with Windows, drivers and other software for days or weeks to get it to run like I want is not my idea of fun so its something I do as rarely as possible, my last Windows install was in 2012 when I built my current PC. To balance this waste of my time I'll probably update my CPU and motherboard as well so I at least end up with a faster PC. There are programs I run that need Windows but maybe I'll create a dual boot to a Linux distribution so I have some alternative to Microsoft's snooping.

[save]

I installed a new SSD, and installed Windows 10 onto it.
After som quirks during install got it working.

Lots of work removing (like bizman said) things that windows10 should not do, like automatically have internet explorer started (might have changed with a later release), and shutting down and uninstalling SKYPE and other programs not needed for a game computer.

What worries me is that the updates are not very consistent for an OS, with bugs and one BSOD'ed.

[FLS]

...
I figured it was time to load on an entirely new OS and went with the much newer windows 10! And I am so very impressed with this product. I know it aint new so cut me some slack!

                                                                        <S>Morph!

I've had background updates cause problems until I reboot. If you have any kind of problem with programs or controllers try rebooting first.   

[Bizman]

What worries me is that the updates are not very consistent for an OS, with bugs and one BSOD'ed.

The latest version allows to postpone updates for quite a long time depending on the type. Previously that was possible only in the Pro version, now for all flavours.

[redcatcherb412]

With Windows 7 support ending soon I'll probably have to switch to Windows 10 by the end of the year. Faffing around with Windows, drivers and other software for days or weeks to get it to run like I want is not my idea of fun so its something I do as rarely as possible, my last Windows install was in 2012 when I built my current PC. To balance this waste of my time I'll probably update my CPU and motherboard as well so I at least end up with a faster PC. There are programs I run that need Windows but maybe I'll create a dual boot to a Linux distribution so I have some alternative to Microsoft's snooping.

If you have a spot on your disk drive cable (SATA 2 or 3) you can get a 240gb SSD for about $30 and install Linux on it and dual boot without affecting your hard drive or windows.  I finally gave up hard drives entirely except for a 1tb usb3 drive used for backups by using 2 240gb drives, one with Win on it for the very few apps that require Windows and one for linux mint for everything but Windows dependent gaming.  So far so good.  Hard to believe my first 10mb hard drive brick ran me $1k and now 500gb of SSD for $60.

[Vraciu]

The latest version allows to postpone updates for quite a long time depending on the type. Previously that was possible only in the Pro version, now for all flavours.

I am dreading my postponement expiring.   There is one update that refuses to work and causes an endless loop until I pause it for six months.  Maddening.  I've tried all the fixes suggested online.   Nowhereville.

[MiloMorai]

The latest version allows to postpone updates for quite a long time depending on the type. Previously that was possible only in the Pro version, now for all flavours.

You could postpone updates before. Got the shaft when somehow missed the notice and Microshaft did the update. This was about 18 months ago.

The shaft: lost all my bookmarks as was using Firefox.

[Bizman]

You could postpone updates before. Got the shaft when somehow missed the notice and Microshaft did the update. This was about 18 months ago.

The shaft: lost all my bookmarks as was using Firefox.

AFAIK the postponing wasn't possible for 10 Home edition until version 1903. Pro/Enterprise/Education editions have had that feature from the beginning. FWIW I have never seen an Education version, all my customers have either Home or Pro, sometimes S which has to be upgraded to Pro for it to be of any use.

[Bizman]

I am dreading my postponement expiring.   There is one update that refuses to work and causes an endless loop until I pause it for six months.  Maddening.  I've tried all the fixes suggested online.   Nowhereville.

Have you tried wushowhide? https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3073930/how-to-temporarily-prevent-a-driver-update-from-reinstalling-in-window
It's basically the old Windows Update which featured hiding an unwanted update. Although the article talks about driver updates, the Microsoft personnel suggested me to use it for pausing a version update. Can't tell how it works with the current versions, though, but as it's free and doesn't require installing it's worth a try.

[Shuffler]

AFAIK the postponing wasn't possible for 10 Home edition until version 1903. Pro/Enterprise/Education editions have had that feature from the beginning. FWIW I have never seen an Education version, all my customers have either Home or Pro, sometimes S which has to be upgraded to Pro for it to be of any use.

You are.correct. Home could not postpone.

[Vraciu]

Have you tried wushowhide? https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3073930/how-to-temporarily-prevent-a-driver-update-from-reinstalling-in-window
It's basically the old Windows Update which featured hiding an unwanted update. Although the article talks about driver updates, the Microsoft personnel suggested me to use it for pausing a version update. Can't tell how it works with the current versions, though, but as it's free and doesn't require installing it's worth a try.

Wasn't aware.  I'll check it out.   Many thanks.