ghost-angel Posted June 8, 2016 Report Share Posted June 8, 2016 The Point Of Sale software we support is supposed to get Win10 approval in October, we're not especially looking forward to that as it will inevitably mean mixed Win10/Win7 environments between server and register. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DasBroot Posted June 8, 2016 Report Share Posted June 8, 2016 7 - 10 is probably better than 7/xp. I gave up even trying to make 7 and XP communicate on a regular basis - you have two xp cash registers and one fries? You're getting two 7s. Better that way. Haven't ever had a problem with 7 or XP connecting to our servers, though. Just each other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost-angel Posted June 8, 2016 Report Share Posted June 8, 2016 We've had OK luck with 7/XP environments, though without NetBIOS, tricking the Firewall on the 7 Side, and a Win7 registry fix one of our guys cooked up has gotten them to play nice most of the time. We look forward to the day XP disappears completely. At least nothing runs 8.1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarretWallace Posted June 9, 2016 Report Share Posted June 9, 2016 At least nothing runs 8.1 Windows 8.1: Millennium, The Next Generation ghost-angel 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DasBroot Posted June 10, 2016 Report Share Posted June 10, 2016 You know, I used ME for years as my main gaming OS back in the day and didn't notice any more BSOD or hard locks than 98 or 98 SE. Guess I got lucky. (Never supported ME in the office, though - volume license was for WIndows 2000. Also only had 3 Vista machines in the entire company in the course of Vista's life: most users went from XP to 7. And a few went from 2000 to 7.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted June 12, 2016 Report Share Posted June 12, 2016 Most of my Win10 woes revolve around video cards and related issues. Some of the laptops I've had to back the Intel Management Engine back down to 9.5 to get the machine to come out of sleep properly. I feel like the guy I told "don't have six monitors" got what he deserved though (we said we aren't supporting that, you can figure it out on your own). An older model video card flat out didn't work at all with Win10, so we replaced it and trashed the old one. Lenovo model machines seem to hate Win10, a lot. At least, the older models we have in the building do. No one of them has taken the upgrade well. Which is better than a few Dell Latitude laptop models have taken it: which is to say they don't. They don't even pretend. They just die. I have a consumer model (non-vPro) Dell Inspiron ultrabook which took the upgrade with no issues--but it originally came with Windows 8 Home, and would not run 7 or below. Your Latitudes might need to have their bios upgraded, especially if you're having problems with the Intel Management Engine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrickstaPriest Posted June 12, 2016 Report Share Posted June 12, 2016 Windows 10 is good, my issue has been more with Lenovo... put in a new drive, but you can't actually create a new instance of the recovery software on a new drive. Arrgh. Overall 10 has been good except for a few annoying things. Doing a clean install of 10 was mostly a big issue after the fact because of my laptop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost-angel Posted June 12, 2016 Report Share Posted June 12, 2016 I have a consumer model (non-vPro) Dell Inspiron ultrabook which took the upgrade with no issues--but it originally came with Windows 8 Home, and would not run 7 or below. Your Latitudes might need to have their bios upgraded, especially if you're having problems with the Intel Management Engine. They're 5 to 6 year old Latitudes, we tried every trick in the book. Win10 is either unusable, or refuses to recognize even the simplest drivers. We weren't/aren't going to put any more resources into older laptops, so it's a moot point; but the older Latitudes just simply do not run Win10 in our experience. I do have a newer latitude that seems to operate OK on it, bit slow, but nothing overly unbearable (at least, from my POV. Some of the users get down right pissed if a web page takes longer than 10 seconds to load). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted June 14, 2016 Report Share Posted June 14, 2016 Hermit 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tkdguy Posted June 22, 2016 Report Share Posted June 22, 2016 At this point, I've stopped the automatic updates. Not sure if it's a good idea, though. Marcus Impudite 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus Impudite Posted June 22, 2016 Report Share Posted June 22, 2016 At this point, I've stopped the automatic updates. Not sure if it's a good idea, though. Don't worry, you don't really need them. Besides, Megalosoft can't be trusted not to continue using the updates as Trojan Horses, so it wouldn't be a very good idea to re-enable them anyway. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted June 22, 2016 Report Share Posted June 22, 2016 Don't worry, you don't really need them. Besides, Megalosoft can't be trusted not to continue using the updates as Trojan Horses, so it wouldn't be a very good idea to re-enable them anyway. The Russians will be very happy to hear this. Pattern Ghost 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted June 22, 2016 Report Share Posted June 22, 2016 And they'll de-encrypt your hard drive for a very reasonable price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted June 22, 2016 Report Share Posted June 22, 2016 As it happens I went to an ISSA seminar on ransomware last week. It was frightening. Not patching is not an option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted June 22, 2016 Report Share Posted June 22, 2016 I'm probably going to have to buy a new computer soon, so I will upgrade to Windows 10 that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus Impudite Posted June 22, 2016 Report Share Posted June 22, 2016 My system and files are all backed up on external drives, and I don't keep anything of a personal or sensitive nature on my machine long-term. The Russians can suck my demonic [Radio Edit]. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 22, 2016 Report Share Posted June 22, 2016 * Cancer pats his old Win2K box, which hasn't been connected to anything else since 2005, on its pointy little head * Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted June 22, 2016 Report Share Posted June 22, 2016 "Dur", says Cancer's Win2k box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DasBroot Posted June 22, 2016 Report Share Posted June 22, 2016 We've been hit by ransomware three times. Thankfully it hasn't jumped through shares yet - just hit everything locally. Even that is terrible enough. If there's a greater threat lurking somewhere in the deep I don't even want to know about it - ransomware has proven more disruptive than any other type of malware I've ever dealt with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost-angel Posted June 22, 2016 Report Share Posted June 22, 2016 Cryptolocker and variants is usually the unwanted excuse admins have for wiping a drive clean and starting over.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted June 27, 2016 Report Share Posted June 27, 2016 Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of lawsuit! FrankL 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus Impudite Posted June 28, 2016 Report Share Posted June 28, 2016 Serves them right. May there be many more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankL Posted June 28, 2016 Report Share Posted June 28, 2016 The free upgrade is due to end on July 29, one year after Windows 10's initial release. When it goes, so too will accidental and unwanted upgrades. Nonetheless, this payout is hard to interpret as anything other than an invitation for other disgruntled Windows 10 recipients to take legal action against Microsoft. There have been rumblings of a class-action suit against the company for almost as long as the upgrade offer has been available; this court victory could provide the impetus to make that actually happen. We can hope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DasBroot Posted June 28, 2016 Report Share Posted June 28, 2016 I'm fairly certain that the hardware retailer we use will keep using image disks which have the first half of Windows 10 patched in (the click here to upgrade, but we're not too bossy yet stage). I expect to have to continue disabling GWX in the registry for years to come. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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