Windows 10: I'm done with Win10

Very true, that's the drawback.

By the way,- Josey Wales,-the best western movie ever made.

 

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I absolutely LOVE it when people say they are done with computer issues and are switching to Linux/OSX. Good luck. As a Linux user, and someone who supports 3 Macs in a company of nearly 200 users, you haven't encountered computer issues like the ones you'll see soon.

 

Just what I was going to say.

 

If a computer needs to go back to the OEM for repair, how is that the fault of an operating system. As a former HP employee, the first step with an HP is always to wipe the drive and install the OS clean....but that's assuming there are no hardware issues. If it was new and had hardware issues, you simple exchange with the reseller for another one.

 

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I believe the repair was to restore the prior os or to see why a factory recovery partition doesn't work or image before the upgrade.

 

Right on target, Eye! With the (hopefully not) possible problems that arise every so often. I still remember that everything was great, until I downloaded and installed the final bits. A nasty bug had crept in and a whole bunch of us had some real problems.

Like you, though, I'm expecting everything to be copacetic when the final bits arrive. *Dinesh*Dinesh*Dinesh

 

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I'm not a Windows Fangirl, nor am I violently opposed to Macs (which hate me, by the way), but that is just plain funny!

As a support person from the Windows 3.1 era, we had both Windows machines and Macs. I could solve almost every Windows problem, but Macs were so convoluted (to me) that I never solved one of their problems.

 

Reading some of your post I truly believe that your problem is a driver that is getting updating and the new driver is causing your problem. I would start by checking the graphic card driver. If possible see if you can roll back the driver. If not disable it and let Windows load the generic driver. It may be hit or miss trying to find the driver that is causing your problem.

 

I'll make sure to inform the service guy at the store when I return it. Let him grind his brain to bits over it *Devil
These guys are helpful when you buy stuff, but I asked them if they could lend my wife a computer while her's were being serviced . . . . oh, that was not so easy. He'll be checking drivers one by one til kingdom come. Serves them well since I was forced to spend two grand on a Mackbook because of their not so great helpfulness. They'll puke every time they read the letters HP and Win10,-I'll make sure of that-hehe.

 

I don't know of any repair shop that offers loaners. I wouldn't consider that a reasonable request. I'm still not sure why you didn't wipe it out and perform a clean install, especially when you'd drop such a ridiculous amount on another "computer".

The technicians aren't going to care, because they were able to extract more money out of you. In the end, they won and are probably boasting about it to their fellow techs.

 

It's not a regular repair shop,-it's where I bought it, but even so they probably don't offer loaners.
A clean install? I did a recovery,-the kind that wipes the drive for all files and settings.
By a clean install, do you mean from a CD or USB which is NOT made from the recovery partition?
According to the guy at the store it is up to Microsoft to allow someone to install the OS in any other way than from the recovery partition. Yes, they did make some money today, but they also made themselves a shitload of tedious work, 'cause I'll take it back again and again until the service guy can explain why it acted up and tell me what he did to fix it.
I think I know what they'll do: They're going to do a recovery from the recovery partition and call it a day, and the service guy won't be able to explain what was wrong.
What will happen then is the same that happened when I did the same recovery.
Then I'll be back.

Buying the Macbook is OK. It will serve my wife well on campus. It's smaller than the HP and weighs less which is fine when you're dragging it from lecture to lecture. The HP is fine for me if it gets fixed.
The one I use now is a stone age Lenovo running Ubuntu which will tumble over sooner or later.

 

There's another pet peeve of mine. Those repair shops often give false info, so the onus falls on the end user to know the difference. Microsoft has no say or ability to limit how Windows 10 is installed. Using the recovery partition isn't a clean install. It puts the system back to how it was when you bought it, included the preinstalled crap. I wipe the drive clean/blank and install from my own flash drive. This way, I'm not wasting space on a recovery partition or dealing with preinstalled software. It's the first step for me on any OEM system I have ever bought.

If it was me, I'd wait until SCU was available, make a USB flash drive and start clean.

 

Not heard of that one. MS even provide the Media Creation Tool so you can grab a copy of Windows 10 to do what you want.

I would have personally just reinstalled Windows 10 from an ISO, or just performed a Fresh Start (see tutorial here).

Macs certainly have issues as well. I have never been used to them much, always been a Windows user with a little bit of Linux here and there. However, I recently worked for a company that is two thirds Macs and a third Windows, and boy have I seen some issues with Macs, including both hardware and software. You may find yourself on a Mac forum someday, don't write that off *Wink

 

I'll check that link out.
Yes, a clean install would be great. Also nice to get rid of the crapware that HP forces on people.
I would love to get the HP in working order since I use video editors some.
After all, most yummy-yummy software is written for PC and Windows.
When the Mac is acting up I'll be ranting about it here,-to everyone's delight*Wink