Damn, that sucks

How do you know that the OS is the issue?

No issues here.
Well, I did manage to break the start menu at some point, but a round of updates that happened a few days later fixed that.

This does remind me of when I first upgraded to Win 7 though. Had similar problems back then. Still had and old motherboard & cpu at that time, and as it turns out the motherboard drivers for Win 7 were shit and the vendor had no plans to provide better ones as the thing was past end-of-life by two weeks. Whoops.
So I ended up upgrading hardware a few months earlier than I had planned, since the issues I had with trying to go back to XP pissed me off enough after 3 days.

All in all, I was NOT happy at the time.

Sorry but it's working fine for me. I wish you good luck though

Ever thought of the RAM being damaged? Because when your RAM is damaged at a particular "saving unit", the whole PC will work perfectly as long as it does not yet use the one damage "saving unit". But when you wanna do something that requires more power, your PC will say "Hey, gimme some more saving units" and then it will crash because it uses the damaged one.

mine just forcefully installed itself yesterday and i'm still awkwardly trying to figure things out. So far everything works properly. Only weird thing that happened was that it made the usb plugged in sound and started installing something while i didn't even touch anything. so i guessed it was installing some drivers but it was kinda frozen and i cancelled it. No problem so far. Only thing that annoys me is the black screen that lasts a few seconds when i turn it on.

But i know a lot of people who had a lot of problems with it, mainly hardware related stuff (speakers/mouse not working,...).

Good luck with your pc!

What is your motherboard? Because a lot of LGA-1151 Gigabyte mobos had issues of Win10 constantly BSoDing and restarting itself.

in my experience, it takes about a day of tinkering with Windows 10 to adjust the settings, customize and personalize it, etc. After that, it's great.

7 FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I recently (within the last year) bought two computers: a tower and a laptop. They both came with Win8 (which made me cry, but whatevs) and the upgrades to Windows 10 could not have been more flawless.

Is this a brand new PC you're putting together? (You said you got a new one, but didn't mention if you assembled it yourself from parts.)

EDIT: Just read your blog. Damn. Sorry. :(

Still using Windows 7 on my own computer. Will upgrade in May or June though, just before the free upgrade expires. Have to bite the bullet then, with certain games requiring Win10 already.

Have done 2 Laptops and 2 Computers upto Windows 10 though. Variable stories there... 1 Laptop turned so goddamn slow it nearly met an unfortunate end with my fist... lol. Almost literally, Reinstalled 3 times over before it finally decided to work (turned out to be the network card drivers, oddly enough. Noticed since as soon as wireless was connecting, it went haywire)

Second laptop was slow as hell on Windows 7, but quite a significant speed boost in 10. Not really good in browsers though, for some reason. They're all slow as hell. Both starting an running, a problem since 7. Though downloads and P2P Gaming work great.

First computer... Good lord. Well, why is it always internet issues?! Flash player, even Chrome's, was absolutely shit! everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, ran either at drastic hyperspeed (like 5 second skips on youtube hyperspeed) or so goddamn slow it was like being back on a 486, depending on the version of flashplayer and graphical driver installed. Eventually ended up replacing the graphics card.

The second computer inherited the graphics card from the first, and guess what? No bloody issues what so ever.

All installations have been, or will be, for 64 bit, with exception of the first laptop, running 32-bit.
Both computers ran "upgrade from windows 7".
One laptop as mentioned clean install after reformatting.

All originally had windows 7 on there (I refused to install windows 8)

Never had a single problem with W10. In fact, I think it's the best Windows to date.

You should check your parts of your PC. If I'm in your place I go to check RAMs first (Memtest 86+ DOS)

Stayed on Win7. So did my corporate IT department.
I don't know if I'll upgrade to Win10 before the free upgrade expires. I wanted to want to upgrade to Win10, but I just don't.
Your story isn't helping. ;-)
I hope you get your problems resolved-- that sounds terrible.

I have windows 10 come with the new laptop that i bought still have some issues with it, especially the searching button, it can't find nothing.

If it is a fresh install with a new pc then it could be a hardware issues.Do not be so quick to blame the OS just because everything is new does not mean it works as it should.

That being said if it is hardware related that could be hard to track down though the same could be said for the OS if it is an OS issue i would assume on a fresh install i would lean toward a bad driver or more outdated driver.

On a side note i have been using Windows 10 Pro since i did the free upgrade last summer and had no issues like that in fact i have not had any crashes related to the OS.I have had a Fallout 4 and a couple other games crash at times but other then that it has been rock solid.

If you have another pc that you could swap parts out with that might help narrow down bad hardware.Have you done a Memory test to make sure your ram is good?It could be your mobo,it could also be something you have plugged in something as simple as a usb drive or head set or something like that.

I have a Intel 200k a 7950 8gig of ram and plain old mechanical hard drivers...though i hope by this summer i can at least do some small upgrades.

It's not Windows 10, this is what happens when people that don't know what they're doing try to do something they have no business doing. You need to stick to buying a store bought PC.

I don't have any issues with 10 now, besides hating it because it's the future and it's actually regressive from 7 from power user pov, but when I upgraded from 7 to 10 it gave me hell.

Doing a clean install fixed most of my issues with 10 from a crash/buggy situation. I still wouldn't be using 10 if it weren't for them canceling support for 7 and forcing DX12 as 10 exclusive. But alas. I can't wait for their first upgrade pack ala Mac style. Wonder what price they will charge.

Are you using Chrome when it freezes? Chrome 32bit used to hard freeze my computer randomly. I uninstalled and downloaded Chrome beta 64bit and have had no issues.

use LINUX!

i always got freezing from windows if i watched videos. then i installed the new graphics driver and know everything is normal.

"testing software" ... You obviously don't know much about softwares, please don't jump into conclusion as this is not Windows' fault this is probably a hardware or bad sector issue.

Check your BIOS, make sure your BIOS mode is AHCI.

Disable your MOBO's Windows 7-10, Power Saving, Fast Boot modes. It's a common cause for OS errors, Motherboard manufacturers tend to release unfinished Windows features and never support them.

Update your BIOS. UPDATE IT. It's one of the most common case, when you buy MOBO that says it can handle 1600 mhz DDR3 Ram or some new CPU's it's probably a freshly released feature stabilized with Bios updates. Hell, I couldn't use my CPU before I updated my Bios. Support comes after the release.

Check your storage units for bad sectors, especially your OS install sector.

This is 70% a MOBO/Bios issue, 20% Storage/OS Install Unit, %10 other hardware. W10 isn't responsible for those hiccups. In fact, it's the best OS I've ever used.

ok if you really sure or just for testing purposes install windows 7 on another drive or the same if you don't want to go back to windows 10 anymore. But if you want to install it on another drive without affecting Windows 10 first disconnect Windows 10 drive and then install Windows 7.

Fourth option: I was using Windows 10, had myriad issues with it, and promptly reverted to Windows 8.1, which has always worked well.