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If unsure, completely back up your computer on a seperate drive.
If you don't like it then you can put it back to where you had it with all files and programs just the way they were.
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Campfire Ranger
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In win 7 find the windows update tab in the program menu. If you have auto updates disabled it will not update itself to 10, but will have the upgrade listed.
If auto update isn't disabled Win 10 has already been downloaded onto your computer whether you ordered it or not...
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Install updates automatically (recommended)
Download updates but let me choose whether to install them
Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them
Never check for updates (not recommended)
Well AJ
I guess I am either behind the times or just paranoid but I have used only option 2 or 3 since the inception of windows update way back when.
My personal favorite is option 3 that way I have/had control over what gets downloaded and installed,
Swifty
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I normally left my computers set to allow automatic updates. I was under the assumption that you had to reserve a copy of Win 10 before they downloaded it onto my computers. That assumption was wrong. We use a hotspot for our home computers that shares my phone data plan. Didn't have any issues until Win 10 came along. Each download is aprox 6GB of data.
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Campfire Kahuna
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I get popups that tell me Win10 is ready to install. I didn't ask for it but it's downloaded.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell
It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Like it and have upgraded all my Computers
A Doe walks out of the woods today and says, that is the last time I'm going to do that for Two Bucks.
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I have windows 7 pro. The upgrade said it will install 10 pro free until July 2016. I am not sure I want to do it. I'd hate to get stuck. I do not know much about these things. Same here, though I haven't seen a specified deadline....The way I see it, why dick around with something that isn't broken?
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I have windows 7 pro. The upgrade said it will install 10 pro free until July 2016. I am not sure I want to do it. I'd hate to get stuck. I do not know much about these things. Same here, though I haven't seen a specified deadline....The way I see it, why dick around with something that isn't broken? [quote] That is what I am thinking. I loved XP, but Win 7 is not bad. I get a great anti virus program from AT&T. I am just wondering if eventually Microsoft will quit security updates on Win 7. Plus I like to have a CD/DVD copy in case my hard drive craps out or something else. I switched to a SSD hard drive which I like a lot, but they fail too. I here from others that Win 10 is more intrusive on your private stuff. But I know little about that stuff.
Gun Shows are almost as comical as boat ramps in the Spring.
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Campfire Ranger
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I have windows 7 pro. The upgrade said it will install 10 pro free until July 2016. I am not sure I want to do it. I'd hate to get stuck. I do not know much about these things. Same here, though I haven't seen a specified deadline....The way I see it, why dick around with something that isn't broken? Exactly. And plus 1 for Ubuntu/Linux operating systems.
LOVE God, LOVE your family, LOVE your country, LIKE guns and sports.
About 2016 team "R" candidates "We definitely need a crew with a sack of balls the size of hot water bottles, bloviated estrogen leaking feel-gooders need not apply." Gunner 500
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Campfire Tracker
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A friend had Windows 8 and, like me, hated it. I did the upgrade for her - smooth and easy, by the way - and 10 is magnitudes better. Don't know if it's at all better than Windows 7, which is what I use, but it's a darn sight better than 8.
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing -- Edmund Burke
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Campfire Oracle
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I have windows 7 pro. The upgrade said it will install 10 pro free until July 2016. I am not sure I want to do it. I'd hate to get stuck. I do not know much about these things. Same here, though I haven't seen a specified deadline....The way I see it, why dick around with something that isn't broken? Exactly. And plus 1 for Ubuntu/Linux operating systems. Who did you scam to get that?
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
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American by birth; Alaskan by choice.
--ironbender
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I'm not liking it. Most other sites not much problem, but the campfire doesn't like it at all.
took 4 (oops 6) minutes to type this with the lil wait circle appearing
and characters are slow to respond
said my puter had enough juice to run Win 10
but will have my IT guy check it out. It's a cheap lil pos laptop
think Outlaw probably has it correct.
putting new server in at work, running 7 on it.
not a fan of this MS stuff
I'm pretty certain when we sing our anthem and mention the land of the free, the original intent didn't mean cell phones, food stamps and birth control.
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Leo of the Land of Dyr
NRA FOR LIFE
I MISS SARAH
“In Trump We Trust.” Right????
SOMEBODY please tell TRH that Netanyahu NEVER said "Once we squeeze all we can out of the United States, it can dry up and blow away."
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Campfire 'Bwana
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The first time I shot myself in the head...
Meniere's Sucks Big Time!!!
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Campfire Regular
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Campfire did not like 10 for me and we pulled it off both laptops and put 7 back on. A lot fewer bugs with videos also.
"Jerry is dead, Phish suck time to get a job "
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--- CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE --- A Magic Time To Be An Illegal In America---
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Last Sunday, I finally switched over from Windows 8.1, which I absolutely HATED, to 10. I love it! I can find stuff, and it's been problem free for the whole week, The Campfire included. My wife switched her Windows 7 to 10 yesterday. She's not on her computer much, but simply says, "It's faster".
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