can anyone DL a copy of win10? free?
my dad has a laptop with win8, and he (and I) HATES it. Just wondering if he could get rid of win8 and upgrade to win10??
Is it safe to use utilities like CC Cleaner, Malabyte's Malware, and defrag. Is this stuff even necessary anymore?
Yes. Win10 is a free upgrade for anyone with Win7, 8 or 8.1. In fact, if he has connected to the internet and applies security patches periodically, his laptop should be bugging him to upgrade. There should be a little Window icon in the lower right to start the upgrade process.
On DoggyMama's computer, it made me upgrade from 8.0 to 8.1 before it would even let me reserve a copy of 10. (which still isn't ready to download apparently).
I've upgraded and running for the past ~month, meh ... nothing to write home about.
Well, DoggyMama's computer is upgrading as we speak. Then I'll have to go back through this thread and do some googling to see what I need to disable (basically everything that I possibly can that's even remotely related to MS). Not that it seems to matter from what I'm reading here. All I can say is I'm glad it's her computer and not mine. I may end up trying to convince her to go to Linux once I'm a little more comfortable with it. For what she does, I truly think she'd like Linux's simplicity better. She's already intimidated by Windows as it is, so learning Linux wouldn't be a big deal for her (since she really doesn't "know" Windows).