My findings are that systems that built as Win10 have fewer problems than those updated to Win10. When we updated our office machines to Win10, there were issues that had to be sorted out. I had a file that became corrupted on my email program that would, as it was accessed, would crash the system. Fixed that, fixed the problem.
System that I've worked on that start out as Win10 seem to boot notably faster than those that were updated to Win10...possibly due to processor speed but the processors on the updated systems were i7s and reasonably fast too. Strangely, I run an emulated Win10 on my iMac and that was an updated system (I had Win7 emulated before). That system is pretty rock solid though I wouldn't call boot up brisk (I use Parallels for my virtual machine. Other than the boot up time (which normally isn't too much of an issue since 95% of time I just suspend the session rather than a full shutdown).
I'd say I prefer Win7's layout and not having to rely on Win10 to find where they "hid" things (like the startup folder, or even getting to the control panel). However, if things are important to you, you can pin them to the start menu and taskbar.
The realities are, you have to work with Win10 now for an ever increasing number of programs or even to connect to many IT infrastructures (Win7 no longer receives required security patches). I'm also running into some programs where Win7 is no longer supported and will crash if I use the current version of the program.
What I have done, and continue to do is to not update my laptops. Only the very first ones, that shipped with Windows 3/3.11...which updated to Win95 were updated. Since then I have a Win98SE laptop, a WinXP laptop and currently have a Win7 laptop. I've found success in keeping the old laptops on their original operating systems keeps them reasonably brisk and when working with older equipment, they communicate better. The WinXP laptop definitely does better with CP650s with its real serial port than the Win7 machine with a dongle and I have also found that the WinXP laptop will talk better, directly, with a CAT862's USB port (for updates and emergency recovery) than the Win7 laptop. The Win98 will do better for the few time I need to talk with quite vintage cinema stuff (SDDS, for example). You run into 16-bit, 32-bit and 64-bit issues depending on programs you need to run for the equipment you are dealing with.
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You'll be sorry..... The vast majority of my systems (8) are still Windows 8.1. Rock solid, clean updates. I have 2 systems that run Windows 10: constant issues, updates that break things, Microsoft apparently believes they own my systems and can freely remove software they don't like. Make sure you turn off driver updates if you want to retain control over your systems hardware.Leave a comment:
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I finally converted over to Win 10 Pro.... Still not impressed....
I finally converted over to Win 10 Pro and it has few, almost no advantages over 7 Pro, and Microsoft still leaves it a muddled mess. I added Windows Shell to actually make it accessible without having to search for every little thing., The Shell is excellent, absolutely the best part of Windows 10! I have had 10 crash several times while doing Photo work on it. Update is actually faster than Win 7 is, but there are still updates? Why? This is supposed to be the almighty Windows 10! Didn't MS do it right in the first place? My video card driver did not work, but Windows included one that is apparently correct. It still plays back 4K and shows up correctly in Device Manager... The best thing is I only paid $35 for my copy with COA, and frankly, it is not worth more than that $35.
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