Windows 10: Failed W10

I'm confused. You stated:

And yet it's right there, second one, below contacts:

 

I have now made a backup copy of windows 10 on a disc. It seemed the best thing to do given all the problems I'd had. Plus a clean reinstal.

Because I could not find the original disc for the Toshiba notebook (which is unusual as I have the discs for every other computer I've had (must have put it in a safe place lol), I made another copy on a 16gb usb. I need to do a clean reinstal before loading w7 and then w10. Need some help though.

 

I'm guessing you probably never got disks with the Toshiba, as most OEMs now just include a recovery partition on the hard drive itself.

Regardless, you don't need to reinstall W7 and then upgrade to W10. You can just clean install W10 and use your W7 keycode to activate it.

Windows 10 - Clean Install - Windows 10 Forums

If you don't know your W7 keycode, you can grab it using this program:
ShowKey Plus

 

Thans Simrick, I know I would have put my papers and disks for Toshiba in a safe place, so maybe they didn't actually send me one. I'll give your suggestion a go after dinner - fingers crossed! I have never formatted a hard drive before, so will have a look around first.

 

Windows will do it at the install if you tell it to. Cheers and good luck! *Thumbs

 

Ok - I'll need all the luck I can get - thank you!!!!

 

It didnt take THAT long to instal, but I did it in stages over the past 2 days. Win10 is now installed - it made no reference to Win 7. I hope my daughter will be able to change my address to hers, as the notebook picked up info from either the deleted Win 7 or from my new Win notebook of both my email addresses.

I have just one query. (I am not talking about the notebook I've just put Win 10 on) I am referring my desktop (Win 7), my iPad and my new notebook (Win 10) At the moment, all three download the same emails on Outlook.com. Is it possible to "unsync" them, so that the mail only comes down on the particular computer I am on? I dont want 3 copies of every email.

 

So glad you've got the W10 install completed!
The email is setup that way on purpose - it's so you can go to any of your devices and have everything there as you left it. You don't want to have to go looking on three different devices to try and find a particular email. *Smile

 

well I used the desktop 95% of the time - I only use the notebook or ipad if I am away from home overnight. So there is no way I can unsync them?

 

Hmm...delete the email accounts on the email clients and just grab your emails from your web browser when you're away?

 

lol Is that about all I can do?

 

Just a hint with anyone with Windows 8 (not 8.1) or lower then you can mount an iso file with http://dev.majorgeeks.com/files/details/alcohol_52.html . Used it a lot many years ago. I suppose it's now obsolete with the new OSs ability to mount.

 

I'm not sure if the message above is related to me, but as I don't like using my browser for mail (the private one is not on browser anyway) I just wondered why I can't unsync them.

 

See if this will give you something to work with: *Smile
Mail app - Change Mailbox Sync Settings in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums

 

Will give it a go thanks Simrick, I presume it will work for Win 7 as well.