How to fix Windows 10
As stated in the title, this is a WIP, and I’ll update as we go here.
1. Reach out to MS on multiple channels 2. Receive silence 3. Update to Windows Insider build 4. See small fixes 5. See many larger things broken 6. Reach back out to MS 6a. Open beer #1 7. Receive non-answer 8. Re-insert old W7 based drives to create system restore discs via factory utility 9. Ensure 1 TB of space is free so that it can write out 8 GB of backup and recovery data 10. Write disc 1 of 2, and watch it take 15 minutes to bomb out of verification at 11% 11. Write disc 1 of 2 again 12. Attempt to keep myself from glancing at the progress bar every 15 seconds to see if it halts at 11% again
Edit: 4:45 PM 13. Watch disc 1 write. Write disc 1, write. 13a. Open beer #2 14. Watch disc 1 succeed! 15. Insert disc 2. 16. Write disc 2, write! 17. Watch it succeed on the first try 18. Try not to scoff so loudly that it interferes with wife’s successful video game time 19. Re-insert W10 based drives to restore newly create W7 recovery 20. Be sad that beer #2 was the last of that particular seasonal exclusive flavor in the fridge
Final update...
21. Try and decipher cryptic system restore messages 22. Be paranoid and disconnect secondary data HDD to ensure it isn’t touched 23. Restart system restore procedure, and pick most catastrophic wipe everything the fuck out version 24. Install. Install, Windows, install! 25. Realize don’t have copy of WiFi adapter drivers 26. See that they don’t exist anywhere on manufacturer’s web site 27. Find them from a shady third party site 28. Download them anyway and xfer using USB stick (shaped like Starkiller from Force Unleashed - because REASONS) 29. Install WiFi drivers 30. Watch them actually fucking work 31. Begin the long, arduous process of downloading drivers, updates, apps to get back to where you need to be 32. Think about playing games tomorrow 33. Return to 20. and be sad, again, that the special beer is gone
There you have it folks; how to fix Windows 10 in 33 easy steps.