• Sean Lange (8/31/2015)


    Grant Fritchey (8/31/2015)


    For the upgrade to 10, I think I'd suggest holding off a while. I'm seeing occasional errors: faulty_hardware_corrupted_page. From the Microsoft forums, quite a few others are as well. Seems to cut across the hardware spectrum, Asus, Dell, Toshiba, so it's probably not a proprietary driver. It seems to be something in the OS. One or two more updates before I'd suggest installing it.

    I did the inplace upgrade on a desktop at home. Generally it works quite well. I have noticed one thing that is really strange. If the computer goes to sleep about half of the time when it wakes up again it will have hundreds of instances of Windows Explorer running each consuming around 4MB of memory. It will use up around 6-8GB total with these threads running. I tried a couple time to kill them but they are like tribbles. There seems to be no end without a reboot.

    Another thing that is strange is that it sometimes won't wake up. I can lights on the mouse and keyboard but no amount of movement or key mashing seems to wake Win10 from its deep slumber. I have to do a hard reboot.

    I've seen the same, or a close alternate where the screen activates and parks me on the "please wait" spinning icon forever. I've changed my desktop power setting to just kill the monitor, but not put the disk drives to sleep as a result.

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