A couple of weeks ago I decided to risk upgrading my laptop computer to Windows 10. It was running Windows 7, and the upgrade, though lengthy, worked just fine. Until today.
Today I turned on the laptop and after signing in, a big critical error notice popped up saying that the Start Menu and Cortana were not working and that “they” would try to fix the error next time I signed in. They kindly provided a sign-out button to facilitate signing back in again, to which I availed myself. Unfortunately, it did no good. So I signed out and signed back in under the administrator user. Still no good, even after signing in and out under both user names and restarting the computer several times. I can only assume that Microsoft put through an update that has managed to really screw with my computer.
That is why, despite the notice that keeps popping up, I am NOT going to move my main desktop computer over to Windows 10. I can afford to deal with problems on a laptop that I use occasionally, but I would be screwed if my main computer went wonky. So, no thanks, Microsoft. I’ll give you several more months to straighten out your Windows 10 messes before I commit to “upgrading.”
Update: I looked around on the web for a bit to find a solution. Apparently this was something that was happening to the earliest upgraders. I’m not sure why it took a few weeks to pop up on my computer, but there were fixes out there. One was to uninstall Avast anti-virus software if you had it installed (I did) and another was to reboot into safe mode, and then reboot in regular mode, which is what I did. It worked, but it took a while for the computer to reboot each time.
After it was fixed, I decided to remove Avast anyways, just in case. It took over an HOUR for the computer to reboot after the uninstall! Man, Windows 7 was never like that. I’m assuming that Microsoft still has a ways to go before Windows 10 is up to the usability level of Windows 7. I suppose it doesn’t help that my laptop is a little weak in specs, but it was running Windows 7 just fine and the pre-upgrade scan of my computer said it was okay for Windows 10.
I’m still sticking with my decision to delay upgrading my main computer.