My advice would be to wait for at least the second, and perhaps later, upgrade from the initial Win 10 download. You just know there are going to be not just known bugs that Microsoft figures most people can live with, but also new ones they never anticipated. Let the early adopters suffer through this or that device that now no longer works right, or this or that software that now won't load.
Early this morning my youngest son said he pressed the OK button to allow Microsoft Update to restart his computer to finish installing the update. When his PC rebooted, he got the blue screen of death. The computer then turned into an absolute brick, showing just a black screen. As the computer had shown something on it, I knew the screen was OK. We tried turning it on and off hoping for a miracle to the point it then no longer even turned on. When I lifted up the machine, I noticed it was hot. Having had a machine that overheated that exhibited the same symptoms, I said to let the machine cool off and try again.
Eventually the machine did turn on, but returned to the black screen-- with no hard drive light indicating the hard drive was being read (to load the OS). I eventually started the machine (using F8) to try safe mode in order to restore the prior settings, but that kept leading to more blue screens (crash dumps). I eventually selected "Startup Repair (recommended)" and got various options to use the hidden partition to restore the operating system... and wipe out everything else in the process. No thanks. Finally I was able to select the Command Prompt bootup option and got the computer to restore the settings prior to the upgrade. That worked.
The point being, at least I had that option. Somehow I doubt that Windows 10 will have a revert back to prior OS feature in case it screws up your computer. Therefore, for whatever doesn't work, expect to be without that functionality for quite some time. I still remember the panic on my wife's face when I was an early adopter of some Windows version and her real estate software stopped working. The software maker said, sorry, not our fault; we aren't planning an upgrade for a while, so don't upgrade your OS if you care about using this program. They had no idea this would happen until the big launch and complaints started pouring in.
Anyhow, just a friendly warning. :)
- Jeff |
