Windows 10

[emjay]

You couldn't have said that at a more ironic time: two hours later I've finished the upgrade and the first thing the fucking thing does when it gets to the desktop is freeze. No mouse, no task manager, nothing Had to turn it off. On again and mouse moved for about ten seconds then froze again. One more time, same thing. How to kill your PC in one easy lesson, just upgrade to Windows 10 Rep and kudos to anyone who can solve this for me, but I'm stuck on my mobile now

The biggest trouble on mine (ToughBook CF-30) was overhead of the system eating my resources like candy.  The HDD light was solid for a good two minutes or so after booting with CPU time at a consistent 150 to 180 percent and that locked me completely out.  Once the light started flashing, things were OK for a while then about 20 minutes later, the HDD light is solid again and no response from keyboard or mouse input.  The interruption of my movie experience by M$ commercial for 365 Office was the last straw and I just wiped my drive and went back to XP.  I will upgrade back to 7 this weekend probably.  I sure am glad I did not upgrade my primary work computer or my AlienWare gamer.

In my case I didn't get that far so see any of what you experienced, and I don't think there was excessive HDD (well in my case SSD) activity in the few seconds it was up. You say you went back to XP - do they still activate that? I've still got old copies of XP lying around and I'd love to be able to play Civ2 again. I mean not as my main OS - which will stay as 7 - but just to put on an older laptop.