As a general rule, an in-place upgrade to a new Windows version is never never never never never never never going to end well. Microsoft have been trying to get this right for 20+ years and every time when they seem to think they've cracked it, the big dirty secret is: they haven't.

Why ppl are always so desperate to get to the newest version of everything? Am I the only one who keep observing everyone going nuts till the things get stable? Why be the guinea pigs? (Why pre-buy stuff?)

New stuff is doomed to fail hard till get fixed.

Damnn!! I shouldn't have listened to the voice of the devil (I've made up my mind, Going ahead now to CLICK RESTART!!!). The right side of my brain kinda told me not to upgrade as this might not end well, but the devil's voice was kinda louder (and more attractive) [attachment=28597:simpsons3.jpg]

In fairness, Windows 10 is probably the Windows version that has been road-tested far more than any other in the past. The Insider program (which I was a member of from the very beginning) has definitely shook out a lot of gremlins. Despite that it's not the most stable Windows version ever; that was Windows 7, which, even in the early betas, was absolutely rock solid. I'd personally rank 10 somewhere below 7 and 8.1 but above 8 and Vista for RTM sanity. What Microsoft would have released if they hadn't done the Insider program doesn't even bear thinking about.

Likewise I've had my fair share of glitches, even on clean installs; one example was a laptop with 2 SSDs (one mSata, one regular Sata; a hardware combination that I reckon not too many others have) which went absolutely nuts when trying to do a clean install.

Even though 10 is now working for me, and I like it, I wouldn't try to defend it, and I would hope that others wouldn't presume to accuse me of doing so. I personally think it was released too early and we're seeing the results of that (the RTM build was the last Insider build, 10240, which even back then was obviously still rough around the edges). Another 3 months of Insider with RTM in September/October would have helped a lot. In 6 months time it'll be a great OS.

For the most part i havent had a problem with windows 10, i did an upgrade for about 3 days before doing a clean install since i was getting performance issues. After the clean install everything had been running fine, until a few days ago. My audio has basically broken, when i so a restart it works for a couple hours, then suddenly my audio just wont play anymore. Windows still claims it can see my audio output devices, but attempting to play the test audio in the propertys panel throws an "failed to play" with no error. Unfortuantly i havent had the time to delve into the issue, and some quick googling hasnt provided anything that fixed the issue.

Another one of these? Really?

Windows 10 works fine for me. Had some minor hitches and a few things have moved around a bit, but welcome to computers.

I generally think it's a big improvement over 8, which was a moderate improvement over 7.

And you know the best part? If you don't like the program Windows uses to open your files... you can change it.

For the most part i havent had a problem with windows 10, i did an upgrade for about 3 days before doing a clean install since i was getting performance issues. After the clean install everything had been running fine, until a few days ago. My audio has basically broken, when i so a restart it works for a couple hours, then suddenly my audio just wont play anymore. Windows still claims it can see my audio output devices, but attempting to play the test audio in the propertys panel throws an "failed to play" with no error. Unfortuantly i havent had the time to delve into the issue, and some quick googling hasnt provided anything that fixed the issue.

I've had a minor issue with audio as well (in-place upgrade). Fixed it by going into device manager and telling it to uninstall the drivers for the audio device. Then told it to scan for new hardware and it installed the audio drivers again. Never had a problem since.

I've heard reports of some folks with Soundblasters having trouble, but frankly I'd put that down to the quality of Creative's drivers (which is about as high as AMD's) rather than anything in Windows itself.

So far I've not had any trouble from my AMD gfx drivers or Creative drivers post-update... I've not clean installed either and everything seems to be ok... I guess time will tell

I've had a minor issue with audio as well (in-place upgrade). Fixed it by going into device manager and telling it to uninstall the drivers for the audio device. Then told it to scan for new hardware and it installed the audio drivers again. Never had a problem since.

tried this today, seems to be working at the moment.

So far I've not had any trouble from my AMD gfx drivers or Creative drivers post-update...

Same here. Don't have an AMD card, but my Sound Blaster has been working just fine.

Another one of these? Really?

Yes really! Because its not without reason

After the last fix of the critical error, i was hoping it was fixed for good and so didn't bother about your "really" post, but guess what, its broken again!

Incidentally MS don't time-stamp this critical error messages otherwise i would have posted the latest to show its a re-occurring thing.

BTW it doesn't just affect the start button and cortana (who gives a fuck about c...) I can't access my wifi networks and other programs..., so only pinned and desktop-shortcut programs are accessible!

And when these breaks happen its frustrating! I've punched enough holes on my walls...

Because its jolly-good for everyone else even makes it worse for ME because a lone voice shouting "My Windows 10 is broken!!!!!" is drowned out

Another one of these? Really?

Yes really! Because its not without reason
After the last fix of the critical error, i was hoping it was fixed for good and so didn't bother about your "really" post, but guess what, its broken again!
Incidentally MS don't time-stamp this critical error messages otherwise i would have posted the latest to show its a re-occurring thing.
BTW it doesn't just affect the start button and cortana (who gives a fuck about c...) I can't access my wifi networks and other programs..., so only pinned and desktop-shortcut programs are accessible!

And when these breaks happen its frustrating! I've punched enough holes on my walls...
Because its jolly-good for everyone else even makes it worse for ME because a lone voice shouting "My Windows 10 is broken!!!!!" is drowned out

Mostly because Windows 10 isn't really broken.

I wouldn't have responded like that had this simply been something like "Hey, having trouble with USB drivers in Windows 10, can anyone help?"

The way the thread and title is worded, this comes across as yet another "I hate MS because MS is MS rage rage rage" post.