Had a hard time upgrading to Windows 10? Share your tale with us!

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If you've had to jump through some hoops to upgrade your computer or tablet to Windows 10, we want to hear about it.

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This all stems from a recent personal experience. I just picked up an Alienware X51 R2, albeit used, still on Windows 8.1. To be expected, and indeed only recently can you buy a new one from Dell pre-loaded with Windows 10. I'm reasonably savvy, but the upgrade experience is, shall we say, less than ideal.

Maybe I should have expected it, but given how easy my other upgrades have been, maybe I got lazy.

Turns out that the official, recognized path to upgrading an Alienware PC involves turning secure boot off in the BIOS, uninstalling the NVIDIA graphics drivers, and then running the upgrade. None of it's too difficult but it does seem a lot for an update to Windows. I mean, these are the sort of issues we'd want fixed ahead of time by all the companies involved, right?

But it also got me thinking. For a little weekend community chat, let's see what you, the Windows Central readers have to say. See how far you had to go to upgrade your own computers or tablets to Windows 10. I've had an easy time of it on my XPS 13 and my Venue 8 Pro, and a much more complicated run as I've described here.

So, jump into the comments below and let us know how far you had to go to upgrade to Windows 10!

Richard Devine
Richard Devine
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Richard Devine is the Managing Editor at Windows Central, where he combines a deep love for the open-source community with expert-level technical coverage. Whether he’s hunting for the next big project on GitHub, fine-tuning a WSL workflow, or breaking down the latest meta in Call of Duty, Forza, and The Division 2, Richard focuses on making complex tech accessible to every kind of user. If it’s happening in the world of Windows or PC gaming, he’s probably already knee-deep in the code (or the lobbies). Follow him on X and Mastodon.