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I got a new gaming-- I mean work-- laptop that had Windows 10. I liked it but things did break. The app store quit working completely, along with any apps installed (like the picture/image viewer).

As far as the privacy, people have a right to be able to turn it off, but on Windows 10, you can't, not 100% anyway. It will always send data to MS; they claim it's updates... What bothered me was they finally added a decent search feature for Windows, then to find out that I can only use it if I want to send all my searches to MS. It's just a matter of principle that I wouldn't want them getting a data stream from me. I hung in there using it for about 3 weeks, but the hosed app store finally broke the deal. I went back to linux: http://linuxmint.com/

That said, I work with people that are using Windows 10 and have no issues at all. From what I saw, once the bugs get out, it will be a nice OS.

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If you have 8/8.1, it's worth your while to upgrade. I'm sure that version was designed by a committe. :sick:

One thing to keep in mind that Microsoft still hasn't changed the policy that this is a TIME limited update. You have a year to update from when it was released. It wouldn't hurt to upgrade even right before the deadline. You can still go back if you plan it properly and backup...

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I just switched a laptop back to windows 7 form the free upgrade to 10. Liked windows 10 ok but explorer.exe kept on crashing. Microsoft tech help kept on insisting that a certain update would fix it but it didn't work on my computer. Swapped back yesterday.

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Be aware that Microsoft is getting more agressive about upgrading Win7 computers. People have reported that after an automatic semi-monthly update they found their computers were in the process of upgrading to v10.

I cannot confirm this from first hand experience but if you want to stay on 7 then it might be worth getting a look at this:

http://blog.ultimateoutsider.com/2015/08/using-gwx-stopper-to-permanently-remove.html

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Be aware that Microsoft is getting more agressive about upgrading Win7 computers. People have reported that after an automatic semi-monthly update they found their computers were in the process of upgrading to v10.

I cannot confirm this from first hand experience but if you want to stay on 7 then it might be worth getting a look at this:

http://blog.ultimateoutsider.com/2015/08/using-gwx-stopper-to-permanently-remove.html

I downloaded this a couple of months ago, does what it says it will so far. Got tired of W10 icons popping up when I didn't ask for it.

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Be aware that Microsoft is getting more agressive about upgrading Win7 computers. People have reported that after an automatic semi-monthly update they found their computers were in the process of upgrading to v10.

I cannot confirm this from first hand experience but if you want to stay on 7 then it might be worth getting a look at this:

http://blog.ultimateoutsider.com/2015/08/using-gwx-stopper-to-permanently-remove.html

I downloaded this a couple of months ago, does what it says it will so far. Got tired of W10 icons popping up when I didn't ask for it.

I feel the same way. My daughter got a new laptop for Christmas and it is a touch screen one and came with W10. She likes it just fine.

I might upgrade on one of the home desktops and see how it goes before doing both.

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Be aware that Microsoft is getting more agressive about upgrading Win7 computers. People have reported that after an automatic semi-monthly update they found their computers were in the process of upgrading to v10.

I cannot confirm this from first hand experience but if you want to stay on 7 then it might be worth getting a look at this:

http://blog.ultimateoutsider.com/2015/08/using-gwx-stopper-to-permanently-remove.html

I downloaded this a couple of months ago, does what it says it will so far. Got tired of W10 icons popping up when I didn't ask for it.

Me too, seems to work fine.

The "reminders" were getting more aggressive and I was worried that one day my wonderful win7 machine with win7 specific audio recording software (that is currently running perfectly) might suddenly become a win10 frustration vortex all on its lonesome.

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My latest laptop came with 8.

It worked ok, but was confusing as compared to 7, although installing the Classic Shell helped quite a bit.

Upgrading to 10, still with the Classic Shell, smoothed things out considerably.

Now, it acts and looks like 7. :yawn:

Not sure if anything was gained over 7 except maybe for those folks with tablets and smartphones.

My eight year old desktop with Linux Ubuntu runs better.

But there's no KIndle for PC for linux, and I read a lot of books via Kindle.

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