[Coco] OT: Upgrade to WIndows 10?

Tue Dec 1 17:12:45 EST 2015

Thanks, Steve, but I think John's point is that the discussion has now run
its course and has overly dominated recent list posts.  I'm grateful for
those who expressed helpful opinions concerning whether to upgrade, but
let's move on.

Art

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 4:54 PM, Steve Ostrom <smostrom7 at comcast.net> wrote:

> John, I don't think this is about Win 10.  It's about helping a fellow
> Coco user, and one who has my utmost respect for everything he has done for
> the Coco world.  All comments have been noted as OT.  If people are not
> interested in helping each other, or about reading OT, it is very easy to
> delete.  There has been very little discussion about Win 10 as an operating
> system.  We are just trying to help a friend in a forum that excels in
> assisting others.
>
> --- Steve ---
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: John W. Linville
> Sent: Tuesday, December 1, 2015 2:51 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: [Coco] enough, please... Re: OT: Upgrade to WIndows 10?
>
> Now, if only Google could tell me how to stop people from talking
> about nothing but Windows 10 on the CoCo mailing list...
>
> *sigh*
>
> John
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 01:56:22PM -0600, Camillus wrote:
>
>> Google for "how to stop upgrade win 10" and you can stop this. It is
>> stashed away very good but possible to do. I think I did it on my first
>> update from win 8.1 to 10. But with my other win10 updates I did not bother
>> anymore.  If they ( general name for who that is wanting it...lol ) want
>> your info, they get it anyhow, nothing much we can do about it. Not worth
>> loosing sleep over it.
>>
>> A person from my home country Belgium, was caught posting links for
>> movies on the net, via the "TOR" network ( suppose to be unanimous, and
>> untraceable  ), but how wrong was he to rely on this. He was sentenced a
>> fine of a couple thousand $, and that was not the end of it.
>>
>>
>> cb
>>
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>> On 12/1/2015 12:52:37 PM, Salvador Garcia <ssalvadorgarcia at netscape.net>
>> wrote:
>> 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
>> To: 'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts'
>> 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 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
>> > 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 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
>> >> 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
>> >> >
>> >> > 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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