Has anyone upgraded to Windows 10 yet?

[Dancing with Myself]

I got a refurbished laptop because my piece of junk windows 8 laptop's wireless adapter quit.  I got a nice little Dell with Windows 7 on it but it didn't come with Windows 7 CD. Should i create a back up of Windows 7 first in case?

Technical wise it looks to be in good shape and style for the upgrade but I was wondering how the process was. Was it easy or difficult for you? Did you the straight download or the put on a DVD/USB route?

[muon2]

I just upgraded from 8 to 10 last week. I used the straight download and it took about 3 hours total for all steps. I had to upgrade my Kaspersky to match 10 and do a little digging to find some of my apps, but everything is working so far.

[kcguy]

It took a couple hours to download, and of course it's annoying to have to figure out new software.

The only issue I've run into so far concerned my printer; I had to go and dig up my old start-up CD.  But even that's running fine now.

[#TheShadowyAbyss]

I did, then immediately downgraded back to Windows 7, I'm an IT Professional and I abhor Windows 10.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

I love Windows 10.

[Dancing with Myself]

I did, then immediately downgraded back to Windows 7, I'm an IT Professional and I abhor Windows 10.

That's what worries me lol.

The people who refurbished the laptop installed Windows 7 from a CD but didn't include it. It took me forever to validate because they did a bad job of giving a slip telling me to look for the code, I had to download a random program just to find it.

How easy is it to back up Windows 7? Can you put it on a DVD in case you need too if it's on the laptop?

How hard was it to go back?

[Clarko95 📚💰📈]

I love Windows 10.

[Murica!]

I've had it since the day after it came out, and it's worked pretty well. I heavily recommend the upgrade.

[muon2]

I did, then immediately downgraded back to Windows 7, I'm an IT Professional and I abhor Windows 10.

My 2-in-1 is new enough that it only came with 8.1. I liked 7, but 10 is much preferred to 8 as some one who uses the laptop mode more than the tablet mode.

[dead0man]

I like 10 just fine.  7 was good too.  Hell, even the Vista computers at work weren't that bad (since upgraded to 7).  Having lived through Win98/98SE and WinME (and those guys were bliss compared to Win95) all of the NT based WinOSes have been a joy.

[bagelman]

I tried to upgrade my old laptop (Originally a Vista machine from 2008) that I never use to Win10 from Win7. It failed and now the whole thing's wiped, including the WinXP partition which I specifically did not want the installer to touch and the Vista recovery partition. My intention was the preview the OS to see if I should consider upgrading my actual desktop gaming* computer but the answer is obviously no if the thing cannot even be trusted to install at all.


_{*was high end in 2010}