Running Windows 10 on this laptop HP pavilion g6, took an hour to download and setup, I presume explorer whatever it's called works as I use Chrome that updated no problem, seems to be ok not had any problems, it was a bit slow but has speeded up to it's normal speed, more like windows 8, but changed it to the way I use it on 7, not a problem, still awaiting for it to crawl up and die on me and make me put it back to 7, but it's working, makes me so upset not being able to call it namrs, maybe when they email me to do my next little Asus that should be interesting
for some reason I haven't had an icon asking me to upgrade to Win 10, I'm running Win 8.1 64 bit on an ASUS laptop X553M, 4gb ram, 1TB disk, Pentium processor 2.16 GHz all windows updates are installed, I can't figure out why, any ideas? thanks.
Hello Mark, The laptop is only 7 months old and hasn't been played with apart from installing VLC media player. I switch off every night and reboot the next night.
Seems that Microsoft have relaxed some of the requirements so my PC is now Windows 10 compatible.
Switched upgrade on this morning and updated to Windows 10 this afternoon - first time it failed (the "10 second" wait carried on for over half an hour), closed the window, started it off again and everything went well.
I'm impressed so far, everything runs as expected and smoother/faster than Windows 7.
We don't do charity in Germany, we pay taxes. Charity is a failure of governments' responsibilities - Henning Wehn
Generally behaving itself here, one weird crash at logging on which it recovered from.
One strange anomaly was that while most settings were Uk as picked up from Windows 7, the "Display Language" was still US which meant it didn't automatically pick up the UK/GB language pack, speech packs, text-to-speech and speech-to-text packs - installing them to about half an hour after I hit the download button.
Zonealarm free antivirus+firewall didn't survive the transition correctly, had to un-install and install the latest version. There was no warning anywhere about this, I spotted in the log files that Zonealarm had failed to install and then realised it wasn't working.
It knew about my printer but didn't bother downloading or installing the drivers until I switched it on which had me panicking for 30 seconds.
Beware when you shut Windows 10 down, it kills the display quite early in the shutdown, the computer carries on for a while after (much longer than Windows 7 did), if you switch the mains off in that "blank" period you will probably corrupt something somewhere.
The weird app that just displays the name "Photos" is good in many ways, but absolutely useless in others - eg you can't even find out in which folder the photo you are looking at is stored. I'm sure this will improve. I chose not to allow Windows to organise my photos in the setup option, I didn't want it moving them around.
Generally I'm very pleased, a lot of buffering and caching going on in the background with better process switching makes it a lot faster than Windows 7 in many instances.
We don't do charity in Germany, we pay taxes. Charity is a failure of governments' responsibilities - Henning Wehn
