Posted on 09/19/2015 6:05:47 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I did the same thing because I seriously didn’t like Windows 10. I couldn’t find my files, the margin app thingy blocked access to the desktop, and overall I am way beyond having patience to relearn what should be simple usage.
I found a link within the Windows 10 trial offer to uninstall windows 10. It warns you can lose your files etc., but heck I couldn’t find them anyway. I did the uninstall that actually took several hours to run. When I rebooted back to Windows 7 everything was there.
Now to get rid of the annoying Pop-up to upgrade to Windows 10? No idea how to get rid of it.
Plex media server/client. We don’t have TV/Cable. 100% of our television and movies are streamed over internet.
Under windows 7 the client was a regular program. Windows 10 it is an app, and like android/iphone apps it requires subscription to play media files on our server because it thinks it’s a mobile device on my wife’s notebook.
This isn’t actually the fault of Microsoft, it’s the fault of Plex, but either way Windows 10 won’t work. There were a few other minor things.
It was sort of the same when Vista first came out, a bunch of Windows XP software we had wouldn’t run/install. Had to wait for software updates or Vista updates before we could upgrade.
If she doesn't use the 8.1 dual boot anyway, might as well given 10 a shot and upgrade it. From what I hear it's only uphill compared to 8.1, as long as you don't have an upgrade problem. And I haven't heard about many issues there as long as the computer is 3-4 years old max.
I plan to upgrade my wife's 8.1 laptop to 10 soon. But I'm waiting until the first patch release, which sounds like November. If it goes well, I'll try migrating my 4 desktop Win7 machines next, but only after doing a full disk image backup before the migration so I can recover to where I was if there's an issue.
I “upgraded” to Windows 10 soon after the release and it was a horrible experience.
When it was done all it would literally do was sit there and flash the screen (it flashed on and off) with the spinning wheel most times. I couldn’t even click on the start menu to shut it off. I had to use CTRl ALt DEL.
I let it sit for an hour in that confused state to see if it would update with a patch of some sort and nothing. Just kept flashing. It was unusable.
I ended up wiping that and going back to Windows 7. I haven’t tried it since.
I read before the upgrade that NVIDIA video cards and associated drivers had comparablity issues with WIN 10. So I knew about that possibility. But I only have one monitor (not two or more which most of the issues revolved around) and I updated to the latest driver for my card before upgrading Windows. I guess it was still an issue but the bit of post update research I did (while it sat flashing for an hour) didn’t address my issue at all.
This is a perfect example of why I hate PC’s and the Windows OS. Just like all past OSes (with XP and Windows 7 being somewhat excepted) unless everything is installed perfectly and configured correctly they don’t work at all or very limited. I only went back to the PC when it became clear to me that there simply aren’t any good gaming video cards on Mac’s.
From now on though I will sacrifice some video quality for computer reliability. And not “upgrade” again the Windows until at least this November if not ever.
Windows 10 will be a success as it is Windows 7 and 8. Also you can use touch if you have the screen for it on your laptop or big monitor. Tablets of course will use the feature. It also run android apps on some devices.
I do not like the privacy issues as I suspect even though you turn off the spying they are still recording everything and one day oops we “accidentally’ turned it all back on and zippppp your private info is uploaded to be sold to advertisers.
I also do not like the simply things that are blocked like changing the font or the drop shadows with white text or changing the color of the title bar (there is a workaround for that).
I hope someone finds where microsoft stores all our info they are monitoring and figures out a way to delete it.
Right click on Start button> Run
Type in: sfc /scannow
Windows will repair itself. I had to do this when several problems came when I did an upgrade. One item was not able to left click on the Start button.
Most were fixed but it seemed sluggish so I did a format during the install and all was well. I had backed up my files prior to the upgrade.
They hold an iron grip on the enterprise market. That won’t change anytime soon.
LOL! Did you read the article?
By most FReepers’ accountings, Microsoft is going to be the next Mark Twain: “Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.”
You all absolutely slay me. Microsoft is strong than ever. Putz around on your $2,000+ aluminum produce laptops all you want. Microsoft isn’t going anywhere.
Or...
...orrrrr...
You could be a responsible computer user and configure your machine to be more secure and private.
All the FReepers who bitch about Microsoft strike me as the type of person who just want their machines to self-configure to their own desires, and I'm sorry to tell you, that's not how any computing platform works, even Apple devices. If you think you're natively "private" on an Apple device, you should probably do some reading on your own.
Ok thanks. I’ll try that if/when I upgrade again. If it’s like before though I’m not sure even this would work because last time I couldn’t left click on the Start menu. But maybe I could right click.
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