On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 9:40 AM, John Moniz <john.moniz@sympatico.ca> 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_yo... -- Alex Beamish VP Membership, Toronto Northern Lights, 2013 Champions / www.northernlightschorus.com Candidate Contest Administrator, Barbershop Harmony Society / www.barbershop.org