Saturday, August 08, 2015
Windows 10 Install Experience
Last week, I decided to install Windows 10 on my test computer that had been running Windows 10 preview perfectly. Unfortunately during the initial install process something got trashed and Windows 10 said that activation was not possible.
Calling Microsoft resulted in the comment that "....wait 24 - 48 hours and all will be well....". Well after 48 hours nothing had changed. A second call resulted in more crap!!
So... After reinstalling Win 7 and activating Win 7 via the phone, Win 10 then installed as it should have in the first place, BUT all my customizations and installed apps were gone, as per usual with a Windows install. So after putting the apps back and redoing my customizations as they were prior to all this foolishness, I could finally use Windows 10 on my Windows 10 Preview computer!!
Now after having worked with Windows 10 for a couple of days now, my impression is that it is a very nice Windows 7 OS.
All my old stuff works just fine on Windows 10. My very old "WinSize" program, which positions windows on the desktop and sizes them to the position and size I like for that particular window, works like a champ.
Yahoo, Konfabulator, widgets works great. The gadgets that I use work great. The Universal Apps don't hog the whole screen which is good. Unfortunately, many of the things that 10 ties together, I have already tied together with other programs, which all work fine on Windows 10. Unfortunately the Windows 10 apps, like Mail, appear to be crap at this time. Of course you are never supposed to use any Microsoft App v1 until they get it fixed around version 10 or so!
All in all it's an interesting OS, BUT not necessarily one that I will change all my computers to, since W7 and W8 work just fine for me. Maybe six months from now I will have to change to avoid paying for W10 and the upgrades for W7 and W8 may have stopped by then. Windows 7 was first published on July 22, 2009 and will not be supported for ever!
Calling Microsoft resulted in the comment that "....wait 24 - 48 hours and all will be well....". Well after 48 hours nothing had changed. A second call resulted in more crap!!
So... After reinstalling Win 7 and activating Win 7 via the phone, Win 10 then installed as it should have in the first place, BUT all my customizations and installed apps were gone, as per usual with a Windows install. So after putting the apps back and redoing my customizations as they were prior to all this foolishness, I could finally use Windows 10 on my Windows 10 Preview computer!!
Now after having worked with Windows 10 for a couple of days now, my impression is that it is a very nice Windows 7 OS.
All my old stuff works just fine on Windows 10. My very old "WinSize" program, which positions windows on the desktop and sizes them to the position and size I like for that particular window, works like a champ.
Yahoo, Konfabulator, widgets works great. The gadgets that I use work great. The Universal Apps don't hog the whole screen which is good. Unfortunately, many of the things that 10 ties together, I have already tied together with other programs, which all work fine on Windows 10. Unfortunately the Windows 10 apps, like Mail, appear to be crap at this time. Of course you are never supposed to use any Microsoft App v1 until they get it fixed around version 10 or so!
All in all it's an interesting OS, BUT not necessarily one that I will change all my computers to, since W7 and W8 work just fine for me. Maybe six months from now I will have to change to avoid paying for W10 and the upgrades for W7 and W8 may have stopped by then. Windows 7 was first published on July 22, 2009 and will not be supported for ever!
