If you've not upgraded to Windows 10, and are thinking of doing so, then you'll have to get your rear in gear as Microsoft have announced that they're ending the free upgrade on 29th July.

Previously there had been speculation that Microsoft might extend the 12 month free upgrade offer for Windows 7 and 8 users.

If you upgrade after that, it'll cost you upwards of £80 (there's no official UK pricing as yet) to get Windows 10. If you're buying a new device, it'll come installed on the machine as standard.

The good news is that Microsoft will finally turn off that annoying 'Get Windows 10' app that pesters Windows 7 and 8 users into upgrading to Windows 10.

http://www.bitterwallet.com/freebies/no-more-free-windows-10-upgrade-after-july-91964

If you've not upgraded to Windows 10, and are thinking of doing so, then you'll have to get your rear in gear as Microsoft have announced that they're ending the free upgrade on 29th July.

 

Previously there had been speculation that Microsoft might extend the 12 month free upgrade offer for Windows 7 and 8 users.

 

If you upgrade after that, it'll cost you upwards of £80 (there's no official UK pricing as yet) to get Windows 10. If you're buying a new device, it'll come installed on the machine as standard.

 

The good news is that Microsoft will finally turn off that annoying 'Get Windows 10' app that pesters Windows 7 and 8 users into upgrading to Windows 10.

 

http://www.bitterwallet.com/freebies/no-more-free-windows-10-upgrade-after-july-91964

Ubuntu Studio for me, can't be bothered with the data siphon and privacy buster that is Windows 10.

Still awaiting upgradefor Nokia 635 phone. Anyone know when it will come?

Personally I will just stick with Windows 7 until it no longer works, then I'll look into one of the free operating systems. From what I have heard about Windows 8 and 10 I have no wish to "upgrade" to either of them.

Personally I will just stick with Windows 7 until it no longer works, then I'll look into one of the free operating systems. From what I have heard about Windows 8 and 10 I have no wish to "upgrade" to either of them.

Ubuntu or Linux Mint are OK.

Time to give the OS the boot http://www.ghacks.net/2015/11/24/beware-latest-windows-10-update-may-remove-programs-automatically/

I found that several of my paid for programmes were wiped out and deleted why FFS?

i wondered about the privacy/data collection issue cf. ubuntu for eg. did a brief search.

it seems that U also collects some info, eg re amazon/soc networks etc (see their privacy policy)

but, win 10 seems more of a 'data siphon', though alot of the settings can be changed.

Time to give the OS the boot http://www.ghacks.net/2015/11/24/beware-latest-windows-10-update-may-remove-programs-automatically/

 

 

I found that several of my paid for programmes were wiped out and deleted why FFS?

Imagine what would happen in a corporate environment if the IT dept were not on their toes.

i wondered about the privacy/data collection issue cf. ubuntu for eg. did a brief search.

it seems that U also collects some info, eg re amazon/soc networks etc (see their privacy policy)

but, win 10 seems more of a 'data siphon', though alot of the settings can be changed.

According to this it has gone

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/01/ubuntu-online-search-feature-disabled-16-04

According to this it has gone

 

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/01/ubuntu-online-search-feature-disabled-16-04

cheers

My laptop has Windows 7 installed which I am perfectly happy with!

I've heard from some people that installing Windows 10 can cause problems with your computer.

I left my laptop on the other day but closed the lid as I intended to go back on it shortly afterwards.

When I went back to it an hour later and opened the lid, Windows 10 had downloaded onto my laptop!

I did not request, click for it or want it.

I wonder is it even legal for them to do this without your permission??

I googled this and managed to revert back to Windows 7.

I've heard from other people that Windows 10 has downloaded onto their computers

also when they have left them switched on but not in use.

If this happens to you and like me you do not want Windows 10,

go into google where you will find the solution to revert back to your original setting.

The cheek of them!!

DO NOT UPGRADE.

WINDOWS 10 UPGRADE IS TOO UNSTABLE.

I'm in the IT techy game and I've yet to hear of one successful upgrade.

preinstalled is OK, but the upgrades will cause problems.

DO NOT UPGRADE.

 

WINDOWS 10 UPGRADE IS TOO UNSTABLE.

 

I'm in the IT techy game and I've yet to hear of one successful upgrade.

preinstalled is OK, but the upgrades will cause problems.

Needs a clean install to be sure, but do we really want to have to close all the backdoor snooping 10 brings with it, many are happy with 7 and 8.1. Personally I am happy with Ubuntu Studio.

I also had Windows 10 installed without asking for it. I was happy with what I had before.

How do I go back to the previous version please?

If the upgrade was less than 30 days roll it back to your previous settings, see here the easy to follow guide here >> http://www.howtogeek.com/220723/how-to-uninstall-windows-10-and-downgrade-to-windows-7-or-8.1/

If not then recover the system using the on-board recovery partition but before you do it may pay you to run a program called Belarc advisor to get the free key you were given, this is a great tool to get your system details and product keys, see here >> http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html or similar.

Once the program has run open the file select all right click and copy and paste it in to word, save as a PDF for future needs if need be. It also lists keys for many other products you have installed.

There are other programs that do the same like 'Magic Jelly Bean'

Needs a clean install to be sure, but do we really want to have to close all the backdoor snooping 10 brings with it, many are happy with 7 and 8.1. Personally I am happy with Ubuntu Studio.

If you have concerns re this issue then you can run spybot anti beacon to turn most of the bits that you are concerned about >> https://www.safer-networking.org/spybot-anti-beacon/

I'll try that later, thank you MM.

HB

You're welcome HB

If you have concerns re this issue then you can run spybot anti beacon to turn most of the bits that you are concerned about >> https://www.safer-networking.org/spybot-anti-beacon/

MM I run Linux, so Windows isn't even a consideration.

tried 10 for a bit on a Ltop (the upgrade from 7 went ok), but will stick with 7. when support for that dies, then its prob over to ubuntu or the like

Has anyone else that reserved their Free Upgrade to Win 10 and are still waiting on it notice anything different if checking windows update today?

I certainly did as my Windows update that last night when checked still displayed my reserved free upgrade is no longer displaying this today (is this another sneaky tactic by microsoft)

I deliberately let my Dell Laptop with a legal installation of Win 8.1 let the automatic updates do it all. (I know I could have downloaded and installed it)

Anybody else notice this change.

according to their (countdown) upgrade site it shld still be available free for the next 14 hrs?

Thanks Ford

So ended up having to do it as you suggested.

The upgrade and installation went ok then main issue after the upgrade for me is my laptop has never run so slow and I mean slow it would take forever to load anything.

So the pain has been rechecking - all my drivers (some needed updating), all programs (some needed updating) & tweaking my system to stop all those sneaky telemetry that MS installed to collect data.

So really its taken me from when Ford post#22 till now to be fully up and running again.

Real issue for Microsoft was that there was no absolute "Must Upgrade" for Win 10, so they were as persistent as Cameron was for Remain with their own Project fear, as in don't get left behind jump on our new cash cow model. Ubuntu Studio 16.04 LTS upgrade is out for Ubuntu, time for me to upgrade.

Thanks Ford

 

So ended up having to do it as you suggested.

 

The upgrade and installation went ok then main issue after the upgrade for me is my laptop has never run so slow and I mean slow it would take forever to load anything.

 

So the pain has been rechecking - all my drivers (some needed updating), all programs (some needed updating) & tweaking my system to stop all those sneaky telemetry that MS installed to collect data.

 

So really its taken me from when Ford post#22 till now to be fully up and running again.

it took mine quite awhile to upgrade as well.

sort out the 'spy' options (the spybot option earlier on thread is one), and disable all those background apps.

did you do the stand alone iso download(s) also, useful re available recovery options.