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Window 10 Upgrade Headache
A few months ago I upgraded my 32 bit win 7 pro to windows 10. The whole thing was fairly quick and worked great. Today I tried to upgrade my Window 7 64 bit desktop (see my system specs) and it turning out to be a real headache. Here’s what I did in prep:
· First I made an image of my Win 7 OS as a safety measure.
· I uninstalled the AMD Catalyst Control Center since Windows would do that anyway. I thought I’d save it the trouble although the 32 bit machine removed it successfully and worked fine.
· I updated all of my Fujitsu Scanner software to versions said to be Windows 10 compatible.
· I also uninstalled Microsoft Security Essentials as I’ve read MSE has caused some problems with 10 for some upgraders.
Then I began the process which seemed to proceed as expected. When it was done, I saw that things were amiss:
· Most of my desk top shortcuts were plane white boxes with no icon.
· Immediately I got a pop up error saying “ScanSnap Manager (this is my Fujitsu Scanner) was in an abnormal environment (0x00000005), make it is installed correctly.”
· Many of my programs were listed as unavailable in setting, apps and features. Some of these I installed on the 32 bit machine just to test that they would work on 10. I tested a few of these apps and they would not work although the upgrade advisor told me my machine was ready to go.
· Besides the above things the computer seemed generally slow. Some applications like Word worked even though the desktop shorts are blank.
· I rebooted the machine and after the OS loaded my desktop screen went black and stayed that way for what is about 2 hrs now. The hard drive is busy though suggesting that things are happening but the screen is still black!
Now for some questions:
· Does anyone have any ideas as to what might have gone wrong?
· I think I will need to restore my win 7 image unless someone has a better idea.
· Does it make sense to try this again? If my apps aren’t going to work I don’t want to bother but if i just had some glitch and another attempt may work then it will be worth it to try.
· I’d like to hear your thoughts.