I am definitely not looking forward Windows 7 ending, because in my case it means most likely having to buy a new laptop. Would I enjoy a brand new, powerful laptop? Sure, but I don't really want to spend the money as I'm pretty happy with the laptop I have now. It's an i5 processor with a 17 inch screen,
8GB RAM, and dual terabyte 7200 RPM hard drives that runs like a tank. It's been dropped and gotten dinged, but keeps a truckin'.

The problem, though, is all because of how HP implemented the dual mode video driver on my laptop. It has a low powered Intel graphics card for on-battery use and a high powered AMD graphics card for plugin use that auto-switches.

I've actually done the upgrade to Win10 several times now (each time to see if things are better). I've done both in-place upgrades, as well as clean installs (which then requires re-installing all the applications).

Since I originally did an upgrade and my machine's credentials are cached with Microsoft, I can do it multiple times on the same machine. But each time, it works for a little while, but then as updates start coming in, it starts blue-screening, with error messages related to the video driver (for which there is no viable updated version - see above). Also, with Windows 10 I lose the ability to use my HDMI port and the fingerprint reader gets wonky.

I love the laptop and it works like a champ with Windows 7 and a whole lot of music-related apps. So, I'll either have to bite the bullet for a new machine, or just live with the limitations of Windows 10 running on it. The problem really isn't a Microsoft problem, it's an HP problem, because they wouldn't provide the updated drivers (this actually goes back to Windows 8, when they first refused to provide new drivers - then, it was just a one year old machine when Windows 8 came out. Clearly, they just wanted to sell me a new machine a year after I had already bought one from them. They put out an official statement that they would not be providing updated drivers for it).

Oh, well. I've got two desktops about the same age as my laptop that run Windows 10 just fine. They mirror image (for the most part) my laptop, so I can keep working on anything started on the laptop.
They don't have the dual mode drivers, so they work just fine.

We'll see what happens come January.

John

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