I had no issue using the ch340ser.exe drivers on either of my windows 10 x64 systems. slap on an false customs declaration and drop them in the mail... that said, i have abused the hell out of ch340g's and have yet to break one. then plug in the ch340 and windows will just link the driver for you. no need to dig through .inf files.. This came from the driver cd that came with a cheap ch341 based usb to serial adapter that had numerous other drivers on the cd as well. this is the correct driver for the serial adapter, and it includes drivers for windows 7 x64.. This came from the driver cd that came with a cheap ch341 based usb to serial adapter that had numerous other drivers on the cd as well. this is the correct driver for the serial adapter, and it includes drivers for windows 7 x64..
The windows combined driver model (cdm) may be installed on xp, vista, windows 7, windows 8 or windows 10 allowing applications to access ftdi devices through either the d2xx dll or a com port without having to change driver type.. Success! my uno now works on my win 10 pc. the solution was as suggested by ( ballscrewbob - thank you) disable driver signature enforcement. this was done according to "how to geek".. Node mcu on windows 10. post topics, source code that relate to the arduino platform. 4 posts; well dah! i had to find and download the drivers for the usb to serial chip that the nodemcu uses, the ch340g. once the driver was installed all was good. i guess i got lazy as win8 installed the drivers automatically..