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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/10/2016 04:38 PM, Alex Beamish
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 9:40 AM, John
Moniz <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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class="">On 04/09/2016 03:58 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:<br>
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Sat, Apr 09, 2016 at 01:29:45PM -0400, James Knott
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had similar when updating¹ the W10 version in a
virtual machine on my<br>
notebook computer. The update failed for no
apparent reason. Also,<br>
this was a W10 to W10 update. Putting more memory
in the computer<br>
worked for me too.<br>
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Except the solution here was to remove memory, not add
memory.<br>
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I say updating, as calling anything from Microsoft
an upgrade would<br>
be overly optimistic. ;-)<br>
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I have a laptop for a particular application that has to
use MS windows. It is now running on Win7. I've been
resisting the move to W10, despite the constant nagging of
the MS 'helpful' notices. This is a production computer
and interfaces with the government frequently.<br>
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Should I bite the bullet and switch to W10? I'm afraid the
government might force me switch some day, and it'll
surely be after the free switchover window is closed.<br>
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<div>I also have a Windows laptop purchased just to run an
Access application. It came with Windows 8, and one day I
got a pop-up that it had downloaded everything that it
needed to install Windows 10. Since there's nothing
particularly valuable on this laptop, I shrugged and told
windows to go ahead. The upgrade went smoothly -- the
interface looks a little different, otherwise it works
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<div>What did disturb me a little while after that, was
booting up my computer to get the message</div>
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<div> Everything is fine / All your files are exactly where
you left them ..</div>
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<div>With fear in my heart, I worried that my laptop had
been trashed and all of the files locked by some
ransomware (not a big deal, but pretty damned
inconvenient). So much for the "Trust me, I'm an engineer,
I know what I'm doing." bravado.</div>
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<div>It turned out that it was some stupid update from
Microsoft [1] for some desktop search functionality (OK --
it's Cortana, a personal assistant). Nice idea, but a
ridiculously, horrifically bad installation
implementation.</div>
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<div>Alex</div>
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<div>1. <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.reddit.com/r/windows/comments/3x88yj/all_your_files_are_where_you_left_them_what_the/">https://www.reddit.com/r/windows/comments/3x88yj/all_your_files_are_where_you_left_them_what_the/</a></div>
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I imagine you had the same feeling as one would if a flight
attendant announced that everything is fine, nothing to worry about.
:-)<br>
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