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Points: 26928 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 27/September/2015 at 12:10
I had the same issue on this desktop where i use a wireless dongle in lieu of a wireless card and resolved it in the same manner.

I am tweaking away on laptop later.
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Points: 1331 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15/November/2015 at 11:19
Just finished installing a large update to Win 10.  Took almost as long to install as the original. Everything is working OK but it has put me back to the original default programs.  My preferred browser is Firefox and the update put me back to I.E.  Didn't take long to reset this and the PDF viewer to Adobe.
Previously I could not get Cortana and Search but now I can.  Whether I want Cortana is doubtful but we'll see.  Startup seems slightly faster.  The update rejected a Win 95 version of Winzip (version 7.0) which I had been using on Win 10.  I'll try reinstalling it and see what happens.
Other than that it's working fine.
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Points: 1848 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15/November/2015 at 12:12
Have updated to windows 10 on mine and everything seems fin3 ^&((^%$^&())__*&^%R£$% 
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Points: 1133 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15/November/2015 at 14:04
I installed Win 10 as soon as it was available and it is faster if you only want to stick to minor stuff, e-mail, etc. Mostly, it is designed to direct you to more Microsoft products. The big failure is that it refuses to recognise `outsider` pen drives .. and there is a big clamour to get back to Windows 7 ...

It will cost me money ... as I am now having to look for a smaller, cheap `7` laptop, or tablet.
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Points: 1331 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15/November/2015 at 14:08
Never had a problem with USB flash drives of whatever make.  Maybe I'm just lucky.
Perhaps the new update will solve the problem.
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Had an update today - Windows 10 Anniversary Update.
Took about an hour.
Not sure it was worth it as I can't see any significant changes.

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2016/06/29/windows-10-anniversary-update-available-august-2/#ZuiZLcOUyMkBVfQy.97
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Crashed my laptop! File Explorer would not work. Had to do a system restore. AOK now.
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Crashed mine too - wouldn't start up this morning. Something about no boot directory found. Turned it off, started up again & it was fine.
When I installed it yesterday got a message saying that it couldn't install because I had copyrighted music files stored. So I moved them to an external hard drive and reinstalled. Everything seemed to work fine yesterday and then I get another problem this morning.
Coming to Albufeira today so I won't be installing it on the PC I keep there.

Anyone installing it might find this site useful
http://www.windowscentral.com/windows10-anniversary-update-common-problems-how-fix
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Installed Windows 10 on my both my work and personal computers without any problems! Guess i must have been one of the lucky ones?
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Points: 3381 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13/September/2016 at 22:02
Originally posted by nazza1968 nazza1968 wrote:

Installed Windows 10 on my both my work and personal computers without any problems! Guess i must have been one of the lucky ones?

I had no problems with Windows 10 - been running fine for over a year.
However, we are not talking about Windows 10.
What we are talking about is that when you install the Windows 10 Anniversary Update the problems start.
This is currently being rolled out and depending on the make/model of your PC you should get it anytime soon.
If you haven't had it yet then my advice would be to avoid it as the negatives far out weigh the positives.
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i'll keep a look out for that then, thanks Diceyuk Wink
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i prefer windows 10.
nothing more change  between win 9 and win 10.
so nothing effect to use so yes install.
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Points: 1263 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 08/November/2016 at 12:51
Windows 9? Microsoft said there was no Windows 9 because.............7,8,9.
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Points: 1331 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17/February/2017 at 11:43
If you haven't downloaded  last year's Windows 10 "Anniversary Update" by June you will no longer get security patches.

http://www.techradar.com/news/you-should-download-the-windows-10-anniversary-update-before-june
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Points: 1133 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17/February/2017 at 11:53
Biggest disaster in the history of programming ... and I seriously miss my Microsoft Works ... using the free OpenOffice instead ..
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