Re: Windows 10
Posted: Sat May 04, 2019 12:00 pm
My take is that people used to have problems with Win10, but for various reasons it's not a problem now. If you have a computer stuffed with rubbish and multiple anti-virus programs and "free" junk, then any O/S would give problems. W10 used to need a heck of a lot of updates.
Win 7 used to grow - more and more space taken up with god-knows-what. A couple of people whose opinions I respect (PC shop manager and a network ops manager) tell me that W10 doesn't do that. We have a 10 year old i5 which eventually ground to a crawl on W7. A new install of W10 made it new again. It has been in 3 months now without trouble.
You can postpone updates forever if you want - I just schedule them to happen at night. There was/is an issue with MS defaulting to recording your usage for various purposes "anonymously" - (yeah right). With paid versions you can disable that, but at one time not with the free upgrades to 10 .
The only "valid" complaints I've heard recently are that some software only has bootleg versions to run on W7, not W10. Well tough.
Win 7 used to grow - more and more space taken up with god-knows-what. A couple of people whose opinions I respect (PC shop manager and a network ops manager) tell me that W10 doesn't do that. We have a 10 year old i5 which eventually ground to a crawl on W7. A new install of W10 made it new again. It has been in 3 months now without trouble.
You can postpone updates forever if you want - I just schedule them to happen at night. There was/is an issue with MS defaulting to recording your usage for various purposes "anonymously" - (yeah right). With paid versions you can disable that, but at one time not with the free upgrades to 10 .
The only "valid" complaints I've heard recently are that some software only has bootleg versions to run on W7, not W10. Well tough.