What To Do Before Going To Windows 10

  I keep seeing customers bringing in their desktop computers and laptop computers with windows 10 installed that just are not working properly. Some of them will just keep rebooting and never get into windows. There are others where various programs just will not run and keep having errors. Other computers are running so slow it is just ridiculous. So in the next paragraph I will give some things to do and check before upgrading to windows 10.
 The first thing you need to do is determine how old your computer is. Sometimes you can look up your system for example from dell. You can then see when it was purchased. If the system is more than five years old I would not suggest going to windows 10. The next thing to do is to go to the manufacturers website and see if there are software drivers for windows 10. If there are no drivers for windows 10 I would suggest not going to windows 10.
 Here are a few more things to check before upgrading to 10. Either run you system diagnostics or test the system with some software such as Hirens, Win7 PE or Win8 PE. Run tests on the hard drive and on the memory. Western Digital  WDLG and Memtest86+ are a few programs that may detect problems. Also physically look at the motherboard and check for any physical signs of damage such as popped capacitors. If you have any hardware problems do not upgrade to windows 10.
 The final thing I would check for is any infections. The infections could be Viruses, Spyware, Malware and Adware. You can check out some of my other posts or blogs on how to clean viruses. I would download free Malwarebytes, Spybot, TDSSkiller and Super AntiSpyware. Install them, Update then and scan the system. Clean up any problems that you find. If you do find anything I would also run combofix only on windows 7 and windows 8.
 The last thing I would do is make sure the windows updates are all up to date. I would then run the back up program in windows 7 to a external back up drive. With Windows 8 and 8.1 you can run the file history and do the manual back up image of the system. This way if windows 10 goes really bad you can restore the system back. You may find that the recovery in windows 10 does not always work. My final advise is if you do not need to go to windows 10 stay with what is working.