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Originally Posted by pmrid
Well, that was a short honeymoon. About 2 weeks at a rough count. I just had to do a full restore because Windows 10 announced it had a Critical Error and Cortana and the Start Menu would not load. How good is that? My system had begun to be a bit flaky ever since I loaded Win 10 - 2 or 3 instances when it reported errors and required restarts. Several times, I have been unable to get the Start Menu to respond to a left-click and at first I thought maybe it's using all its (i7 8 cores) power doing something or other and so let it pass. Last night It happened again but I was able to get it to respond to a right-click only. And today - neither would answer the call. So that was that for me.
I haven't enjoyed the Windows 10 trip I'm afraid. Not one bit. It reminds me of being in a Vegas Casino - all bling and flashing lights. And always, it seems, I have to sign in to Microsoft for this and that. Well, that's me outa here.
Peter
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FWIW - just had a similar experience with a variety of malfunctions on my i7 machine (worst being no search function). However, my Win10 worked very nicely for a while and only started playing up well after the amnesty period - so I couldn't get back to Win8.1.
Eventually got so bad that it was only randomly starting up in a usable mode and I was getting close to having a brick with no way to restore a functioning OS. So, the last time it managed to start up in a reasonably usable state I ran reset. That removed all installed apps and I have just been through the painful process of re-installing all of my astro software (and everything else). Now have my fingers crossed in the hope that re-installation of apps will work properly and that this version of Win10 will be reliable.
Although the Win8.1 UI experience was as endearing as a toothache, at least the system was stable. The Win10 experience has not been a good one so far and it is not comforting to be running an operating system that I do not trust.