Windows 10 free upgrade

If you are waiting for your PC to upgrade itself to Windows 10 and are impatient, follow this process to upgrade -

• Go to [link=http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10ISO?OCID=WIP_r_Win10_Body_AddPC]http://www.microsoft.com/...WIP_r_Win10_Body_AddPC[/link] , download and run the tool
   
• Create an ISO of the Windows 10 DVD (make sure you choose the right version - most people will need the home version). Don't choose the upgrade now option
• Burn the ISO to a DVD using Nero or your choice of ISO DVD burning software
• Run setup.exe from the DVD from within Windows 7 or 8.1 and follow the prompts to upgrade to Windows 10 for free

I'm loving 10 so far.

Win8 was great once you disabled Metro and went back to the classic start screen. 10 is better but need to disable a lot of the privacy features.
 
Also for OEM's it's going to take time to catch up with drivers anyway. My Sony Vaio was missing a few drivers for stupid stuff like the card reader etc. Both graphics cards were up to date but Sony has a proprietary software switch on them so I couldn't use any battery saving features until they come to the party.
 
If you are running 7 and have no urgency to update, just stay where you are for now. Or even image your install, install win10 (tell it to delete files while it updates so you have a fresh install) then image it and go back to win7, that way you can switch between them quickly and not have to worry about the activation period running out on the free win10 upgrade. This is what I did.

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10 is alrite. Free upgrade made my computer run slow as ****. Had to do a fresh install and now its fine. Also have to be careful what settings are enabled.

It sounds like you need a SSD. My PC is 6 years old and has run 7, 8.1 and 10 without any performance issues.
Make sure you have 4GB of RAM or more and a SSD makes an unbelievable amount of difference to performance.

Quad core i5, 16gb ram, 4gb dedicated graphics, and dual ssd in raid0. Definitely not a hardware issue.

Lol if you are worried about privacy then you shouldn't be using any Internet service! Do you really think they are any different to Facebook, Google etc?
Regarding ads, if I am going to see them at all, if prefer them to be relevant to me. If I want to look at questionable stuff, I start an in private browsing session in IE.
The only place that I can guarantee privacy online is this site. I have been asked to sell data a couple of times. I of course refused. 😊