[amitkokiladitya]

i recently bought a new laptop which had windows 10 installed in it.
But the CD driver seems to be different and all my old CD s simply dont work in it.
Can anyone suggest me of a method of ruling this out?

[skysnap]

Windows 10 has DVD not CD. That's why it works differently. You need DVD reader for reading that DVD. Also do note that you need to backup the drivers for machine.

[suny]

i recently bought a new laptop which had windows 10 installed in it.
But the CD driver seems to be different and all my old CD s simply dont work in it.
Can anyone suggest me of a method of ruling this out?

Did you mean your CD drives do not work in your laptop which came with pre-loaded Windows 10? You should check with your vendor as it should not be the case.

[Decentlady]

i recently bought a new laptop which had windows 10 installed in it.
But the CD driver seems to be different and all my old CD s simply dont work in it.
Can anyone suggest me of a method of ruling this out?

Did you mean your CD drives do not work in your laptop which came with pre-loaded Windows 10? You should check with your vendor as it should not be the case.

I agree with suny. Check if CDs/DVDs that you are using are compatible or not.

[germainebull]

Any modern laptop should have a DVD driver that would run any DVD disc. I'm sure this is not a major problem and you'll soon get over this hiccup.

[MeowsePad]

If you search the particular piece of software that you are trying to run on Windows 10, there are often workarounds to make old programs compatible with Windows 10. They often involve placing additional files in the program's directory, downloading a path, or other things of that nature.

[Aveatrex]

I agree with MeowsePad
In my opinion windows 10 just sucks it consume too much ram due to his graphical interface i think it consumes 4gb of ram only to run windows 10

[earthsalt]

If you search the particular piece of software that you are trying to run on Windows 10, there are often workarounds to make old programs compatible with Windows 10. They often involve placing additional files in the program's directory, downloading a path, or other things of that nature.

Is this something a computer novice can do unaided?

[skysnap]

If you search the particular piece of software that you are trying to run on Windows 10, there are often workarounds to make old programs compatible with Windows 10. They often involve placing additional files in the program's directory, downloading a path, or other things of that nature.

Is this something a computer novice can do unaided?

With YouTube videos yes. it's not hard to learn to do things with your computer. And if you work smart then yes it surely is a good option.

[germainebull]

Thanks skysnap for mentioning the usefulness of YouTube resources in learning many new concepts. I'll make a point of making friends with YouTube.

[earthsalt]

I once tried to install Windows 10 on my laptop to no avail. I understand that this OS requires more disk space than is on my laptop.

[germainebull]

I once tried to install Windows 10 on my laptop to no avail. I understand that this OS requires more disk space than is on my laptop.

Yes. Windows 10 needs a computer with superior storage resources in terms of disk space. I was once advised not to switch to Windows 10 because my computer does not the requisite storage space.

[skysnap]

Avoid upgrading existing WIndows 7 o 8 with Windows 10. Because Windows 10 will slow your system down. It is only good for new machines.

[jonjenkins]

Windows 10 can actually run quite well on machines with relatively small resources. My Dell Inspiron N5050 was upgraded last year from Windows 7, and is certainly not any slower. This machine has only a 1.6GHz Celeron, and 3GB RAM.

Windows 10 also has a useful reset/reinstall function. My laptop hard drive was almost full, so I decided to use this function, which helped me resinstall the software quite easily. You have the option to keep your existing data as well, but I went for a clean install.

Whichever version of Windows you have, sometimes the only thing that will speed it up is reinstalling and starting from scratch. You obviously need to be sure that all your important data is backed up first!

[skysnap]

3GB RAM is the big resource. Many old computer are lower than 2GB RAM. So WIndows 10 has no chance on those machines. 3GB RAM for earlier veersion of windows were precious amoung of RAM. Not with Windows 10.

[jonjenkins]

3GB RAM is the big resource. Many old computer are lower than 2GB RAM. So WIndows 10 has no chance on those machines. 3GB RAM for earlier veersion of windows were precious amoung of RAM. Not with Windows 10.

You're probably right. We've got a Samsung netbook with only 1GB RAM, and it was almost unusable just with Windows 7. It's now running fine with Linux on it though!

[sprite1950]

I upgraded my computer from Windows 7 to 10 with no problems at all. I remember it took a long time, something like 2 1/2 hours but it's been running perfectly ever since and didn't slow my system down at all.

[liveonline]

hum? I bought my new windows 10 (DESK TOP) that just has CD player & NO DVD player
so you may have to get up with the outlet you bought the computer from, is it a dell?
you can call them & they can help you with that like they did me when my cd player
didn't work & they shipped me a NEW hard drive to replace it for FREE.

[germainebull]

You're probably right. We've got a Samsung netbook with only 1GB RAM, and it was almost unusable just with Windows 7. It's now running fine with Linux on it though!

The same thing happened to me. I eagerly installed Windows 10 on my 1GB laptop only for this OS to give me many problems. I had to install the OS in the end.

[earthsalt]

3GB RAM is the big resource. Many old computer are lower than 2GB RAM. So WIndows 10 has no chance on those machines. 3GB RAM for earlier veersion of windows were precious amoung of RAM. Not with Windows 10.

What is the minimum RAM size required for a computer to run Windows 10?