Midlife Crisis: Support for Left Behind Spouses
Archives => Archived Topics => Topic started by: OffRoad on October 11, 2015, 04:42:59 PM
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My Windows 7 computer is overheating. I am trying to determine if it is worth it to get a new one with windows 10 or repair my laptop. I thought I'd ask the forum if Windows 10 users like the experience, since you all use computers frequently ;)
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Don't do it. Or if you must, wait a few months until they have time to work out the bugs. The firetrucker has no option to shut off automatic updates and updates itself constantly. Mine has had to be reinstalled twice in the last week, and the option to "return to previous build" is a lie, it won't actually let me.
Beats "8" though.
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Preferred choices.
1. Stay with 7
2. Go to 10
3. Go to 8
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Had 8.1 6mths, hate it with a passion.
Telling ya , XP was 10 times better than this mad time wasting piece of crud. 10 times easier to and did 10 times more things.
Seems like almost anything involving computers or websites, tinker fiddle tinker fiddle , until they've ruined it and made it as confusing and as much work as possible.
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Don't EVEN get me started on this.
I switched from Windows 7 to 8 and have hated it!!
I'd stick with Windows 7. Wish I could go back.
I'm not even going to try 10 until I hear great reviews.
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Just punch me in the face!!!
I've been dealing with this for a week...
Can't post half the time, Internet is a hot mess.. And opening anything is a painful process that makes me want to bash it all with a bat!!!
And then mrs smarty I can do this by myself britches updated all the apple stuff too... Lesson learned... Spent most of yesterday trying to fix it...
Epic fail... Geek heroes are on it now... Let's see what happens!!!!
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I have Windows 10, my current laptop was bought with Windows 8.1, which was not very easy to use. I think Windows 10 is much improved! At work, I still use Vista...
My mother, who is 76, is enjoying Windows 10, much better than 8.1.
There are some bugs, no doubt, I lost my 'start' button (the best improvement over Windows 8 ;D) for a few weeks and then it came back after some updates. It sometimes loses the pointing device, and gets a bit 'hot' when I insist on having 4 or 5 windows open at the same time. Otherwise, I think it is a great improvement over 7 and 8!
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Really Mitzpah? You're the first person I've heard of that prefers 10 over 7.
To me windows 7 was sooo much more user friendly.
I have 2 laptops, one still has Windows 7, the other has Windows 8.1. Such a difference. I use the one with 7 much more.
Oh on 8, there was no start button so I downloaded one. Pretty easy to do.
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I teach computer networking and cyber-security. My students are all geeks and early adopters and most of them have been running 10 for a while. I asked them las week what they thought of 10. That's what I based my earlier ranking on. The consensus seems to be that 10 is closer to what 8 should have been when it was released just like 7 is what Vista should have been when it was released. The preference for 7 over 10 is because any new OS is going to have bugs and hardware driver issues that will take a little while to iron out. 7 was the same way but it's been out long enough to have had a lot of those little issues ironed out.
If it's not going to cost too much to fix your old laptop and it's still powerful enough to meet your needs, I'd fix it and stay with 7. If it's going to cost a lot to fix the old laptop or it was already starting to seem like it wasn't doing the job for you I wouldn't be afraid to move to 10 pre-installed on a new laptop. If you buy from a decent mainstream manufacturer and you don't own a lot of oddball devices you connect to it then you shouldn't have to worry too much about anything like hardware driver issues.
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Really Mitzpah? You're the first person I've heard of that prefers 10 over 7.
Actually, I should correct that, I prefer 10 over 8! I have had very little contact with 7... I have used it on other computers but none of my own... You see, I had a good three years in which I could not acquire anything new (due to to BD ::)) and had no handy geek husband to install 7 on my laptop (still don't have a h. but I have been able to work things out for myself more and more...)
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I have 10 and love it, although I don't use the Edge browser very much.....yet. Chrome works perfectly for what I need it to, and the option to switch from Edge to Explorer is great since our work program isn't Edge compatible yet. I think I might actually like 10 more than 7, or at least as much, and I HATED 8. Skipped it altogether as I tried it several times and couldn't stomach it. Incidentally, I have an iMac that's dual-booted to run both iOS and Windows on separate partitions so I have the best of both worlds. No problems or complaints, and I downloaded it the week it came out.
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Mitzpah,
Thanks for clarifying that. I haven't switched over to 10 yet. I'm waiting to see how everyone likes it first.
I can't remember what Windows I first started with (all of them I suppose) but I never had any issues upgrading to a new version UNTIL Windows 8 came out! What an utter disaster it was.
It's kind of like why fix something that is not broken?
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I have 7 and 8 - if that makes sense. I have 8.1 as my new laptop format but I chose to stick with 7 as that was an option - let's put it this way I don't use the 8.1 desktop icons but I do use the 7 desktop.
You can see I know very little about platforms or servers or whatever. I use office 2010 and windows 7 at work and my laptop is the same.
I am interested in going to 10 but work hasn't done that yet so will wait until then.
Or am I talking utter rubbish...... Very very likely!
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This is perfect! I am older than dirt and started on Windows 3.1 (and used DOS before that. Anyone remember storing your info on a cassette with a TI computer?), so I've seen them all. Windows NT was my favorite, followed by XP, but 7 is acceptable. Both of my kids have 8.1 and that is what I now have at work. It is so dysfunctional and not work efficient, I could never own 8.1. Touch screen takes forever and gives you one more thing to clean off. I can hot key at warp speed, so why change, right?
It's possible my fan is just gunked up. I remember when my son's old laptop started overheating, I switched out the hard drive, and it started working well again, but I also cleaned all the grime out of the fan, so that will be my first go to. I'm running the risk of never being able to get it back up if I disassemble it, so before I jumped off the cliff, I wanted to know the consensus. This place is so much better than geek sites, because most of you are real users, not power-let-me-tweak-my-computer-into-weird-configurations-and-wonder-why-I-only-get-two-years-out-of-it users.
Thank you to everyone who has contributed so far. I will continue take any and all opinions until I get up the nerve to operate on my poor old Toshiba.
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10 sounds ok. What would l have to do to get 10 on my laptop? Could l do some sorta update thing or would a tech guy have to completely install 10 ?
Or is there some update you can get for 8.1 to fix it up a bit , drives me mad ?
l've got the hp fliptop laptop style, flips over to an ipad style but 3/4 of the things don't work though when l flip it over to ipad. dunno what's goin on there.
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It depends hawk.
If you have Windows 8 you should be able to upgrade yourself. You can get the new version on line.
It's usually pretty easy.
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When you say upgrade Thundy , what sort of upgrade could l do ?
Do you mean just some extras to make 8.1 a bit better or what ?
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I don't recall seeing if your PC is a desktop or laptop, but if its a laptop, often times it just the fan is either clogged up with lint, or just plain non-functional. Pretty easy, cheap fix overall.
Warning: Stepping on my soapbox, as this is sort of what I do for a living: Microsoft is really pushing HARD for Windows 10 upgrades to 7/8 users. Been reading some new articles, and their latest tactics...I mean "accident" was automatically putting a checkbox in the "upgrade to Windows 10" OPTIONAL update. So if you hit Windows update icon manually and your not careful, you may end up with Windows 10 whether you intended to or not!
I grew up with the good old Commodore 64. Got into my teenage years and traded the computer for cars, girls, and pot. Didn't get my first "PC" until 1998. But at work we have used all flavors of Windows. Our production systems are STILL MS-DOS bases systems!
These days however, Microsoft has pissed me off for good. While I still run Windows at work on Desktops (currently migrating from XP to 7), on my personal computer I use Linux Mint. LOVE LOVE LOVE it. And servers at work I run CentOS6.
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This is perfect! I am older than dirt and started on Windows 3.1 (and used DOS before that. Anyone remember storing your info on a cassette with a TI computer?), so I've seen them all.
Been there, done that. Do you remember the California Raisins game that ran on DOS? My kids loved that game. And making batch file menus?
I agree cleaning the fans is usually a good thing to do on laptops because the air intakes are often close to areas where it's easy to pick up lint, like when it's actually in your lap or sitting on a couch, chair, carpeted floor.