[Coco] OT: Upgrade to WIndows 10?

[Steve Ostrom]

Art, it sounds like a horror movie.  Something went terribly wrong.  Have 
you tried to call Microsoft yet?

In summary, it took my upgrade from 8.1 to 10 three hours.  One hour of 
downloading before the first reboot.  Then two more hours and several 
reboots.  My Win 10 home screen came up exactly like it was on Win 8.1 (all 
application icons were there and in the exact same locations), except for 
two items.  IE was no longer there (searched for it and pinned it to the 
task bar), and the addition of some search engine called Cortana.  I think 
if I had a mic attached to my PC, then Cortana would listen to my verbal 
commands, but I don't.  Bottom line, everything worked great.  I can't 
imagine what got screwed up for your installation.

Was the timing similar for you?  Did you see any warnings along the way? 
Did you need to interact at all until the installation was complete?  I 
think there is a reverse function to restore your PC just like it was before 
the upgrade.  You might want to look into that, because something horribly 
wrong happened for you.  In fact, most of the people I talked to seem to 
think MS had solved almost all of the terrible installs.  A few months ago, 
one friend saw one of his computers start an infinite looping of reboots. 
He said that was fixed a few weeks later with his second computer.

Makes me think that there is something oddly unique about your PC that the 
Windows upgrade didn't anticipate.  Maybe a brief power failure?  How new is 
it?  Was Win 8.1 native, or had it been upgraded from an earlier Windows? 
I'm just throwing out some ideas, but I don't know how to solve the problem 
if any of these happened.  But maybe MS would know what happened.

Yikes!!  Look into that uninstall option, and give MS a call.

Let me know what happens.

--- Steve ---


-----Original Message----- 
From: Arthur Flexser
Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2015 8:43 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] OT: Upgrade to WIndows 10?

OMG, I just did the installation, and everything is f**ked up!!!

Steve, how did you get IE to work?

Why have exe files turned into folders?

Why does my Opera browser want me to upgrade to a version I don't want?

Where have half my desktop icons gone?

Arghhhh!

Art

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 9:06 PM, Steve Ostrom <smostrom7 at comcast.net> wrote:

> Both Chrome and IE work just fine on my Win10 installation, but I did the
> conversion only about a week ago, so maybe the problems were totally 
> fixed.
> Not so sure about the use of Cortana yet.  Google is my home page, so
> Cortana seems a bit unneeded.  I don't have a mic, so I guess I don't see
> any advantages of Cortana over Google searches.
>
> --- Steve ---
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Chester Patterson
> Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2015 7:12 PM
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: Re: [Coco] OT: Upgrade to WIndows 10?
>
> Win10
> Difficult if not impossible to find things.  Control Panel is buried, once
> you find it, put it on your desktop or in your START menu permanent.
> Windows Explorer takes forever to do things.  Also, even though I have
> administrator privileges, W10 doesn't let me move or delete a lot of files
> and folders that I used to all the time. "Pictures" folder is an example.
> Outlook is behaving oddly, often drags, and I've been having to repair the
> .ost and .pst files a few times.  Make sure you turn off all the MS spying
> switches.  I suppose they put them there in order to see how folks use the
> things, what bugs to fix first, whatever.  I do not like a big fat spy
> window on my rig.  Apparently several big fat spy windows.  Google it and
> turn the switches off.   Chrome did not like W10 at all.  Apparently 
> that's
> been kinda sorta fixed. Kinda Sorta.  Unable to install a Blue Tooth mouse
> after several tries, even changed the USB BT dongle 3 times (my tablet
> nabbed it in seconds).
>
> Unfortunately I figured out I did not want the W10 "upgrade" too late 
> (over
> a month) after the install.  So I am stuck with it.  I sure hope they 
> start
> fixing stuff soon.
>
> Chester
> Costa Rica
>
> ===========================================
> On Sat, 21 Nov 2015 03:23:45 -0500
> Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:
>
> So, any impressions from people here who are Windows 10 users?
>>
>> Art
>>
>
>
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