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Patrick9

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I had forgotten what a pain setting up a new computer could be. My last one has developed some really irritating issues.  I am now in the process of settng up a new one. It probably doesn't help going from windows Vista to windows 10 in the process.



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My upgrade (for lack of a batter term) from windows 8.1 to 10 did not go well. With windows 8.1 I had a smoking fast machine that would cold boot in 6 seconds. After Windows 10 it went to 45 seconds and was noticeably slower off the desk top. I ended up buying a Windows 10 USB stick to do a clean install. Now all is like it was with Windows 8.1, but I paid $99 for what should have been free!



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Both these time smoke compared to the 10 minute start up of my old computer. I am going to religate it to photo work. It seems that Elements 9 won't play with windows 10. So the old computer has a reprieve. I am not good at post processing so I see no need to upgrade Elements at this time.



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My upgrade (for lack of a batter term) from windows 8.1 to 10 did not go well. With windows 8.1 I had a smoking fast machine that would cold boot in 6 seconds. After Windows 10 it went to 45 seconds and was noticeably slower off the desk top. I ended up buying a Windows 10 USB stick to do a clean install. Now all is like it was with Windows 8.1, but I paid $99 for what should have been free!

Hate to tell you but you could've downloaded the USB stick and just used your existing code and paid nothing.

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I tried that to no avail, albeit with a DVD-R and not a USB stick. Same delayed boot and sluggish desktop. It was pretty obvious my system needed a format and clean install. The upgrade from WIN 7 to WIN 8 to WIN 8.1 was too much for one PC. Once WIN 10 was on and functional I could have also went back to Windows 8.1. I didn't like 8.1, but I had made it to where the tile nonsense wasn't visible. Yeah it cost me $99 when it should have been free, but to me it was worth $99 to have my smokin' system back. An SSD and a fast motherboard makes digital photography so much more enjoyable. When I have to go back to USB2 it's almost painful when you're used to USB3.



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Other than my work computer, we do still have one Win 8.1 system here...I haven't bothered to upgrade it yet as it is rarely used...I am sure that I will, just not sure when...We ran into a similar problem with my wife's system...it is totally useless at this point other than if I did a build from scratch on a 5 year old system...it started about the way you describe and she let it go...you might want to at least have a plan for moving to your Win10 box...and maybe keep images (or copies) on external media...she let hers get to the point it is almost impossible to do anything including copying data off...and yes, it was protected and I do know computers...something got on it past the protection and she didn't bring it up until it was beyond any kind of a fix other than a wipe and rebuild...



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On my 3 year old laptop I have one pain in the butt issue with WIN 10. WIN 10 keeps overwriting the OEM 3 year old graphics driver with a newer one and it causes a slow down as well as some apps not to function. I've checked the box that turns off updating drivers, but it does it anyway. About once a week I have to roll back the graphics driver to gain back some speed as well as make the nonfunctional apps functional. 



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And I've got a vista machine with a crashed hard disk. LOL

 

Fortunately, it isn't my current workstation but still has a bunch of stuff on it that I need. Also, fortunately, I have a recent full backup made using Acronis TI 2010. I just need to make time to install a new disk, and install the backup. I doubt if that machine will ever make it to Windows 10 (even though I have the Dell Windows 7) upgrade discs.

 

As for upgrading my workstation (Windows 7).... uh, no. I'm seeing way too many reports of people blowing up their hardware trying to upgrade and then having to try and recover back to their previous OS. Life is too short. I'll let all the early adopters flush out the bugs... and thanks for your service, guys. I appreciate it.

 

--Ron



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It seems to be the automatic "free" upgrade that's the problem most of the time. It was in my cases with both desktop and laptop. However, I do know some people that the free upgrade worked for. In reality it worked for me too, but just not to my perfectionist level! I was not willing to put up with a 45 second delay that I knew wasn't right.



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I have a laptop that got the upgrade automatically downloaded .... and presented as a Windows Update component. The ONLY windows update component!  I had to 'hide' the Windows 10 upgrade to get my Windows 7 update screen back. It seems to me that Microsoft is pushing this thing a bit too hard. I'm fairly certain that Windows 10 wasn't ready for prime time when it slid down the chute.

 

If and when I do the upgrade (on any of my PCs), I will likely do it from a USB stick. That seems to be the better way and I've even seen Microsoft support personel suggest it when others have had problems with the automagic upgrade.

 

--Ron



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As mentioned that's what worked for me. It wasn't free to fix the errors the upgrade created, but it worked and I was due for a format and clean install anyway.



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My last format and clean was about a year and a half ago. My hard drive  totally locked up.  I had just finished my backup when a loud grinding noise was heard and it died. I signed its  death certificate and installed a new one



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Windows updates have always been troublematic. Where clean installs work much better.