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Just (today) upgraded a win7 pro to win10. Win7 is very very fast a few seconds at most and it will compile blink led and upload it.
I worked around the prolific PL2303 driver ..the driver that win10 picks is incompatible but the win7 driver (if the win10 is manually told to load the win7) driver works.
It seems win 10 compiles every possible arduino builtin module along with the sketch resulting in a 4 min compile for just blinkled .ino.
I'm not sure yet what is the issue it is doing it over and over as if the built in modules o files weren't kept.
Win10 is a marginal improvement but win7 will at some point go off maintenance and soon the free Win 10 upgrade will no longer be available.
Anyone using win 10 with esp8266 Arduino?

Just started yesterday ----
The main problem is the automatic updating of drivers
I'm using 4 Prolific USB-Serial converters,, I have to use down level version 3.3.2.105
then if you connect another Prolific to usb{ that hasn't been connected]
This gets loaded with ver 3.6.x.357 i.e. latest version , then all same ports get error,
You then have to load 3.3.2.105 on that last port , all ports then heal

I have tried reg changes, disable auto driver up dates to no avail......

If I could just figure out how to make the 3.3.2.105 appear as the latest driver ???

I believe w10 is booting faster , of course its not loaded up yet...
Arduino 1.6.5 speed appears the same to me.....

My LOGTEMP [DS18B20] pgm now fails to load -- missing ibfs32.dll -- windows squakes if I
add it..... I havn't searched W7-ult to see if it is on there .... W7 ult ---> W10 pro oem
Think it may be a 1-wire driver file? will reload 1-wire driver

most issues solved...... LogTemp has missing driver

Found workaround for USB2Serial [Prolific] I put prolifc on all ports and loaded down level code
Also have don't update set [ thats a joke ], however since I have loaded all ports all seems well...
Although I havn't tried different device , then back to usb-serial ....

It needed a fresh install of arduino 1.6.5 to work around the slowwww issue...it is now as fast as the win7 version. I also tried arduino 1.6.8 but it hangs on uploading to the esp8266. Win10 is just a minor annoyance over Win7 (on a desk top) but it has to be suffered through since at some point win7 will be obsolete.There are 3rd party shells that will bring most of the familiar functionality of win7 back. The usb rs232 drivers interfacing the arduino IDE to the esp8266 chip are a bit quirky with win10 but there are reasonable work arounds.