{"id":13803,"date":"2016-08-05T12:24:22","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T16:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=13803"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:43:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:43:00","slug":"out-the-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2016\/08\/out-the-window\/","title":{"rendered":"Out the Window"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Photograph:<\/a>Well, that was quick.\u00a0 One week ago, I downloaded Windows 10 for my Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro laptop (late 2013 vintage) as a purported “upgrade” for my schizophrenic but functional Windows 8.1.\u00a0 As of today, I have booted Windows 10 out the window and returned to 8.1.\u00a0 Thank you, Microsoft, for giving me a thirty-day grace period to get out.\u00a0 But that is all the appreciation I can muster for you.<\/p>\n

Many people have encountered serious problems switching to Windows 10; others have had no issues.\u00a0 In my case, the problem was the laptop display flashing or blanking out.\u00a0 Other Yoga 2 Pro users had this same problem — the cause seems to be a “panel refresh” option in the display driver.\u00a0 To get rid of the problem, you can roll back the display driver to a previous version and turn off panel refresh.\u00a0 But this fix lasts only until Windows 10 scans your drivers, detects that your driver is out-of-date, and reinstalls newer drivers (without giving you a choice), which reintroduces the display problem.<\/p>\n

I am not going to spend hours fighting Windows 10.\u00a0 You win, Microsoft.\u00a0 I retreat.<\/p>\n

We have two laptops in our family.\u00a0 Both had Windows 8.1 and I chose to upgrade both of them to Windows 10.\u00a0 And both of our laptops had problems.\u00a0 Although I decided to throw in the towel on mine, I was able to fix the touchpad functionality on my wife’s Asus laptop by installing a program called “Smart Gesture.”\u00a0 Again, the only reason I knew about this is because other Asus owners had the same issue.<\/p>\n

Microsoft, do me a favor: if you intend to uninstall Smart Gesture from my wife’s laptop, please tell Windows to do so in the next 23 days, so I can throw her copy of Windows 10 out the same window I threw mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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