Has any one else have the same night mare

[kgb424]

I got tired of Windows 10 and re-installed Windows 8 Pro

and the first time Windows 8 Pro was installed and working, it gave me a 185 updates

I then downloaded Windows 8.1 Pro update, it downloaded, installed and configured

and it got 83 percent done being configured and locked up and after restart

it created 2 Windows systems too boot from

Windows 8 which booted

And Windows 8.1

which would not boot and would lock up

So it gave me the updates again but this time they failed

And my desktop sat for hours reverting the updates back

So I had re-format and re-install Windows 8

And updates did the same thing they failed

Reverting the my desktop for a second time

I said **** it and went and bought a brand new

Seagate Internal 2 TB/TO SATA drive

and installed Window 8 Pro and just got on

RCC to post this

I'm not screwing with the updates

I will change the update setting too, when I decide when too download and install

If it works the way, I hope I can do a couple update installs at a time

so if it reverts it only, a few updates instead of over 100, like the last 2 times

It automatically downloaded and installed all them at once

 

[HyperMark]

I'm still using Windows 7 Ultimate 64Bit.
I'm not planning on upgrading(IMO down grading) to Windows 10 any time soon.
I even canceled my reservation to stop the annoying pop up reminders.

 

[BJoe]

Dad went through that a while back, then was trying to figure out how to make it work. I could halfassed make XP work, still trying to figure out Vista on his old lap top that he gave me that he put 10 on, and was trying to ask me for help late one night trying to figure out where it put stuff in the change over. I told him to go to sleep and look at it with fresh eyes after he woke up, I had no better suggestion than that!

 

[binaryterror]

As an IT Manager, I have stuck with Windows 7 in the business environment. Though I imagine with end of support for 7 coming, we will likely head to 10 in the next 2 years.

At home I moved to Windows 10 once all the products I must have had their support. 10 is a good system, works well. Not a single issue for me in 10 yet.

10 is lightyears better than 8 and 8.1, though 7 is also lightyears better than 8 and 8.1. No computer in the world should run any version of 8 ever, much the same as any computer with Vista should be immediately thrown into a dumpster immediately, I wouldn't even take the time to upgrade to 7 with a Vista spec machine. Anyone considering 8 better than 10, really needs to re-think that.

 

[BUBBA069]

Microsoft has said it wont support any new CPU tech for OS versions before Windows 10. So you buy one of those fancy new Intel Skylake CPUs for a custom build win7/8.x may not run correctly because Microsoft isn't patching for it.

Only given select hardware folks like Dell a pass on certain systems until like late 2017 (I think), after that is security only until 2020, then Win7 goes the way of XP.

Depending on how old your current system is you won't have a choice but to update to Win10 in the next couple years. Or jump to OSX or Linux of some flavor.

I have been using Win10 for a while on a test system. Win10 Pro is the only way to go, avoid the home version at all cost since there is no way to stop the telemetry data collection. At least with pro version you can slow it down.

 

[DickyT]

As an IT Manager, I have stuck with Windows 7 in the business environment. Though I imagine with end of support for 7 coming, we will likely head to 10 in the next 2 years.

At home I moved to Windows 10 once all the products I must have had their support. 10 is a good system, works well. Not a single issue for me in 10 yet.

10 is lightyears better than 8 and 8.1, though 7 is also lightyears better than 8 and 8.1. No computer in the world should run any version of 8 ever, much the same as any computer with Vista should be immediately thrown into a dumpster immediately, I wouldn't even take the time to upgrade to 7 with a Vista spec machine. Anyone considering 8 better than 10, really needs to re-think that.

As a career Corporate IT Slave, I could not agree more. We are rolling out Win 10 at work right now on any new machines that come in. Legacy machines are staying with 7 because we are a skeleton crew and lack the man power to update 3000 machines with a 4 man team, while also managing projects, infrastructure upgrades, and break fix.
The 8/8.1 falls perfectly in line with every in between OS from MS sucks horribly. They always release the in between because the masses demand "the new" and they can make money off of it. But the in between is always an incomplete OS that carries features that will be that foundation of the next release (the real OS)

98 - Great!
ME - Horrible, but foundation was obviously the building block for 7

7 - Great!
8/8.1 - Horrible, but foundation was obviously the building block for 10

10 - so far, great! It is stable, fast, and seems to fall perfectly in line with MS's strategy of the real version being solid.

 

[djjiz]

Forced updates will install Win10 sooner than later.
We get BSOD every time our laptop sleeps and hibernates. Other than that I'm happy with it.

 

[kgb424]

I had Windows 8.1 Pro for over a year and never had any software or hardware issues

I got the Windows 10 update and had it for about 6 months

the first thing it, ****s up is my Netgear N600 Wireless router, cause it kept telling me, my router needed to be reset or the cable was broke and it keep ****ing with it

until the router died because of Windows over writing it and resetting it constantly it, I then plug in the cable from my Charter box via Ethernet cable

and that stopped all of the connection bullshit issues,

it still had problems with internet explorer, I tried other web browser and the either sucked and was nothing but ****ing ads and pop ups and other bullshit or they would get corrupted and just go to other sites just out of blue

I got sick of Windows 10 and that the fact it has bad controllers and causes a shitloads of connection problems, and the fact Microsoft Edge is the only browser, so far that has not been corrupted and start going to random websites

and is not compatible with MSN after 6 months it still doing the same shit after all there updates and all there improvement

Windows 10 is pile of shit, I will not touch for a least a year or so if not longer or until they get all the bullshit worked out of it

Cause I went to 3 or 4 computer places and they all say the same shit Windows 10 sucks and is not as great as its made out to be

and it has a lot of issues

I was happy with Windows 8.1 Pro

its Windows 10 Pro that pissed me off and smoked my router

and I just bought a brand new Seagate 2 TB hard drive

because the old one clicks really loud every once in a while and all the software problems

I got a new hard drive

 

[DickyT]

^ It sounds like your router was on it's way out. There is no way an operating system on your computer can cause your router to fail, they are just not linked in that way. I have over 300 windows 10 machines deployed in our work environment so far, and 3 personal laptops with it, and zero issues.

 

[struhall]

I still like my XP. I have two old computers and they both run XP. I have been thinking about a new laptop sometime soon so this is all good info for me to take in before I do something like that. I have yet to use a computer running anything newer so I don't know how I will be once I make the switch.

 

[kgb424]

Ok I got all 162 updates and installed the 8.1 upgrade

and my Desktop is fine now , no issues and no conflicts

I also have a Dell Inspiron 17R Laptop with Windows 8.1 Pro that is a couple months

newer than my Dell XPS 8500 Desktop, the laptop has never a single problem

And both are over 4 GIG I-7 processors and are maxed out on DDR3 memory

I also got a brand new Corsair 750 watt power supply to

go with the brand new MSI Geforce GTX 970 video card for the desktop

and soon I find a big enough tower or a server case, cause the stock is just too small

I will install the power supply and video card

and tear some shit up !!!!

cause I haven't played any racing games in awhile

and rubbing is racing !!

its good a thing there is a helmet law !!

 

[binaryterror]

the first thing it, ****s up is my Netgear N600 Wireless router, cause it kept telling me, my router needed to be reset or the cable was broke and it keep ****ing with it

It didn't ruin your router, the router was already dying and its diagnosis software was trying to get it to work correctly and provide you with service. Shame on an OS trying to fix problems in a router, I mean no one wants their internet to work!

Not to mention Windows 10 can only restart a router if you give it all the information including saving a password (never wise) so it can send the reboot procedure.

it still had problems with internet explorer, I tried other web browser and the either sucked and was nothing but ****ing ads and pop ups and other bullshit or they would get corrupted and just go to other sites just out of blue

There is always Google Chrome, safer and better than anything MS has offered, in well...EVER.

Cause I went to 3 or 4 computer places and they all say the same shit Windows 10 sucks and is not as great as its made out to be and it has a lot of issues

I'd be curious to know the names of these places and if they actually have certified technicians. Yes most people who don't know computers do work at computer stores. Geek Squad being the least capable of fixing a computer, but people still take things there en masse.

its Windows 10 Pro that pissed me off and smoked my router

This isn't true, that router is well known as not a good router, well known to be problematic and have a short life.

and I just bought a brand new Seagate 2 TB hard drive

Just so you know, Seagate drives have been performing horribly bad. They are constantly being in the bottom of ratings on life, some even failing in testing with never having any other use on them. Much like your N600, bad purchase.

 

[DickyT]

^ thanks for filling in all the gaps. I wanted a big reply yesterday, but as usual was slammed. So I made sure I covered the router bit and got back to it.

Good post!

 

[BUBBA069]

Yup N600 was a crap router, same for Dlink 655. Both were your mid mainstream routers for a while. Both piles of crap, neither liked being pushed hard.

Take a look at a TP-Link Archer C7 or Netgear R6400.

I wouldn't trust a Seagate drive for anything. Replaced to many of them last couple years in PCs for people. Western Digital Blacks, Samsung SSD's, Sandisk SD cards, Corsair and Kingston flash dirves, all solid stuff.