Nah, independent software vendor support aside, enterprise managed deployments are not going to come with the headaches otherwise mentioned in this thread for small businesses running shrinkwrapped or OEM editions.
I have been hesitant to keep up with my Win7 updates in fear of triggering a Win10 point of no return. If I install Never10, will that allow me to keep up with all the critical Win7 updates without fear of waking up one morning to Win10?
Assuming Microsoft doesn’t find out that they’ll ignore the settings, yes.
You’ll probably get “GET WIN10” Messages in every MS Patched app though, like they did with a security update for Internet Explorer.
Finally pulled the trigger upgrading my main gaming machine and it went flawlessly. Everything is there, everything is working just fine. I’m kind of impressed.
We (the two of us in IT) like Windows 10 quite a lot, and can’t really envision going back to Windows 7 now. We just today saw the last hold-out locally installed software we needed finally get Windows 10 compliant with the latest update, so once we do some testing we’ll roll our virtual environment out to Windows 10. Should be interesting. I actually deployed a laptop to a user with Windows 10 on it as a test - not only is she an Apple user at her home, but she’s never used Windows 10 before - and it went really well, she never needed any help finding her stuff. Fingers crossed it goes that smooth for everyone.
I did buy Start10 though from Stardock for $4, hate the new Start menus from 8 forward.
habibi
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So I mentioned above that Windows 10 forced itself onto my Thinkpad and I cancelled it halfway. And now the TP is not able to boot and Startup Repair is not able to fix it. The only way I could do is boot in Safe mode with networking and after spending a couple of days trying to repair windows, I’m just about giving up. Win 10, you win.
However, how can I install Windows now? I can’t do it in Safe mode. Is there a way to create bootable free Windows 10 USB drives? Even then, I’m not positive ir will work.
I didn’t want a fresh install because there just too many apps in there including the wife’s accounting software.
Lenovo has a recovery partition which is inaccessible and gosh , the internet and Lenovo support forum is such a mess to search for things. F11 does not help to boot into the recovery partition.
What a nightmare this has turn out to be.
baren
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I’m intrigued by the news that Win 10 will soon be easier to do clean installs on. I went through one on the crappy Surface Book I got a while ago, and the process was weirdly obscure. I’ll certainly appreciate a more straightforward option.
Do vendors still charge extra to not install extra crap on your machine? This knocks the legs out from under that business plan.
For people who care about the stupid bloatware, the out-of-box-experience buying a new Windows machine will be a 3 hour re-install of the clean operating system they were looking for in the first place. I can’t help but be baffled about Microsoft’s handling of the customer experience.
Microsoft sells Signature Edition PCs in their stores that come without any of that extra crap installed and a quick glance suggests they only sell the SEs now where they used to be offered at a price premium. Which personally, is fine with me – I’m not going to take Microsoft to task for what other companies decide to bog down their OS with.
LMN8R
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I’m pretty sure Microsoft Stores have only ever sold Signature PCs (true for retail stores and the online store). The only thing they used to offer was a service where you could bring in a PC bought elsewhere and “signatureize” it in store.
habibi
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I did a clean install of Windows 10 - why does it put (install?) Minecraft and Candy Crush Soda Saga in my Start Menu? I know Win10 is a free upgrade but are we walking down this advertisement path? I already had a auto upgrade pushed to me, which failed, and I have to spend the weekend backing up and scrapping my Win 7 broken partition to install Win 10 only to see apps like the above two pushed to me as well??! Oh, there’s also a Adobe Photoshop Express too.
Sit back and just accept your new MS overlords. Only they get to decide how you can use your PC.
I get the feeling there is a class-action case to be made here. One that will, many years from now, make a few law firms a bunch of money and give the consumers who went through this crap a $25 voucher toward the purchase of some MS product.
Left click is your friend.
I think you mean right-click>uninstall
or
right-click>remove from start menu
habibi
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Sure, I could easily uninstall them but it’s the fact that MS is even pushing these over is unacceptable to me. A fresh install feels like what you would get from a OEM manufacturer now - full of junk!
Wait until he sees the helpful new start menu suggested apps.
Yeah, because that is way worse than the back doors that Lenova puts on their computers (except business computers and thinkpads). Next machine I’m getting will be a signature machine I think.
Not, it isn’t worse. But that doesn’t make it right especially.
