Well I did the upgrade without evening knowing about it.
My damned laptop uploaded 8.1 without my ever approving it. Now my laptop is in a constant state of overdrive as Windows 8.1 constantly takes up most of my CPU and disk drive.
Why? I’ve no idea. Task Manager allows me to watch, sit and wonder why the hell my laptop is hotter than the surface of the sun after the ‘ upgrade ‘.
Thanks Windows - you suck.
I installed the Win-10 preview on a laptop a couple of weeks ago. Win-8 wouldn’t install so I had been running Win-7 on it (the version that the machine was designed for).
Win-10 ran great - no problems and plenty fast. Then one morning when I started it it responded with “configuring Windows...” When it was finished it had upgraded to a newer build that was completely unstable. There was no way to correct it or backtrack. My only recourse was to flatten it and start over (no big deal , just annoying on this test machine).
Once reinstalled, the first thing I did was to check out “Windows Update”. Sure enough it was set to automatically accept everything Microsquish pushes out and was locked so I couldn’t turn it off. A quick hack of the registry fixed that and now I have a stable laptop again.
Change the Windows Update settings to “Let me choose” and that won’t happen to you again.