[GTALUG] update to Win 10, a war story

[John Moniz]

On 04/10/2016 04:38 PM, Alex Beamish wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 9:40 AM, John Moniz <john.moniz at sympatico.ca 
> <mailto:john.moniz at sympatico.ca>> wrote:
>
>     On 04/09/2016 03:58 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>
>         On Sat, Apr 09, 2016 at 01:29:45PM -0400, James Knott wrote:
>
>             I had similar when updating¹ the W10 version in a virtual
>             machine on my
>             notebook computer.  The update failed for no apparent
>             reason.  Also,
>             this was a W10 to W10 update.  Putting more memory in the
>             computer
>             worked for me too.
>
>         Except the solution here was to remove memory, not add memory.
>
>             1) I say updating, as calling anything from Microsoft an
>             upgrade would
>             be overly optimistic.  ;-)
>
>     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.
>
>     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.
>
>     Any thoughts?
>
>
> 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 fine.
>
> What did disturb me a little while after that, was booting up my 
> computer to get the message
>
>   Everything is fine / All your files are exactly where you left them ..
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Alex
>
> 1. 
> https://www.reddit.com/r/windows/comments/3x88yj/all_your_files_are_where_you_left_them_what_the/
>
> -- 
> Alex Beamish
>
>
I imagine you had the same feeling as one would if a flight attendant 
announced that everything is fine, nothing to worry about. :-)
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