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Thread ID: 142003	2016-04-10 08:59:00	I am impressed with current W10	mzee (3324)	PC World Chat

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
1418856	2016-04-10 08:59:00	Yesterday I clean installed W10 Home 64 bit to a friends Dell laptop. Windows 10 had installed itself and made a mess of it. I downloaded an iso of W10 64bit and used that. All the drivers were found and it activated almost immediately. I also installed the W7 style start menu because that is what she is used to. Everything works. In lieu of this experience I decided to update my Lenovo from 32bit to 64bit. During the installation I was offered W10 Home or W10 Pro. I chose Pro and then was asked for the Key which would be required if this OS was different to the previous W10 installed. I proceeded anyway, and it activated despite having been registered to a 32bit version. Once again all drivers were found. I did a custom install on both. The Lenovo had about 12 entries in its start list, now only 5. It is on a 85GB partition & has 72GB free after installation.	mzee (3324)
1418857	2016-04-10 09:38:00	... All the drivers were found and it activated almost immediately Do you mean the chipset drivers were found by the OS? (Daughter is unhappy with her laptop and I'm thinking a fresh install is needed)	BBCmicro (15761)
1418858	2016-04-11 04:54:00	I've answered my own question. Yes. I reloaded daughter's PC from a USB and everything worked. No yellow exclamation marks I presume the new Windows installation plucked drivers from the Windows.old folder? That would be quite clever, knowing which files are relevant... Lucky I didn't choose to reformat C: during the installation. The flipside is that I didn't get a chance to install totally new drivers so I might be stuck with something corrupt or malicious.	BBCmicro (15761)
1418859	2016-04-11 05:06:00	Sometimes a upgrade goes fine, others its a PITA. :) Like previous OS's, a fresh install is always better, as it starts with a clean slate. Upgrades over the years are usually "interesting" and W10 is no different. SWMBO's computer, I did a upgrade on that instead of fresh, everything went fine for a month then all of a sudden its now playing up, start menu not opening ( fixed that by rolling it back a day) jumped ahead the next common one, black screen with only the pointer -- but ha-ha -- Know the fix for that :p and done it so should be interesting.	wainuitech (129)
1418860	2016-04-11 07:59:00	However I use an Prolific usb to serial adapter and Win 10 screwed up the drivers. In the end I had to tell it not to download the new drivers so I could keep using the old one that does work. All this so I can download stuff from my Garmin GPS	gary67 (56)
1418861	2016-04-11 12:46:00	Do you mean the chipset drivers were found by the OS? (Daughter is unhappy with her laptop and I'm thinking a fresh install is needed) Once it had got on line and activated it was very busy looking for and installing new drivers. The only driver I had to help with was Blue tooth.	mzee (3324)
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