JeffL
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Well, on the road, and my wife calls me up and says her laptop upgraded to Windows 10 without her permission. She now is totally baffled how to do anything on her laptop (she’s not a techie at ALL and so she learns how to do each thing she needs to do on the computer, when she needs to learn it, and does NOT like change.) Her printer driver isn’t working now, I tried to help her over the phone but when I told her how to get into the control panel she said nothing you are saying matches anything on my screen. The new MS browser has taken over, I know it can be changed back to her default (FF for now) but hard to walk her through it on the phone since I have worked hard to keep Windows 10 off of my laptop.
How hard will it be to roll the “update” back to Windows 7 on her system?
Aleck
2643
If the roll back works, it’s easy peasy. If it doesn’t, it’s a world of hurt. Most of the time it seems to work.
At this point, if her computer is functioning, I’d leave well enough alone.
Believe you have 30 days before your computer is fully assimilated, meanwhile Telemitry is going 100%.
In the immediate term, unless you have some kind of weird app path that MS hasn’t accommodated yet, “hit the windows key and start typing [thing]” where [thing] is Firefox or Control Panel or whatever should get your wife to the critical stuff. Hopefully.
Saw that window pop up this evening on a relative’s computer. It started with a 15 minute countdown before it would forcefully shut down the computer to upgrade. No pause, cancel or X button. The only other non-techie option was to reschedule it to the next 5 days.
For what it’s worth, I rolled back to 8.1 on my Surface and it seemed to go smoothly enough. Though now the Netflix app crashes upon opening, so I’ll have to see if reinstalling that fixes it.
If you roll-back, does MS get the point and leave you alone from that point, or will it try to upgrade again at some point in the future?
It will still try to upgrade, until you install the GWX controlpanel to stop it.
This is the best one yet :)
Funny enough, a co-worker had his IE homepage set to the default MSN (he uses IE on Win7 for one particular business site where it’s necessary, still, and it’s never been changed), and it has a pop-up for Windows 10 that allows you to Learn More or accept the upgrade. Clicking outside the box somewhere will get rid of it. I made sure he never, ever clicks anywhere in the box and changed that homepage asap. He only mentioned it because he overheard me talking about Win10 being unexpectedly forced on people through various means. Didn’t hear about that particular one.
Or the more sensible Never10 app.
Provided you trust Microsoft.
Isn’t that true of anyone that uses any version of windows?
How pedantic. Let me clarify: Provided you trust Microsoft to honor indefinitely all of the registry changes that Never10 makes.
Better?
Furthermore, I think it’s as clear as fucking day that Microsoft is no longer to be trusted when it comes to updating your computer without your consent.
Just got a heads up from work IT that they’re going to be rolling out Windows 10 over the next month. Fingers crossed.
I feel for you man.
RIP IT platform you were running.
:-)
We’re holding off until November in my office. Being forced into buying all-new laptops, none of which in the state contract (I work for NC gov’t) are actually better than the monster behemoth I somehow talked my way into last time around.
Kinda hoping I can talk my way into an actual upgrade, because tossing out half my RAM, my SSD, and 2" of screen size in order to “guarantee compatibility” (nevermind that the Dell website guarantees it for my current PC) for our very-concerned-but-not-terribly-knowledgeable departmental IT manager would fucking blow.
