  ...snip... I browsed Windows 10 introductory videos and it does look pretty good/ easy to use. I wonder what problems there might be using Windows 10 compared with Windows 8.1 Cheers, Paul   I don't see any problem. I'm overjoyed with my upgrade to Win 10. You will need to be as lucky as me, though, to get a near perfect experience, judging from posts others have done. If it isn't perfect from the start, could be you are in deep trouble. Therefore, make those images. Win 10 will have its own built-in revert capability, which usually works - but sometimes that too fails, I read. Make your own! Follow the recommendations in that Dell article I posted to update drivers both before & after the upgrade... [URL]#System-Support-Matrix Windows 10 Upgrade Walkthrough I went to read posts about it while the upgrade was sitting in Windows Update (or wherever that put it). I had told it to wait - remind me later - fully intending to try, having made two images & a clone of Win 8.1. When I got back, I was a tad queasy over the complaints I'd read. I'm not sure now whether I accidentally clicked something to make it start or it started on its own - but after about 4 automatic reboots over maybe two hours - all was fine. I'm overjoyed! I've lost no capability or file that I had in Win 8.1, that I can see. Some settings screens are difficult to find, but that was always so. Things are as quick as ever. Possibly McAfee stopped updating its definitions due to the upgrade. I've uninstalled it & put my trust in Windows Defender & Windows Firewall, which both are impressive, especially the firewall. Some very irksome events dropped out of Event Viewer, but new ones are there which some day I shall investigate. But less/nothing is there having me worrying over hardware as in Win 8.1, though that worry was likely false. Event Viewer errors often are bogus. I've got no problem in Win 10 that I didn't have in Win 8.1, which already wasn't much. Both "SFC /Scannow" & DISM continue to report no errors. In Win 10, one can no longer permanently prevent critical updates to enter through Windows Update. So, I hope your difficulty with that is over. You can prevent driver updates, but it's best when there is no need to. I haven't personally found one. I'm overjoyed with Win 10, build 10240. I hope that's what you'll be getting, because, last I read, the new one - Threshold 2 or Version 1511- has been withdrawn. It's problematic. I'll go for it only when offered through Windows Update, when I trust the bugs are fixed. I'll have a fresh set of images & a clone at the ready, though.
Hello, Just over a year ago we bought an Inspiron 5348 with Windows 8.1 down here in New Zealand. It was OK for a few months and one day got totally messed up because I decided to follow instructions and update Windows - BIG MISTAKE. The computer was completely messed up. I got some help from Dell (Asia Pacific I guess) at the time, but in the end muddled through with reinstalling Windows 8.1 using Dell recovery program. The advice from Dell was to reinstall windows and update only once and never again (which seemed strange to me). Anyway it has been fine since then (without ANY updating). My question is about updating to Windows 10 - is this going to be a problem with the Inspiron 5348 that has not been updated in months? I don't have the notice urging me to update to Windows 10 that I have heard about, maybe because I haven't done any updates since the big problem I had months ago. So should I forget about trying to update to Windows 10? Or would it actually be an improvement or Windows 8.1 which appears to be rather unstable? Cheers, Paul
Upgrading an Inspiron 5348 to Windows 10