In reply to a post by micksharpe:

In reply to a post by Oliver341:

I don't think the window appears unless the W10 tray icon is clicked though.

It does appear, unasked and often, I can assure you.

There is an update to disable it but I'm not sure that I can bring myself to apply it right now. Maybe when my blood pressure's gone down a bit...

That's odd.

I simply went to the Task Bar properties and set the Win 10 icon to "Hide icon and notifications". Not been bothered by it since.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

I simply went to the Task Bar properties and set the Win 10 icon to "Hide icon and notifications". Not been bothered by it since.

I don't see that option here (on either machine). I can hide the icon but Windows will restore it to the system tray soon enough.

No it doesn't.

Anyway, you don't have to be a Google Guru to find posts where people had problems installing Windows 7. I just picked the first of thousands of hits.

Right click on a blank part of the task bar, (not the system tray section where the icon is - that only gives you the System Icons).

At the bottom, below the "Lock the Taskbar" is Properties. In the Properties is "Notification area - Customize". Scroll down the list - it's GWX. I get three options. Show both, Hide both, Show only notifications. With the third I think a notification does cause the icon to return.

I am on Win 8.1 of course, maybe it only arrived with that (or 8).

Edited by RobertoS (Wed 23-Dec-15 00:23:44)

Seems like the people helping think it does!

The person being "helped" doesn't.

In reply to a post by TinyMongomery:

There is a certain amount of truth in that, although I would still contend that we are seeing a hysterical overreaction to the reporting of Windows 10 problems. As I demonstrated, it is easy to find exactly the same complaints made at the time about installing earlier versions of Windows (and a quick Google will reveal many, many more).

Personally I think that it's a good thing that Microsoft have offered a free upgrade to Windows 10. Those who don't like it don't have to take up the offer, but constantly sniping with the same inaccurate comments is not helpful. Others have provided helpful suggestions as to the solution of potential problems and this seems to me a more useful approach.

If Windows 10 is so fundamentally flawed it is difficult to understand how the computer manufacturers manage to install it successfully.

A spot on post.

TBH, I had no problems installing Windows 8 and no hardware or software problem. My problem with Windows 8 was and still is that it looks awful and MS made a right dogs breath of it. Stick a decent start menu on it and get rid of the side bars and it was far more usable.
Still awful to look at, but usable.

Windows 10, on the other hand looks worse than Windows 8, the start menu is awful and MS saying it is back is spreading the truth a bit. It is full of spy rubbish and the modern apps get in the way.
There is an advantage in going from windows 7 to 8.1 as windows 8.1 is better with memory, it boots up and shuts down faster and going from Windows 7 to 10 have a advantage, but I do not see any advantage going from windows 8.1 to 10.

Fan boys will always write something positive about their beloved OS.

Manufactures have to put the OS on and will find the best way to do that. They don't have to deal with external device driver issues.

I'm not installing W10 but MS insist on letting me know that I don't have it and do I want it.

In this day and age one would have thought a multi billion $ company could have got things done a bit better.

In reply to a post by broadband66:

Fan boys will always write something positive about their beloved OS.

Indeed. We see great examples of that here with Windows 7 fan boys. It used to be XP fan boys. In a few years the same people will be objecting to Windows 15 and harking back to the "good old days" of Windows 12.