[Coco] OT: Upgrade to WIndows 10?

Salvador Garcia ssalvadorgarcia at netscape.net
Tue Dec 1 13:52:31 EST 2015


The worst part is that MS forces some upgrades on you and it demands that the PC be restarted, dang to heck whatever it is you are doing. It happened to me once while I was busy and did not have time to close everything down. At the time that the message said, the PC restarted. This is a horrible practice, especially if you leave the PC unattended doing something. Regards,Salvador
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-----Original Message-----
From: Corey Bryant <coreybryant at classicpm.com>
To: 'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts' <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tue, Dec 1, 2015 12:47 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] OT: Upgrade to WIndows 10?

LOL @ selected later but the upgrade started anyway.  I've seen that a few times now.  I just assumed it was Microsoft being Microsoft --- NO!  YOU'LL TAKE THIS UPGRADE AND LIKE IT!



-----Original Message-----
From: Arthur Flexser [mailto:flexser at fiu.edu] 
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2015 1:57 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] OT: Upgrade to WIndows 10?

Yeah, Win 10 seems to be working fine now, after the reboot, so no need to revert to 8.1.  I sure was in horrible shape before that, though.

Something I should have seen as a bad omen:  Initially, it asked me if I wanted to upgrade to Win 10 now or later, and I selected Later.  But it started the upgrade anyway!

Art

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Steve Ostrom <smostrom7 at comcast.net> wrote:

> So, are you back to Win 8.1, or now using Win 10?  Hopefully Win 10.
>
> --- Steve ---
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Arthur Flexser
> Sent: Monday, November 30, 2015 4:12 AM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] OT: Upgrade to WIndows 10?
>
> WHEW!!!!
>
> Turns out all I needed to do was try a restart to pretty much fix 
> everything.  This started out badly when the Shut Down and Restart 
> option led to a complete shutdown with no restart that would not 
> respond to pressing the On switch, but pulling and reinserting the 
> plug and pressing the On button fixed things.
>
> Man!!!
>
> Art
>
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 2:57 AM, Tom Seagrove <tjseagrove at writeme.com>
> wrote:
>
> Make sure a copy of those are elsewhere too.  Anything in a TEMP 
> folder is
>> just that, TEMPORARY.
>>
>> On Nov 30, 2015, at 1:49 AM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Never mind the favorites...they are now apparently kept in a folder 
>> called C:/Users/TEMP/Favorites, oddly enough, so I was able to paste 
>> my old bookmarks to there.
>>
>> Art
>>
>>
>> > On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 12:17 AM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Thanks, Al.  Does the recovery procedure preserve all USER files, 
>> > not
>> just
>> > go to the factory installation of the previous Windows version?
>> >
>> > I can see my favorites in the Favorites folder, but they are not in 
>> > a
>> file
>> > called favorites.htm as expected, they are just listed one by one, 
>> > as folders and files within the Favorites folder, and the import 
>> > procedure expects to see them all in a single file, as far as I can see.
>> >
>> > Art
>> >
>> > On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 11:42 PM, Al Hartman 
>> > <alhartman6 at verizon.net>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> If you upgraded to Windows 10 from a Windows 7 installation, you 
>> >> can always go back by going to Settings > Update & Security > Recovery.
>> >>
>> >> There, you should be able to see a "Go back to Windows 7" option. 
>> >> >>
>> Choose
>> >> Get Started below to roll back to Windows 7.
>> >>
>> >> I did this, as my HP printer didn't work under Windows 10. It 
>> >> worked
>> fine.
>> >>
>> >> Your bookmarks should be in the Favorites folder of your user >>
>> directory.
>> >>
>> >> -[ Al ]-
>> >>
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