On 05/14/16 10:01, pjp so wittily quipped:
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Keith Nuttle wrote:
On 5/14/2016 6:20 AM, DMP wrote:
On 5/13/2016 8:15 PM, Drew wrote:
I find bootup and shutdown much faster, however, I am using a local
account with most of its enhancements that phone home turned off. I have
never had the PC crash and the OS has run flawlessly. I don't think the
upgrade was necessary and would have stayed with 8.1 but the price was
right.
D.
I have a fully updated Windows 8.1 computer. I upgraded to Windows 10
in the weeks after it came out, but reverted to Windows 8.1.
Now after many of the bugs have been worked out of Windows 10 I would
like to try again. As I understand there are two ways to upgrade. One
where Windows 10 installs over Windows 8.1, this would preserve all of
the current drivers on the computer.
The other option is a clean install.
If I go for a clean install, will the installer find the proper drivers
for my computer, or will I have to locate them all as part of the
installation and manually install them.
I want to spend the minimal time in upgrading.
I just installed Win10 here a couple hours ago
(test install), and I went to Device Manager
and asked it to "Update" the driver for a device
in there. It can search online for a driver.
It's only if it cannot find a driver, you
have to dredge for it yourself. For example,
no OS was able to find the driver for my
PCI Express parallel port card. So that will
be extra work, when I get around to it. The
OS is otherwise fully functional.
And the Win10 DVD did install the Basic Display Adapter
for my 7950 video card (a card with no Win10 driver).
That's the fallback driver, when no manufacturer driver
is available. An attempt to search for a driver, of
course it failed. The Win10 screen in this case, will
be staying at 1024x768, as that is all the
Basic Display Adapter offers for resolution.
Even if your screen is 1920x1080, it runs
at 1024x768 (ugly).
That's my problem with two different pcs more than capable of running
Win10 EXCEPT for video. One's a nVidia 6800 the other an ATI 4650.
Neither company appears to plan on providing any updated driver for
either video card.
of course not. Welcome to the world of Micro-shaft
non-backward-compatibility! [I had this happen when I put 7 on an XP
laptop, which had an S3 Verge adapter, supported by XP, Linux, and
FreeBSD, but not by 7. But I needed 7 on it for work reasons so I just
won't be able to play any videos on it, and must use the 'generic' VESA
adaptor without any of the video performance boosts].
I am NOT going to buy a new video card just for an OS, especially when
they run all the games I want to play just fine as is. I also don't want
to loose multi-monitor setup on one and a functioning composite TV-OUT
to a TV on the other. Both cases I assume would not work after upgrade.
ACK on that. Micro-shaft stopped their backward compatibility support
some time ago, seems like, and isn't interested in starting it back up
again.
Computers last a LOT longer these days than they used to. 15 year old
computers still work "just fine" in fact, if you don't need super high
performance. Just upgrade the RAM and hard drive, and you're good to go
at 2Ghz or whatever. And the new inefficiencies of the "new" operating
systems makes the performance difference "that much less" than before.
And don't forget, on a LAPTOP, you can't just "change the adaptor".