Started migrating home PC's from Win 7 to 10

[Zak33]

OK, here's the skinny on the Win10 move over

In short..I migrate my wife and not me.. and left her with it, having set it all up as I thought she'd want

So far not only has there been no noise, there's been a few "oh that's good" moments.

So.. soon I will do mine too.

Here's a nice totally random thing- We have a cheap Epson 3in1 print scan copier. Win 7 needed the disk and it's FULL of crap and took me an eternity to install cleanly. It's a wifi printer and likes Epson ink and I don't buy epson ink.

Win10 installed all the drivers, the built in scanner software worked imediately AND it found it on the wifi network and is faultless!

I know that's all pure fluke but still... I like fluke

[deejayburnout]

I keep toying with the Idea but Win 8.1 is so stable for me just now. Runs a treat.

Still put off with the whole invasion of privacy/sharing files without my knowledge.

[stevie lee]

found another very handy anti-annoyance thing in win10.

wondering where the 'confirm file delete' popup is when you delete a file by pressing delete key in explorer? the file just deletes and goes to the recycle bin

right-click on the recycle bin, either on the desktop or in explorer menu, then properties.
tick the box marked 'display delete confirmation dialogue'

job done


might have got the tip off this forum, I cant remember, but its worth saying it again anyhow, as i'd just reinstalled and was wondering where my files where going, then I remembered.

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best thing about win 10 for me though is. it installs with all the drivers and devices working in 20 minutes. from a blank SSD. win 7 took 6 hours. win 10, 20 minutes.

steam, GOG, origin installs are also easy. if you've got all your games stored on a different drive. copy the 'my documents/games' folder from your backup back to c:\users\username\my documents/games. its where all your save games are, if you don't backup this, you are a fool.

just run the setup.exe and install to the same directory as before. open the program.
steam - just detects all the games, may need to do the directx and c++ installs again when you start them, but they work.
gog - point the settings install location to the games drive, scan for games, it detects them, adds a few missing registry entries and stuff in c:\program files, job done.
origin - same as gog.

back up and running in an hour or so tops.


then you clone the c drive to your 'backup of C: drive, backup drive' to save messing about reinstalling again. and hope that it doesn't get corrupted when there's a sudden lightning storm.

[DDY]

Windows 8 does the printer driver thing for me too if I turn on auto network device discovery, except with my Epson, Windows also automatically installs the printer's 'register me pls' and 'click here to buy more ink' applet.

At least the registration and ink nag messages can easily be turned off permanently, if anything that's much less faff than the hunt for a crap-free driver.

Overall, the automatic driver install is pretty damn handy on fresh installs.

[Zico]

Still to upgrade any our pc's to Windows 10 (from 7).

Will probably do my own rig first followed by the shared PC then my father's laptop last.

I will be doing the upgrade path then straight to clean install.

[krazy_olie]

I got fed up with the alerts in Windows 8 so upgraded a few weeks back.
It doesn't recognise my Nokia 808 properly but I convenient that I happened to stop using it just now. Managed to get what I needed off bluetooth very slowly.

I hardly use my home pc for anything other than games these days and even then not that much so I can't say I've noticed much good or bad about it.

I was loosely aware of the express privacy settings being worrisome so when installing i just hit custom and pretty much unticked everything

[Zico]

For anybody concerned about the privacy options:

https://www.safer-networking.org/spybot-anti-beacon/

From the makers of Spybot Search & Destroy.

[iamlorro]

I was with your right up until you said Vista. Useless interfering busy body of an OS.

But you could turn that stuff off!

I didnt ever have Vista - I just supported family members that did have it - but IMO it wasn't that different from 7.