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Hmm. I'm guessing your S.O.'s machine does not BSOD under Win10.
My machine, a venerable Acer that started with Vista, has been running Win10 for months, with nary a problem.
My wife's laptop, which is only a few months old and has a virgin-install of Win10, BSOD's at the drop of a hat. Any hat. Hats in Cleveland.
Swap machines with your S.O., if you dare.
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No BSOD yet after upping to 10 but there are some nasty quirks here like the start button or task bar becoming disabled after some time and video stalling or losing sound after some time. Hoping it will get fixed.
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BSODs are almost always caused by faults in a driver or, more rarely, memory errors. The drivers for Win10 haven't had the length of testing that they did for Win7. There were some major core changes in Win10 to improve performance and, as you probably know already, performance increases often hit reliability and safety first... therefore there is a higher chance of BSODs. Just wait three or four years and they will reduce in frequency!
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Works on my machines.
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I think it's best to stay with 8.1 or 7 until they release a stable update to 10.
- lack of stable/updated drivers
- increase in number of OS crashes and BSODs
- slower on the same hardware
Obviously as a dev, you'd want to have at least one 10 machine for debugging/testing. But it should not be your primary laptop/desktop/OS.
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I've moved 3 home machines to Win10 from Win8.1. Only one of them started to BSOD.
I originally "upgrade" installed all of them to Windows 10, for the BSODing machine I did a full refresh of the hardware and software to make sure I got rid of BSODs (and it worked).
>Updated all firmware on the PC, EG: latest motherboard BIOs
>Reinstalled windows 10 via Windows Refresh (clean install) to remove any junk left from Win8.1 that could cause the BSOD.
>After refresh, install all the latest Windows 10 drivers and software. If you have an old mobo and the manufacturer hasn't updated their drivers to Windows 10, it's possible to get the "latest" driver from the offical vendor for that piece of hardware instead. EG: You could get the windows 10 intel chipset driver from intel directly if your mobos support page hasn't updated their chipset version for several years.
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how long did you stay on xp before going to 7? If anything like me, i didnt switch to 7 till at least 2+ years after it's release, and guess what, most of those BSODs likely fixed by then. Win10 is only 7 months main release and about 11 months mass release with the dev channel, so it still got a ways to go.
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I think I had a few, but more often the system just crashed without one. That was some 2 or three months ago. Since then it was stable - but I don't run that machine very often. Back then, Mary Jo Fowley reported that very same problem, and a couple of her readers confirmed it. Apparently the issues were resolved by doing a fresh install rather than running a system upgraded from an earlier version.
I suspect that some of the windows update are just not very good in dealing with the remnants of older Windows versions.
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Had a perfectly working machine on windows 8.1 but then I got BSOD or lock-ups once or twice a day after upgrading to windows 10.
I reverted back to windows 8.1 - actually still got BSOD but only when resuming from sleep and only sometimes. So at least I can be productive without risk of a crash and losing work.
The nvidia forums have plenty of people with similar issues. The latest drivers issued in the last week or so still have the issue.
So you are not alone.
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I had a short run of BSOD's quite a while ago. I seem to recall they happened when I played Spider and moved the cards too fast. I think I upgraded my video driver. Sorry I can't be more specific.
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I did get them when I first upgraded, but when I also updated the Motherboard BIOS all the BSOD crashes stopped.
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I haven't gotten any. Knock on wood.
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I have had a Saturday job for the last 7 years managing a self-storage facility. I probably spend an hour and a half on 'their' work, and the rest of the time, writing code on the laptop. Around three years ago, the storage place switched their management software to webselfstorage.com, which is run by U-Haul. At that time, we were told that the web based software 'runs best' in Internet Explorer. What they meant was that certain vital screens, such as the screen to take a payment, ONLY work in IE, and even then ONLY with compatibility mode on!
So, this has been an issue for over three years and for the entire time they have been promising an update....Come on guys! It's just elephanting javascript! Just fix it!
And while I'm at it, it really irritates me when I double-click a shortcut to start a program and the login screen appears without focus  ...typing only produces a startling windows error sound! You know who you are! (AxTrax)
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So it seems to me that over the last 7 years of having 6.5 hours free to write code on your laptop, you could have written a better storage management software package! 
Marc
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I'll work for them, but I wouldn't want these people as my (software) clients! 
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U-Haul does not haul ass ?
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kmoorevs wrote: At that time, we were told that the web based software 'runs best' in Internet Explorer.
Say, what?!
kmoorevs wrote: What they meant was that certain vital screens, such as the screen to take a payment, ONLY work in IE, and even then ONLY with compatibility mode on!
With that kind of brilliant decision-making abilities , they are more likely to go bust than update 
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Just ordered my birthday present from Herself - a 960GB SSD and associated bits'n'bobs.
That should make opening Visual Studio a bit quicker...
[edit]Please note: birthday not until end of month. Ordered today to get them here in time...[/edit]
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modified 6-Feb-16 10:50am.
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It's not till the end of the month - which means if I order it now, she'll have time to get me to wrap them before my birthday!
And don't worry about the phone - I only moved into the smart phone era a few years ago, when I changed from a HP iPAQ hw6915[^] (with a MASSIVE 64MB of RAM) to a Moto G ... laugh.
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"a few years ago" ... thank you to let me feel older 
Bruno
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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then imagine how he can feel :P
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OriginalGriff wrote: That should make opening Visual Studio a bit quicker...
but less time on Facebook CP [^]
I'd rather be phishing!
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Not till the end of the month - I just order the bits!
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