Subj : Re: TON OF UPDATES
To   : Tom Walker
From : Holger Granholm
Date : Thu May 10 2018 09:43:00

In a message on 05-09-18 Tom Walker said to Holger Granholm:

Hi Tom,

I'm very happy to see you here again.

> >   Despite Microsoft's desires, I am NOT upgrading my OS...I'm content
> > with Windows 7 32-bit.
> 
> Well, that's your choice. I have never been a friend of Windows but I
> don't regret the upgrade from XPpro to Win10pro 32-bit.

I have been quite happy with Win 10pro since I received a laptop with
Win10pro, to the extent that I even bought a stationary Dell with Win7
on Nov 30 2015 and upgraded it to 10pro while the upgrade was still free

> So far all the upgrades to my stationary PC as well as the laptop with
> Win10pro have worked without a hitch.

I should never have written that. In March things started to happen.

An announcement from M$ told that it would take a long time on my laptop
so I decided to remove the HD-password to avoid running back and forth to
the machine when it wanted to reboot.

The upgrade was successfull and the machine worked OK.

Now the PWRD back again. OK, the previous password wasn't accepted so I
started a new one with a first umlaut letter. That wasn't accepted
because only characters/numerals on an US keyboard were accepted and the
accented letter keys didn't send the correct characters.

I did never get that choice of keybs I've seen on many other instances.

Later in march an upgrade came to the stationary machine. That never
came to an end and I have since had to re-install Windows 10pro and am
still installing programs that went out the door because the install
wiped those programmes that were on the C: drive.

TW> I have tried multiple more tricks form the internet and the wife's
TW> machine still refuses to update. something about permissions even
TW> though I was logged in as Administrator.

Now I will probably get the new version of OS/2 instead, and install new
versions of Thunderbird (if I can't get the new PMMail for OS/2) and
Firefox, because this OS/2 machine has never failed.


CU AGN, Sam, OH0NC

aka Holger


... Failure is not an option -- it comes bundled with Windows.
-- MR/2 2.30


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