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by Fogdude » Dec Thu 14, 2017 10:51 am
stardragon9 wrote:Hey everyone! just wanting to add my own Windows 10 woes to the discussion. Last week the latest update downloaded onto my laptop. Everything seemed to work fine until two days later. I went to turn the laptop on and you could hear everything running but the monitor wouldn't turn on. I took it to a computer repair store and found out that the update had messed with the bios file on my video card bad enouh that they needed to replace the mother board. So they replaced the mother board and the laptop started working again. Problem solved right? Wrong! M$ apparently places the registration number for windows 10 on the mother board (when I bought the laptop it had just gone through the free update to windows 10. Contacted customer service and they wanted me to pay for the full version of 10, even though this whole issue was caused by one of their updates! Luckily the computer place was wiĺling to reset my laptop back to windows 7 pro.
by stardragon9 » Dec Thu 14, 2017 8:18 pm
Fogdude wrote:I fought this battle, keeping my Win2K until XP was almost expired. I upgraded to XP when my software started refusing to run because M$ threatens the software companies with losing their M$ certification if they continue to support expired OS's. The sad fact remains... one day, in the near future, all versions of Windows prior to Win10 will be officially retired. At that point, you must buy Win10 or move to another operating system.
I went down that road, but the vast majority of the software world lives on Windows. Linux & Mac may support most of what you want, but they didn't support what I needed. I moved on up to Win10. If I have a problem with a laptop similar to what you just experienced, I'll buy another laptop with a free version of Win10 already on it. Laptops are cheap enough it's a better investment than changing the MB & reverting to Win7.
by Fogdude » Apr Thu 04, 2019 11:21 am
by Pip » Apr Thu 04, 2019 1:01 pm
by chouette » Apr Thu 04, 2019 7:33 pm
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by Wrench » Apr Fri 05, 2019 1:25 pm
by Pip » Apr Fri 05, 2019 3:19 pm
Wrench wrote:For all the problems M$ is having with Win 10 that's why I still use Win 7.
by Wrench » Apr Fri 05, 2019 3:28 pm
Pip wrote:Wrench wrote:For all the problems M$ is having with Win 10 that's why I still use Win 7.
Get ready for the end of life nag screen. It's already installed via auto updates. KB4493132
https://www.ghacks.net/2019/03/20/if-you-dont-want-end-of-support-notifications-on-windows-10-block-kb4493132/
by Wrench » Jun Sat 01, 2019 3:04 pm
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