I can blame the OS because Windows 7 ran perfectly fine. I didn't change 1 single piece of hardware. The only thing that was changed was the OS.
Maybe it's your system? I know that might be hard to believe but on 4 systems I've upgraded, The edge browser works fine. It's not as nice as other browsers but it sure doesn't hang like you say.
It's so easy to blame the OS for something on your system that might not be playing nice. Now I'm not saying that's the case for sure, but my experience across more than one system has been the exact opposite.
I've been using Start8 with Win 8, but I wonder if there's a way to get rid of all the tiles in Win 10 start menu without using Start8 or some other third party program. Perhaps MS will cave in and add that feature for us, they did after all cave in and added the ability to disable driver updates in WU after globally announcing that it won't be possible.If you install classic shell with 8 or 10 it will look and behave very similar to 7 only with better underpinnings.
I've been using Start8 with Win 8, but I wonder if there's a way to get rid of all the tiles in Win 10 start menu without using Start8 or some other third party program. Perhaps MS will cave in and add that feature for us, they did after all cave in and added the ability to disable driver updates in WU after globally announcing that it won't be possible.
I can blame the OS because Windows 7 ran perfectly fine. I didn't change 1 single piece of hardware. The only thing that was changed was the OS.
Can you just right click on the tiles and unpin from start?
Also they didn't really cave in unless my info is outdated.
You can set it to defer upgrades but security updates and anything MS deems important will still automatically install.
Doesn't matter, you're going from 7 to 10 and not from 8 which is an easier change from a driver perspective. It's your system. Almost every single complaint is from someone trying to transition from 7. The OS works, I'm using it on 4 PCs currently and there's probably many thousands of members here running it fine.
I went from 7 to 10 and it was painless minus having to just installed beta drivers for my X-fi sound card. So i'm in the other camp!
Microsoft, ever since about AFTER Windows 7 wants to make us believe that any new Windows is *adding* features.
Ironically I see features *removed* or dumbed down, or simply made awful.
Here just some examples out of my head...I cannot adjust colors for the desktop freely anymore, instead there is now a bunch of pre-given patterns.
Aero Glas is GONE. Why? Ever since 7 I need 3rd party hacks to get a nicely looking desktop and taskbar. Default Windows in Win10 look AWFUL. Need to wait for the final version of Aero Glass 3rd party tool which I otherwise use. But the question remains: Why take something AWAY?
New calc and clock look awful.
I cannot change system fonts without 3d party "hack tools".
Wouldn't common sense say that an utility/option to change system fonts should be something MANDATORY? I need a fricking 3rd party tool to change my system fonts to Arial. WHY?
It's obvious even after the Win8.0 disaster and MS losing millions, they STILL want to push a "mobile" interface to every user, including desktop users. WHY? They updated Win8.1, which STILL has those ugly elements in it...and now 10....STILL. As I mentioned earlier, from an ergonomics and intuition perspective this is extremely poor if you throw a desktop user constantly into TWO different GUIs/designs. It's not "homogenous", it's not only buttugly but also entirely pointless.
It's also testament for all this nonsense when I get some help text that I should "tap" or "swipe". STILL didn't learn a thing.
And with Win10 I have the impression that MS even more tries to push "mobile" elements to all users, far more actually as was the case with Win8.1. BUT WHY?
I find myself longing the Win7 days, I seriously do. Win7 was a good OS and still it conveys the notion of being "solid", with 8 and 10, while certainly having some "internal" improvements, the overall impression is it's just not needed, ugly, bloated etc....like a Windows 7 which was "modded" by some hackers to make it work better with mobile devices - but overall a mod which was done poorly and most people would not use. (Know those hacker groups who release "special" Windows versions on torrent sites?). This is exactly the impression I am getting.
Honestly the people saying "I'm sticking with windows 7" remind me of all the complainers who cried about wanting to use XP forever. There will be a time when you'll have no choice. Get used to it Windows 7 is in the past.
In all fairness, 7 is covered until 2020. That is an entire computer life cycle for some people (and probably most people around here). I have been using 10 on a vm since the preview started (and have it installed on our laptop when the upgrade became available) and I still don't see anything about it I like better than 7.
Technically it seems OK (but so did 8.1). As much as I desperately want to be able to say "oh wow, the UI is SO much better, they listened to us!", I can't. It's really not, and they didn't. The UI still sucks. It's awful. I hate it. It's UGLY. I use windows on a computer, not a tablet or phone. I use a keyboard and a mouse and I don't want to touch my damn screen! On tablets and phones, I like Android. I am not interested in Windows Apps, and the whole right side of the new Start menu is just one big advertisement for Windows (mobile) Apps, which are, quite honestly, a joke. After 1 day, I installed Start10.
I can honestly say that I WANT to see MS develop a homogenous OS environment between PC, tablet and phone. I WANT to see them succeed. But the use cases between those 3 platforms is different and they are not representing that in their one-size-fits all OS.
FAIL.
And one last thing...if it wasn't free, I would not have upgraded.
In all fairness, 7 is covered until 2020. That is an entire computer life cycle for some people (and probably most people around here). I have been using 10 on a vm since the preview started (and have it installed on our laptop when the upgrade became available) and I still don't see anything about it I like better than 7.
You know you can remove all the tiles? You can also move them and resize them. There are no ads there for me. Whatever you don't want to see there, unpin it. It is made to be customized for you. This is what I see when I click start