More Windows 10 Misery ... Help!

Ok, so here’s my story … I’ll try to be brief (but I’ll fail).

I got my computer about four years ago and it ran pretty well for about a year. Then it began to have performance issues that I could never quite pin down. What would happen, essentially, is that the computer would freeze … as in any video, or scrolling, or mouse-over stuff, would stop, though I could move my mouse cursor around as much as I wanted to. When it first started happening, it would freeze for a few seconds. But it gradually got worse to the point where the entire system was useless.

I reset to factory settings and everything seemed back to normal, but then the performance shit would start happening again. I was thinking hardware issues so I was bummed.

Now, to try to keep to my short story promise, I ended up resetting to factory settings several times until one time when it froze during reset and the entire PC was effed – I couldn’t even find any Windows files whatsoever on the disc. So it sat fallow for almost half a year when I managed to score a copy of Windows 8 from my niece’s boyfriend.

I’ve loaded that several times yada yada yada.
Now, here I’ve been about three months since my last reload – everything is running awesome. I came to a theory that there was a specific video game I had been loading (Sims 3) which was loading some drivers or something that was fucking things up. I don’t know, but I’ve left it off my system for lo these last few months and my PC had been running like a champ.

NOW …
Last night as I’m heading to bed I get one of the endless “Update to Windows 10 Now!” prompts. Nooooo, I shout as I click the X to kill the window. The next screen I see is this:

“Updating to Windows 10, please do not turn off your system” Fucking great.

I just went to bed to deal with it in the morning. Which I did only to find out that now the computer does not recognize my sound card. A RealTek that is no longer listed in my devices. If I try to update the driver to “IDT High Definition Audio CODEC” it downloads and starts to install before it stops and tells me, “a device attached to your system is not functioning.”

Goddamn it. I didn’t want this fucking Windows 10 and now it has gone and rogered my fucking sound card. I’m pissed.
What is my recourse beyond reloading Windows 8 and losing all my bookmarks and apps and shit all over again?

And what is Bill Gate’s address? I want to throw eggs at his house, that prick.

This has happened twice to me and I just did a system restore to the previous day and everything went back to normal. Maybe try that?

Did the upgrade to Windows 10 finish?

Here’s what Microsoft says to try first before you commit Hari Kari. My sound didn’t work after I upgraded but I can’t remember what I did to fix it. Something about changing the audio format.

You should have 30 days to roll back. Restart while holding the shift key, and select troubleshooting. There should be an option to roll back.

Or you could go to Start --> Settings --> Update and Security --> Recovery --> “Go back to Windows 7” or “Go back to Windows 8.1”.

You can downgrade back to your old version. The Windows 10 installer created a backup in a folder called windows.old.

My laptop has been extremely slow for a while. A couple of weeks ago I went out of town, and came back to see Windows congratulating me for upgrading to 10. The computer now took 10 minutes to boot, and would give me a Blue Screen of Death (something about BAD_POOL_HEADER). I used a command prompt to copy my documents to a backup partition, and was about to do a factory re-install.

But then my computer booted all the way to the Windows 10 desktop, just for a few seconds, before the BSOD occurred. The next time it booted, I quickly went to Settings>>Update & Security>>Recovery>>Go Back to Windows 7 (as described here).

Now I have my slow shitty computer back. It still has its old performance problems, but at least it boots to a Windows desktop.

Well, I’ve successfully reverted back to 8.1. I’m glad they left that in place, I really didn’t want to start all over again. Thanks for indulging my whining.

Oddly, a Windows 10 download kicked off out of no where after I got back to 8.1 but I headed that shit off at the pass.

Bill Gates. I’m looking right at you, pal. Your suspect!

I have a native Windows 10 machine - I bought it that way. I’ve seen this option, and I wonder if I use it to go back to Win 7 (where I never was) what would happen. Anyone know?
Not that I want to, since I might actually use the touch screen some day.

Along those lines: I have a machine that started out on Windows 8, was downgraded to Windows 7 and has now been upgraded to Windows 10. I wonder what would happen with either option.

The universe would implode? These are forces with which you may not want to fuck.

I’ve disabled the W10 push update for my 5+ year old W7 machine – I’m about due to relegate it to backup duty and get a new primary one anyway so might as well do so with an OEM setup. Since W2000 days I’ve avoided anything above service packs, not worth it for me to do the full version upgrade.

Hey, by now he just cashes his stock returns, this one was the minions’ call.

My one and only Windows computer did that-updated itself to 10 despite repeatedly clicking NO. It didn’t seem to affect anything much other than that add that annoying “ask cortana” box so I just left it. It actually seems to run a bit better after the update.

He’s still on the board, I think, but Bill Gates hasn’t been CEO of Microsoft since 2008 or so. They’ve had two guys since him.

You “fell for” a nefarious trick where they changed the function of the “close window” button to be a “submit” button.

You may be a candidate for Never10.

Hypothetically, the whole problem goes away in a bit more than a month, unless Microsoft has figured out how to involuntarily bill you for the no-longer-free involuntary “upgrade”.

[Quote=ZDNet]

  1. The free upgrade offer ends on July 29 and will not be extended.

  2. Any upgrades completed before that date will be valid for as long as the device lasts.

  3. There is a possibility that Microsoft will introduce some new upgrade offers after July 29, but don’t count on it
    [/quote]
    So, if you can stick it out for 5 more weeks, you’re home free!