General Chat

I have received it this morning. Seems OK.

OH's PC is now updated. I had to stop the original "working on it" task and select windows update from the start menu.

I understand - I think from Computeractive magazine - that it was being given first to those who had used the beta, and then to those who clicked that little white icon at right-hand bottom to opt to take it up, and then the rest (that icon has since disappeared).

Only just getting to grips with windows 7 now my XP has let me down :-(

Mayfield - "Resistence is futile!" :-D

I'm still trying to get used to Windows 8.1 on my laptop. I have Windows 7 on my desktop; and that's much easier to use. And they call that progress, :-S

I am on Windows 8 and haven't been given the upgrade yet. OH is on 7 and got it this morning but after 6 hour it was still "working on it". From Googling it seems to be a problem some people have had.

I didn't like it, i kept getting lost and am back on Vista..lol

I'm on windows 8 on both computers.

I hope I can upgrade soon.

Guinevere, are you on Windows 7? I think they might be upgrading Windows 8 first. We have one machine running on 7 and one on 8 and the one with Windows 8 has been upgraded to 10 but we are still waiting for the one running Windows 7.

OH seems happy enough with 10 and says he thinks it's an improvement.

On first glance not a lot!
It now finds pictures from anywhere on your machine and displays them in year order, handy if like me you have searched all over for that photo that got saved in an odd folder by mistake.
They say the start button is back but it never went away on 8.1 right click the bottom left icon and the shut-down option is there now you left click and get a power button to give shut down. :-S
The start menu is on the same button like XP which makes finding things simpler, the have a new browser Microsoft Edge to replace Explorer and if you feel inclined your computer can talk to you, hoping they might upgrade it to fully working version of "seven of nine" then I might use it!

http://trekcore.com/gallery/albums/sevenofnine/7of9_s4c.jpg

I haven't had the email yet.

I've been testing the beta for some time and reckon it is pretty good.

I put one copy on a dual boot machine and not really had any major problems - pretty fast too although I was running it on a high spec machine.

So what's different about it?

I expected a few glitches even smoke billowing from my PC I decided to leave it off yesterday till the initial batch of downloading was done.
Switched on and stood well back till a pop up told me it was ready, closed my eyes and pushed the button!
Lots of activity for a while about an hour I guess and bingo it works!
:-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D