Advice Request Win 8.1 vs Win10

[ng4ever]

I loved Win 7 and still misses it, and I don’t think I am alone feeling this.

Yeah but what I really miss is Windows 2000!

 

[monkeylove]

I remember improvements in terms of performance when I moved from Win 7 to 8.1, but I had to use Classic Shell and then make some tweaks in the registry in order to have grey backgrounds for some windows, etc. The customization was moved when I upgraded for free to Win 10.

 

[franz]

Yeah but what I really miss is Windows 2000!

I never tried that one.

 

[show-Zi]

now, with windows 10 home/pro, I feel like we are just beta testers for MS. The best and stable patches are updated to the business versions => people should not update windows 10 every tuesday. Select Defer update or change the channel to CBB => more stable

Regarding the matter that the problem occurs after applying the update, I feel that it has become really terrible since it became win10. In terms of stability and perfection, I think the option of using 8.1 until just before the end of support is also effective.

 

[franz]

I found this now on windowscentral.com, and small bugs with win10 keep appearing.

• Fix problems with Windows Update installing May 2021 Update
• Fix problems with setup installing May 2021 Update
• Fix problems with Media Creation Tool installing May 2021 Update
• Fix problems with USB flash drive installing May 2021 Update
• Fix problems with Update Assistant installing May 2021 Update
• Fix error code 0xC1900101 upgrading to May 2021 Update
• Fix error code 0x80070002 0x20009 upgrading to May 2021 Update
• Fix error code 0x80070070 upgrading to May 2021 Update
• Fix error code 0xC1900107 upgrading to May 2021 Update
• Fix error code 0x800F0923 installing May 2021 Update

 

[Local Host]

That's why you need a SSD

SSDs are overrated, Windows 10 will work perfectly fine on a HDD with no performance impact.

That is just a poor excuse from people with low tech knowledge, a HDD is the last thing to blame when you have low performance.

I found this now on windowscentral.com, and small bugs with win10 keep appearing.

• Fix problems with Windows Update installing May 2021 Update
• Fix problems with setup installing May 2021 Update
• Fix problems with Media Creation Tool installing May 2021 Update
• Fix problems with USB flash drive installing May 2021 Update
• Fix problems with Update Assistant installing May 2021 Update
• Fix error code 0xC1900101 upgrading to May 2021 Update
• Fix error code 0x80070002 0x20009 upgrading to May 2021 Update
• Fix error code 0x80070070 upgrading to May 2021 Update
• Fix error code 0xC1900107 upgrading to May 2021 Update
• Fix error code 0x800F0923 installing May 2021 Update

You'll always find people complaining about issues X or Y, we talking millions, you'll find the majorly of us have no issues whasoever since day one.

I can find just as many topics about Windows 8.1.

 

[CyberTech]

SSDs are overrated, Windows 10 will work perfectly fine on a HDD with no performance impact.

That is just a poor excuse from people with low tech knowledge, a HDD is the last thing to blame when you have low performance.

Dude we were talking about the boot speed..

 

[Local Host]

Dude we were talking about the boot speed..

That is just another excuse to win an argument, when the user itself claimed he didn't care about boot speed, but the overall system performance after booting.

Not to mention even then, I have Windows 10 machines with HDDs booting in less than 1 minute (which is more than good enough).

To be fair I'm not an average Joe anyway, if we bought the same computer on same day, in a year time yours would probably be slow like a snail, and mine would be as fast as day one (SSDs aren't the miracle source of performance, even boot times, PCs need to be taken cared off for optimal performance).

 

[jackuars]

I liked 8.1 very much--it was fast, efficient and very stable. But when 10 came out, I upgraded even though I had a potato machine at the time with only 4GB memory installed. Reason was security, even back then.

I think people read all the horror stories about Windows 10 updates and that sticks with them more than the positives. Can't blame anybody there but the time has def. come. If you have the hardware, why not run 8.1 in a Virtual Machine if you still want to keep it?

Any Linux distro would run like a beast on your machine and would be more secure. Not to mention the unending possibilities of customization.

 

[blueblackwow65]

Hi anyone know where I can find UHD 630 drivers for my windows 8.1 using my i3-8100 cpu?Thks

 

[CyberTech]

Hi anyone know where I can find UHD 630 drivers for my windows 8.1 using my i3-8100 cpu?Thks

Which motherboard model?

 

[blueblackwow65]

MSI z370 a-pro

 

[Local Host]

Hi anyone know where I can find UHD 630 drivers for my windows 8.1 using my i3-8100 cpu?Thks

The UHD 630 is not supported on Windows 8.1, but you can get drivers for your CPU here, Intel® Core™ i3-8100 Processor (6M Cache, 3.60 GHz) Downloads, Drivers and Software | Intel

The motherboard is irrelevant since the UHD 630 is on the CPU, not the Chipset. You should consider upgrading to Windows 10 for that CPU.

 

[blueblackwow65]

Ok Thks running win10 just playing with windows 8.1 ,runs quicker.

 

[CyberTech]

MSI z370 a-pro

Unfortunately, Windows 10 x64 only