My first month with Windows 10
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2016 9:24 am
So Microsoft had "decided" to silently cease all (security) upgrades to my old trusty Vista Notebook, Win 7 had disappeared from the shelves, an update of that Notebook with Windows 10 left me without graphics acceleration (but at least the Core2Duo could now sport its 64 bit muscles!)
- enough reasons for me to say, sod that, that Notebook is now nearly 8 years old, it has done its service well, let it have its well-deserved retirement and me use the freshly gained knowledge about Windows 10 to get everything right.
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Bought that new Notebook 2 weeks ago. With pre-installed Windows 10 Home. Everything was prepared to move the data partition of the old Notebook over to the new one.
1. Of course, during installation I switched *everything* off, that could contribute to the OS being overly verbose,
2. Supplier wants me to use DL DVD for the recovery media - not there, sorry, only single layer. Instead I saved the *.iso-files away. Only one of them was >4.5 GB...
3. After roughly 3 hours use I needed to accept, that the supplier had pre-installed the technical preview of Windows 10. On a model fresh from the assembly belt. WTF?!?
4. Half a day later, and with some bucks less, I wiped the pre-installed Win10 with another freshly obtained Windows 10 Home. That PC is *mine* now.
5. Directly after installation, I found out the SD card slot didn't work - supplier actually did one thing right and delivered a driver DVD.
6. A quick search for new hardware in the hardware device manager with inserted DVD cleared up all warning signs. And the SD card slot worked again.
7. Copying all data from the SD card to the data partition HD, surprisingly to me, took off with >80 MB/s.
8. Connected to internet and told Windows 10 to handle it as metered connection. I'm using UMTS with a 5 GB volume/month - will return to this at the end.
9. Installed graphics drivers, keyboard driver - first thing the keyboard driver does is an update of 100 MB! => automatic updates switched off.
10. Installed Visual Studio 2015 at a friends place (even the smallest installation - C++ only - comes at 3 GB),
11. Installed Office 2016 (another 750 MB),
12. Installed Adobe Reader DC - and needed to deinstall it at the following day, because it "refreshed" itself with yet another 400 MB+ update...
... will most probably re-install it later and apply the registry setting to only check manually for updates.
Coming to the conclusion of this posting:
People complain because all they hear was Windows 10 purportedly sending all their data to Microsoft. And 3rd party apps sending all their data elsewhere. The real problem lies elsewhere:
Installations over the 'net are really cool, as long as they aren't replaced once per day with a full-size "update".
During the tests, I sometimes had the impression, that the new Notebook somehow had transformed into a black hole for data. Literally trying to drain everything it could get from the net. My router didn't stop blinking. But hardly *sending* out anything, just receiving.
Can't those companies not just get the software right and working, obviating the need for daily updates? I paid for the software, and I pay for a monthly data volume!
I don't mind Windows fetching all the necessary security updates - but that other stuff must be unduly clogging the connections around the globe.
Has anyone else made similar observations?
P.S. I miss Aero.
- enough reasons for me to say, sod that, that Notebook is now nearly 8 years old, it has done its service well, let it have its well-deserved retirement and me use the freshly gained knowledge about Windows 10 to get everything right.
...
Bought that new Notebook 2 weeks ago. With pre-installed Windows 10 Home. Everything was prepared to move the data partition of the old Notebook over to the new one.
1. Of course, during installation I switched *everything* off, that could contribute to the OS being overly verbose,
2. Supplier wants me to use DL DVD for the recovery media - not there, sorry, only single layer. Instead I saved the *.iso-files away. Only one of them was >4.5 GB...
3. After roughly 3 hours use I needed to accept, that the supplier had pre-installed the technical preview of Windows 10. On a model fresh from the assembly belt. WTF?!?
4. Half a day later, and with some bucks less, I wiped the pre-installed Win10 with another freshly obtained Windows 10 Home. That PC is *mine* now.
5. Directly after installation, I found out the SD card slot didn't work - supplier actually did one thing right and delivered a driver DVD.
6. A quick search for new hardware in the hardware device manager with inserted DVD cleared up all warning signs. And the SD card slot worked again.
7. Copying all data from the SD card to the data partition HD, surprisingly to me, took off with >80 MB/s.
8. Connected to internet and told Windows 10 to handle it as metered connection. I'm using UMTS with a 5 GB volume/month - will return to this at the end.
9. Installed graphics drivers, keyboard driver - first thing the keyboard driver does is an update of 100 MB! => automatic updates switched off.
10. Installed Visual Studio 2015 at a friends place (even the smallest installation - C++ only - comes at 3 GB),
11. Installed Office 2016 (another 750 MB),
12. Installed Adobe Reader DC - and needed to deinstall it at the following day, because it "refreshed" itself with yet another 400 MB+ update...
... will most probably re-install it later and apply the registry setting to only check manually for updates.
Coming to the conclusion of this posting:
People complain because all they hear was Windows 10 purportedly sending all their data to Microsoft. And 3rd party apps sending all their data elsewhere. The real problem lies elsewhere:
Installations over the 'net are really cool, as long as they aren't replaced once per day with a full-size "update".
During the tests, I sometimes had the impression, that the new Notebook somehow had transformed into a black hole for data. Literally trying to drain everything it could get from the net. My router didn't stop blinking. But hardly *sending* out anything, just receiving.
Can't those companies not just get the software right and working, obviating the need for daily updates? I paid for the software, and I pay for a monthly data volume!
I don't mind Windows fetching all the necessary security updates - but that other stuff must be unduly clogging the connections around the globe.
Has anyone else made similar observations?
P.S. I miss Aero.