Day one- July 29, 2015- Having decided to try Windows 10 as soon as I could; I waited with anticipation for the 29th to come around; but the day went by with nothing from Microsoft. Altho I had a good experience with Win7 for over 3 years; a video glitch the last couple of months that would not go away with new driver updates and slow text insertion on CF caused me to decide to give 10 a try; plus trying something new sounded inviting. So after a short search I found an UK site that showed how to download 10 immediately.
So I started d/ling at 5:20 and expected it to take an hour or so to bring in the 6GB that MS said I needed in my HD to hold 10, at the 12MB/sec of my isp; but after it was all in my HD went up by 20GB; talk about software bloat! I remember Win95 needing 60MB of space and people carping about bloat then; lol. One of the things I noticed as it was d/ling, was that it had two times of updates, coming in, you would think something as new as 10 wouldn't have that many updates. It took three hours to finally get it installed with the computer shutting off 5-6 times and one time for so long, over 5 minutes, I thought it had hung-up; but it finally started up.
Windows 10 has a lot of stuff going on, from new start page to new look in the file system; and even the clock is digital now instead of the analog one with hands as before, I liked the old style clock, but oh well, One thing I like is the layout of the files in the computer itself is simpler; before you had so many ways of looking at the files in your computer; it could be confusing. Cortana may take some getting used to; I haven't used voice actuation before and Cortana couldn't understand what I said at first; guess I need to speak up. When I finally got it to do something by speaking; that was neat, I can remember trying that with my first Aptiva in '95 and could never get it to work.
I like the new start button; where you have your local weather, email and mobile phone, calendar and new sites all in one place. I don't like having to type in my outlook password every time I wake my laptop up; but I imagine there is a work-around for that.
So I got online and started up Edge; which I'm not as happy right off as I am for 10; for one thing the favorites are not as easy to use. I tried to import the ones from IE but it said it couldn't do that; but then latter they showed up, but they were older ones I had a couple of months ago. You can run a page or site in IE so that helps; but it still had the old favorites and not my latest ones; hope I haven't lost them. The tools are not as numerous as in IE and are set up differently; maybe it will grow on my over time. The new tabs is different too, has a search built right in; but the search engine is one from one of my email programs, Inbox.com, I expected it to be Bing; as I heard it was going to be integrated into Win10; how it came to hook-up with Inbox; I don't know.
Well that's the first 24 hrs with win10 and edge; anybody else got any experience to share?
So I started d/ling at 5:20 and expected it to take an hour or so to bring in the 6GB that MS said I needed in my HD to hold 10, at the 12MB/sec of my isp; but after it was all in my HD went up by 20GB; talk about software bloat! I remember Win95 needing 60MB of space and people carping about bloat then; lol. One of the things I noticed as it was d/ling, was that it had two times of updates, coming in, you would think something as new as 10 wouldn't have that many updates. It took three hours to finally get it installed with the computer shutting off 5-6 times and one time for so long, over 5 minutes, I thought it had hung-up; but it finally started up.
Windows 10 has a lot of stuff going on, from new start page to new look in the file system; and even the clock is digital now instead of the analog one with hands as before, I liked the old style clock, but oh well, One thing I like is the layout of the files in the computer itself is simpler; before you had so many ways of looking at the files in your computer; it could be confusing. Cortana may take some getting used to; I haven't used voice actuation before and Cortana couldn't understand what I said at first; guess I need to speak up. When I finally got it to do something by speaking; that was neat, I can remember trying that with my first Aptiva in '95 and could never get it to work.
I like the new start button; where you have your local weather, email and mobile phone, calendar and new sites all in one place. I don't like having to type in my outlook password every time I wake my laptop up; but I imagine there is a work-around for that.
So I got online and started up Edge; which I'm not as happy right off as I am for 10; for one thing the favorites are not as easy to use. I tried to import the ones from IE but it said it couldn't do that; but then latter they showed up, but they were older ones I had a couple of months ago. You can run a page or site in IE so that helps; but it still had the old favorites and not my latest ones; hope I haven't lost them. The tools are not as numerous as in IE and are set up differently; maybe it will grow on my over time. The new tabs is different too, has a search built right in; but the search engine is one from one of my email programs, Inbox.com, I expected it to be Bing; as I heard it was going to be integrated into Win10; how it came to hook-up with Inbox; I don't know.
Well that's the first 24 hrs with win10 and edge; anybody else got any experience to share?
