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I have already tried it and removed it. We think something may have gone wrong during the installation - I did it Thursday night and was absolutely unable to get my system up and working. It would download programs - then after a long time give a failure code and freeze, it messed up my Norton anti-virus and would not work properly, I reselected Firefox as my default browser and it wouldn't recognize it - actually there were so many things that were going on.
I finally discovered the place where I could recover my Windows 7 (you have 30 days to go back from the day you install Windows 10) and after repeated tries it finally worked. I did the recovery and my Windows 7 is back to normal - and I am happy with. I will wait for a while and see how 10 pans out. For me, for now - I was not impressed.
Word in the tech community is if you have win 8.1 upgrade to 10 now. If you have Win 7, especially 64 bit professional, it's best to wait until a major upgrade comes out in October. That's what I've decided to do.
I took my laptop to work the other day and was on a corporate, secure wifi and Microsoft tried to download 10 in the background without my prior approval. I noticed that it failed because of the corporate firewalls in their wifi config.
I just switched to "check for updates and let me decide to download and update" That may have worked. I have already learned that there is already prepared 1.1GB patch for win 10 coming 1 October.
Thanks - I just did that. I just hope they have the bugs out by Oct 1.
I understand why M$ wanted to make update mandatory, but it will suck for gamers, you could be playing your best game ever then all of a sudden your connection slows down because windows is loading files.
Win 10 is looking more like a wanna be copy of droid/ios with all the notifications going off every time something is complete but it works and Chrome seems snappier.
I wouldn't try and run it though unless you have Core I5 or better because every software release gets more bloated as HW gets cheaper and cheaper.
Software that takes control of your machine, removes and hides options/processes, and won't let you stop further modifications. Sounds like the classic definition of a virus.
Software that takes control of your machine, removes and hides options/processes, and won't let you stop further modifications. Sounds like the classic definition of a virus.
I love linux as much as you, but not everything can run on Libre office and MS is a necessary evil
Oh, not to worry, I blame them, too! Dells, HPs, Gateway (before HP bought them out), Acer and Asus. No games on any of them. Problems with all, particularly the first three in the list.
There's a reason people say, 'Once you go Mac, you never go back.'
I've always used Microsoft, until last year, bought an HP and Windows update destroyed everything on the computer. HP tried to be very helpful, even paid for me to take it to a computer store at their expense to see if they could get the information back. No luck. Returned the HP and bought a Mac Pro. What a PIA! Everything I did with Windows in one step takes three steps on the Mac. I don't find it easy to use at all. My spouse curses at it every time she uses it.
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