28 thoughts on “Windows 10 Upgrade Drama”

  2. Odis

    The great thing about Windows 10 is its not as **** as I thought it would be.

    Crashing my “Metro” Apps (Calendar, One Note etc) anyone?

      1. Odis

        Nope they are on One Drive anyway – I’ve got round it like. But you know – It would be nice to have them on the button.
        And why the calculator crashes is beyond me. I mean a calculator FFS

  5. Starina

    the little upgrade icon has been sitting on my computer for about a month now. this photo does not improve my confidence in upgrading.

  7. daveray

    Can anybody please tell me if I will loose all my documents, photos, bookmarks & programmes (Anti virus, Chrome etc) if I upgrade. Obviously I will back stuff up but if the Upgrade wipes my hard drive clean, I’d like to know in advance so I can take some steps to reduce file size and uninstall some programmes.

    2. The People's Hero

      You might, you might not….. But you can be sure of one thing…. Something WILL happen….

      (You’ll lose nothing!)

    3. Benz

      I upgraded yesterday. It is better. Seems quicker etc.

      Didn’t lose a single document or programme etc.

      I did have one issue wherein trackpad stopped working on laptop (which is a known bug), so I had to use the keyboard to uninstall the mouse (trackpad) and reboot the pc. Haven’t had an issue since.

    4. ahjayzis

      I was wondering the same – Googled it yesterday and it seems Windows upgrades don’t wipe anything since W7. I’m backing up just in case though!

    5. Sadface

      No..i installed the preview and it kept everything,
      Although i would backup the important stuff,just in case.

    6. Augustus Gloop

      Technically you shouldn’t, but don’t take my word for it. I’d be more worried about programs and drivers being incompatible with the new operating system.

    7. Starina

      if you loose them where shall they run? You’ll have to get some online cowboys to round ’em all up again.

      1. daveray

        Many Thanks for your advice, that trackpad issue will be enough to put me off for the time being.

    1. pedeyw

      I dunno, if windows xp is anything to go by, we’ll get another 8 years out of windows 7.

  9. John Cassidy

    Mine works just fine and dandy. But I installed the developer version months ago fresh. I you upgrade I’d be confident you won’t lose any documents, photos, bookmarks but programmes may be affected but probably not

  13. :-Joe

    I can see that it looks like an easier option but never choose upgrade/overwrite if you can avoid it because there are so many possible bugs with new releases and incompatibilities with your current software and settings it’s just a random game of chance that you won’t get the all the bad happenings and negative internet providing’ss..

    Before you start :
    – ALWAYS backup anything important to another device.
    – ALLWAYS REMEMBER to backup your hardware device driver software and any other important app software too.
    – ALWAYS better to wipe/format the drive and start fresh from a clean disk if you can otherwise, if you fancy yourself getting deeper in the techy stuff then install W10 onto a new partition or drive and dual boot it so you can test it out and still reboot into your old system.

    On a work PC, wait the minimum 6 months for it to be reported as working properly when they release SP1.

    Or just install Ubuntu for free.

    :-J

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