Windows 10

[Bamafan3723]

Re: Windows 10

Figured I'd just bump this thread instead of starting a new one. My girlfriend just bought a Dell Inspiron 15 laptop and it has Windows 10 Home. I run on Windows 7 so I'm new to 10 and just now trying to learn everything. Let me preface by saying I did call to speak with Dell support about these questions yesterday but it was difficult to understand the guy so I didn't get as much information as I was hoping. Maybe someone here can help educate me on some of this.

First off, the laptop came with a 256 GB SSD. When I go to "This PC", the C drive is the only drive that shows and it displays as a 225 GB drive instead of 256 GB. I thought maybe the SSD was partitioned with a hidden drive as a recovery drive maybe but when I choose to show hidden files/folders or whatever, nothing else displays. I understand that the OS by default will take up part of the SSD, but shouldn't the PC still display that I have a 256 GB SSD instead of 225 GB??

Second issue, the SSD is already showing that I only have 165 GB of 225 GB free. The only programs I have installed on the PC are Quickbooks 2018, MS Office Home and Student 2016, and Firefox. I believe QB and Office would combine to take up around 5-6 GB. How in the world it is showing I've used so much of the SSD already is beyond me. Windows did install some updates the other night, one of which was Windows version 1803 I believe? I think I read that it might have been a 3 GB update. What is weird though is that before installing the updates I believe it was showing I had around 190 GB free and after the updates and installing those programs it dropped to 165 GB free.

It is just concerning to me that:

1) The PC doesn't list my SSD as being 256 GB and...

2) It is showing that much of the SSD has already been used.

Do any of you with Windows 10 experience have any ideas or suggestions? I ran CCleaner to try to free up some space and that recovered about 1 GB. I would've thought with the OS and those programs combined I would have only used around 30 or so GB of the SSD.

[DieHardYankee26]

Re: Windows 10

To manufactures/consumers, a gigabyte is 1000 megs, a meg is 1000 kilobytes. But in reality, a gig is 1024 megs and a meg is 1024 kilobytes because of the way computers calculate. So as far as the SSD not showing the full 256, that's normal.

[p_rushing]

Re: Windows 10

1st- as mentioned above, the space available is not 256GB. For SSD drives they also reserve additional space for optimization. Some drives allow you to increase or decrease this.
*mine is a 256GB and shows 237

2nd- you could install a stock image of windows 10, that will get rid of any bloatware from Dell, but you may need to download drivers before hand to install after the install.

3rd- you can also try the cleanup tool in windows, ccleaner may not have had all the options checked

[roadman]

Re: Windows 10

I'm bringing up this old thread with a question about pricing and where to go to places for Windows 10.

I'm having a desktop built by our daughters boyfriend. He also helped build our sons computers several years ago with Windows 8 advice that didn't go well with either sons Windows 8. The daughters boyfriend had our sons purchase license keys for 25 bucks, I think. Both of their laptops Windows 8 had many hiccups and they needed to go out and repurchase Windows 8.

Our daughters boyfriend already said I can help you with Windows 10. I told our sons that and they both said, don't do that and don't follow his same advice with Windows 10.

So, where is a place you folks would recommend to purchase Windows 10 Home version. I know there is BB, Amazon, Newegg, etc....

Also, any suggestions and recommendations for MS Office 19.(looks like current version) I don't want the subscription based version.

He's building the computer this weekend. It looks like MS Office cost a lot more than Windows 10 home.

Thanks, fellas.

Edit- Office 2019 or Office 365?

[p_rushing]

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Office costs a lot.

First see if you can get the home version through work discount. It should be free for X number of devices or really cheap. If not, see if you can get any other discounts with school or government email addresses.


Otherwise go and look at the price from Microsoft. Then you may find it a few dollars lower elsewhere, but not much. There are bulk purchases, but generally those aren't sold cheaply by the reseller and may not stay active.


365 or 2019 depends on what you want to pay now. 1 time vs yearly.


There are a few free options so unless you need full functionality, the free programs are fine for most.
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[roadman]

Re: Windows 10

Office costs a lot.

First see if you can get the home version through work discount. It should be free for X number of devices or really cheap. If not, see if you can get any other discounts with school or government email addresses.


Otherwise go and look at the price from Microsoft. Then you may find it a few dollars lower elsewhere, but not much. There are bulk purchases, but generally those aren't sold cheaply by the reseller and may not stay active.

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Thanks, but I work out of the home. I will check to see if there are any other discounts out there, I know it isn't cheap.

[Jr.]

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Any chance you can bill your employer for it? At the very least you can write it off as a work expense. That's what I do

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[roadman]

Re: Windows 10

Any chance you can bill your employer for it? At the very least you can write it off as a work expense. That's what I do

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Yep, good point about that. Thanks

[cima]

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Can't go wrong with Google's Office products IMO. For my business I use Google Sheets (Excel), Google Docs (Word), and Google Slides (Powerpoint). They all work great and as far as I can tell they do everything Office 365 does. And the best part is they are free.

[p_rushing]

Re: Windows 10

Can't go wrong with Google's Office products IMO. For my business I use Google Sheets (Excel), Google Docs (Word), and Google Slides (Powerpoint). They all work great and as far as I can tell they do everything Office 365 does. And the best part is they are free.

They are lite excel for power users, but good enough for most users

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Re: Windows 10

Yep, good point about that. Thanks

you check ebay?

[tomassegars]

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I have upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10,to be honest,if you are want to start working on Windows 10,don't upgrade,you'd reinstall a new Windows 10.

[Charles V. Gates]

Re: Windows 10

I have upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10,to be honest,if you are want to start working on Windows 10,don't upgrade,you'd reinstall a new Windows 10.

That is what i was confused about before,uninstall Windows 7 and reinstall Windows 10,what should i do with the data stored on Windows 7?
I have solved this problem,if upgrade to Windows 10 from Windows 7,all data saved on computer without losing.
About how to upgrade to Windows 10 safely?

https://www.howtogeek.com/509087/how-to-upgrade-from-windows-7-to-windows-10-for-free/

[LambertandHam]

Re: Windows 10

That is what i was confused about before,uninstall Windows 7 and reinstall Windows 10,what should i do with the data stored on Windows 7?

External or some form of date backup. Never take the chance for important things imho.