Within the first couple of days the Windows 10 was launched, I upgraded 2 desktops and 2 laptops from Windows 7 to Windows 10.
The first desktop was my home theater PC, which has a tuner card and a TV media program installed. After the upgrade, I was surprised to see that the tuner card and the media program were still working well, along with every other applications I had installed before the upgrade.
The first laptop that went through the upgrade was my internet music box. It continued to play the music after the upgrade. I then upgraded another laptop that I use primarily in my bedroom and that went well too.
Encouraged by the successes, I proceeded to upgrade my son's gaming computer but it did not go well as my other computers. It would lock up and freeze all the time. I had to roll it back to Windows 7. The Windows 10's built-in "Go Back" function failed to restore the system. But since I have kept a True Image backup copy and I was able to restore my son's computer back to Windows 7.
Then on a midnight, or maybe early morning around 3 am, my internet music laptop started to playing music on its own. It turned out that Windows 10 will wake up the computer to perform windows updates on its own. And it cannot be turned off. The only solution was to roll it back to Windows 7.
Then it was my bedroom laptop that started to wake me up at midnight, again by the windows updates program. So it went back to Windows 7 too.
By then there was only one computer still running Windows 10, my HTPC, Until today, today I turned it on to watch a live TV and found out the tuner program has stopped working.
Lessons learned. If you are planning on the upgrade, make a copy of your current system and make sure you can recover your system from the copy.
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
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