On 04/10/2016 04:38 PM, Alex Beamish wrote:
On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 9:40 AM, John Moniz <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 04/09/2016 03:58 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Sat, Apr 09, 2016 at 01:29:45PM -0400, James Knott wrote:
I had similar when updating¹ the W10 version in a virtual
machine on my
notebook computer. The update failed for no apparent
reason. Also,
this was a W10 to W10 update. Putting more memory in the
computer
worked for me too.
Except the solution here was to remove memory, not add memory.
1) I say updating, as calling anything from Microsoft an
upgrade would
be overly optimistic. ;-)
I have a laptop for a particular application that has to use MS
windows. It is now running on Win7. I've been resisting the move
to W10, despite the constant nagging of the MS 'helpful' notices.
This is a production computer and interfaces with the government
frequently.
Should I bite the bullet and switch to W10? I'm afraid the
government might force me switch some day, and it'll surely be
after the free switchover window is closed.
Any thoughts?
I also have a Windows laptop purchased just to run an Access
application. It came with Windows 8, and one day I got a pop-up that
it had downloaded everything that it needed to install Windows 10.
Since there's nothing particularly valuable on this laptop, I shrugged
and told windows to go ahead. The upgrade went smoothly -- the
interface looks a little different, otherwise it works fine.
What did disturb me a little while after that, was booting up my
computer to get the message
Everything is fine / All your files are exactly where you left them ..
With fear in my heart, I worried that my laptop had been trashed and
all of the files locked by some ransomware (not a big deal, but pretty
damned inconvenient). So much for the "Trust me, I'm an engineer, I
know what I'm doing." bravado.
It turned out that it was some stupid update from Microsoft [1] for
some desktop search functionality (OK -- it's Cortana, a personal
assistant). Nice idea, but a ridiculously, horrifically bad
installation implementation.
Alex
1.
https://www.reddit.com/r/windows/comments/3x88yj/all_your_files_are_where_you_left_them_what_the/
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Alex Beamish
I imagine you had the same feeling as one would if a flight attendant
announced that everything is fine, nothing to worry about. :-)
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