I’m sure some have tried Windows 10; and I’m sure there’s a thread on here somewhere discussing people’s initial reactions……however, what I want to know from these people is….did your peripherals continue to function (oo’err missus!)?
Or did your printers / DACs/ whatever just cease to function?
Many thanks, troops…..here’s a track for your trouble……
Apologies……here’s the track…..
No problems here.
Took a very long time to install. And them kept doing updates, but no issues with attached printer or scanner.
Only real issues I’ve had are:
– Start Bar & locks up periodically (ie can’t select on of the Quick Launch icons or the Start Menu)
– Sleep / Power Settings don’t work (ie hibernate when not used).
Windows 10 supposedly recognises the system you are using (PC, Laptop or Tablet) and configures itself accordingly. I reckon Windows 10 has decided my PC is a Laptop, because the Power Settings now include an option “When I close the lid …”
Recommend you try http://www.classicshell.net/
I have just got a new HP PC with no DVD drive included. I have had issues trying to link it to an external Samsung drive bought at the same time.
Might be my lack of Windows 10 knowledge though as I have been exclusively a Mac man for the last 10 years and my work PC runs on XP.
On a related theme, since I have installed Windows 10 the time and date don’t update automatically on my PC. I have to click through a family dull picture of the sea seen through a cave before getting the sign-on screen, both of which show the last time I used it, and then switch the automatic time setting on the clock off and on once I’m logged in. Rather a first world problem, but irritating nonetheless. Any ideas?
Mine installed fine but the soeakers stopped working. The recommended approach – delete the device and refind it to reinstall the driver – worked fine and it’s been OK ever since. I much prefer it to 8.1.
I had to download manually because my graphics card (Nvidia) didn’t support Windows 10. Once down I had to download the latest graphic card drivers for the version of Windows 7 I had been using to get my screen resolution back, and then reselect the default audio device.
no issues for me. it didn’t take too long to update either from Win7. Having said that, I had done a clean Win7 re-install a few weeks prior due to a hard disc failure. All my gear (discs, printer, cameras) are ok, and my old Canon D350 has been a pain in the backside on Windows 64bit all along, so it’s no worse, maybe a little better.
After living with it for a couple of months I’ve been comfortable with Win10, and even the family are ok with it so far. I was surprised.
Turns out I spoke too soon. While my printer still works, the multi-function capability is now buggered for scanning as Canon are not releasing updates for older equipment. Screw them. They did the same on my camera. Thankfully a little googling led me to find that the Windows 10 Fax & Scan utility can still make the scanner work, perhaps not as fully featured or easily, but well enough for the few occasions I need it.
Points to Dr V’s post just below…check the manufacturer…
Thank you, one & all.
Best advice is to check the manufacturer website of any peripherals you have to check whether they are compatible or have new drivers you need to install.
I use Native Instruments music/DJ software and their external sound cards and hardware controllers – they’ve been quite upfront about the fact that they’ve not fully tested everything in Windows 10 and advise against upgrading so I’m staying on Win7 for now
Installed fine on this Laptop and works fine but wouldn’t install at all on a our ‘upstairs’ (ooh get us!) Laptop which is an Acer. Tried twice but no joy, it’s running Windows 7 so should be fine but it won’t have it.
Anybody got any ideas why?
If you click on the White Windows icon near the clock in the bottom right it might give you a reason. That’s how I found out that my graphics card was stopping the download on my desktop.
I’ve updated one of my machines – a DELL Optiplex i5 box – from Windows 7 Pro to Windows 10 Pro. It took FOREVAH, but actually ran to completion without intervention. I initially suffered from one of the most common reported glitches – the Start Menu left-click was a goner. It continued to suck quantities of update from the web while I fumed, and I have a feeling that given another 24 hours or so it would have cleared itself, but in any case I had no intention of using the stupid tiles UI, so I went ahead and downloaded and installed the brilliant ClassicShell:
http://www.classicshell.net/
I now have a fully functioning Windows 7 Start Menu available (as well as the ludicrous tiles if I really want to look at them for a guffaw from time to time).
There are a large number of peripherals attached to this box, which is my 24/7 general purpose machine, and all have continued to function. The Logitech keyboard driver (bog-standard wired model K120) did seem to cough a few times at first, but this problem vanished, presumably as a result of the PC’s ongoing acquisition of data while running.
I had most doubts in advance about the TV tuner I have attached via USB, as I knew that Microshaft had deprecated Media Center. In the event I grabbed a copy of the freebie Media Portal, and while not as polished as the MS app it has replaced, it does all I want for free, so that issue has evaporated. I can watch full -screen or windowed HD telly with no problems.
The two media servers I run on this box, Serviio and TVersity, both continued to function seamlessly with my Philips TV downstairs, with no ini file or registry tweak shenanigans required.
All in all I’m impressed with the job they have done, and I do like the GUI improvements (tiles apart). Particularly nice is the virtual desktop enhancement, which seems to be a low-demand feature that lets you set things running and then switch to an alternative desktop and forget about them while you use the machine for something else entirely without having to dance around already open windows. Neat.
My only reservation is the unavoidable need to allow the machine to download data as and when Windows decides it needs to update itself. This might become an issue here, as we are not in an area that BT are ever likely to upgrade to allow broadband above 8Mbs, which is all our exchange can technically deliver. That’s why the other machines, all of which offer to upgrade themselves every time I turn one of them on – even the little Atom-powered Asus Eee mini-laptop! – will likely remain on Windows 7 for some time to come. I may make a single exception and allow my workaday Lenovo i3 laptop to move to 10, as I had intended to reformat it and reinstall anyway to escape from the hideous amount of Lenovo crapware that came on it when I got it from eBay last year.
No problems whatsoever on my Toshiba 64-bit Win7 laptop. External USB DVD drive, 3 external HDDs and USB DAC worked exactly as before.
Slight issue with going into hibernation unasked on my HP 64-bit Win8.1 laptop. The external USB DAC and 2 external HDDs worked as before straight away.
My old Advent 32-bit Win7 laptop (previously updated from Vista) has an NVidia graphics chip that has no Win10 driver, so an automatic update is not available. Having looked up the feasibility of a manual update, it seems it will work with the last-released Win7 driver, so I’ll probably try that sometime soon.
The only problem on my Lenovo laptop was that the little scrolly section on the right-hand side of the trackpad stopped working at first. Fixed itself following an update after about a fortnight though.