I just upgraded my Acer Windows 7 laptop last Thursday 6-24-16 and everything went well. Then two days later I helped a friend update her Windows 8.1 Desktop and everything went well for her also. My upgrade took 9 ½ hours to complete on the laptop. My friend’s upgrade took 4 ½ hours on the desktop.
I did have to manually install a driver for my old HP printer, but my friend’s printer is always connected to her desktop and she did not have to manually reinstall a driver for her Lexmark printer.
I was pleasantly surprised to see that my Firefox browser came back the exact same as before the upgrade. All favorites, bookmarks etc were just as they were on my Windows 7 laptop. On my friend’s Desktop, her Firefox and Google Chrome browsers uploaded beautifully too. As for Microsoft Edge browser, I haven’t played around it with much yet, but it seems to be pretty intuitive.
Both of our antivirus programs transferred properly and you do not have to turn your antivirus program “off” before downloading Windows 10. Just leave it on.
My computer speakers are working the same as they did before the upgrade and I assume that my friend’s speakers are working too. Haven’t thought to ask her about that, but I think she would have noticed by now if they weren’t working.
One important thing that I would like to point out is that after Windows 10 installs I looked and found that the “System Restore” function was turned “off” by default so you will want to get that turned back on asap because Windows will not turn it on for you.
Another thing, I don’t have iTunes and other music stored on my computer, but it is my understanding that there could be a problem with iTunes and Windows 10. Look into this if iTunes is important to you.
More importantly, if you have a Canon Printer, chances are that it will not work with a Windows 10 computer. Canon announced months ago that they were NOT going to update a driver for Canon printers to Windows10. Maybe they changed their mind—but don’t count on it.
All in all, I think Microsoft did a very good job on the upgrade on my laptop and on my friend’s desktop. Just be very patient while it is upgrading—don’t freak out if the upgrade appears to be stuck at 99%--mine looked stuck for a couple hours, but my friend’s Desktop upgrade did not appear to get stuck at all. And after the upgrade is complete, please leave your computer “on” for at least a couple hours so that the computer can finish doing things in the background. You will still want to change some settings on your own later, and maybe get rid of some of the unnecessary programs that come along with the Windows 10 upgrade. Good luck!!
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