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Windows 10 -Want to Update. What Should I

harcon — Sat, 14 Nov 2015 18:29:38 GMT

...watch out for? Any pitfalls to avoid?

Using Windows 7 now with Chrome.

Re: Windows 10 -Want to Update. What Should I

DiAnne — Sat, 14 Nov 2015 19:05:38 GMT

I will be interested in the answers to your question. I was going to update until I heard about problems with Windows 10. I also watched a discussion on it and I got the idea you had to be pretty computer savy to do this. I am not!

Re: Windows 10 -Want to Update. What Should I

teainlondon — Sat, 14 Nov 2015 19:17:25 GMT

I updated to Windows 10 and my new computer (3 weeks old) went crazy. I am not a techie person and frustration after frustration, I called the Help line and had my computer moved back to Windows 8.1. BUT, since that was done, my computer is a piece of junk. Nothing works.

In brief:

I bought a new HP and updated it to Windows 10, which made no sense to me. Had a tech recover to 8.1. and have a computer that does basically nothing.

The best Windows was XP and since then the computers and Windows have been trash, IMHO.

I guess I need a Windows book for dummies.

tea

Re: Windows 10 -Want to Update. What Should I

Scooby Doo — Sat, 14 Nov 2015 21:29:51 GMT

My recommendation is to wait until more bugs are worked out.

I upgraded to Windows 10 about two months ago. It was working ok until two weeks ago. I tried to turn on my computer and got a message that said Cortana and the start menu were not working. My computer was completely frozen for a couple of days. I used my older computer and googled the problem and found that thousands of people had been complaining of the same issue. Several "fixes" were listed that I could try. Nothing worked. Finally I had to do a complete restore of factory settings, lost everything I had saved. Went back to Windows 8.1 and there I will stay.

Re: Windows 10 -Want to Update. What Should I

Runner26 — Sat, 14 Nov 2015 21:46:10 GMT

@Scooby Doo wrote:
My recommendation is to wait until more bugs are worked out.
I upgraded to Windows 10 about two months ago. It was working ok until two weeks ago. I tried to turn on my computer and got a message that said Cortana and the start menu were not working. My computer was completely frozen for a couple of days. I used my older computer and googled the problem and found that thousands of people had been complaining of the same issue. Several "fixes" were listed that I could try. Nothing worked. Finally I had to do a complete restore of factory settings, lost everything I had saved. Went back to Windows 8.1 and there I will stay.

Interesting... maybe that's what it was but for some reason I think this happened to me late last week/early this week, time escapes me. One day MS Edge would not open up; it just stayed at the blue E screen. Clicking on Cortana and windows icon didn't do anything but I thought it coincided with something I did because just prior to this I kept clearing Edge's cache/history but it would take forever so I get exiting out and opening it back up. Next day the unresponsive Edge browser happened. I just did a restore to the only restore point I had created a week prior to this event and this resolved the issue.

I like Windows 10 so much that after I totally messed up my computer a month (my fault, I wasn't patient and just powered off my computer knowing that was a no no and it corrupted my system) that did a clean Windows 8.1 install and then re-installed Windows 10 again.

One problem I'm having now is after I created a standard account as well as an administrative account, my web notes on Edge no longer works. I've googled and I think the solution is to delete both accounts and start frest but I not in a hurry to do it just yet. Web notes is nice and I was using it probably too much and my friends are probably happy that I'm not emailing them with my finds.

To the original poster: do you have a lot of software on your computer that you don't want to lose? How old is your system? Don't forget to make a recovery disk in case something goes awry. Good luck!

Re: Windows 10 -Want to Update. What Should I

chickenbutt — Sat, 14 Nov 2015 22:05:36 GMT

My best advice would be to don't do it! But if you are planning to do it, come heck or high water, at least do your homework and read extensively so you can be as ready as possible.

But seriously - don't do it!

I'm not dogging the operating system. Purchasing a new computer that has it originally installed is one thing. But I just know how it can be to upgrade an operating system on an existing computer and the possibility for problems is HUGE. Then, if you decide to go back, there is an excellent chance you will continue to have problems.

Best of luck. I'm not being sarcastic. I mean that.

Re: Windows 10 -Want to Update. What Should I

glb613 — Sat, 14 Nov 2015 22:14:47 GMT

There is a recovery partition that will put the computer back to the factory condition. You shuld have also had a prompt to make a recovery CD or USB drive. Start over and it should be fine.

Re: Windows 10 -Want to Update. What Should I

harcon — Sun, 15 Nov 2015 19:19:54 GMT

Thank you all for your advice.

i think I'll just stay with Windows 7. A new laptop is in my near future so will not worry about 10 now.