Windows 10 and Instrument Software - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Terabyte2007
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 08, 2015, 09:00:32 pm
content: I must have had a few too many drinks, but I did it and survived! I have upgraded to Windows 10 and so far all of my instrument software seems to work! This was a foolish move, but you only live once! I was really worried about Benchvue but all seems good. All in all, I was surprised how well everything worked after the upgrade.Anyone else brave enough? Let's hear your story, good or bad!

author: jancumps
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: August 08, 2015, 09:07:56 pm
content: Same here. Small hickups with wifi and printer/scanner that were easy to resolve.Embedded toolchains, IDEs and debuggers all ok. Rigol scope software works.

author: nctnico
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 08, 2015, 10:01:11 pm
content: What happened with waiting until the first service pack?

author: Terabyte2007
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 08, 2015, 10:03:01 pm
content: Quote from: nctnico on August 08, 2015, 10:01:11 pmYeah, that just did'nt happen this time!

author: cs.dk
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: August 09, 2015, 08:33:08 am
content: I have updated one desktop and two notebooks, all went fine.I think Windows 10 is one of their better ones.. I hated Win 8/8.1, so I went right from Win 7 to 10.

author: Noise Floor
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: August 17, 2015, 10:15:09 pm
content: You have given me the confidence to give it a go. I had already pre-fetched Win 10 and I am going to the "Ok, let's continue" button now.

author: kaz911
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 21, 2015, 06:37:31 pm
content: I have upgraded 2 normal pc's (main workstation and laptop) and my virtual machine on my mac - all successful so far.Windows 10 seems to work great - but I have set all privacy settings to max and disabled CorTina or CorTana or whatever it is calledIt is a bit of a pain uninstalling all the crap like TV & Movies, Sports & XBox - but doable.I love the new world clockand the money app works pretty well most of the time.

author: tautech
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 22, 2015, 01:56:34 am
content: Can you Win 10 users check something for me please.EmptyUSB stick, freshly formatted in FAT 32 and/or NTFSIs there a System folder in the root of the drive?

author: tautech
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 22, 2015, 12:10:13 pm
content: Quote from: wilfred on August 22, 2015, 11:55:48 amCool, thanks

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 22, 2015, 12:31:45 pm
content: Quote from: wilfred on August 22, 2015, 11:55:48 amWould not trust it to not hide it still...... Use another OS that can read NTFS to verify.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 22, 2015, 04:24:27 pm
content: Having watched a little of CCCen recent proceedings, and listening to Security Now, along with ATT Threattraq, I am left thinking that. After all, remember the Sony rootkit on CD's, which put a parser in that would not reveal any DLL starting with $$, even to the OS, so I naturally had a small desktop file called $$syscanary.dll on the desktop. Kind of there as a reminder. Was just a small text file I renamed.

author: rdl
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 22, 2015, 06:00:45 pm
content: Quote from: wilfred on August 22, 2015, 03:39:28 pmBecause it is Microsoft's nature to be arrogant and deceitful. No matter how many settings you change in Windows 10, you can never be certain of the privacy and security of your data. Microsoft won't care either, because they are given free reign and control over a person's system when anyone agrees to their policies and installs their spyware.

author: Len
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 22, 2015, 06:38:38 pm
content: Quote from: wilfred on August 22, 2015, 03:39:28 pmThat's not a new feature, that folder & file exist on previous versions of Windows. IndexerVolumeGuid contains a unique ID for the disk volume, so the file search indexer can recognize it.I can't check on Windows 10 right now, but on 8.1 that file is visible if you turn on the option to see hidden files in Explorer - except the security settings for the folder deny permission to most users. I think that's more a matter of security than "sneakiness".

author: Bud
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 22, 2015, 07:01:09 pm
content: Quote from: wilfred on August 21, 2015, 02:40:53 pmThose are not product license keys, just a thumbprint or something.

author: tautech
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 22, 2015, 08:05:45 pm
content: Quote from: wilfred on August 22, 2015, 03:39:28 pmQuote from: Len on August 22, 2015, 06:38:38 pmHmmShould have checked my dual boot 8.1 too.Well this persistant USB root folder from Win 10 caused all sorts of grief when trying to install new FW in a DSO the other day.I hever have this problem with my main OS, Win 7.Luckily my customer had a XP machine and it saved the day.

author: Noise Floor
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: August 22, 2015, 09:12:35 pm
content: Well I upgraded, no real issues yet. I had some small utilities that needed to be updated anyway, once updated work fine in Win10.I set all the cloud "features" to off during install, still working through how to make sure privacy is best maintained.

author: cs.dk
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: August 23, 2015, 08:24:04 am
content: Quote from: wilfred on August 23, 2015, 02:22:49 amWhich windows version?For older versions a retail media can't install an OEM or Volume version and vice versa. Lots of traps there.

author: cs.dk
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: August 23, 2015, 10:10:11 am
content: Thats normal behavior - You can do a clean install, when it first activated;Quote