How many suggest/recommend updating/upgrading to Windows 10 from Win 7? (FIXED) (SOLUTION FOUND)

[EpicSurvivor]

FYI, JackMDS is pretty dang knowledgeable on the software stuff.

But someone a lot less knowledgeable like me would think that Windows is using the wrong default audio device, and is maybe defaulting it to your HDMI cable or similar. Right click on the speaker in your icon area (could be a Windows one and a different Realtek one), and make sure the output is to the correct thing.

Okay thank you. Will try next Boot on Windows 10, on 7 right now.

And sorry I just build my first PC by my self in February 2016. I am pretty new to this stuff realistically speaking. So thanks for the help.

 

[bbhaag]

I do want to digress a small bit. Some people love 10. I suppose it depends on what you use it for. I use it at work, my laptops have it as well. I simply don't like it for what I use it for. Many people love it for gaming which I haven't tried it for yet.

What are you digressed about? You were not very specific about what you don't like. Could you maybe elaborate on what you do not like about Windows 10.

 

[ImpulsE69]

What are you digressed about? You were not very specific about what you don't like. Could you maybe elaborate on what you do not like about Windows 10.

I was trying to basically say that while I really can't stand it, there is no reason to not try it for himself because there are plenty of people who seem to love it. I'm not a 'MS hater' either, I loved 7 although I waited a year for the major kinks to get worked out, but 10 to this day I am not a fan of.

 

[bbhaag]

I was trying to basically say that while I really can't stand it, there is no reason to not try it for himself because there are plenty of people who seem to love it. I'm not a 'MS hater' either, I loved 7 although I waited a year for the major kinks to get worked out, but 10 to this day I am not a fan of.

What is it that you don't care for? Menu layout, ease of use, ascetics, privacy issues or is it just an overall dislike of the OS? What is it about Windows 10 that you can't stand?

 

[JackMDS]

Indeed but as a more knowledgeable veteran of Windows 10 would you happen to know how to fix the issue above?

One thing I really avoid is "Throwing Guesses" to the Wind.

I am sorry, I have more than 10 computers running Win10 but none has Creative Drivers, almost all of them has some combo of nVidea Realtek HD Audio and none presents any problem concerning Audio and its Drivers.

In Win 10 per-se if you right click on the Volume Icon that is in the System Tray, then click on Open Volume mixer, then click on the Speaker Icon and there after on the Systems sound Icon, you get the old control panel style configuration that Might provides Better Control on the system settings.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I was trying to basically say that while I really can't stand it, there is no reason to not try it for himself because there are plenty of people who seem to love it. I'm not a 'MS hater' either, I loved 7 although I waited a year for the major kinks to get worked out, but 10 to this day I am not a fan of.

I'll share with you my evolution over Windows 10. I didn't like the default desktop, with the chiclet buttons, promotions of games and gadgets, the heavy-handedness of leading users to the option requiring you log on with your Microsoft account when you wanted traditional security in your private LAN. You quickly learn to choose the option for "this is a business or computer in my office" to get the traditional flexibility of account and password. I installed it on all my Win 7 systems as a dual-boot option, thinking I would play with it and hopefully feel more comfortable with it.

I found Classic Shell -- which now seems to upgrade along with Windows Creator/Feature Updates -- which would "break" it. Classic Shell enables you to have a classic Windows 7 desktop and start menu, with a menu item that will take you back to "Cortana-chiclet-city."

I didn't like that fact that they dumped Windows Media Center -- the very best choice for viewing even encrypted-premium cable-TV channels through your Silicon Dust HDHR-Prime or similar tuner hardware. this was another reason I maintain dual-boot systems as I explore a replacement.

Now I discover that the latest Feature Update now has ability to access my Silly-Dust tuners in "Movies and TV" with a crude channel lineup, showing which channels are available and which are "DRM." Eventually, I imagine now that the DRM access may be enabled through Windows 10, but Silly-Dust is still developing its HDHR DVR project, which works to view all channels with recording for non-DRM.

Windows 10 seems faster than Windows 7, and I have fewer maintenance tasks. The Windows Updates require less intervention. The worst problems I've had involved maintaining my dual-boot functionality after a Feature Update, but I now have a routine using a Rescue CD to fix the problem quickly after the feature update.

There are many things about the concept of Windows 10 we don't like so much. We don't see a certain future for it, and we don't know what MS's plans might be. There should always be a niche for it. We'll just have to watch.

 

[you2]

I also use silcon dust; I haven't tried windows 10 feature as I didn't know they had updated it but silcon dust app is greatly improved and now support drm channels on windows 10. I actually like it better than the old software on windows 7 since the last update.

Now I discover that the latest Feature Update now has ability to access my Silly-Dust tuners in "Movies and TV" with a crude channel lineup, showing which channels are available and which are "DRM." Eventually, I imagine now that the DRM access may be enabled through Windows 10, but Silly-Dust is still developing its HDHR DVR project, which works to view all channels with recording for non-DRM.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I also use silcon dust; I haven't tried windows 10 feature as I didn't know they had updated it but silcon dust app is greatly improved and now support drm channels on windows 10. I actually like it better than the old software on windows 7 since the last update.

Yes -- HDHR DVR and the viewing App support viewing of DRMs, but we as yet cannot record them.

That is, of course, better than the "Movies and TV" Windows 10 feature -- which allows you to view live TV but only for non-DRM channels.

Once we can confirm that HDHR DVR can record premium content, there is just one more problem to resolve. There should be some guide or "how-to" information posted at media-center, AV and "green-button" web-sites: program the traditional Media Center Remote so that it works nicely with the HDHR DVR App software.