Upgraded my Win7 Server to Windows 10

[ccihon]

Win10 rolled out today and I upgraded my Windows 7 machine running NPVR and a whole lot of other stuff - very few issues experienced and all appears OK now - the two Win 8.1 clients could not initially access the server share and issued an error when I launched NPVR in client mode - they could not access the win network share - after much fooling around I realized all that was required was a re-boot of the client machines, for some reason.

The only other issue I experienced was not NPVR-related - one of my VMWare services was not set to Automatic and did not start initially after upgrade. This upgrade went well enough that I will soon upgrade my existing clients, both running 8.1 - I'm fairly confident all should work well - the Win 7 machine I successfully upgraded had never run 8 or 8.1 and is running many apps and services, so seems the biggest possible place for issues. All my Win 6 drivers and devices appear to be functional, as are existing apps.

[Reddwarf]

I'v been considering to upgrade, but is there any benefit if the win7 server is running smootly?

[Elmo Putney]

I'v been considering to upgrade, but is there any benefit if the win7 server is running smootly?

What he said ^

[2leftfeet]

I ran the W10 upgrade on one of my Win7 PC's - the transition was seamless and everything, so far, seems to work very well (with the exception of channel change when running as a client).

[jcjefferies]

I was going to upgrade my HP Microserver to Windows 10 but had to abandon the idea! I installed the Preview but no networking. The problem is that Windows reports that no cable is plugged in. Vista, Windows 7 & Windows 8 all work but not Windows 10 even with the latest network drivers. I reported the problem to Microsoft but their final suggestion was to try the HP forum. I didn't bother because HP only support Windows Server 2008/2012. Vista is OK at the moment but I hope to update to Windows 8 instead. Having plug in disks it is easy to swap the OS disks.

Chris

[2leftfeet]

For the most part, I have abandoned W8/8.1 and re-installed Win7 on all my PCs. Win8.1 is a hated OS by many for a reason.

[craigrs84]

I upgraded from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10. It's working fine for me too, so far.

So glad to be rid of Windows 8 and it's awkwardness.

[pcostanza]

I loved W7 but 8.1 has not be a problem for me once I installed Start8 and set it up to act like 7. Uber fast boot ups and never a BCD in all the time I've had it.
So, I'm not in love with it but don't hate it.
Gonna wait a bit to go to 10 though I have it on an old laptop. Sooner or later, it's gonna happen.

[imilne]

10 is better than 8/8.1 but it's still not as good (UI wise) as 7. It boots faster, sure, but that's about it. Oh, and better support for HiDPI screens which is the main reason I've been running it since the start of the year.

Iain

[stustunz]

Yeah if you like 7 ,10 still siucks and it looks like a 5 year designed it big and clunky with flat colours
Still going to carry on using VIstart because the start menu is still a mess what the hell are they thinking ,very strange for such a big company to miss the point for so long