W-10 unexpected update

[Loose rivets]

So, I'm not feeling the same persecution complex anymore. And he's a professional.

Posted by one daglesj on the How To Geek site. My bold.

I've given up doing Windows 7 rebuilds for customers unless they really demand it.Till now it was taking nearly a whole day to do a 7 rebuild with waiting for all the updates to download and install (not to mention running out of ram on a 4GB machine when you got halfway through them). Whereas a Windows 10 machine was taking 20 minutes to install and update. I get paid by job rather than time so not a hard choice.

[IBMJunkman]

I would d/l from the author site.

https://www.grc.com/never10.htm

And it does not install, meaning shortcuts create, folders created, registry modified. It just runs.

It does work. Plus it can delete the gigabyte temp folder created for the Win 10 install files.

[Loose rivets]

Mmm . . . at some stage, just out of curiosity, I ran Never 10 again. I wish I'd done it after the first day's download.

[wowzz]

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but can I run Never 10 after the dreaded 'update'?

[Loose rivets]

Well, never say never.

[ricardian]

When you eat strong cheese late at night...

[Guest 112233]

I'm waiting for the update Msg to appear on my ancient Oric (The stuff of nightmares ) - Ricardian.

[Loose rivets]

I'd have been quite pleased to see it on my Specky.

[MG23]

Looks like the lawsuits have begun:

https://www.engadget.com/2016/06/27/...ws-10-upgrade/

Since she won the case, hopefully some class-action lawyers are sharpening their pencils right now.

[finfly1]

I just want to take a minute to thank IBM Junkman for the link to the never ten site.

I turned on my laptop and found it was going to update in 13 minutes, but I could postpone it as long as 8 hours.

The site blocked the install and then proceeded to remove over 5 billion bytes of windows 10 files in 12,000+ files and folders.

Thanks!!!

[unclenelli]

Win10 free upgrade ends in less than 1 month. If you have upgraded, but need to re-hash your OS, unlucky, you'll have to pay.

My PC auto-upgraded a while back, but as I have my HDD partitioned (so only the OS is on one partition Q: (deliberately not C; for security attack reasons), Docs on one, Audio on another, Video on another, WIP on another, etc, etc
If I need to reload the OS, I'll use my Win7 Disc and revert to Win7.

Win10 has only caused me problems - only 1 monitor working (think I can fix this, it was reported as a virus?!?!?, but Norton found nothing), no bi-directional with printer (not yet tried 2 scanners or scanner/printer, no future support from Canon, Thanks!!!).
When I finally get p1$$£d off with it, I'll go back to Win7.

Laptop, still on XP, but will only ever let that go as far as Win7 (if able!!!, Vista capable, but never took it up).




Google for a woman in USA who got £7500 ($10000) in Compo from MS as they left her PC dawdling at sub-Baud9600 levels of performance, affecting her business, WITHOUT CONSENT!!!!

[Ancient Observer]

I've recently bought a new lappie for my bruvver, who is even less technically competent than I am.
It came with Win 10 pre-installed.
I have to say that my experience of it was all fine. Much better than win 8. It gives choices about how you see and use the screen. It loaded all my software choices quickly and easily. (Spybot, jetclean, ccleaner, malwarebytes, Office 2007, FF + adblocker etc etc.)
Lappie is a mid range i3, 2 core but allegedly 4 threads. Whatever a thread is.
Not as quick as my 4 core 5 year old i5, but quite OK for home use.

So I am thinking of trying win 10 on my home pc. Need to think before the end of the month.....

[Booglebox]

AO, try to get off Office 2007 as it will soon be unsupported.

There is a complete update roll-up for Win7 which might be useful: Microsoft Update Catalog (requires IE)

More details:
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/...ows-7-and-8-1/

[FlightDetent]

AO: if you have a good combination of time capacity and skill, I suggest you give it a try. AFTER full 1:1 backup = mirror copy of your existing harddrive --> so that you can come back any time you wish just by dumping the old disk image into place.

One reason only: during the upgrade MS will authorize/register your MoBo as W10 licenced, and thus anytime later you could do W10 for free. And who knows, maybe it will work for you ok the first time around? It did to a large number of people ...

Good luck either way. In general, mirror copy of HDD is not actually a bad idea irrespective whether one chooses to try the upgrade or not.

[Ancient Observer]

Boogle,
thanks for the reminder about Office. 2010 is busy installing itself as I type. On my Win 7, all is up to date, so I'll leave it alone given my ability to screw up my pc.

Flightdetent, I think I will try that some time this month. I have the space on my back up drive to put yet another copy of the whole set up on there. Some more googling required first.
Thanks
AO

[Ancient Observer]

Blast!!
I've used my 2010 license on too many pcs. I thought I had 5 uses, and I thought I'd used 4. That implementation for my bruvver was my last one. Rats.

I only want outlook and word. Maybe I should try these "free" things out there..........

[FlightDetent]

If you are properly licenced for 5 and the you are no longer using some of them (reinstalled units), call MS and explain. They are normally quite helpful and will release the key for another authorized use.

[Avtrician]

You dont even need to explain, eventually you will need to phone in , you will get a human who will give you a new activation key.