ORIGINAL: rhondabrwn
[:@][:@]Spent all day yesterday downloading and installing. Installation ran for about 4 hours... ridiculously slow. Finally completed and I could see why... no internet connection, wouldn't even recognize my graphics card (using some Microsoft Basic controller with 1024 x 768 resolution), Wouldn't recognize my Canon MX922 printer. Not a driver issue... Device Manager doesn't see these.
Not sure why it won't connect to my satellite modem, tried everything. Right now I'm only on by tethering my cell phone.
Using Edge browser because Firefox, Opera, and Chrome all crash and refuse to load!
Can't find Window's Office 97 at all, but clicking on an old Excel or Word document somehow loads in "Compatibility Mode". I'll have to go find an old PowerPoint and Access doc to load those. I did set up a taskbar icon so I can start them. Is this some kind of Microsoft forcing me to buy a new copy of "Office" or use their cloud product? I don't use the "cloud" because of my data cap... cloud backup and Steam apps that I can download to any device as needed is totally useless to me.
Very frustrated and pissed off at the moment. I ran the preinstall diagnostic that said everything was fine, no problems with Win 10.. and now look!
Going to swap out the graphics card for something newer from a different PC and try that. Games unplayable with the screen resolution forced the way it is.
Haven't tried doing a reinstall of the Canon printer yet. Also haven't tried doing a reinstallation of Windows Office 97 to see if that shows up in the apps listing then.
Argh... done venting for now. [:@]
Update (and kind of a retraction)
I got online by tethering my cell phone which allowed my copy to be registered (automatically done it seems).
Then I suddenly realized that my old ATI 4050 graphics card was now recognized and I had all my display options back! Not my doing... it just happened.
Then I suddenly found my Canon MX922 printer was now recognized and working properly! Again, not my doing.
Then this morning I booted up and my Satellite connection is back and running... again, not my doing.
I also noticed changes in the interface this morning. Apparently from that update that was downloading last night when I found "Windows Update" in the new interface. Noticed drivers for my graphics card had also been downloaded.
I would say this is pretty cool if Win 10 is smart enough to continue to work in the background to resolve problems!
Or, if I was really paranoid, this was a direct human tech intervention by Microsoft taking over my computer and working in the background to resolve the problems after they received my blistering feedback on how my installation went [:D] That level of "service" would be both amazing and creepy at the same time!
Anyway, things are much better now [:)]
