I need to rant,.. windows 10 is crap and I wish I never installed it

A small fix for 100% storage usage is turning off notifications about tips from microsoft, goto Windows 10 settings -> system -> notification and actions and turn off Tips about windows

I have WIFI issues with Win 10, have to jump through some hoops from time ti time to get it back

I guess something's wrong with your setup because else Win 10 wouldn't have issues as it's way more compatible with anything than Windows 7.

Arch Linux! <3
No freezing so far on win10, but it's shit, so I feel your pain. Guess it doesn't like my network card. Turned off every service that doesn't crash whole OS, but lack of speed is still an issue. And no new drivers for 10 yet, duh.
Of course I have no such issues on Arch.

If it ain't broken, don't fix it! That's my policy.
I'm still rocking with Windows 7 after 6 years, and I won't upgrade to Windows 10, not even under torture!
Windows 10 Home users are subject to mandatory updates, essentially being used as perpetual beta testers; now you see why it's free, and why they're forcing it on us? And being relatively new, driver support might be wonky (or outright absent) for older or less popular hardware.
Also, with all that telemetry and phoning home to Microsoft servers for every little action, we can as well call it a legalized spyware.
Now, what you (or everyone in the same situation) can do?

1. If you updated less than 30 days ago, you can still rollback to your old Windows version;
2. If you upgraded the old Windows immediately after getting your PC, it might have been using an OEM bulk key (a single key used by vendors to ease the manufacturing process), so the real key (the one on the sticker) might still be unused, and that'd be awesome!
3. If you're too late for a rollback, do a reset; and see if it works better;
4. If all else fails, the last legal option would be to install a Linux distro, but that would lock you out of most of your Steam library.

Lastly, an advice for fellow Windows 7/8//8.1 users who don't want the free "upgrade": carefully select which updates deserve a space on your system, because many of them are actually just paving the road for the Windows 10 "upgrade".
I check this site regularly to avoid nasty updates: http://www.askwoody.com/

Have you tried using /sfc scannow command? Fixed a few issues I had with win 10 locking up the start menu on my father's laptop.

I'm not using it on my PC, though. Still on Windows 7 x64 Ultimate there.

I have not tried to upgrade from 8/8.1 to 10 as I have older computers, but I have had problems on almost every PC that I've upgraded from 7 to 10. On my main PC Windows 10 "forgot" all about my printer installation and rebooted with an unknown device in the Device Manager and the software suite for it was nowhere to be found. I also had to reinstall drivers for my HD6850 (yes, I know I need to upgrade) because it didn't install CCC and installed the default MS drivers instead. In every Windows 7 upgrade instance that I have done I ended up resetting the OS and was forced to lose everything that was installed on Windows 7 prior by doing so. Once I did that the computers all ran fine. In my experience the upgrade process is flawed, as it has always been with prior Windows upgrades, and the best solution is a clean install.

In this case though it appears that you have a failing hardware component somewhere or a BIOS setting that needs to be changed. I wish you luck in your frustrating journey.

Desktop install was fine. Headphones don't work on the laptop since installing on there. Tried for about an hour to find a working solution which I realise isn't long. What works for others didn't work for me so I plugged in a USB headset instead and use that.

I don't move my laptop around or take it out with me. If I did then a fix would be more urgent as it'd be handy to stick a pair of earbuds in and use them on the go. As I pretty much use it as desktop the USB headset solution is ok, but I really should sort it out properly at some point.

I'm on Windows 10 as well. Everytime they update something, they add some annoying little issues to my laptop. Nothing google-fu can't fix though. Good luck!

I prefer pay for something good than get something shitty for free. Since I already paid for something good, there's no reason to get something shitty for free. Besides that, what reinforces me to not update mine, is that if it ain't broken, don't fix it! If you are not that happy, you may wanna reconsider roll back to windows 7.

I plan to move to ubuntu.

not reading through all this shit to see if anyone said anything similar. Had this problem, was my wireless wifi, windows did not like its power settings by default and i had to set it to be always on before it would stop locking up the pc. it hadnt been an issue on 7 prior to the upgrade. after finally figuring it out, and searching for that specific issue, apparently win10 doesnt like certain devices when they come out of standby. check to see if you have any hardware that isnt in an always on state, and correct the settings, if it solves it, set them back one at a time until you figure out which device/hardware it is.

only issue i had occasionally is my system randomly freezing then upon restarting it installs windows 10 updates

I won't touch Win10 due to all the telemetry and reporting back to M$. Win7 for gaming and Windows-only apps, linux for everything else.