Anyone Done the Win 8.1 to Win 10 Upgrade?

I did it on mine and have never been happier. Every machine is different but I did the 10 upgrade on a 7 desktop and an 8.1 laptop and have had no problems to speak of. Support for 7 will end pretty quickly as will support for 8.1. That was my reason for taking the leap in faith. If you're setting it up for audio there are a few tweaks you can do to get latency very, very low. The lowest I have experienced since using Cakewalk products since 1990!

dmbaer
I have a laptop that is rarely used and I have little investment in what's loaded on it.  I understand the free Win 10 is upgrade-only - that is, install in place over 8.1.  So, a clean install isn't an option even if that's what I wanted to do - which I do not.  The existing OS came with the laptop and I don't have a re-install disk, so there's a just a little bit of discomfort in deciding to make this move.  I wanted to see if others have blazed this trail.  Looks like it should be low-risk, low-hassle, but I thought I'd ask here first.
 
As to my other machines, my DAW and my every-day home-office computer - they'll both stay at Win 7 until such machine needs to be replaced (or MS drops support of Win 7 ... or hell freezes over  ).

1) You must upgrade first time around to get licensed. But after that you can wipe it and do a clean install.

2) If you clone with something like acronis true image then you've got a win7 backup. You can also roll back in theory anyway without it, but I do hope you have a backup strategy anyway.

3) Hell may freeze over if Sonar stops support for win7. It is already out of mainsteam support so MS may force their hand:
http://windows.microsoft...en-gb/windows/lifecycle

Cheers..

I have a Lenovo Yoga 2 laptop that I use for business purposes, and when an icon appeared telling me I could upgrade to Windows 10 I thought what the hell and went for it. So off it goes into the whole drawn out upgrade process and at the end of it all tells me that it's going to restart to complete the installation. Great! So it restarts and lo & behold....I'm still rocking Windows 8.1. Not even so much as a sorry, it just acted like nothing had happened. And every time I turn it on I get another icon proudly telling me that I can upgrade to Windows 10 if I like. Microsoft is clearly trolling me so I'm just going to ignore it from now on. What do I want to upgrade for anyway? I only use it for Quickbooks and Excel. 

Do it! Win10 makes Win8.1 look like the sour fart it is! (sorry, I was never a fan) Either way, Windows 10 is a true fresh breath of air in the Windows camp. No issues here.

General concensus------JUST DO IT!!!!!         Lol!

Sidroe
General concensus------JUST DO IT!!!!!         Lol!

And vote Trump ;)

Number one make sure your drivers and hardware are compatible. Backup first. I'm not upgrading my DAW until 2016, too many teething issues with Win10 (all my other PC's are on it).

King_Windom
Hey Mesh  Glad you got the internet problem solved. I am going to jump from Windows 7 to 10 next month.   Dan

Thanks King.....I'm very happy as I was dreading going back to Win 8.1 (which I was very close to doing) and I also didn't want to give up in solving this issue. It was really annoying as I do like to game online as well and this just simply cancelled that option. Just the day to day functions were severely immobilized and it was like being on those 56k modems.
 
Like the good Dok says, make sure all your hardware has good driver support and you should be good to go. Win 10 is much more 'snappier/responsive' and very pleasant to work in.

We only have one 8.1 machine in the house. The Lovely Lady gets real nervous about change. When her XP machine crapped out we bought her computer with 8.1 already installed. She had to upgrade three pieces of business related utilities to the tune of another $100. 
 
I for one would be sure that her machine would upgrade without additional cost but she says until there is a compelling reason to do so, I am not allowed to upgrade her computer to Win 10.
 
I have four workstations upgraded to Win 10. I have not done the DAW yet as I want a full weekend to verify that every project I have will (at least) open and play without missing or inoperable plugs.
 
For the DAW I have an exact model drive to be cloned just before I upgrade, That way I'll have three backup measures available to me.
1. Win 10 Rollback-> Win 7
2. Cloned drive
3. Acronis Backup
 

King_Windom, love your Mosrite avatar.

bapu
When her XP machine crapped out we bought her computer with 8.1 already installed. She had to upgrade three pieces of business related utilities to the tune of another $100. 

 
Yep, same here when I went from XP to Win 7 on my home-office computer.  Really annoying having to shell out money for things like Photoshop Elements.  Even more painful to have to buy a working copy of Nero to replace the perfectly adequate one that came free with some DVD drive bought years ago.

Just create a True Image rescue disk. You then boot off it and then it runs it off Linux :)