Dear God, yes... Win10 a free upgrade for Win8 AND Win7 users.

[lavacano]

[QUOTE=Jsm;47002235]In what ways has hibernate been changed? I have been unable to hibernate my (win 7) PC since I went up from 8gb of ram to 20-something. I am [I]guessing[/I] its related to that. Would be great if that was fixed.[/QUOTE]

The way it works is it stores all 20+ GB of RAM into a file called hiberfile.sys somewhere (probably on the drive that contains the Windows boot manager, so probably C:\, but I haven't personally used hibernate in years so I couldn't exactly tell you for sure). So I guess make sure you have that much drive space? I haven't seen that be mentioned anywhere as either a problem or something they fixed, but it's not exactly that common. They probably at least looked at it while they're were playing in the hibernate code though.

What I was referring to however, was that waking from hibernate is now a multithreaded job, and more interestingly, how the system responds when it hibernates and wakes up to something different. Previously, the environment the system woke up to had to be [b]exactly[/b] the same as it was when you hibernated it, except for of course the hardware clock. Now, in part thanks to Windows 8's "hybrid boot" being the default, you can do some Windows updates and/or change some hardware around (upgrade the graphics card for instance), and Windows is smart enough to look at the changes and respond to them appropriately.

[Gum100]

Given that about 9 different desktops owned by various family members including myself, are all using the same Win7 activation key, I'd imagine only one of us will be able to upgrade for free?

[fruxodaily]

[QUOTE=Gum100;47004089]Given that about 9 different desktops owned by various family members including myself, are all using the same Win7 activation key, I'd imagine only one of us will be able to upgrade for free?[/QUOTE]

all should be able to upgrade

[Jsm]

[QUOTE=lavacano;47003400]

What I was referring to however, was that waking from hibernate is now a multithreaded job, and more interestingly, how the system responds when it hibernates and wakes up to something different. Previously, the environment the system woke up to had to be [B]exactly[/B] the same as it was when you hibernated it, except for of course the hardware clock. Now, in part thanks to Windows 8's "hybrid boot" being the default, you can do some Windows updates and/or change some hardware around (upgrade the graphics card for instance), and Windows is smart enough to look at the changes and respond to them appropriately.[/QUOTE]

Finally!! I have had windows fail to come out of hibernation / hybrid sleep due to things being unplugged / plugged in / moved around whilst it was "off".