Dregs of installing Windows 10

[lexin]

Spent a good hour this evening sorting out my DVD drive which was the last thing that didn't work properly following my installation of Windows 10.

I don't know about you, but I'm always wary of touching the BIOS or the registry, and for this bit of wrongness I had to check both. I was getting an error message telling me that I had an error 19, some kind of issue with the driver. But there was no new driver to install.

Eventually I put the error message into google and turned up suggestions (1) that it was the BIOS, and how to get in (I got in, and it wasn't), or (2) it was a problem with the registry. I printed off all the instructions, which involved messing about with my printer, because the person who'd put in the printer ink cartridges (i.e. the seller) hadn't taken out the tag, meaning that I had to lever them out with scissors, and then I had to run regedit, find the relevant entry, edit the entry (scary stuff) and then reboot.

It worked. Go me.

So now I can rip DVD's again. Go me.

Comments

[hunningham]

Go you indeed.
I tend to avoid upgrading operating systems until someone points a gun my head (or new & essential software MUST HAVE latest version of the OS) and whenever I do it's always been days of and now I have to fix the other thing as well. Only thing worse is a new computer.

[lexin]

I have learned my lesson; I will never update again until a computer has to be replaced. Upgrading to Windows 10 was all too much.

Oh, yes, a new computer sucks like a sucky thing. And my current PC cost an arm and a leg, so I'll be looking to upgrade the hardware rather than replace.

[gattagrigia]

Score you! I remember those days, regedit and scary updates. Transitions of any kind usually bring problems, don't they? I use Linux now, and it has its own troubles, but the OS usually works, and problems are with apps that I've loaded, like the email or the document writer, or the browser, and that is usually fixed with a new version of the app. OK, not always, but more often than not. I'm still trying to remember how I spent my time without the internet or computers. Like 1985. OTOH, I hate being able to remember 30 years ago and feel like it was just last month. Rambling on...

[lexin]

I really don't know why I decided to update to Windows 10, except that M$ really pushed it as something you should do. What a nightmare! The laptop was fine, but the desktop, which is a bit older, had some real difficulties with it.

It caused some problems with the programs, too, like it buggered up my profile and created issues with Outlook, the email program. The browser was fine.

I do vaguely remember not having computers - I bought my first computer in 1986, it was an Amstrad 8512 with two disk drives and I was attracted to it because it came with a printer as standard. (That article brings back memories - Locoscript! Learning Locoscript was a total bugger. As is usual with me, I learned just enough to get by plus a bit, though was not an expert ever.)

At the time I was married, I was living in a town called Scunthorpe in Lincolnshire, and I was writing largely Blake's 7 slash. I wanted a computer I could use to produce zines (my fannish ambition at the time) and that I could print out my stories so that I could edit them properly. Happy memories!