Our home just gained a shiny new HP laptop, which was immediately upgraded to Windows 10.
Much of the last tweny-four hours has been consumed by two tasks: making it print to an HP printer networked to our router, and moving email from Windows Live Mail on an XP box to the same program on the W10 machine.
If I run into a Linux problem (or even Android) I can usually visit a forum or other resource and get an answer in a few minutes. With Windows I'm Googling madly and chasing many more dead ends than useful answers.
And yes, that not surprisingly includes Microsoft's own sites.
So Soylentils, what are your go-to places for good-quality Windows 10 information?
(Score: 2) by gman003 on Saturday September 05 2015, @08:26PM
I had some audio driver problems when I updated my laptop to W10. I would have had similar problems had I updated to W8, but I skipped that one, and the fixes weren't exactly identical.
After about a week, the community for that laptop had figured it out, and a reasonably specific search ("asus g75 subwoofer not playing windows 10") brought me to a detailed, step-by-step fix [asus.com] for the problem.
I have not needed to do anything else. All of my programs work - the only defect I've noticed is that PuTTY's jump list no longer works, but that's not exactly a big deal (and the devs are working on it [greenend.org.uk]). I didn't use many Microsoft programs, though, so that might be part of it.
If you're having hardware problems, look for forums for that specific hardware. If it's software problems, consider alternatives (can you use Thunderbird instead of Windows Live Mail?). And of course, a good Google query will narrow things down for you. I'd like to assume anyone here would know how to phrase a search well, but I've sadly seen too many people lack that skill who really should be better.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Saturday September 05 2015, @10:26PM
a good Google query will narrow things down for you.
This.
The only issue I had on my single Windows 10 machine was bluetooth pairing, and that was because Microsoft had actually fixed pairing in W10, which was overly aggressive in prior versions (you could pair with just about anything that walked by in the past, now it insists that the device be visible and actively seeking to pair.
Google (or even Bing will find the answers, and I suspect Applebarry (submitter) knew that already when he posted the submission.
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