Windows 11 Destroyed my computer

Anonymous
2021-12-15T22:06:30+00:00

Hello,

I'm absolutely baffled by what Microsoft has done. I woke up this morning to an update in progress restarting my computer. I left came back and it hadn't finished so I left it. When I got back later in the day the computer was at my log in screen and looked normal but the lockscreen background had changed. I entered my password and after an hour of "preparing your computer" the machine logged into my account, blank, no start menu, no programs, no access to anything just a newer Windows 11 background. Previous to this my machine updated to Windows 11 without any issues and I've used it now going on a month or so. Now I am left without any of my data and unable to produce any work. Who is going to fix this? Who is paying for what appears to be all my lost data? Who is paying the loss of productivity at work? I have no words just pure frustration combined with anger as I'm stuck trying to contact someone using a dinosaur laptop running Windows 7. After bricking a $2200 machine there's no point sticking with Microsoft at this point, Apple has never done this to me.

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Windows update

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-03-07T00:52:03+00:00

    My heart goes out to you! I bought an IBUYPower PC with Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-9900KF CPU @ 3.60GHz, 3601 Mhz, 8 Core(s), 16 Logical  , nice tower , liquid cooling system and very good motherboard and NVIDA GeForce RTX 2070 Super GPU. One of the few last robust systems I have ever owned besides my old Gigabyte Tower Quad Intel Series I built.

    After 3 days from its update from 10 to 11 without my permission! I noticed my pc would just shutdown with no notice at all. On each and every reboot of the system? it would race my processor up to limits in overclocking for no reason! To the point, it over heated and damaged the Thermal Cooling system!

    I have a 24TB Nas system so my data I was able to save, prior to this update, My Seagate Nas mirrored my C \ Drive and all of its data. Thank God!

    In short I have to replace the Thermal cooling system $79-100, The Asrock Gaming Motherboard $128.00 and now here is the scary part! The i9 9900KF CPU ! I believe got damaged from the bizarre Bug Windows 11 put it thru! before I could really figure out what was going on to stop it. This cost $595.99 Via Newegg: Intel Core i9 9th Gen - Core i9-9900KF Coffee Lake 8-Core, 16-Thread, 3.6 GHz (5.0 GHz Turbo) LGA 1151 (300 Series) 95W BX80684I99900KF Desktop Processor Without Graphics - Newegg.com

    So far the cost of My repairs are $902.00 not including tax. My machine is no longer under warranty either! I have worked in IT for D.O.D for 14 years and I have never seen anything this bad since Vista!

    *I filled a complaint * Hopefully , I will get lucky and be able to save the processor.

    **So In Summary: WARNING! DO NOT! UPGRADE TO WINDOWS 11 YET! IT COULD DESTROY YOUR PC.

    I don't know what in the code or kernel is causing it to do this? Or why Microsoft released such a harmful Install?? is Baffling! Seriously Messed up. **

    I am not giving up on Microsoft, even though I feel like I should, I hope they can repay me somehow for the damages. I hope they take ownership instead of all of us doing something very nasty

    Guess what bro my pc just got roasted by windows 11 😣 lm a YouTuber and l use my laptop for video editing but now l don't have a laptop since it got roasted it's literally bricked 😭 l can't even open settings or reset it

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-03-13T05:25:54+00:00

    I HATE what windows 11 has done to my laptop. My files have lost a lot of data. Especially my photos/pictures. My files show people in them but when I try to open them, it says my files are empty. I went to google photos and some photos are in there but hundreds of important photos are missing. Photos of my wedding years ago. etc. I had backed up many files on CDs and then to Sandisc in the past and thumb drives but many of the photos are not there. Even if I can find my old CDs my current laptop doesn't have a cd player.

    The background on all of my webpages/emails etc are very dark. I have glaucoma and I cannot get the headings to be a shade I can see well. I got it to be a lighter shade, etc. I am 85 and this is so frustrating. Until recently I was proficient with computer for my age. I don't have family anywhere near to help.

    What were they thinking? Where did all of the hundreds of photos go that were on Google Photos?

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-07-27T19:45:39+00:00

    Hi,

    I see you have compensated a customer for killing their computer. May I also get compensation? The most recent Windows 11 update that I didn’t want killed my PC. I only ask you pay for a mini PC that I purchased last night - total $192.78. As a new youtuber, my broken PC was my bread and butter.

    Thanks

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-07-28T04:51:49+00:00
    Hi,<br><br><br><br>I see you have compensated a customer for killing their computer. May I also get compensation? The most recent Windows 11 update that I didn’t want killed my PC. I only ask you pay for a mini PC that I purchased last night - total $192.78. As a new youtuber, my broken PC was my bread and butter.<br><br><br><br>Thanks What is this all about ???
    Post a reply <br> ---

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-07-30T02:21:00+00:00

    Good luck might get a call from support

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