OT: Windows 10 problems?
Last week I finally got the long-awaited Windows 10 upgrade, and I immediately had some problems that I have been wondering if anyone else has experienced.
First off, I have since switched back to Windows 7 after three days of trying to fix the problems on my own.
I have the Windows 10 upgrade on a laptop, and the first thing I noticed upon upgrading was that my touchpad and clickers were disabled completely.
I went into the settings and enabled the touchpad, but the clickers still wouldn't work. On top of that, every time I shut off and turned on my computer, the touchpad was again disabled by the OS.
Another major problem was the inability to stream video on browsers other than Chrome. As we know, Chrome and streaming video is.......uh, not good to say the least. I use IE to stream BTN2GO, ESPN3 and WWE Network video and it worked perfectly on my Windows 7's IE.
Well, not on 10. I got nothing but a blank, green screen with sound playing every single I time I tried streaming a video. Tried Firefox, and the same thing happened. Streaming video is one of the most important features on a computer for me personally.
Just wondering if anyone else has had any problems since the upgrade. Share if you have experienced any or anything like I have.
I get that it just literally came out and I'm making quite the leap, going from 7 and bypassing Windows 8 and 8.1 to Windows 10. That user interface, while fast, is so confusing and makes life difficult just to find the control panel!
August 18th, 2015 at 2:36 PM ^
I made the jump from win7 to 10 also. Only issue I've run into is that my pc no longer detects my second monitor for some reason. I've been messing around with various drivers (have an AMD 7800 card) and havent gotten it to work yet. Other than that everything is working at least as well as it was on windows 7.
August 18th, 2015 at 2:58 PM ^
I had the same issue, but I have nvidia. I had to download the Windows 10 specific beta driver for my second monitor to work.
Does AMD have a windows 10 specific driver?
August 18th, 2015 at 3:31 PM ^
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download
It looks like they do.
August 18th, 2015 at 2:37 PM ^
I upgraded a Dell workstation with Win 7 64 Pro to Win 10 about two weeks ago. Other than changing the default printer, I had no other issues and there are a bunch of devices attached to the particular PC. It took a bit longer to do the conversion than I thought it would, about and hour and three quarters, but the PC is configured as a RAID and that might have added to the install time.
This is anecdotal, but it seems like my applications are running a bit faster than before the upgrade which might be a consequence of installing the OS and cleaning out garbage from several years of Win 7.
I like the new GUI....didn't take long to feel comfy with it.
FWIW, I skipped Win 8.....beta'd the OS and thought it sucked. 8.1 was better, but I think Microsoft will be on sound footing with 10.
Knocking on wood, but so far so good.
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As we like to call it in our IT department ID10T error, or the issue is between the keyboard and the chair.
/s
August 18th, 2015 at 2:47 PM ^
I like it so far. I upgraded my brand new ASUS notebook with no issues, well the only issues were that the tasks I had setup in Windows 8.1 didn't get ported over to Windows 10 so I had to reset them up. And the programs I have installed on a microsdcard (which i have a task to mount as a vhdx drive) didn't get thier icons in the start menu. I doubt I'll uninstall them to re-install them simply for thier icons since they work fine but it is an annoyance.
I'm probably going to upgrade my windows 7 desktop this weekend and my ancient windows 7 laptop (2006 era dell inspiron, currently used as a print server and file server for my wife's pictures) will probably get upgraded this weekend as well.
August 18th, 2015 at 2:48 PM ^
When WD turns 40 in like 25 years, we can have a WD 40 Party!!!
August 18th, 2015 at 3:03 PM ^
Slick!
August 18th, 2015 at 3:27 PM ^
I get it!
August 18th, 2015 at 3:04 PM ^
25 years? Dude, didn't anyone ever explain the life span of a koala to you?
August 18th, 2015 at 3:25 PM ^
I'm gonna live forever. I have access to veterinarians that most koalas don't.
August 18th, 2015 at 10:03 PM ^
We can tell by your picture you're in love..with good reason your vet is quite the dish!
But "hung like a Koala" is not a compliment among we humans and hot ladies typically don't go for interspecies dating.
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August 18th, 2015 at 4:19 PM ^
I'm going to go out on a limb and say you might have just had some driver issues with Windows 10. Chances are that if you were running Windows 7 you might have had old hardware or a gunky registry that could have caused a number of these problems. I've updated 4 PCs ranging from a DIY desktop, a new-ish laptop with a touch screen, a 7-year-old laptop, and basically a netbook without any major issues.
Personally, I like Windows 10. Apparently that's the minority around here, though.
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August 18th, 2015 at 10:19 PM ^
when i first upgraded my laptop from 8.1 to 10, i wasnt all that happy with the performance. but then i did a fresh install of windows 10 and now it works beautifully.
also in regard to chrome - i used to love it. when it first came out it was so fast. now its just a resource hog.. ive been using edge on 10 lately.
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