Win 10 Pro a week on

Just a week ago today I upgraded my laptop's 8.1 to Win 10 Pro. This machine had previously been upgraded from Win 7 Pro to Win 8/8.1 Pro and I'm impressed! Not a glitch or hitch of any description - everything just works exactly as it should, even Bluetooth which has been troublesome in the past so I have to give credit where credit is due - good job Microsoft :major

Our networked workhorse PCs are both Win 7, and both run so well I'm not tempted at present to upgrade either, as maybe everything wouldn't go quite so smoothly on those machines.

So how has it been for other upgraders (as opposed to clean installers)?

 

I am starting to see some handshaking and/or protocol issues between an ASUS Win10 laptop and an AT&T Netgear modem/router/gateway. Virtually the same symptoms as another 8.1 Toshiba machine - if for any reason either laptop is rebooted, wireless connection is lost. Connection is reestablished if the gateway is rebooted successfully.

Have not really pursued troubleshooting because the problem's resolved with a gateway restart, but other machines on the network w/ Wins Vista and 7 do not exhibit the same symptoms. Got to be a handshake thingy common between 8.1 and 10 vs. the Netgear - one day I'll try to track it down, look for any updated drivers, yada yada...

Otherwise, I really like 10 - MS has made Windows user-friendly again, and as Adryn pointed out in another thread it's tailor-made for SSDs.

 

Mine stayed the same. Mind you, I clean installed, and never upgraded.

 

If I have any disappointment at all this would be it. Before upgrading I had cloned 8.1 from it's original HDD to a new SSD and once upgraded I did expect 10 to fly, but it doesn't. Startup is taking in excess of a minute and I need to find out what it is that's dragging its feet. My Win 7 PC on SSD is more than twice as fast booting up. Otherwise I can't fault 10, problem free and really nice to use.

 

Earthling, you are probably aware of this, but I'm posting for the benefit of other users.

There are numerous Services not needed by the majority of users, and some Services' Startup type can be set to Manual, Manual (Trigger Start), or Automatic (Delayed Start).
Head over to Black Viper and have a look.

http://www.blackviper.com/service-configurations/black-vipers-windows-10-service-configurations/

 

I don't believe that pruning services when using a SSD has any discernible effect. I'm inclined to believe that this is more about automatic syncing going on during bootup and/or possibly some things don't have the best available driver in 10. Not a big deal anyway as it's fine once up and running.

 

Fair enough.
However, to many unnecessary services start at boot time, or just after boot time. They can be set to:

The problem is with Services starting at boot time when they can be delayed. You don't need syncing to start at boot time.

 

Yeah, when I have the time I'll run Autoruns - that should help. Thanks.

 

Have you had a look at your power settings Laura?

 

That's a headache, one hour is a serious problem. If you have to roll back do you have an image? I'm reading that the built-in rollback is leaving many with issues.

 

Make sure you are using windows 10 drivers. Enable battery saver, lower brightness.

If your laptop had switchable graphics, make sure it isn't running on the discrete GPU when on battery.

 

What is your laptop model and brand?

If you have switchable graphics and the wrong drivers are installed, it will default to discrete gpu.

 

Doesn't Lenovo have battery management utilities?

 

I have upgraded 3 laptops to Windows 10 and so far no major problems, One went from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 via Windows update like a charm, another went from Windows 7 to Windows 10 fairly easily except the Get Windows 10 app never popped up on its own and Windows update were failing to install the update each time, so I did it manually and the whole process went smoothly except for at the very end the upgrade got stuck in a loop when it tried to reboot after installing Windows 10 to start configuring the settings, had to kill the laptop completely and restart and upgraded recovered just fine and finished like a charm. Then I upgraded a laptop for a friend and it was done manually and went completely smoothly.

I am having a few small issues with software and had one with drivers for printers but got that resolved through Windows update.

 

There were rumblings that Lenovo was being a dbag and not supporting your model on 10.

The best thing to do is watch multiple Lenovo machines with similar specs such as the upgraded model for this. Chances are most of the drivers are going to work on yours.

I got my first Windows 10 drivers from the Windows 10 variant of my laptop.

 

Win 10 drivers are solid for common configurations, Crossfire and SLI are still problematical, at least for my gaming friends.

 

To each there own, SLI runs great for me.