From the safety of Win7, I will observe that it is hard to report a problem if one’s computer has been trashed.
The worst part of Win10, of course, is that home users can’t turn off updates.
all files from the C drive had been deleted...”
well that’s a problem.
I’m new to win 10. But I still use the programs to protect it.
See my previous posts to find out what they are. Next time, spend the money and buy an Apple.
What good is a dead machine that you don’t know how to maintain? Average age: 1 year? Maybe 2?
Try “shutup10”
Turn off security updates? Then the next thing you know, some Russian is running your computer from his basement in Europe.
It happens, because they’re attempting to do that 25/8.
The worst part of Win10, of course, is that home users can’t turn off updates.
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My home box will try to do an automatic update ( that takes > 30 min) & then I get the message that they can’t complete the update & then spend 30 min destalling the new updates
I guess I’m in a loop
Yeah, well, several months back I did a “final” Win 7 update on the machine I’m using now, something went wrong, and there appears to be no way to recover the boot drive as there’s a file damaged on that drive that apparently even the recovery (USB) drive somehow needs very early on. (Doesn’t make any sense, but that’s where I ended up.) Luckily when I put in that drive (SSD) I cloned from the old HD, and the old HD still works & has the WIN 7 OS still on it, so I just have to manually specify the old HD in the BIOS and I can run - slower, but functional, and, most of the data and some of the programs on the old SSD are still ok - the programs generally if I can find the executable files. Unfortunately I can’t seem to get “DOSBOX” going properly, so that is a big pain as I still have some legacy DOS stuff (a very old lab program, for one) still around.)
I’d try “recloning” - in fact if I did that I’d go to a bigger SSD, but then I would have major, major program reinstallations to do (never got put on the HD). For now, the present awkwardness is “livable”. I’d just like to pound some code monkey at Microsoft, or at least get about two weeks of free in-home help to replace the time I lost troubleshooting the whole mess...
Not true! Click on the "Start" icon in the lower-left corner and select "Settings" (gear icon). The last option on the window that comes up is "Updates and Security". Open that icon, and you can easily delay your updates from there.