Uploaded January 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
My Dell Latitude E6500 was last under warranty support in 2014. Needless to say, getting Windows 10 to work correctly was a challenge. Drivers directly compatible with Win10 were never released for the majority of its hardware, making it difficult to get things like the video and audio working out of the box, even with Windows' default generic drivers. Compound that with a pesky glitching and stuttering problem that was rearing its head during audio and video playback in the form of stuttering, all of which led to a far from seamless upgrade from Windows 7.
There also was the matter of disabling Windows' built-in telemetry, Cortana, the pointless lock/logon screen, and the bothersome live tiles that advertise the Microsoft Store or the newest version of Office on your start menu, and countless other things I've lost track of.
Can it be done, yes. Was it easy, no. At least now it's done and over with.
P.S. If your audio and/or video is stuttering, hesitating, or glitching check your Intel Rapist Storage Technology (RST) driver. Microsoft was using its own generic version which was causing serious buffer overruns when monitored with a DPC Latency Monitor.
My Dell Latitude E6500 was last under warranty support in 2014. Needless to say, getting Windows 10 to work correctly was a challenge. Drivers directly compatible with Win10 were never released for the majority of its hardware, making it difficult to get things like the video and audio working out of the box, even with Windows' default generic drivers. Compound that with a pesky glitching and stuttering problem that was rearing its head during audio and video playback in the form of stuttering, all of which led to a far from seamless upgrade from Windows 7.
There also was the matter of disabling Windows' built-in telemetry, Cortana, the pointless lock/logon screen, and the bothersome live tiles that advertise the Microsoft Store or the newest version of Office on your start menu, and countless other things I've lost track of.
Can it be done, yes. Was it easy, no. At least now it's done and over with.
P.S. If your audio and/or video is stuttering, hesitating, or glitching check your Intel Rapist Storage Technology (RST) driver. Microsoft was using its own generic version which was causing serious buffer overruns when monitored with a DPC Latency Monitor.
