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> 6-7 hours of my life If it makes you feel any better: I went through this EXACT scenario yesterday. My grandfather accidentally installed Windows 10. Fortu

by eckza 11y ago

> 6-7 hours of my life If it makes you feel any better: I went through this EXACT scenario yesterday. My grandfather accidentally installed Windows 10. Fortunately, there's a button in Settings that lets you revert: http://www.howtogeek.com/220723/how-to-uninstall-windows-10-and-downgrade-to-windows-7-or-8.1/ http://www.howtogeek.com/220723/how-to-uninstall-windows-10-... It worked perfectly and only took about 30 minutes. And the man uses his computer for a lot of stuff - personal bookkeeping, Word, Excel, Publisher, electronic document management, etc etc etc - and it's all 100% back to normal.

acqq 11y ago
> It worked perfectly Have you checked the task scheduler? https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/80e4f83d-1529-4405-b8e3-d1d636f8b71c/task-scheduler-is-broken-after-windows-10-downgrade?forum=win10itprogeneral https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/80e4f83d-1... Didn't work on my computer. See also http://au.pcmag.com/windows-10/39165/news/oops-update-glitch-results-in-accidental-windows-1#comment-2312386490 http://au.pcmag.com/windows-10/39165/news/oops-update-glitch... "These showed up on a plethora of my client's systems a few days ago after I had already removed them, unchecked them and hid them weeks earlier. This is totally unethical, namely re-releasing KB3035583 after hundreds of thousands of people paid technicians to have these removed."
- cma 11y ago
  Plus the install attempts to steal away the user's default browser.
7952 11y ago
>> personal bookkeeping, Word, Excel, Publisher, electronic document management, etc etc etc - and it's all 100% back to normal. Microsoft are turning their back on a group of people who used to pay money upfront for premium products. How many of these users want a subscription service? Maybe they want a finished OS with high quality software pre-installed instead of some crappy app store.

by eckza 11y ago

acqq 11y ago

> It worked perfectly Have you checked the task scheduler? https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/80e4f83d-1529-4405-b8e3-d1d636f8b71c/task-scheduler-is-broken-after-windows-10-downgrade?forum=win10itprogeneral https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/80e4f83d-1... Didn't work on my computer. See also http://au.pcmag.com/windows-10/39165/news/oops-update-glitch-results-in-accidental-windows-1#comment-2312386490 http://au.pcmag.com/windows-10/39165/news/oops-update-glitch... "These showed up on a plethora of my client's systems a few days ago after I had already removed them, unchecked them and hid them weeks earlier. This is totally unethical, namely re-releasing KB3035583 after hundreds of thousands of people paid technicians to have these removed."

cma 11y ago
Plus the install attempts to steal away the user's default browser.

7952 11y ago

>> personal bookkeeping, Word, Excel, Publisher, electronic document management, etc etc etc - and it's all 100% back to normal. Microsoft are turning their back on a group of people who used to pay money upfront for premium products. How many of these users want a subscription service? Maybe they want a finished OS with high quality software pre-installed instead of some crappy app store.