The whole world upgrades to Windows 10 since the recent weeks. So what are the problems I had stumped into and how I have solved them? Not a lot issues I have to admit, any all of them found a solution 🙂
I have had 1 Intel tablet, 2 Laptops and 1 Desktop PC to upgrade.
I have started with the We Tab WiFi + 3G that was upgraded to 2 GB of RAM and a 120 GB mSATA SSD by KingFast.It had Windows 8.1 32bit installed.
Things were straight forward here, it upgraded and installed all drivers except graphics card, I simply went to the Device Manager and clicked “update driver” –> Search for better driver and it downloaded one and installed it. Really easy! In Windows 10, the device manager and Windows Update are your friends, really one of the few times, where a good and well working drivers was downloaded once triggered by the user. Well done!
Next, I have updated Windows 8.1 64 bit on my Sony Vaio VGN-FW46M next. There was no driver related issue, whatsoever! Smooth and simply worked 🙂 Just keep in mind, that a shutdown means it does a hibernate and unfortunately the wireless network gets stuck and doesn’t come up until I restart it.And since I have a SSD and since after about 10 startups it learns how to do it the fastest way (Windows 10, not the SSD:) ) it’s just a matter of seconds anyway. So I am simply disabling it
Next laptop is my HP Compaq 6910p laptop, I run 32bit Windows 8.1 on it, my mum Windows 7 64bit on the same laptop. I have done heavy modifications to both laptops, so installation is different compared to the stock model without modifications. Also, the drivers for the touchpad are reacting different, 64bit versions work fine, tbe 32bit version however generates ghost clicks every couple of seconds, which renders Windows unusable. I found no 64bit driver that works, so solution was here to disable hibernatet as well!
Last one was my desktop PC. It runs on a ASUS M5A78L/USB3 and there have been no driver conflicts with it since the beginning, unlike I had with Windows 8/8.1!
Meanwhile Windows update, updated the driver to version 10.0.10240.16461 of August, 17th, 2015!.
The only problem was, Creative Labs didn’t release the Windows 10 drivers for my Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer until the middle of August, I was without a working driver, until I found the SB X-Fi Series Support Pack 3.5 but the options “headphone settings are activated automatically” and “auto-mute speakers” had to be enabled in the sound settings of the headphones tab. Luckily, in the meantime, the official drivers are released which is cook because I needed to set those settings each time I restarted or booted up my PC! It’s actually surprising that new drivers are released for this wonderful PCI card, as back in 2010 they told me the product is EOF and there are no fixed or new driver releases planned.
I am so glad that they have changed their mind, thank you, Creative Labs 🙂
All in all, this was way more trouble free than I expected, thank you Microsoft 🙂