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Originally Posted by stevej37
No idea why the transition to W10 has been so hard for some.
Mine went fine and the computer now works better than it did when new.
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It probably has a lot to do with a couple of things.
1 How old is the computer and the peripherals used? If the computer itself or the peripherals are old, there may not be drivers, or at least not good drivers. That's most of when you hear "my _____ didn't work after the upgrade." There may be drivers available for download from some external website, but it's not automagic, or maybe there just aren't drivers available for some older parts.
2 How old is the software? Some software is probably just not compatible
3 How much crap is the old windows install carrying forward? If it's an older or active windows 7 install where tons of stuff has been installed and uninstalled and the registry and file system is full of old orphaned and crap files and entries, then the upgrade may not work for crap.
I can't remember who, but someone did the upgrade and it didn't work for crap, so they did a clean install and that worked great.
My PC is so old and has had so much stuff installed and uninstalled over the years, I have no doubt that the upgrade process would be painful probably for all 3 reasons above.
I've been a computer guy (building, upgrading hardware, optimizing the OS) since DOS days. I'm in the IT industry (work with different gear, not computers and workstations and workstation OS). I've had great luck with Windows since whatever came after Win 98SE, and that wasn't horrible. I was on Windows Vista for a long time and have now been on Win 7 for a long time too.
Several years ago, we got my wife an Apple laptop to replace her Windows laptop. I had to spend 2 weeks learning how to use it before I gave it to her for Christmas so I could show her how to use it and help. I was very, very impressed, and will probably be going to Mac when this PC dies (but it doesn't seem to want to die or slow down; current PC was purchased Dec 2011, so 8 years old).