Thanks for your response. After many hours searching, downloading, installing, uninstalling and breaking things, I fumbled across a solution.

For the sake of others:

When I installed Windows 10...

Hi,

I have just downloaded and installed Windows 10. All is good except the default resolution seems too large. I have tried all the options available in Control Panel/Display/Screen Resolution...

Don't give up. My FREE upgrade seemed to work well but I found several glitches including the above. Most annoying for me is not being able to set a PIN password when logging in on ex-Windows 7 Home...

:) Pleased to help. It can take time to trawl but forums such as this can be a great help. Hope you come back (says one newbie to another!).

For those that have problems with my two issues:

1. You cannot currently use a PIN to open the Windows 10 edition you receive from Windows 7 Home Premium.

2. If your Windows 7 opened directly...

It would be rather shocking if it was, and if I must purchase and resort to a clean install - what on earth is the point of this 'free' upgrade if it has not been adequately tested by the rank and...

I managed to fix this one myself. The fix was for Windows 8/8.1 but it worked perfectly for Windows 10.

1. Run Command Prompt as an Administrator.

2. Copy/type the following and enter
...

Hi,

I have upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10 but have two issues which I need help resolving.

1. I cannot seem to change from MS account email login to PIN login. I go to...

Hi,

It really isn't my day. I recently upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 7 and previously my DVD/CD Drive was working perfectly. Now, nowhere on my PC, and I mean nowhere, is my DVD/CD drive...