Because of a glass of sweet tea and my klutziness, I have a new laptop and windows 10 -- I haven't seen a lot of differences other than powering down my computer, more like Vista and an earlier system -- good luck as things like you have experienced are irritating and frustrating -- for me, it's more learning to use and adjust to a newer, even fancier laptop and my new iphone-- again good luck with all-- prior to my tea accident, I was advised not to try windows 10 on my 7 year old laptop as that would have been its 3rd os