That was in August, and having previously experience problems with Windows 10 Insider Preview builds, I figured I had just jumped on the bandwagon a bit early. Ultimately, I gave up fixing the problem and just did a clean install of the previous Windows 10 release (aka TH2 or the 'November update'). The slowness remained, and cleaning out all graphics drivers using Display Driver Uninstaller didn't help- and I was not alone. Since the only change I made recently was the graphics card, I swapped back to the previous card-in this case, I believe I went from a newly installed RX 470 back to a GTX 1070. I couldn't even launch task manager, and Ctrl+Alt+Del would generate an error after several minutes. With a few games having touted the enhancements being made in the Anniversary Update, I quickly hopped on it.Įventually, and I mean after 15 minutes or so where I had walked away, the PC returned to 'normal,' but every reboot would give me the same excruciating stall. I consider myself well versed in computing hardware, and I'm usually able to work my way around any niggling issues.
Microsoft also released a major update with their Anniversary Update to celebrate, and this ideally should have taken all the learning from the past year and rolled it into a clean and tidy package that everyone could enjoy. This past summer, Windows 10 officially hit the year mark, which meant the end of free upgrades (thank goodness). How Microsoft ever thought grandparents in their 70s and even 80s would be good candidates for an automatic upgrade is still baffling to me. I was only able to roll back the upgrade on one system, unfortunately, while the others all required a clean reinstall of Windows 7. Several family members and friends had PCs upgraded without their approval to Windows 10, and in about half of those cases, the users were frustrated enough that they called me for help. Forgetting the various major concerns for a moment-privacy being the biggest-I've encountered more than a few eye raisers.
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