Well I was all but about to gush how great windows 10 is when last Friday happened.. Friday I went to use my scanner to scan a picture from a news paper and it wouldn't work.. I tried very few things that day and decided to wait until Saturday to get involved with figuring it out.. Saturday turned into Monday and I set aside the morning session to figure it out.. I ended up getting the scanner to work but primitive, I could not print ever again but who wants to with ink being in excess of fifty dollars a gram.. Then yesterday happened.. Actually it happened Monday as well, I use a program that we paid for to burn discs and convert audio files and rip discs.. This program I have been using for the past ten years or so and with no problems.. Monday it wouldn't "rip" music as it had been for the past two weeks trying to get the 32GB flashdrive to be well representive of my taste in music.. When it wouldn't do that, I thought delete and reinstall might fix it and Monday it did, yesterday same thing happened, the rip wouldn't so I deleted and was set to reinstall when the computer had other plans.. In windows 10 everything revolves around the start button, that windows button in the lower left of the screen, as well found on the keyboard.. That wasn't showing, rather it was showing but it would not bring everything it is involved with up.. Now it is just as involved with 7 but here's the thing.. In windows 10 it can freeze up, and not work and it can be a fairly involved thing to get it to work.. There was no quick fix and I was alright with that, I jumped through the hoops to get it to work and when everything I tried didn't work I started to try to return the computer to a previous known working point.. That was set up the day I got windows 10 going, and that wasn't set.. So when I tried to return to a previous known point where it was working right, it wouldn't go.. So a quick thought went through my noggin... Switch back to 7... But wait, lets try everything to fix this.. I Google searched, checked the youtube ones because they are normally the best for step by step tutorials.. When that didn't work and in fact things were really looking bleak, there was a point where the computer was looking like it was going to be a night light.. It wasn't moving at all.. I finally got it to get a browser open, I emailed my sister inlaw and told her my tale of woe.. She said she would look into it.. I then tried a few more things. Right clicking the start button got certain things to work but not the flash drives, had I been able to get everything to go that way 10 would still be on this machine figuring that eventually they would get the fix in the coding.. I'm not the only one who has had this issue.. Then the miracle happened, I was able to get to the screen that showed the updates, that was great, get me the latest update, maybe that will fix the issue.. Also on that screen was recovery.. The ability to go to a previous point.. and the all important return to windows 7... After waiting an hour for the updates to download and install, they download part seemed done and so brave or stupid brave I shut the computer off to do the restart and get the updates installed.. That didn't work.. Find the return to windows screen.. Found it.. Now here is how ... not so smart (stupid) I am.. As I am starting the process to return to 7 there is a screen that comes up and asks why I'm turning back to 7 and I click all that apply and they have a comment box for the exact reason why I am returning to 7 and I wrote "The windows start key won't work.. FIX IT" Hey they are the reason this happened.. And then this next thing popped up.. "If you wouldn't mind spending a little time trying to remedy this click here"... I decided to what the hell... try to fix it... So I clicked here.. Now seriously I had been spending since about one in the afternoon trying to fix this on my own, why not take maybe an extra ... .... ?????!@#$%^&*(!@#$%^&*()!@#$%^&*() Fuck that, I want 7 back NOW so I went back to the recovery screen, checked the boxes and put the reply in that box and where it said would you like to try to fix it I ignored that box.. FUCK NO!!! GIVE ME 7... And the next message said you won't be able to use your computer while this returns.. Fine with me, I went outside and breathed some non sweaty pissed off air for a few minutes.. Came back in half an hour later with the screen saying WINDOWS 7 HOME PREMIUM... I smiled and said welcome back old friend... Got my printer/scanner reinstalled, got my EZ CD DA back too... Life is good.. I tried windows 10, and likely should have kicked the tires a little more aggressively.. Trying the scanner should have been first thing.. See when I decided to switch to 10 it was a few deciding factors and I won't blame my sister inlaw for it but she did make a good point on reasoning why to go to 10, the updates will continue into the future where 7 will ind in 2020.. so in four years windows says they will end support for windows 7.. If people have a choice they will remain on 7 and when their computers crap out then go to the new OS.. I personally will likely go with a chromebook or android but with what I like to do I will likely be stuck with crappy windows computer of some sort..
So my advice to those thinking about going to 10 as an upgrade is DON'T.. Or do but know that you better check every external thing you have.. If a scanner printer is very important then check it.. If it is more than three years old it might not work.. Mine is a relative dinasaur.. Seven years old.. And they wouldn't help to get it going, everything I did to get the scanner to work was done by me.. The music program which worked without a problem for about two weeks suddenly didn't, and I uninstalled it twice, the first successfully and the second was successful I assume, but brought the computer to shit the bed status.. I would tell people to be happy with the programs you have, don't uninstall anything, I mean I guess they weren't planning on someone deleting a program.. Set their entire OS into a shitspin.. But there are horror stories about people going to bed and having the windows 10 upgrade happening during the night and them waking up to a very buggy windows 10.. In my case I decided to upgrade on my own.. When I upgraded I left the computer alone and went and did something else for an hour.. There are those who tried everything to stop the upgrade and likely that might have included shutting it off.. I would tell those people that have it start to install just let it go.. Try it for a few days but return very shortly there after, windows 10 has issues, nothing like having an unsuspecting public to do beta testing. They should have beta tested for a year more then set it to be free from this July 29 to a year later.. I won't upgrade again.. I will keep 7 until they stop supporting it and then keep using it.. like people are doing with XP, on 2000, 98, 95...
Badge Henry
(P.S. I just saw on Facebook the ad for updating your computer to windows 10 and you have until the 29th of July to get it free.. I will say that I could upgrade once again if I so choose to.. When I was having troubles with my printer/scanner on Monday I thought you know windows 10 is only marginally better than 7.. And that was before the issue Tuesday.. Tuesday was the second day in a row of having to work on the computer and not get anything else done.. when I uninstalled a program and the computer locked up, I couldn't get to the part of the computer to work on what I thought might fix the problem.. Windows 10 is marginally better but when I had that problem all I could think was this will be great business for the technicians, great way to make a quick hundred or so.. Listen, the day is going to come when returning back to windows 7 won't be allowed.. Would I like to try to go back to 10 again?? Let's just say that it might be a long July of thinking twice about it.. I can't imagine going back to 10 though. Truth is when I went to shut the computer down last night I had this slight inkling that it might get the upgrade even though I don't want it.. I read where someone left their computer on and during the night the computer upgraded to 10 without him wanting it to... Scary thought and I'm not sure that is true but I have heard other horror stories that make me think it might be true... So there is a little trepidation that it might happen with mine.. I'm not even sure why I would try to reinstall windows 10.. losing several programs sounds like no fun.. )
(P.P.S One last thing before I leave the subject for.. mostly good... The new browser that they built to replace the old IE browser.. I never did get it to go right.. I was the default browser and every time there was a call for something to be done officially the new IE (whatever it was called) opened up but failed to access the internet... Kind of a huge strike against having it if it doesn't work... )
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