[Hitch]

Originally Posted by DMcCunney

What's your gripe?

I have three Windows10 machines here. My SO's laptop, a travel laptop, and my desktop.

The two laptops behave fine. The desktop has been "Windows 10 BSODs - collect the whole set", and I have been.

Ditto the Win8->now Win10 Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga. Went fine. Noooo problem, not really. Nothing worth talking about.

We decided to do the laptops first, because I use them as ancillary devices. The vast bulk of the work, etc. is done on my desktop. My desktop system is actually the main core, no pun intended, of my business. Data, storage, all the cloud bases, etc. Did that...I don't know, a month or so back? Decided to leave Win10 for a long time--let other idiots iron out the bumps, right?

The most recent issue was the machine popping up a BSOD window talking about REGISTRY_ERROR if left unused for 4+ minutes. This is apparently a Known Problem related to background maintenance, but suggested fixes found online didn't cure the problem here.

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

The real fix is likely doing a Windows Refresh, which will restore Win10 to default status while preserving user files, and will place a list of what it removed on the desktop. Most stuff I care about keeping is on a different drive and wouldn't be touched in any case, so it would mostly be an investment of time to do it and then restore my desired setup.

At least you can actually get to a boot. LUCKY you.

Meanwhile, the desktop dual-boots Win10 and Ubuntu Linux, and I can boot into Linux and do most stuff from it.

But the process of migrating to Win10 has been "Oh, no! Not another learning experience!"

<edit>And while was was posting the above and continuing on, I got another BSOD: BAD_POOL_HEADER. I am so thrilled.</edit>
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Dennis

I got nuttin'. We tried, 3x, to install it. Fortunately, of course, not being dead stupid, we backed up the big 'puter, and THEN some. Created a boot disk for Win10--all the usual precautions.

But brother, we cannot get there from here. We can't even get to any type of Win10 anything. Can't boot. Can't boot into. Got squat.

At one point, last week, we thought it was the video card. Fine, Picked up a new one. NOT it.

As near as we can tell, there is no Win10 driver for the ASUS motherboard that I have. IOW, we are SOL. Unless/until I want to completely redo the existing box, which I don't want to. The desktop is solid like a rock. Runs great. HAS to. It's not an entertainment center, or a social-media toy. ALL, repeat, all the business goes through it, one way or the other, whether it's synching the Dropbox hub (the way I have it set up), the accounting, invoicing, customer service...

So, three times into the breach; 3 times back to the restore point. Mr. Hitch has dedicated most of his waking hours to keeping the Starship Hitch up and running.

{sigh}. I'm just pissed.

Hitch