Packard Bell (desktop), Zoostorm (netbook), another machine consigned to the
attic due to lack of space down here, whose brand I can't remember off hand.
Plus an Intel Compute Stick supplied by eBuyer in December with Win10 32-bit
preinstalled, but died during the first Windows update and has just been
replaced as faulty. It's a similar spec to the netbook and shares the
Aurora's monitor nicely since that has an otherwise unused HDMI connector.
If I can get it working, it'll make me a second PC good enough for basic web
browsing, streaming maybe, and of course QL emulation.
My son's laptop upgraded to Win10 OK with only a graphics driver issue,
solved with a simple update to the driver, he has had massive problems with
a self-build desktop PC of his but as he had more time on his hands than I
do - he's persisted and tackled the issues one by one until the machine is
now sort-of working even though he can be heard threatening to throw it out
of the window almost daily, weeks after he first started updating. His main
issues seem to revolve around connecting to the internet after the update
and the machine going into constant restart loops after each Windows 10
update.
We've also had problems like Start menus disappearing and software being
uninstalled or disabled after updates.
Basically, we found we were having to waste so much time fixing stupid
issues there was little time left for actual computing!
Thankfully, where Windows 10 works, QL emulation seems to have carried on
working just fine, which is the positive part of the saga. That seems to be
reflected in user comments in magazines and online forums, that where
Windows 10 works, people love it, but far too many people seem to find it
doesn't work on updated systems and so go back to Windows 7. Would be
interesting to find stats on what percentage of updaters rolled back to
Windows 7 or 8.
Sadly, these days, our QLing is surprisingly dependent on other operating
systems.
Dilwyn
Who made your machines out of interest?
Graeme
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