terminal7 wrote:Hopefully we can get back on track!
I don't know if this will help, but having read your op at the weekend I decide to hit my 12 year old Dell Inspiron with Win10 Pro.
The spec is:
Processer: Intel(R)Core(TM) Duo T7250 @ 2.0GHz
RAM: 4Gb
HDD: 150Gb
Graphics: 1280 x 800
The m/c was originally shipped with WinXP Home which after 5 years I upgraded to Win7 Pro. Sometime during 2015, following discussions here, I downloaded a Win10 ISO to DVD even though a Dell scan reported this piece of kit was not upgradable to Win10. The disc basically just sat there gathering dust as I was perfectly satisfied that Win7 satisfied my needs, I was comfortable using it and that eventually I would just buy another m/c.
However, being the tight wad that I am, on Monday I decided to whirl-up the ISO disk and see what would happen (I do love a challenge).
Moving on, the installation got as far as configuring Win10 and failed as windows was unable to update a 'base level driver'. Inspecting Device Manager there was the yellow warning triangle against an unknown driver for an unknown item which I just uninstalled.
Second attempt also ended in the same result meaning the driver/item uninstall had failed. Then I had the
moment. When I originally upgraded to Win7, I encountered a problem with a base level driver missing. Researching, I found I needed to find a Ricoh Media driver for a games contoller. Sorted. Device Manager now has a clean bill of health and Win7 is operating normally.
Moving forward a few years I decided to clean up the m/c and did a reinstall of Win7 which resulted in the same Ricoh base level driver being required. As I don't 'game' I decided to give it a miss as the m/c was working satisfactorily without it.
It now became obvious that to complete the Win10 upgrade I would now need to download the Ricoh driver again to Win7 to enable it to be healthy enough to upgrade to Win10. Also, I downloaded a fresh copy of Win10 ISO to be on the safe side.
Problem solved. Win10 installed and working (rather bizzare GUI though, after the simplicity of all previous Win versions).
Is that it? No.
As I was obviously connected to the internet to carry out the upgrade a connection problem didn't manifest itself until I returned the m/c from 'sleep mode'. No internet connection and a globe type icon in the sys tray as opposed to transmission type icon there should be.
After several attempts to resolve the issue I ran the 'troubleshooter' task which did ultimately fix the problem. That is until the m/c was placed in 'sleep mode' again and reawoken. Bingo! No internet connection.
To cut
another long short, I opened Device Manager, opened Intel(R) Pro Wireless Network Connector - Change Settings - Power Management and and did similar with the Broadcom 440x Integrated Controller and there it was. Microsoft had decided to default
'Allow this computer to turn off this device to save power'. Err, no. I'll decide what shuts down and what stays on thank you very much. So a quick untick and now it is onwards and upwards.
Finally, I've unticked all the privacy policies, added a folder to the registry to stop Cortana in its tracks, as I have been unable to unistall it and deleted the majority of the desktop apps.
Hope that above tome helps you or someone else who is still undecided. Remember anything is achievable and good luck.