Windows 10

chopper wrote: Blacksword wrote: A friend of mine installed it on her HP Pavilion laptop the other day, without any problems eiter installing or subsequently running apps. I've got the same laptop but haven't upgaded yet. I'm going to wait. I'm the sort of person who is inexplicably prone to the type of problem Alan is describing.... And ours is an HP Pavilion so beware Andy!   We've managed to get a clean Windows 10 installation but the option to restore back to Windows 8.1 has now disappeared, as has the power button on the Windows login screen.   Looks like the power button may just be a registry setting but I can't find anything that tells me why the restore to 8.1 option has gone.

My son managed to fix it by holding down the Escape key when booting up the laptop - this brought up another menu from where he was able to roll it back to Windows 8.1. We won't be trying that upgrade again.
Still it's running ok on another laptop and seems ok.

I'm using Win 8.1 at work and it's fine.....why would one want to go to Win 10?

A friend of mine installed it on her HP Pavilion laptop the other day, without any problems eiter installing or subsequently running apps.

I've got the same laptop but haven't upgaded yet. I'm going to wait. I'm the sort of person who is inexplicably prone to the type of problem Alan is describing....

Well we've managed to get back to a clean install of Windows 10. It was ok till we opened File Explorer, now everything's hung. We've got a little box saying Windows is not responding...

I'll wait a while with installing.
Until the problems of the first months are dealt with.
I refuse to be a digital guinea pig

Andy Webb wrote: Still waiting on my upgrade to come in - what's the problem seem to be? Just running slow? Have you checked the task manager to see if there's a process that's stuck in a loop or something?

We can't get Task Manager to run. There is an option to back out to Windows 8.1 but we can't get that to run either. Something appears to be using 100% disk (and it may be Steam) but once it kicks off we can't do anything except reboot.

We have found an option to restore it (note - if you hold down the shift key and click on the Power icon at the Windows logon screen, you get a load of diagnostic/recovery options), so if that works we'll hopefully be back at Windows 8.1 but with no apps. Mind you, the recovery's been at 95% for ages now.

Still waiting on my upgrade to come in - what's the problem seem to be? Just running slow? Have you checked the task manager to see if there's a process that's stuck in a loop or something?