Welp, as of this AM by Win10 machine hangs a login in and simply won't boot to desktop. Have tried several things, go away, come back, no joy! The miserable cumulative update failure as occurred daily since my last post. My problem is I have not found on Apple or Linux the apps I like and I am to old to learn yet another set of stuff! Aaaargh!

At this point will get the cheapest Win10 CPU box and star over! Double Aaaaargh!

Oh dear ! 

Cheers - Phil.

Do I detect a hint of schadenfruede there, Friend Techno?

I have a lovely Windows 7 PC with an XP emulator so I can run allied General.

Would I upgrade - not until I am dragged screaming and kicking into the abyss of Windows 10, when none of my programs will work on the existing system

Both 7 and XP were the best there ever was! Miss them. (Although 10 was fine until the "black October" cumulative update).

Actually trying now to reload OS from my restore discs - who knows what fresh h*ll this will bring about.
If successful will then need  to restore my critical apps.

My wife switched to Mac six months ago - says she does not want to play system engineer in her declining years! 

Quote from: fsn on 21 March 2017, 06:05:53 PM
Do I detect a hint of schadenfruede there, Friend Techno?

No, no, Nobby !!......You know how much I hated W10.....

Definitely sympathy for Bill, though.

Cheers - Phil

My Win7 PC was already showing it's age when it came to playing games so when it died a death I spent more than was sensible on a Win 10 gaming machine ,,, and resurrected the old machine with a backup and an older smaller hard drive so I now have a WIn 7 machine for email and net surfing and a Win 10 one for gaming. The system is working well ... so far!

Presumably a NEW win 10 machine has no trouble with the demonic win 10 cumulative update?
I think that that is reserved for users that are still on machines older than 5 years.

So far, it blasts through updates at an amazing rate.

For what it's worth I've a Windows 10 laptop and it works fine and I've had no issues with updates, however I bought it as a factory install when my faithful old W7 started playing up and refused to run Lightroom 6.

I've now reached the age when time is too precious to waste trying to get PCs to work.

Yes, I agree and so does my wife, but I am stubborn!
I like what I have and from a hardware stand point it's good and I keep the drivers updated.
My problem, and for others in my situation, is we migrated from 7 to 10 and don't have a clean install.
There was a process for doing a clean install when the migration occurred but everything ran fine for several months and I ignored it.
(I even, embarrassingly, bragged about how well it ran right here!    A lifetime should have taught me NOT to do that).
I'll probably do what you have done at some point.)

Quote from: d_Guy on 22 March 2017, 05:33:51 PM

(I even, embarrassingly, bragged about how well it ran right here!    A lifetime should have taught me NOT to do that).

Ah.... HUBRIS - The art of standing on a mountain top, wearing copper armour, in a thunderstorm and shouting there's no such thing as God/gods.......

 
Computers are the familiars of Cthulhu!

Well - it's up and running again and seems OK -now  in the process of reloading apps.
Two days work to save the $400 for a new one. Holding breath.

Quote from: Techno on 22 March 2017, 01:51:48 PM
No, no, Nobby !!......You know how much I hated W10.....

Definitely sympathy for Bill, though.

I know. You haven't an ounce of schadenfreude in your body, Techno. I just like the word schadenfreude, and get depressingly few opportunities to use it. Would it be ironic if those around me took pleasure in that?

It's like "schwerpunkt". Wonderful word. Never quite manage to drop it into conversations.

One of my best days was when out Finance Director was doing a brain storming session, and asked us all for reasosn that ... blah, blah, blah ... as he wrote them on the board. I suggested "potential floccinaucinihilipilification of our services". That went down well with everyone ... but the FD.

"Gusset". There's another good word.

Schadenfreude - needs a capital letter at the start.

Meoooow.

I'm so happy I'm about to bust a gusset!
Everything, including Windows 10 trying to load the cumulative update, fail and rolling back.
All is right again in my little world. (Until I actually have to buy a new machine).

Fsn, your FD was "out" was he?

Kitty purrrrrr.

QuoteYes, I agree and so does my wife, but I am stubborn

Ah Grasshopper!  Stubbornness in the Face of Microsoft is like p1551ng against a hurricane, a terrible accident waiting to happen.  Rather bent like a reed in river of consumerism and buy new hardware.

Quote from: GrumpyOldMan on 22 March 2017, 09:55:42 PM
Ah.... HUBRIS - The art of standing on a mountain top, wearing copper armour, in a thunderstorm and shouting there's no such thing as God/gods.......

That sounds like a definition of bad experimental technique.