I was quite excited when my laptop said I could have, so I downloaded it etc and now I'm using it.
How do I go back to 8?
My laptop has slowed down absolutely ridiculously, I cannot find anything, nothing seems to work. I am currently waiting for the damn system to find a document I have just saved. There are a limited number of places it can be. I have about 25 photos stored, and maybe as many as 2 dozen documents. So far, it's been searching for over 15 minutes.
Other than that, it takes about half an hour from waking up from sleep to log me in and take me to the desktop.
It has made a job which should have taken an hour take all evening. I haven't finished yet, and estimate about 5 more minutes if I'd been using 8, but expect to be up until midnight at this rate.
I am cross.
And it won't let me onto my homegroup which would have allowed me to do this job on a different machine which is running 7.
Microsoft, I think I hate you.
Geeky stuff
Windows 10
Jux · 09/08/2015 22:23
Ah, nice link! Thank you.
I'm going to hang in there for the moment, but it's nice to know that I don't have to 
I was ranting. It was fun - for me at least.
that's the stuff of sinister sci-fi back in the 50s! Adapt your way of thinking to fit the dictates of the machine which is meant to serve you!
Ah - so you had to adapt to fit the 10's requirements, eh?
(It takes a flipping age to boot up compared with 8 but it gave me a traditional desktop screen on upgrade so maybe it has to go through several Circles of Hell to get there. 
)
I'm getting really fed up just with one aspect of the upgrade. I wasn't on 8 before, possibly 7. As soon as I upgraded, it enabled gestures on my touchpad. I googled how to disable them and got sensible instructions - only in 10 my computer has the box I need to tick to disable them greyed out so I can't choose to switch them off. 
I have to disable it each time I switch my laptop on on the shortcut on the start bar at the bottom, but I often forget. And I have to do it anew every time I switch the computer on. Grrrrrr.
Yes, I have cosie, though technically it was my brother who has forced me into it. The effect is the same. The adaptation to system requirements is as subtle as an emotional abuser setting up a new partner.
Should we fight back, join the Luddites? Or lie back and think of Microsoft England?
Someone told me it was slow because everything you do has to be backed up in two formats, one to revert back to in 10 and one to revert back to in 7 or 8. so yes, Seven Circles of Hell, if not 8 or 9!
Charley, my solution to touchpad problems was to tape an old credit card over it 
and plug in a mouse. Couldn't be bothered to go through the rigmarole of trying to fix the bloody software on a laptop which refused to work at all if I disabled the touchpad. Years ago now. Good luck with yours.
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