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Fox, I've read a few articles with Windows 10 targeting pirated soft ware. I may know of a guy who knows a guy who knows another guy who has pirated Adobe and Microsoft Office running. Will updating to Win 10 screw this guy over?

 
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My son installed Windows 10 on his new laptop. After the installation, when the computer booted up the desktop screen would just refresh once a second and nothing worked. After working on it for 3 nights, I just reinstalled Windows 8.1.

I guess we'll just wait for Windows 10.1
I'm guessing this is related to some type of driver(s) issue. Since you aren't likely to work on it any further, one thing that might have helped was to have any hardware drivers updated from the mfr. and also to uninstall any 3rd party A/V and/or firewall soSucks!are.
what ever happened to opening the box, plugging something in and having it work? seriously?
As a software developer, this can be quite a tall order. With software, there's no sure way to be able to determine every hardware configuration possible. As such, not every transition will be 100% compatible. I will say that MS has made leaps and bounds in the transition to Win10 (not to mention offering it for free) vs. the transition from XP-Vista or W7-W8. I think I read something where 85-90% of the upgrades were virtually seamless. That's pretty darn good from a software engineering perspective.

Fox, I've read a few articles with Windows 10 targeting pirated soft ware. I may know of a guy who knows a guy who knows another guy who has pirated Adobe and Microsoft Office running. Will updating to Win 10 screw this guy over?
Not likely since I think we're friends with the same guy. ;)

 
My son installed Windows 10 on his new laptop. After the installation, when the computer booted up the desktop screen would just refresh once a second and nothing worked. After working on it for 3 nights, I just reinstalled Windows 8.1.

I guess we'll just wait for Windows 10.1
I'm guessing this is related to some type of driver(s) issue. Since you aren't likely to work on it any further, one thing that might have helped was to have any hardware drivers updated from the mfr. and also to uninstall any 3rd party A/V and/or firewall soSucks!are.
what ever happened to opening the box, plugging something in and having it work? seriously?
As a soSucks!are developer, this can be quite a tall order. With soSucks!are, there's no sure way to be able to determine every hardware configuration possible. As such, not every transition will be 100% compatible. I will say that MS has made leaps and bounds in the transition to Win10 (not to mention offering it for free) vs. the transition from XP-Vista or W7-W8. I think I read something where 85-90% of the upgrades were virtually seamless. That's pretty darn good from a soSucks!are engineering perspective.

Fox, I've read a few articles with Windows 10 targeting pirated soft ware. I may know of a guy who knows a guy who knows another guy who has pirated Adobe and Microsoft Office running. Will updating to Win 10 screw this guy over?
Not likely since I think we're friends with the same guy. ;)
Small world ain't it.

 
My son installed Windows 10 on his new laptop. After the installation, when the computer booted up the desktop screen would just refresh once a second and nothing worked. After working on it for 3 nights, I just reinstalled Windows 8.1.

I guess we'll just wait for Windows 10.1
I'm guessing this is related to some type of driver(s) issue. Since you aren't likely to work on it any further, one thing that might have helped was to have any hardware drivers updated from the mfr. and also to uninstall any 3rd party A/V and/or firewall soSucks!are.
what ever happened to opening the box, plugging something in and having it work? seriously?
The funny thing is that the computer has a "Plays nice with Windows 10" factory sticker on it!!

 
My son installed Windows 10 on his new laptop. After the installation, when the computer booted up the desktop screen would just refresh once a second and nothing worked. After working on it for 3 nights, I just reinstalled Windows 8.1.

I guess we'll just wait for Windows 10.1
I'm guessing this is related to some type of driver(s) issue. Since you aren't likely to work on it any further, one thing that might have helped was to have any hardware drivers updated from the mfr. and also to uninstall any 3rd party A/V and/or firewall soSucks!are.
what ever happened to opening the box, plugging something in and having it work? seriously?
The funny thing is that the computer has a "Plays nice with Windows 10" factory sticker on it!!
Meaning some piece of 3rd party software or hardware driver was install that wasn't digitally signed by MS. Happens all the time. A sure-fire way would have been to perform a clean install. Gets rid of all the bloatware too. :thumbs:

 
we just got the computer last year brand spanking new everything. not sure what kind of drive he bought though. using win 7 we could turn the computer on and within 15 seconds it was up and ready to use. win 10...almost a minute

 
Sounds like a SSD to me.

Have you been downloading any of the "apps?"

 
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Difficult to day why the start-up time has increased so significantly. For me I've actually seen a boot time improvement over 7. As kevo mentioned, perhaps some of the apps that are loading on start-up are slowing things down. From a "run" command (Windows key+R), you can type "msconfig" and open the start-up task manager to see what's loading on boot-up. Generally speaking, anything that is not Windows related (i.e. loaded from C:\Program Files) can be disabled and doesn't need to run on start-up. Adobe is typically notorious for loading junk on start-up.

 
Difficult to day why the start-up time has increased so significantly. For me I've actually seen a boot time improvement over 7. As kevo mentioned, perhaps some of the apps that are loading on start-up are slowing things down. From a "run" command (Windows key+R), you can type "msconfig" and open the start-up task manager to see what's loading on boot-up. Generally speaking, anything that is not Windows related (i.e. loaded from C:\Program Files) can be disabled and doesn't need to run on start-up. Adobe is typically notorious for loading junk on start-up.
i'll give that a try. if can I can speed it up, that's two things in the last month I will have been able to accomplish that has stumped mr snick

 
My son installed Windows 10 on his new laptop. After the installation, when the computer booted up the desktop screen would just refresh once a second and nothing worked. After working on it for 3 nights, I just reinstalled Windows 8.1.

I guess we'll just wait for Windows 10.1
I'm guessing this is related to some type of driver(s) issue. Since you aren't likely to work on it any further, one thing that might have helped was to have any hardware drivers updated from the mfr. and also to uninstall any 3rd party A/V and/or firewall soSucks!are.
what ever happened to opening the box, plugging something in and having it work? seriously?
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"Look it up on RedTube! Uh, I meant YouPorn! Er, uh, the internet."

 
I guess we'll just wait for Windows 10.1


If Microsoft does what they say they're going to do, there won't be a Windows 10.1. It's going to be similar to what Apple has been doing with OSX. There will be major milestones but unlikely a new version number.

what ever happened to opening the box, plugging something in and having it work? seriously?


There's no such thing, no matter what promises that Apple makes. I've had Macs at various points in time, they are not flawless.

 
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