Please Help WIN10 Has All But Made My Computer Useless!!

HK_User · May 7, 2016

Be careful of going the Win10 route. Check that the programs you use daily can be run on W10.

An example is a Glucose Tracking Program with a Docking Station.

Go win and your your data will not be available from your Glucose Reader.

sec_monkey · May 7, 2016

TXKajun said: ↑

How long does it take to download and install Ubuntu? I have used it many years ago on another mini-tower computer and really liked it.

Kajun
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6.14MB/s 2min

2.11MB/s 6min

Ubuntu servers are congested YMWV

@TXKajun How fast is your internet connection?

sec_monkey · May 7, 2016

Better hope your surgeon is not using w10..

Medical Equipment Crashes During Heart Procedure Because of Antivirus Scan

Even weather forecasts aren’t safe from Windows 10 upgrade prompts

Altoidfishfins · May 7, 2016

RouteClearance said: ↑

I had the same problem with the added trouble of one svchost.exe running my cpu and hogging my memory.
To turn this off, go to start-msconfig-go to services-scroll down to Windows Updater and manually stop it. Laptop now runs smooth on W7. Have good anti-malware and a third party anti-virus installed and updated.
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My wife has the same issue with her laptop. We went into task mgr and stopped it there, but it kept re occurring. We'll try your suggestion.

RouteClearance · May 7, 2016

Yo

Motomom34 said: ↑

Where is the start button on Win 8.1?
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u will go to your Apps box and type msconfig, but I thought you had W7. Don't know what that will do for you though

chelloveck · May 27, 2016

I have to say, I am greatly underwhelmed by WIN10......More proprietary Micro$oft crap on it than ever before....spent much time decommissioning apps that I didn't ask for and didn't want. and its general presentation is very retro Art Deco....

I asked Cortana for a BJ, and she hasn't gotten back to me yet....perhaps she doesn't recognise my Aussie strine Strine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

ghrit · May 27, 2016

chelloveck said: ↑

.More proprietary Micro$oft crap on it than ever before....spent much time decommissioning apps that I didn't ask for and didn't want.
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Ditto. More junk than a landfill. And worse, solitaire isn't the same simple friendly appearance, they loaded it with irrelevant art. "Apps" are a different bucket of slop. (And what's wrong with calling them "programs" which is what they are? Someone afraid of too many syllables to type?)

That said, I have it pruned into something workable on the laptop. That is a factory install. I'm going to take the free option to upgrade the desk machine from W7, just haven't pulled the trigger for some reason, probably because I like W7 nearly as much as I liked XP.

sec_monkey · May 27, 2016

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