Windows 10 Upgrade - Impressions, Tips, Pitfalls

Err · Post by **Err** » Tue Aug 04, 2015 1:26 pm

DaMaN wrote:Thanks for the tip, here is an update and solution to my problem. After reading the link on the neowin forum, it lead me to another thread on reddit that states to shrink the primary partition by ~300mb to allow you to expand the System Reserved Partition (or data partion)by ~300mb. this allowed the Windows 10 update to begin. I used partition magic to do this quickly.

Awesome. Let us know if you get it installed or not.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Tue Aug 04, 2015 1:36 pm

Sony has a lot of proprietary hardware on their PCs so it's a crap shoot. However, I would think all the basics (network, wifi, video, audio) should work fine.

DaMaN · Post by **DaMaN** » Tue Aug 04, 2015 2:17 pm

download keeps looping and then failing even after several reboots and or restarts.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Tue Aug 04, 2015 6:05 pm

Just download the Media Creation Tool and make a bootable flash drive. Easiest way to upgrade:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/softwar ... /windows10

DaMaN · Post by **DaMaN** » Tue Aug 04, 2015 6:15 pm

Finally took. I like it so far, just got to get used to it.

My battery indicator did not go away thankfully

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Tue Aug 04, 2015 6:49 pm

Figured out the battery indicator issue. This is an issue with some 4 year old laptops. There was a change to how Windows managed the battery when Windows 8 was introduced, and every manufacturer released a BIOS update to make their laptops battery management compatible with Win8.

I remember having a similar problem with a missing battery icon when I upgraded this laptop to Win8 from Win7, but the workaround I found back then was to create an event in Task Scheduler to perform a hardware rescan everytime the laptop booted. Apparently that trick doesn't work with Win10.

I found a forum post where someone said they upgraded their BIOS and got the power icon back.

So I checked Acer's site, and yes there was a BIOS update (1.10 to 1.12) around 3 years ago that mentioned compatibility for Win8. Just installed that BIOS update and my icon is back

EvilHorace · Post by **EvilHorace** » Fri Aug 07, 2015 8:56 am

......TIP, Win10 runs fine on my older Dell (kitchen) laptop at home that was previously running Win8.1 BUT......when I installed it on my even older work laptop that was running Win7 home (32 bit), AMD Athlon 64 cpu (machine's at least 12 yrs old), the thing was in slow motion until I googled the topic and found this tip on how to speed Win10 up on old machines (disable taskbar and action center transparency):
http://www.windowscentral.com/windows-1 ... peed-it-up

Big improvement but IMO, it could still be speedier so if anyone here has more tips, ideas how to speed up Win10 on a very old machine, please post it.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Tue Aug 11, 2015 1:20 pm

Windows 10 Tip: Successfully Clean Install Windows 10
https://www.thurrott.com/windows/window ... windows-10