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Hello. I'm quite unhappy with my entire experience. I have had to contact support multiple times because my computer "wasn't on the list" of computers able to run the latest updates. I find this incredibly ironic, as it has 8gb of ram, lots of disk space, and a very nice processor (~2.6ghz). I have had my agents help me as much as they could, and that wasn't the bad part, they did great! For a day... Somehow, even after they went and did the whole thing about delaying updates for 8 months or so, The Windows 10 update installer app downloaded. It has hogged me for the past week, with me having to abort multiple updates, not wanting to lose my pc again. I am a student, and can not afford a new one, but just recently I gave up and let it update. It quit out halfway through, as usual, and went back to the same condition it was at. Nothing works.
This is not like last time, I had to get a Windows 10 system on a usb, and repair my boot loader last time. This time, Windows simply won't do anything. It's currently telling me the only option left is a hard reset.
I have physically tried everything besides a hard reset. I refuse. Why should I lose my personal belongings, when it's out of my control? This is not an issue with anything except Windows. What can be done about this? I am very disappointed in the fact this has ruined my computer, I really hope you can do something about this.
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Hi. You need to make your internet connection "metered". Windows 10 does not have a switch off facility but if you make your connection "metered" it assumes that downloads can cost you money so it will not automatically download the update. It will then be up to you to choose if you want to download.
I have been meaning to install linux for the best part of 20 years and this pushed me over the edge to get my head around it so I now have a dual boot system.. I'm finding my feet with linux then will be getting rid of windows altogether!
When I lost everything earlier this year I had to do clean install with no option to keep data.. This was a new dl of windows but as far as I was aware everything was the same so in theory when I was forced to do the dreaded upgrade it should have broken again but it didn't. Can't fix a problem if you can't replicate it! Can't wait to delete windows for good!
yes you are right, I think a number of people will be moving away from Microsoft with their update policy, I have a number of installed programmes which the Dec 2018 has managed to break, some reinstalls seem to work with others not working. Extremely frustrating and time consuming waste of time!
No ive had no luck at all :(
This happened to me yesterday! Have you gotten a fix??
