Computer Blues: Windows 10 Anniversary Update

Mercury retrograde, why must you test me?  Well, technically we're only in the shadow of the retrograde, but already I'm feeling it. I'm going through fits with my computers (both of them) right now.

I bought my red HP laptop in 2015. It came with Windows 8.1, but right after I bought it, it forced me to upgrade to Windows 10. The day I upgraded to Windows 10, it wiped out my onboard webcam. I noticed but didn't worry about it too much because I'd been using my old usb webcam, which is pl...