Windows 10: If you're buying a PC for a child this Christmas...

Probably preaching to the well aware with this audience, but...

Just bought a first laptop for my daughter for Christmas. Set it up a couple of days ago with the usual wait whilst Windows did its thing. Set up children's account etc -all was well.
Started it this morning just to check on the privacy settings and Windows dropped the 1511 update. This took 4 hours from start to end.

If that had been Christmas day I would have had a very disappointed daughter, waiting to use her new PC.

I will check again on Christmas eve for further updates before wrapping it up..

Dave

:)

 

Camera App does not open on Child Account

Hello,

I gave my 2 boys an all-in-one asus PC for christmas.

I created 2 child accounts. Everything works except that the camera app doesn't work. If I log into my account on same PC, camera works fine.

I tried changing the age on the family settings but still, camera won't open while logged in as a child.

I couldn't find anything about this,

Any ideas??

thanks in advance.

 

Buying a motherboard for a laptop

If it is not the same your computer will no longer be activated.

 

I can feel your pain there...

 

Do you have a very slow internet connection? On several netbooks I own with only dual-core processors and 1GB of RAM the update took 2 hours which is long enough. I can't imagine 4 hours.

Once installed, does it run OK?

 

Internet is 38Mbps download speed. I recently made a USB and did a clean install of 1511 on my desktop - that took a fraction of the time (including downloading to the USB).

On initial startup of the laptop there was no Windows startup menu - but after a reboot all seems well. At least I got that out of the way before Christmas *Party

Dave