re: Who is doing the Free Windows 10 upgrade tomorrow?

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- You can't pin files to start menu, only programs. The workaround is creating a shortcut assigned to the file's path. I had to do this with all of my Steam games because the shortcut that Steam generates for new games is treated as a file rather than a Windows shortcut. Probably not a bug, just the way windows likes it.

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I haven't tried it on 10 yet but there's an app in the Windows store called "Steam Tile" that makes start menu tiles for Steam games. I know it worked with Windows 8.

Temporarily uninstalled avast and disabledthe windows firewall and it worked now.

Need to update some drivers though, track pack isn't working nor are the function (Mac functions) keys.

Looks pretty slick so far! I dig it.

I tried it. Had two annoying problems: The most annoying was that the sound would stutter, sounded like too much bass. This drove me nuts trying to watch nearly any video. The second was that my Wifi would disconnect on its own a few times a day. I spent way too much time researching, installing new drivers, and trying to fix both problems to no avail. So I'm back on Windows 7 for now. I'm a luddite. I'll check back later to see if that stuff is sorted out.

Did these bugs come from upgrade or manual fresh install

I'm back up on 10 running fine with sound. Cautiously installed webroot on a fresh 7 before going to 10 this time.

Successful install from 7 to 10 on my HP Probook. All went well and seems to be running fine.

When I installed it on my Surface Pro 3, it was terrible. Drivers were lost, Apps/links didn't work. Just finished resetting it to 8.1. Hopefully, they address some of the bugs within that 30-day reload period.

My laptop is basically a brick post "upgrade". Tries to load and just goes to black screen. Can't even restore to previous restore point. Ridiculous.

So I finally got the actual notification from the Window 10 upgrade system tray icon that my upgrade was ready and I could start (without forcing it).....guess what....same damn 80070005 error....Windows pisses me off sometimes.

I've used it since several builds before 10240, and I've got to say that it's been the most pleasant OS swap I've ever done. I did the upgrade to check out the experience. The only issues I ran into were Virtual Box having issues causing Docker build issues and WebStorm 10.0.4 requiring legacy console enabled to work. Outside of that and the a few Nvidia centric issues (Dual-monitors with different refresh rates causing issues and the bad Nvidia driver right before launch), it's been flawless for me.

I'm going to go back and do a fresh install when all of my applications are updated to support Windows 10, but because this is my personal dev machine, I don't want to risk having to frick with all of my build tools and whatnot to get them to work if something strange pops up. I really do love it. It's what I believe a modern OS should be.

Cortana could do a little more, but I am impressed with what it can do already. Things like "Open Skype for Desktop" and "Open Elder Scrolls Online" in quick succession with the "Hey Cortana" voice command is really handy for when I'm multitasking or trying to get into a game quickly. I can't wait to see where it goes from here because it's pretty awesome. I'd love to be able to say "Open Skype and call Joe Schmo" or "Create a JS file in the current working directory named 'app.js'" and it work. That's pretty intense, but it's really what I'd want in addition to what is there now.

I got a 10 for phone coming soon email today. Sadly, mine is not on the list. I'll just wait for new models I guess.