Anyone leave Windows 10?

So, does anyone have any actual proof of Windows 10 out-performing 7? I keep hearing this claim, but I haven't seen hard evidence of this. I'm about to go from 10 to 7 to run a few benchmarks myself (Passmark, Heaven, Geekbench), but when I did this in the past, 7 won slightly (with benchmark numbers; in real-world usage there was no difference).

 

I had an older pc with Win7 on it with all my modifications. I thought I should get a Win10 ticket while they lasted last summer. [How did I know it was an empty threat?] So I let Win10 install. 10 wouldn't let me use my dual monitors. Nvidia has no code for the old set up to use Win10. So I told it to revert back to Win7. [It promised it would do that didn't it?] So it goes away and does it's thing, resets and welcomes me saying Win10 has been UPDATED. And it ever-so-thoughtfully DELETED the Win7 folder.

 

My friend has an old system running 10 with dual monitors, nvidia old graphic card and the option to revert back to the previous windows version was first available for a month and from 14393 a week (and the windows.old folder deletion also was known by everybody).

 

I haven't done any benchmark tests. W7 is just a PITA as far as I am concerned. It was adequate, and good for its day, but times have changed. I like the look, and feel of W10 much better. It installs quickly, and runs well. No problems for me, and I am an Insider.

 

Hey great! Please link me to a Win10 dual monitor video driver for Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2H with integrated Nvidia GeForce.

 

@dhjohns: One man's PITA is another man's sandwich.

 

It's always a good measure to rename the windows.old folder, no matter its content.

Then when and if you want to get rid of it, YOU delete, because YOU decided to do so.

Crappy automated actions are good for iphone idiots, not for conscious IT users

 

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The thing is I wanted it to find the '.old.' folder. I asked it to revert to Win7 and instead it chose to update Win10.

 

My son has an older laptop that came with Windows 7 HP 64bit and 3GB RAM. Twice I did the restore to factory and fully updated it. Both times it simply bogged down doing the simplest things; took 5-6 minutes just to boot. I did the free digital upgrade to 10 and at least for now, it's as quick as it ever was. That may not last once the updates start piling up, but when that happens he's doing what my wife and I did ... moving to an Apple. A MacBook Pro in his case.

No idea if this is what you consider an improvement, but six month into his Windows 10 experience he's still pleased with the much improved performance. That's good enough for me.

 

w7 has a lot of scheduled tasks that can be disabled. Shrink it or barebone it(in my case), it is fast with 4gb ram.
im doing the same with 10 and i have disabled some services, its on a par with my shrunk 7.

 

I do the same.

 

Was on XP and thought it was the best..bypassed Vista..then Win7 came out it seemed cumbersome but I thought I'd give it a try although took some research to finally locate the 'any key' to boot when installing it. I now am as comfortable with Win7 as I once was with XP.

Win7 performs well with my vid cards when I occasionally play Crysis 2007 release, and is trouble free with very high advanced options settings and lag free.

So Win10 will get the same patience and discovery as I gave to Win7 when I first encountered it. Seems interesting and of course some things will be disabled , and I look forward to soon when I have the time benchmarking Win10.

 

we thought xp was bloated so we ntlited it. when i got 7 x64, i was mortified at how big it was. having got it down to 1.2/3gb installed, it is lean and mean, and i have removed around 7gb of crapola from it. i was recently asked how capable it is, what can be done on it, everything than can be done on a standard install.

10 is the same, needs A LOT of work, but it isnt that bad once stripped out.

BUT, the whole telemetry issue means i will not be using 10 online, offline ONLY. but i have 7, there is linux, so it isnt a big problem.

 

I have a dual boot setup with Windows 7 and Windows 10 BUT, I run VMware workstation, and on that, I have Windows 1.0 (yep), Windows 95, Windows 98se, Windows XP (yea, I skipped Windows ME er...A$$), Vista, 8.1 w/WMC and even Linux, Mac OS and a few other flavors on there...(newer gaming PC so plenty of resources for VMs to run flawlessly)

My Home theater PC runs on Windows 7, as there is NO need to upgrade, as WMC works perfect on it and TV is a important part of that PC. So, each OS for each feature. It does dual boot (you need to go into the CTL panel to change OS, not on startup) with 8.1 with Windows Media Center setup exactly like 7 as a backup..

They all have their perks, some wont move from Windows 7, others love 10 and others love 8.1.... to be honest with you, 8.1 with a start menu replacement is the best combo of Windows 7 and Windows 10....(has the App store but, also not as locked down as for forcing Microsoft policies like updates and drivers with control of forced reboots)

Normally on 10 but, Tend to use 7 VM's the most as apps I use run on x32, and I cant access my 32gb of memory on x32 systems...

 

Neither do I.

 

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