I don't know what that means. Did you mean deployed? I don't really know what this document is for. And it has been my experience the scenario with the most problems
upgrading to W10 is when users are upgrading from Windows 7 on older machines. The older the hardware, the more problems. If the upgrade came from a properly working W8.1, problems were few and mostly minor. And when coming from W7, fewer problems are encountered if the W7 system is working properly, with fully updated drivers, before starting the W10 upgrade process.
Attempting to upgrade a broken computer has a greater chance of failing.
The main upgrade Microsoft managed to achieve in Windows 10 is all of the drivers will be automatically installed via updates apart of the NVIDIA drivers.
What? The "main upgrade"? :confused2: And apart from NIVIDIA drivers? Not true. NVIDIA (and AMD) updates can come through WU too.
However the old versions of drivers with the additional software to support them can cause total chaos.
Or cause no problem at all. And this is not exclusive to W10. And I don't know what you mean here by "additional software".
When you are troubleshooting Windows 10 you need to be aware of this problem and try to remove all of the outdated drivers not allowing the new version of drivers to be installed.
I don't get this at all. It is way to generalized. I am just not going to start removing old drivers just because I am having problems with Windows. It depends on the specific problem I am having. Note that when new drivers are installed, the old driver files, if not removed, are just orphaned - not in the way. And if you have hardware that requires specific drivers, I don't understand why you would advice not to install the new drivers.
As a matter of fact, most of the permission holders are again windows services.
What? No. Got a link to source data that says that? For one, AFAIK, there is no such thing in Windows called "permission holder". And every file and folder has permission settings and there are 10s of 1000s (typically close to 100,000) of those just in the C:\Windows folder and subfolders. Many more than there are services.
and in the rare cases of software not registering licenses without services
??? I don't get this either. "Registering software without services"??? What does that mean? Lots of software don't install or use dedicated services so what registering are you referring to?
To increase the performance of Windows 10 you need to remove all of the working services
Huh? This will kill Windows, then Windows won't boot. Services are essential.
The final line is to remove all of the drivers and additional software as services to increase the performance of the computer.
??? Many programs run best as service in the background. Remove "all". No! Not advisable.
Any 3rd party AV software, Driver optimizer and boosting software must be removed immediately.
Driver optimizer and boosting software I can agree with. 3rd party AV? Maybe, maybe not. Depends on the problem I am seeing. And I will never tell someone to remove or disable their 3rd party security without ensuring they put something else (WD, for example) in its place.
Once you are ready be sure you will remove the Windows.old so no permission or settings will be inherited from there.
NO!!!!! In fact, this is bad advice! Permissions and settings cannot be inherited from windows.old. But more importantly, if you instruct a user to delete windows.old, you have destroyed his ability to roll back to his previous version of Windows. So that is bad advice! Just leave it! Windows will automatically delete windows.old to free up disk space after 30 days anyway!
I am really sorry Andy and I don't mean to burst your bubble. I appreciate the effort you put into this but I really don't see much of anything there I particularly am enthused about. I think it creates more confusion. For starters, in addition to the inaccuracies, I don't understand the purpose or the intended audience. Parts seem to be for users simply having extremely generalized Windows 10 problems. Then other parts seem to be for users having unspecified problems
upgrading to W10. It is just way too vague.
And I am not in favor of doing much of anything to "increase the performance of Windows". Windows 10 is NOT XP. We MUST get out of this conditioning that Windows 10 needs to be tweaked to work optimally. It is just not true anymore. Microsoft has W10 worked out and honed into a finely tuned OS. Dinking with settings most likely will degrade performance, not improve it. Unless you are a bona fide expert with advanced understanding of the inner workings of the Windows 10 operating system
AND you have done extensive analysis of that
specific computer and specifically how it is used
AND you regularly reanalyze the computer and how it is used and adjust as necessary, it is best to just keep the Windows 10 default settings in their default configurations.
As far as upgrading to Windows 10, for the best chance for a trouble-free upgrade, there are already many guides and tutorials out there showing users
how to prepare computer for Windows 10 upgrade.
