Have you turned off upgrades? You must have installed KB3035583 for the Get Windows 10 app and its associated icon to be available. Again, check with each manufacturer (usually via their Web site) and download the latest drivers.Īs for taking advantage of the free upgrade, I’m shocked you haven’t been getting dunned by Microsoft to do the upgrade! Pretty much everybody whose machine is compatible has been getting too many notices to count. You’ll have to check with the manufacturer of each program individually.Īlso, you’ll want to make sure that all of your peripheral devices (printers, etc.) have device drivers that are compatible with Windows 10 before you do the upgrade. non-Microsoft) software will run under Windows 10. But because those issues are internal, make sure that all of your third-party (e.g. Most of the other changes are internal, to either speed up or fix issues with Windows 8. So, for example, if you want to open the old Device Manager, you can type into Cortana’s search box “Device Manager” and then either hit enter or pick it off the list.
“Hey, Cortana - what time is it?” or “Hey, Cortana - open Word 2016.”), or type it in. It (she?) is built into Windows now, and you can either say “Hey, Cortana” and then speak your question (e.g. There are some menus you can swipe in from the left (it’s easier if you have a touch screen), but there’s nothing on it that is critical, or that you can’t get to in a different way. Which you can use or ignore as you choose. The big change cosmetically is that, in the start menu, you also have the tiles from Windows 8. You have the desktop back as the default bootup user interface, with the start menu and button bar and everything else you’re used to in 7. Q: I wasn’t aware that Microsoft had gotten so aggressive about the “10” upgrade, I am just scared about uncertain changes that may arise going from 8 to 10. What can I expect, and how do I take advantage of the free upgrade?Ī: The big changes between 8 and 10 are that 10 looks much more like 7 than like 8.
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