I've got avast... No issues?
Can't remember if I left it or reinstalled.
Can't remember if I left it or reinstalled.
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 (September 22, 2015 at 11:37 pm)ignoramus Wrote: I'd say there's an incompatible service or driver locking things up. As I said I've reverted now and everything's back to normal in Windows 7. I may try again at some point in the future but only after I've researched all of this. I was stuck on my mobile and should've gone to bed hours ago so a night of trying to figure out the problem, and on a mobile, was not appealing. It's nearly 5am and I can barely keep my eyes open so I'll be going to bed soon. (September 22, 2015 at 11:40 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: If you are using Avast Antivirus, there are a lot of known bugs with Windows 10. It will kill Cortana and your start button. Not sure about any freezing issues, but I had to move to Panda Antivirus. No, I use Kaspersky. But it was greyed out. I don't know if that's just how things show in the task bar of Windows 10? In perhaps the twenty odd reboots I've done the longest the mouse worked for was about a minute - long enough for things to load I think, and I don't remember the Kaspersky icon ever being red like it's supposed to be.
Anyway, night guys
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September 23, 2015 at 6:50 pm
(This post was last modified: September 23, 2015 at 6:52 pm by IATIA.)
(September 22, 2015 at 10:02 pm)emjay Wrote:(September 22, 2015 at 8:29 pm)IATIA Wrote: You say that now. Ignorance is bliss. 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.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion. -- Superintendent Chalmers Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things. -- Ned Flanders Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral. -- The Rev Lovejoy (September 23, 2015 at 6:50 pm)IATIA Wrote:(September 22, 2015 at 10:02 pm)emjay Wrote: 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 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. RE: Windows 10
September 24, 2015 at 7:43 pm
(This post was last modified: September 24, 2015 at 7:43 pm by IATIA.)
(September 24, 2015 at 10:06 am)emjay Wrote: 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. No problem activating, just memos that it is no longer supported. Partition your drive to accommodate the minimum necessary for XP, then install Win7 on the second partition and it will automatically setup a boot menu that will let you choose XP or Win7.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion. -- Superintendent Chalmers Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things. -- Ned Flanders Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral. -- The Rev Lovejoy (September 24, 2015 at 7:43 pm)IATIA Wrote:(September 24, 2015 at 10:06 am)emjay Wrote: 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. Thank you, that's wonderful to know I'm not too keen on putting it on this laptop (which has an SSD, and which is the one with Windows 7) because I don't think it's optimised for the job and could wear out the drive. So it would have to go on my other, Linux only, netbook. I was a bit impulsive the first time round - I switched over to Linux by overwriting my Windows XP installation rather than putting it alongside it on second partition. From it I haven't missed anything except the games, particularly Colonization and Civ2, and they don't work in anything above XP (though I managed to get Colonization working to some degree in DOSBox but it wasn't the same). Can you still get the service packs for XP or would it best just to leave it offline except for activating?
One plus I see in Win 10 is that the techtard in the house has had it on her unit for weeks now without fucking shit up.
 It's supposedly free until next August; then July sounds about right. 
(September 25, 2015 at 7:04 am)emjay Wrote: Can you still get the service packs for XP or would it best just to leave it offline except for activating? If you do not already have SP3, you will need to hunt it down on M$.com. After that, all will go well. The automatic updates work, there is just no longer any support. In anticipation of a complete shutdown of XP, I have a disk image and full backup of a freshly installed and updated system. It makes life simple.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion. -- Superintendent Chalmers Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things. -- Ned Flanders Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral. -- The Rev Lovejoy |
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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 Users browsing this thread: 7 Guest(s)
