I'm on Windows 7, should I update to 10?
My thinkpad is like 8 years old btw
Why make a thread when you obviously already know the answer?
>>54798383
/g/ is literally mostly retarded.
>>54798383
I don't at all. Is 10 considered good? I don't keep up with this shit.
>>54798394
Then stop living under a digital rock. 10 is universally shat on. Stick with 7.
See, now you baited me in giving you a serious reply. Good job faggot.
>>54798372
Just update to windows 10, shit just works man.
>>54798394
i have a six year old dell laptop, and upgraded to windows 10. the performance is now even better than it was back when it had windows 7/8/8.1. then again, i'm only using it for work and movies, so i don't know how well it could handle video editing, gaming etc.
>>54798410
>10 is universally shat on
Except it's not
10 is awesome, don't listen to these dumbasses OP
>>54798372
Do a clean installation of windows 10. It works like a charm.
An upgrade does a fucking shitstorm to your system.
Only if you like using the best software
>>54798372
>update your system
>get w10 key and write it down
>install clean installation of windows 10
>???
>profit
If you do this whole "upgrade" thing to your PC it can cause a lot of problems in files. If you want to experience windows 10 like you should be - do a clean installation.
>>54798372
Does Windows 10 finally remember folder settings or do folders still revert back to whatever quasi randomly?
>>54798372
my taskbar no longer works
send help
No.
>>54798372
Yes but first roll back to Windows 5 and then multiply by 2. This is much safer than adding 3.
>>54798378
Does your IBM thinkpad still run Windows XP?
i dont get this meme. when windows 7 came out i used it for a few days then went back to vista/ubuntu. get out of the fucking past. you're worst than the XP fags.
I laughed. God help me, I laughed.
>>54798372
Install Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB for no metro crap and no Cortana skynet.
Stick with 7 if you can. At this point the only way to avoid the upgrade is to disable critical security patches.
I've been using Win10 solely for gaming and it's still a piece of shit. It's constantly trying to make your life difficult for no reason. It's the Arch of the Windows world.
Last night I chose to upgrade my GPU drivers and got a BSOD. After reboot it reverted to generic VGA drivers. When I run the installer manually, it just says that it failed to install the drivers. Any suggestions before I format this shit?
gahnoo+linux
I want to stick with Windows 7, but I'm getting a new PC and it has Skylake CPU, will Windows 7 work on it?
>>54800889
Yes, but you will need to inject xhci drivers into win7 image. Asrock has a program that does that for you, Intel one is still broken.
>>54798454
>I right click on desktop
>explorer.exe stopped working
>good
>>54800170
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/display-driver-uninstaller-amd-intel-nvidia
>>54800889
You will lose out on a bit of performance if you install Windows 7 on a Skylake rig.
You're better off just installing 8.1 or 10. They're both infinitely better than Windows 7, and 10 is the best operating system for it by far.
Just use Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB N edition.
>>54801382
here's your 10 rupees and 0.1 Bing points, parjeet
>>54798454
>Vista is universally shat on
>7 is universally shat on
>10 is universally shat on
It's like the Zelda new release curse. Will 10 be the only acceptable thing once 11 comes out?
>>54801250
>things that never happened
unless you are retarded and actually run windows 10 on an ancient thinkpad that doesn't even have the minimum requirements for it
>this whole thread
>all the freetards counter-shilling with full force
>for free
>>54801489
>>this whole thread
>>all the parjeets shilling with full force
>>for free
>>54801531
>>>this whole thread
>>>all the stallmen counter-shilling with full force
>>>for free
>>54801466
>he forgot about 8 and 8.5
XP was good and 7 is good. No one ever thought Vista was good.
>>54801466
7 was great, 10 is good minus the spyware shit, vista and 8 are cancer
>>54801939
>he thinks 8.1 = 8
wew stop posting
OP, I would check your hardware and compare it to other computers that run 10. You won't get a definite answer here because this board is filled with sperglords such as myself and poo in loos.
>>54802177
8.1 is just as shit as 8
>>54802325
+(You)
>>54802354
S/he is right though. 8.1 was just as bad as 8. 10 is just more of that, so it's also garbage.
>>54798372
You better while its still free. Come July you will be forced to upgrade and then be forced to pay as well.
>>54802498
>S/he
>>54802964
Well, how am I supposed to know what that person's gender is if they post anonimously (:
>>54803073
You didn't include ze you privileged queersock
>>54803088
>ze
I am not aware of it. English is not my native language.
>>54803073
everyone here is male
don't kid yourself my friend
>>54803151
I don't know about that. I doubt 'everyone' is male.
>>54803213
Where do they get their data from?
That's probably 90% made up bullshit
>>54803151
That is not even remotely true
The majority of the users are young, flat-chested anime girls
>>54803351
Tracking from Google and other services alike (; And since most people don't use an ad blocker, go figure.
>>54801489
>asus g751jt
Also
>Arch>win7>win10
>>54803375
>every guy who uses 4chan blocks tracking
>data only shows retards that don't know how to block being tracked
>aka, females
lmao
>>54803114
Don't take me seriously
>>54798372
Microsoft is part of NSA's mass surveillance program "PRISM":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)
Microsoft informs the NSA about bugs before fixing them:
https://archive.is/OBGB1
Microsoft openly offeres cloud data to support PRISM:
https://archive.is/tW6fu
Microsoft has backdoored its disk encryption:
https://archive.is/2XIvX
https://archive.is/qLRZx
Windows snoops on the users' files, text input, voice input,
location, contacts, calendar records and web browsing history,
even after related settings are turned off:
https://archive.is/thsGd
https://archive.is/sz1nt
https://archive.is/g3QdQ
https://archive.is/ko469
https://archive.is/l6pmO
https://archive.is/zK93U
Micrcrosoft automatically downloads Windows 10 on PCs running
Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 (between 3.5GB and 6GB), even if
users have not opted-in:
http://archive.is/CEvKh
Windows 10 scans for illegal/pirated software:
https://archive.is/vhjwm
https://archive.is/2jehd
https://archive.is/KQsBh
Microsoft proudly presents surveillance statistics:
https://archive.is/MB0Yy
> Over 82 billion photos viewed.
> Gamers spent over 4 billion hours playing PC games.
> 44.5 billion minutes/month spent in Microsoft Edge.
> Over 2.5 billion questions asked of Cortana since launch.
> Windows 10 now active on over 200 million devices.
>>54804030
Nice pasta
Why is xp so comfy. Is there a way I can run it and be moderately secure?
>>54799377
Heh..hehehheh
>>54798372
doesn't matter, you'll be forced to soon enough
This is solitaire
This is preinstalled for some reason on every win10 machine
>>54803213
>implying they know if I went to fucking college
>>54798372
Sure if you enjoy an extra -10FPS
Yeah. I now boot in literally less than a second. Only update if your are on windows 7 pro. Only the pro version of 10 has group policy where you can disable a bunch of Microsoft shit.
>>54798459
>>54798476
Why? I upgraded and its been fine so far...
>>54800170
Device manager and delete the drivers or unknown device under display adapters, or whatever the fuck is there, then install again.
>>54805007
Why are the frame rates so bad under Windows 10?
>>54804030
I have 3 boxes running 10 right now, and see no traffic you speak off. Please, point to me where my boxes are "phoning home" botnets.
Adding classic shell and changing some aesthetics and features along with increased performance has turned an older laptop into a bearable to use machine again.
>>54805101
There is a lot of driver hiccups that still need to be ironed out, especially with the OEMs. Give it a little more time and windows 10 will be boss.
>>54805101
they are not
it's a meme
you got meme'd
>>54805101
The drivers are trash
>>54805163
>>54805171
parjeets in full force shilling
>>54805171
>>54805101
As a time traveler I can not suggest Windows 10, many will die due to browser history and attempting to uninstall the uninstallable.
>>54798372
Clean install to 10, but only to either Enterprise or Education where you can more easily disable the bloat and telemetry. Ideally the LTSB N versions, followed by the /g/ Microsoft engineer script. Just Google it or someone might link it
>>54805207
No wonder, the modern crap applications rely on DWM a lot.
>windows 10 games are forced to run in windowed mode so you get shit performance
>forced vsync as well
What were they thinking
>>54805281
But MUH UNIVERSAL APPS
>>54805300
Need a windows 11 ASAP desu
>>54798423
>>54798427
>>54798454
>>54798459
>>54798476
>>54800121
>>54800150
>>54802671
>>54805238
jesus christ the shilling is fucking real
sage w10 threads, report and hide. this cancer needs to fucking go
sage goes in all fields
I was thinking of upgrading to reserve the ability to do a clean install at anytime and just revert back to Win7 until I actually need Win10 for DX12 or new CPU.
brb installing 10
>>54798372
Do whatever you want.
I'm still on W7 because it's rock solid stable and W10 has absolutely no new features for me, i never used anything higher than DX9 and Cortana doesn't add anything useful.
Also they took an awful approach to the flat UI, and this is coming from someone who likes Material Design.
Yes but change the start menu. It's horrible.
>>54805395
>vista window
>winblows 10 memesider
>>54805488
>new reply
>thread posters remains the same
Do you think everyone is retarded as much as you pajeet?
>>54805554
It's win7 with a theme
I'll install it on a testing PC, I'm not OP
>>54805576
>>54805580
You installed Vista theme on 7? Wow..
>>54798372
I reverted to 8.1 + ClassicShell.
Two things prevent me from returning to Win10:
1) Every fucking window titlebar was white, whether it was the active window or not. This was absolutely infuriating for me, since I have multiple, large monitors. People on /g/ have claimed that they changed this, but not a single person has provided an image as evidence.
2) The system sound bug. I'd open the mixer, turn down system sounds, close the mixer, and the next time a UAC prompt happened it would play at 100%. I'd check the mixer and System Sounds were back up to 100%. It's been this way since Win10 launched. I'm monitoring a thread on Microsoft's site about it, and nobody has reported that it's been resolved. It's happening on all sorts of sound devices (in my case, a Creative X-Fi HD USB).
I don't actually care about the "spying" stuff. Most of it appeared to be meaningless. Like telemetry, which for example Google uses to show how busy restaurants are at given times. Very useful data on a mass, anonymized scale.
>>54798372
It's pretty bad. Stay on 7 if you like stability and privacy.
>>54805604
Sure, Vista has a better theme than 7
