mcbpete Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 Aieeee not that picture again - the stretched text, the seemingly random choice of freehand underlining and the line tool, calling sending feedback to microsoft a 'botnet'. All you have to do is uncheck all the very clearly marked boxes on the privacy screen when installing it. Done ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tec Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 I'm running Windows 8 and my laptop is a slow piece of shit, is it worth updating or will that make it worse? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcbpete Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 Possibly (possibly) slightly quicker being it'll be a 'fresh' upgrade and is slightly less of a resource hog than Win8.... though can't guarantee it ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tec Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 Thanks, hmm might just continue with this slideshow generator rather than risk it getting worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoggy Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 I'm using it since it came out.. works great, looks 99% less ugly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caze Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 Thanks, hmm might just continue with this slideshow generator rather than risk it getting worse. If you haven't already, upgrade your HD to a SSD, will make more of a difference than upgrading your OS. Win 10 should speed things up a bit on top of that though as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tec Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 Thanks, hmm might just continue with this slideshow generator rather than risk it getting worse. If you haven't already, upgrade your HD to a SSD, will make more of a difference than upgrading your OS. Win 10 should speed things up a bit on top of that though as well. I don't really have the money for upgrades, and despite the name I am quite clueless when it comes to tech. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caze Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 SSDs are getting pretty cheap these days, you can get a 120gb for under £50. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aphex Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 It's worth getting an SSD if you can, but I'm just a bit lazy and can't really be bothered with the hassle of transferring my OS onto it. Although I say that, I think the samsung ones have a program on it that does it all for you, so I'm looking around for a cheap one at the moment. There are other programs to do it as well, I hear. I actually bought one about a week ago from Ebay for a very cheap price, but the seller's item got removed by the ebay moderators, and now I can't even request a refund from them because "this item does not exist". There's £25 down the drain. I suppose it's my fault for being stupid, the warning signs were there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcbpete Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 Yeah cloning drives has now become real easy, done it a few time myself and I is am idiot. Get this (for free!) and just click the clone drive wizard thingy - http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html (step by step guide here - http://www.partitionwizard.com/help/copy-disk.html ) Like me, if you have a lappy the only extra step is to by a USB HD enclosure - put yer new drive in the enclosure, clone the internal drive using the above then when it's all done just pop the new drive in your laptop. Just make sure you have chosen the source and destination drives the right way round - ideally you don't want to be copying your brand new blank drive all over your existing drive ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubin Farr Posted January 10, 2016 Author Share Posted January 10, 2016 Is this update really mandatory now, or is the there any way to opt out? I think my next restart will begin the update whether I want to or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azatoth Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 It shouldn't be mandatory, but there isn't really a reason not to update it unless you have some wonky legacy software that you frequently use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubin Farr Posted January 10, 2016 Author Share Posted January 10, 2016 It shouldn't be mandatory, but there isn't really a reason not to update it unless you have some wonky legacy software that you frequently use.I'm getting this shit on my laptop, basically "upgrade now" or "upgrade later", with a - your installation will begin when Windows restarts kinda message: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2993381/windows/windows-10-upgrades-reportedly-appearing-as-mandatory-for-some-users.html My Bose bluetooth speaker was wonky enough to upgrade to Win 8.1 to continue working, so I'd rather wait til there's a Win 10 driver so I don't lose sound from my laptop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambermonk Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 So apparently Microsoft is pushing Win 10 more aggressively now, by announcing they'll include it in automatic updates. But there's still a way to disable that feature thru Control Panel, if you haven't already. I'm not taking chances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Member Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Windows 10 is sweet, just do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schlitze Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 Yeah, 10's good, not had any problems with it apart from a minor gripe. I'm running a SSD and HDD on my computer..when I got an ssd at xmas I did a clean install of 10. As soon as I connected up the Sata back to the HDD it started installing 10 onto the HDD. Is that normal when you're running two hard drives the OS has to be on both of them? I was gonna be using the HDD as secondary storage, very surprised to see 10 get it's ass up on in there like dat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambermonk Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 Well, finally gave in and upgraded from Win 8.1 to 10. Had some serious lag initially, but just when I was contemplating a clean reinstall it seemed to have sorted itself out.Some of the Lenovo apps were no longer compatible, and could have been why my C drive was 7 percent fragmented. Almost done with the defrag/optimization tho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubin Farr Posted February 17, 2016 Author Share Posted February 17, 2016 If you don't have the 5gb free needed for install how can they force an update, can it delete data from your partition to force an install? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenton Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 it deletes your mp3s usually Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcbpete Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 Yeah mp3s first, then RealAudio files, then .torrents (obviously), and then anything placed in sector 32483 through to 42890 on the drive (usually just backups get stored here) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Test Fforet Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 i read somewhere after Real Audio comes your porn collection (theres some cunt-autodetect algorithm) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Test Fforet Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 you cant go wrong with win10, even my crappy eight year old hp-crap laptop runs win10 without problems so far (made a clean install) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscillik Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 If you don't have the 5gb free needed for install how can they force an update, can it delete data from your partition to force an install? it gets rid of the nulls first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 If you don't have the 5gb free needed for install how can they force an update, can it delete data from your partition to force an install? it gets rid of the nulls first. What, all of them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joyrex Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 Well, finally gave in and upgraded from Win 8.1 to 10. Had some serious lag initially, but just when I was contemplating a clean reinstall it seemed to have sorted itself out. Some of the Lenovo apps were no longer compatible, and could have been why my C drive was 7 percent fragmented. Almost done with the defrag/optimization tho. Windows 10 speeds up after it has built its indexes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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