Well, after 14 days with the horror they call Windows 10 I’m back on Windows 7. Lest all you fine UO folks think that EA/Broadsword is the only company that puts stuff out before it’s ready and puts it out with major, minor and gamekilling bugs and if you have some patience, below are some, not all of my bad experiences with my “upgrade? to Windows 10” changeover.
I came from Windows 7 Home Premium, which I loved and I never had a problem. I have had it since my comp was new. I run a decent laptop, about 3 years old now but has ran wonderfully for it’s entire life with very few problems and never anything major. I figured heck, folks say this 10 is pretty good and I know that updates for Windows 7 will cease at some point so I figured, might as well get with the program.
Immediately after the “upgrade” I had to reinstall my virus program, my computer optimizer program, and my gamerouter helper program. All codes that showed these programs were paid for had to be reactivated and virus program had to be completely downloaded again, losing all my settings for white listed firewall items, etc.
14 bluescreens which said they were gathering information for this problem and would shut down the comp when done, but never did. One time I let it sit for over 2 hours at the blue screen just to see if I was not giving it time.
2 times I had to restore my computer to an earlier date which was less than satisfactory. On the first of these restores which was about 3 days into the upgrade, the new browser program Microsoft Edge disappeared and I never saw it again. I looked at every place I could on Microsoft sites to find out how and where to reinstall it without success so finally just gave up. Cortana still worked but she wouldn’t use my microphone, said it was too old to be compatible with her, so had to keep unplugging it and using laptop mike if I wanted something from her. Picky lil’ lady she is.
On bootup about once out of every 4 or 5 times, it would boot to a black screen and I would have to shut down manually and restart.
Microsoft Word and Excel both lost all custom settings that I have used and modified since I’ve had them.
I averaged about 3 total lockups of UO per day while 10 was installed and I never have had that before, lockups so severe I had to turn off the game manually and restart the computer to get it to come back.
I kept trying to hang in there figuring all the updates that kept rolling in (I believe there were about 25 of them in the 10 days) surely would fix these problems but to no avail. Today I lost the start menu, action menu, and basically nothing that pertained to Windows worked so I completely lost my patience and reverted back to Windows 7. Now all my Word and Excel custom settings are gone again and virus program, malware program, comp optimizer program had to be reinstalled and reactivated again. All the personalized settings in Windows 7 are also gone. I am not a happy camper to say the least. And what makes me more unhappy is that I know I have to face all this again sometime in the next year.
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