Windows 10 and lots of POPS!

Hey Jude!
 
1. I just wrestled with this.  Try going through your projects and silencing various soft synths (if that's what you're using and that's what's popping).  My problem was KONTAKT.  Not sure the reason for this cuz I'm not much of a computer whiz.
 
2. Of course check your buffers.  Experiment with settings under preferences in Sonar and the settings on your asio panel.  Win 10 was  supposed to streamline audio handling so it was  an improvement, not a step back updating to win 10.
 
3.  The easiest way to see problems is to get dpc latency checker http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml
See what's causing the page faults and that's your problem.
 
 

No I think it is because WIn 10 is updating a lot of stuff in the background.
Just be patient. Nothing else, WIn 10 is faster and has lower latency than previously.
dan

Try and get that wi-fi shut down as it's a known trouble maker. Leave windows defender alone. Many people are using it and have found no issues. Also remember that the upgrade to win 10 will change lots of services in the background and won't necessarily honour the preferences you used to have. It turned on many things that I had turned off such as the onboard audio and audio drivers related to the video card I have.

You guys are all making excellent points.  I'll leave my computer on for a few days and let Windows do it's thing as well as check and see if any new processes are running.
 
kitekrazy1: good question.  Buffer is set at 2048 samples/42.7 msec.  It's the max my drivers will go.
 
Thanks to every one of you!!

Hey Jude,
 
Go here:  http://www.sweetwater.com/sweetcare/articles/solving-dpc-latency-issues/
 
if you have latency with usbport.sys (which I did) and you have a multi card reader attached (which I did) try disconnecting it.  It'll work! Also, I think new Win 10 installs automatically index your drives. Go to drive properties and turn indexing off.   Finally, turn Cortana off.

Only use the free Latency Mon on Win 10.  It has been updated for Win 10. 
 
I have been using Win 10 for a long time as I'm in the "insider program" which gets me pre-release versions. I haven't had any problems and even have lower, reliable, latency settings with my Roland Octa-Capture (and Studio-Capture) than I could use with Win 7 or Win 8/8.1.   
 
With Win 7 and 8/8.1 I could use the 6 ms latency setting.  With Win 10 I can use the 4 ms latency setting.

Yeah, win10 is the bees knees for me as well.

Hi Guys:
 
For what it's worth I had a project I had to get finished so I reverted back to Windows 7 for the time being (if you don't know, after you update from an older OS to W10 you have a month to revert back).  I'm sure down the road I'll try W10 again. 
 
Sincere thanks to EVERYONE who tried to help me.  I appreciate you all!!

Doktor Avalanche

kitekrazy1
Remove video card drivers and let the video card run on stock MS drivers.

Allow me to contradict sorry. I've done multiple windows 10 installs and the stock drivers are pretty crappy. Most were rushed out for win10. Update to the latest from AMD's or Nvidias site (or whatever it is). Make sure you do clean custom installs, and just install the driver itself.

YMMV

I was getting all sorts of clicks stutters and drop outs until I started using Avast the rest I wouldn't use anymore. Since Avast (ain't virus) my computer is running how I like it to run.