Hi

If anyone is interested in running Windows 10 technical preview, I can report that Poser Pro 2014 works really well in it.

I see visible performance increases over my install in Windows 8 on the same computer.

So far I like Windows 10 a lot, a vast improvement over Windows 8 from my point of view.

All the normal stuff is back, multiple applications are even easier to run then in 7 using a new Task View feature.

Boot time on my computer at least are fantastic, under 30 seconds, much better then 8.

I have pretty much all my games, software and misc. items installed and everything from Photoshop to The Elder Scrolls Online and Adobe Premiere run great.

I'm dual booting, (I'd recommend this if you want to give it a shot) this is not the finished OS, there are going to be changes before it goes live next year but so far is looks great.

I haven't gone back to Windows 8 since I installed it and I'm not going to if I don't have problems.

I just find it a lot easier to use, and I'm not running Classic Shell, I'm running it using Microsoft's interface.

It seems that Microsoft learned something from Windows 8 and that's to listen to the consumer at least once in a while.

Mike

Thx for the "little" review, i'm really impatient to use W10 in my computer, Surface and Lumia's :b_grin:

Just as a fair warning that should be mentioned, because Windows 10 tech preview is, essentially, a beta release designed to identify problems before a full release, Microsoft has monitoring of it activated including keylogging. When you use the OS right now, and you agree to it when you activate it, you should assume that all information available to the OS and anything you enter on the keyboard is also available to Microsoft. Everything, including confidential personal information such as bank login information, credit card information, and personal email.

No, this isn't a devious plot, it's a critical part of testing a new OS, but it is something that people should be aware of as they move more and more of their lives online.

You have the same thing when you activate any OS, desktop or mobile ;)

I think this explains why a vendor is advertizing sales saying that after 10/31 Win 7 Ult will no longer be available as OEM on their systems.  If there is going to be a new Win 10 in a few months, relax and wait seems to be a prudent course to take.

was I asleep for win 9 ?? or they forgot it ? lol

the win 7 (woteva) not being installed as OEM has been known for a while ;-) you can still buy it and install yourself (on a barebones system) its just microstuffs way of twisting the big supliers arm

Quote - was I asleep for win 9 ?? or they forgot it ? lol

Windows 9 was skipped. Imagine the advertisements for Windows 9 in Germany....

Windows No, (loose translation), that would go over so well... Not... lol...

I have Windows 10 Beta on 2 machines and there are some thing people need to know that have not been mentioned.

First off is how the hard drive is set up. You can not install it to a drive with a Master Boot Record (MBR) Windows 10 uses GBR which is far better for large hard drives. GBR supports more than 4 partition entrys and huge hard drives. If you have a hard drive that you want to install it to and it uses MBR, all the partitions must either be deleted or converted to GBR before installing Windows 10.

You also need another way of checking your email to activate Windows 10 Beta, you can not finish the install without a code MS sends you. No big deal, unless you don't have another way to get online at the time.

You also need to be connected to the internet to do the install, so have make sure you have the info handy to connect to the internet first if you are using a wireless connection, dsl, etc..

(You also need to be part of the program, which the MS site will send you to when you download the ISO for it.)

The beta is suprisingly stable, and will run things that wont run in 7-8.1 (32 bit legacy stuff) But is missing things needed to actually install and run them.

.NET 2-3.5 is not included in the base install, and must be installed. (Lots of things still use this.) Some of the runtimes are missing as well. (Visual Basic, etc.) Some of them auto install when you need them, others error out on install and tell you the you need "Whatever" installed prior to doing the install.

Metro apps run in a window. (Yeah, Finally...)

The start button is back, and the menu has both Windows 7 and Metro style in the same pane.

Sillly little things will bug power users, there is no link to the Control Panel on a fresh install.... Simple to fix thou, but should be there from the word go.

**Do Not try to install Media Center and use a Windows 8 code. **Don't ask, it wrecks havoc.

No antivirus is available other than Windows Defender. And it wont let you install them if you try. (They wouldn't work even if you pulled off the install, the dll hooks to the kernel are different in Windows 10) There are some other differences in the kernel hooks, and some things that used to be hooked to the kernel no longer are. This may present driver issues on some hardware untill all the drivers are written for them.

Windows 10 makes all other versions of Windows look slow, and that was a pleasant surprise. It is not that much different UI wise than Windows 7.

Can't think of anything else that needs mentioned other than it times out next April with no word if it will be upgradable to 10 or require another fresh install. 

Carry on...

Hi

Just a couple of things...

You don't need to have access to your email to install, you can select to skip putting the code in and do it later after you have your email set up.  It's in the lower right corner if I remember correctly.

I didn't do mine until the next day, it will reside in the Action Center on the task bar.

I installed Malwarebytes Pro with no problems and it runs fine.

I haven't tried AVG or something like that.

The link to the Control Panel is on the Right Click Menu from the Start Icon along with a lot of other handy things like Task Manager and Device Manager, only 2 clicks from the desktop.

On booting...

I installed Windows 10 on a seperate partition on my second hard drive.

This drive didn't have a MBR on it.

Windows 10 does control the boot menu after it's installed.

I had to use EasyBCD in Windows 10 to set up the boot menu.

It really boots fast, less then 15 seconds from the time you click on it in the boot menu.

Everything runs really fast.

I've had no stability issues or freezes.

I have almost all of my software installed, games and graphic arts.

Everything runs great.

Yes: I tried to install Media Center and it caused problems with my sound.

I made a Disk image after getting it installed and went back to that.

I'm making a new disk image every day until I finish messing around and installing stuff.

Mike

Windows 10 cheats for boot up, as long as you dont restart it. Which is pretty cool.

When you shut it down, if writes down system info similar to hybernate but without program info. When you start your computer again, it uses that info to set up the hardware which is way faster than a restart. Why they didn't do that ages ago is beyond me.

Malware bytes does run, but I do not know if changes to the kernel hooks that might let things thru or not.

There was no option to skip the code input that I noticed, but there may have been. I have multiple systems so it was no big deal.

One thing that I forgot to mention was that it is not a good idea to leave something open without saving it before you walk away. You can not turn off Windows Update, and updates and restarts are manditory. Meaning that it will restart when it wants too...

Hi again.

I think that there is a small line that says I can't do this right now, or something like that on the screen, if you click it the process proceeds and the notice to enter the code resides in the Solve PC Issues list, (the little flag on the right side of the task bar).

I went and checked to be sure, my Windows 10 install is on a disk with MBR partitions.

That can be done by turning off Secure Boot, in the UEFI bios.

Both of my hard drives have the same setup, each has 3 partitions.

I have to say that I'm having no problems with Windows 10, it's like a breath of fresh air after Windows 8.

Microsoft says that they skipped from 8 to 10 because the change was so big they wanted to emphasize it.

Funny thing is that it looks just like Windows 7. LOL

Anyway I like it, I can't wait until it goes live and I can dump Windows 8 for good.

Mike