Windows 10 and laptop screen of death

[miami]

You should also ask yourselves why Microsoft is giving away 100 million copies of a potentially valuable product. I have my suspicions as to the reason.

Well ignoring the privacy issues (I assume that most Windows fans are in the "nothing to hide" category) they pop up adverts on your computer - http://thehackernews.com/2016/02/windows10-lock-screen-ads.html

Hint, if you don't pay for the product, you are the product.

 

[Bevan Price]

What's the general consensus on Windows ten then ?

I've put off the upgrade for about as long as I can and think I have to make a decision !

I accepted the free upgrade from Win 7 to Win 10. There are good and bad points.

Good - it is a lot faster, especially at starting and shut-down. No more waiting several minutes for these processes (bet see below). Other software also seems to work faster than on Win 7.

Not so good - you get less control over what upgrades you accept, and less control over when upgrades start. So, if you are in a hurry to use the computer, but it decides to apply upgrades at the start - tough luck, you may have to wait several minutes.

Bad - on installation, it is liable to delete or overwrite any "driver" software of which it does not approve. It has also renamed one of my data directories (folders) a couple of times without telling me. No lost data, but the first time it happened, it took a few minutes to find it.

Caution. It does not like some file / disc utility software designed for earlier versions of Windows - the software appears to be still working, but produces a lot of "mistakes". For example, I had to stop using Norton Utilities to "clean" unwanted files from the computer or to correct "faulty / unwanted" registry entries.

 

[yorksrob]

I accepted the free upgrade from Win 7 to Win 10. There are good and bad points.

Good - it is a lot faster, especially at starting and shut-down. No more waiting several minutes for these processes (bet see below). Other software also seems to work faster than on Win 7.

Not so good - you get less control over what upgrades you accept, and less control over when upgrades start. So, if you are in a hurry to use the computer, but it decides to apply upgrades at the start - tough luck, you may have to wait several minutes.

Bad - on installation, it is liable to delete or overwrite any "driver" software of which it does not approve. It has also renamed one of my data directories (folders) a couple of times without telling me. No lost data, but the first time it happened, it took a few minutes to find it.

Caution. It does not like some file / disc utility software designed for earlier versions of Windows - the software appears to be still working, but produces a lot of "mistakes". For example, I had to stop using Norton Utilities to "clean" unwanted files from the computer or to correct "faulty / unwanted" registry entries.

Cheers. Sounds like more trouble than its worth to me.

 

[DaleCooper]

Good - it is a lot faster, especially at starting and shut-down. No more waiting several minutes for these processes (bet see below). Other software also seems to work faster than on Win 7.

I'm sure it will get slower with time, all versions of Windows seem to have that built in. My Windows 7 is a lot slower now than when I first installed it.

 

[mbonwick]

In my experience, the quickest way to resolve Windows 10 issues is just to reinstall it completely. You just need to create a bootable USB/DVD using another computer, and then perform an upgrade install. Usually fixes most things.

It sounds very much like a driver issue - but without knowing exact model and hardware details it's very hard to diagnose. I know my HP Pavilion had some issues with Win 10 replacing the Intel display driver with an MS one, but that was easily fixed by reinstalling the Intel drivers.

 

[AntoniC]

If you want to stop your PC/Laptop telling Microsoft what your doing use SpyBot Anti - Beacon : https://www.safer-networking.org/spybot-anti-beacon/

It works with all OS , and I have it on my PC.

 

[Nym]

Or sit it behind a sufficiently hardened hardware or 'hardware' firewall that blacklists all the tracking domains.