KB2952664 snooping patch is back.

i am curious... for those who updated to Windows 10 and have issues, did you ever check for driver updates that specifically support Windows 10?

there is even free programs that can find drivers for you automatically like 'Driver Booster 4' etc.

because i suspect those who are having bigger issues with Windows 10 might not have proper driver support for their computers (and it never hurts to properly install Windows 10 which is a clean installation (i.e. format/reinstall Windows 10 from scratch)). while i have had some issues since i first installed it back on Dec 1st 2015 i never had any show stopper issues and they worked them selves out etc. personally i would rather not go back to Windows 7. but i realize that a lot of people don't want to leave Windows 7 simply because everything just works but eventually Windows 7 is not going to be a option because Jan 2020 Microsoft stops supporting it which means not long after that time it won't be safe to use basically, which means you got less than 3 years left of safe Windows 7 use.

p.s. another thing... for those who just installed Windows 10 and want to save time from downloading many updates through Windows update can save time by downloading the file here... www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=cumulative%20update%20windows%2010 ; basically the first or second link depending on whether you got 32bit or 64bit OS. that will pretty much give you all of the updates up to that point in time. can help save some time.

artcurus



You tried a clean installation of Windows 10 and it was freezing? ; if not, that's the first thing i would try as this way there won't be any potential weird glitches like a upgrade can bring on etc.

because in general... in the past, updates of OS's over another previous installed OS is not recommended. you can download Windows 10 ISO using Microsoft official utility here... www.microsoft.com/en-in/software-download/windows10 (click the 'download tool now' button) as that program will download the Windows 10 ISO file to your computer and you can either burn it to a recordable DVD disc OR use rufus.akeo.ie/ to create a bootable USB device using that ISO file you downloaded with the official Microsoft utility. basically that Rufus program will make it so your USB drive can boot Windows (you need to download the ISO using Microsoft utility though as that Rufus program needs it) as the official Microsoft tool don't seem to work for creating bootable USB drives but that Rufus program will (all free programs with no junk in them).

p.s. for the record... when i upgraded to Windows 10 on Dec 1st 2015 i did a install over Windows 7 and mine was basically fine but in May 2016 (i think it was May) i had a power outage and it corrupted basically my entire Windows installation on my SSD drive and, in short, i had to wipe the drive out and reinstall Windows from scratch. that's the only time a simple power outage took out my entire Windows installation (i have been using computers since 1995 at home) as i must have got somewhat unlucky but then again the Samsung 850 EVO SSD drives (which are a popular good SSD drive) don't have any true power outage protection (basically the Samsung SSD's don't have capacitors which store a tiny bit of power to help prevent data corruption in a power outage) unlike some other drives which allow for data writing etc to finish just enough so data corruption is not supposed to occur on some drives that have this protection.

artcurus

Windows 7 32bit using the typical MBR boot, which is the stuff people been using a long time, where as UEFI is a bit more modern (this is on my motherboard which i got May 2012) and works with booting with the GPT(which supports booting from hard drives over 2.2TB basically) although i still used MBR simply because the bootloader (Windows Loader v2.2.2 by Daz(if you use this be careful on where you get it from as some are loaded with BS which you don't want on your computer) i used to get Windows 7 for free required MBR to work(Windows 7 functions 100% normal using that since it )) should work fine with up to 2.2TB (i.e. 2TB or less should work to where your laptop can boot from them) according to this article from Microsoft...

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i just assumed you got Windows 7 32bit since it's the more handicapped version of Windows in general.

with all of that said... just to look at it from another angle, lets just assume Windows 10 won't work on that laptop, then a Linux variation is probably going to be a solid choice for it once Jan 2020 passes since that's when Microsoft stops supporting Windows 7 and any security issues found after that won't be fixed.

also, if you got some $$$ to spare putting in a SSD (like say $100, possibly a bit less (maybe $90 or so) if you find a decent deal for a 250GB+ range SSD. do not buy a SSD smaller than around 250GB as those 120GB drives simply don't offer enough storage space.) will give new life to that laptop since SSD's are significantly faster at loading things than typical hard drives as things load up very fast. but with that said... i hope that laptop has at least 4GB of RAM as that's pretty much the minimum for a computer to run well enough nowadays. but if you got 4GB of RAM i would definitely get a SSD drive for it. not only that since SSD's are more power efficient your laptop battery will last longer. but i suspect even if your laptop has 2GB of RAM the SSD will still help as even though Windows will use the swap file quite a bit more often since the swap file is located on the SSD things should still see a solid spike in speed since reading/writing to SSD is a lot faster than regular hard drive. Windows boots up quite a bit quicker to. but basically... you can take out the 2TB standard hard drive out of the laptop and use it as external storage through USB if you decide to go the SSD route in the future. but if your happy enough with your current laptop performance then you can ignore all of my comments on the SSD stuff here.

also, installing Windows 10 should never brick a computer as you should still be able to boot from a CD/DVD (or possibly USB) to wipe the computer and start clean with whatever OS you want (assuming you already got the OS you want to install ready to boot from a DVD etc). but obviously, you don't have the bootable CD/DVD/USB with a OS on it and your laptop acts up and you got no other way to make one then you got a bit of a problem.

p.s. i had 64bit Windows 7 (Pro) when i was using Windows 7 as i figure there is not much reason not to use 64bit on a typical PC nowadays as using 32bit just handicaps the computer in some areas like 4GB of RAM limit and i believe that's shared with video card memory to etc. with 64bit you ain't got any issues.

side note: but about that bootloader for Windows 7... you simply get a hold of 'Windows 7 x64 Professional ISO' (i.e. one that's 100% unmodified(i.e. 100% genuine) so you can be certain the ISO don't have viruses etc etc in it(which can be verified by SHA1 hash info)) etc and then install it like normal and then after windows is installed run the activator program (i.e. Windows Loader v2.2.2) and it will activate your Windows 7 copy and then after that you can use windows and get updates like normal. i used that for years without a single issue. but... just make sure you run the program not long after Windows 7 is up and running as if it gets Windows Updates before you use that program to activate Windows 7 it will likely complain and try to block it claiming it's harmful or a virus etc(even though it's not (assuming you get it from a proper place)). it's only something you use once. but like i say you have to have a MBR setup on your hard drive as GPT won't work with that loader. but i am not worried about this anymore since i used that stuff to get Windows 7 on my computer and then upgraded to Windows 10 and with Windows 10, since Microsoft considers my system a legit registration i don't have to worry about anything else as i can clean install Windows 10 and it will automatically activate straight up.