Nope. I always try to ride out OS until I can't any more. I don't trust a new release... work out all the bugs & kinks, then I'll worry about upgrading. Invariably there will be some software that I NEED, that will run fine on the old version, but either will be problematic on the new or won't run at all.
Nope Windows 10 works just fine for me
Exactly! I have the Windows 10 updates turned off on my computer because of how glitchy they are. Lately, my laptop has already become kind of glitchy, freezing at times, getting worse with time. I think I lost some functioning each time the laptop froze and shut down incorrectly. But, it worked fine, for
years, up to this point in time. I don't need the constant updates loaded on top of the glitches making it WORSE.
Unfortunately, that is EXACTLY what happened a couple weeks ago. My laptop froze again, so it didn't shut down correctly. When I rebooted, it
automatically downloaded the updates (even though I also have my Internet connection set to a "metered connection" meaning it shouldn't download updates, as it may cost me money.)
Then, every time I shut down my computer, I had a list of options to carefully choose through. To either shut down, (which is what I wanted,) or install updates and shut down, or install updates and restart my computer. So I KNEW the updates had been downloaded to my laptop.
Then, a few days ago, it automatically INSTALLED those updates when I shut down my computer.
I KNOW I had chosen to just shut down.
The updates took HOURS to install. So, I knew already there was going to be a problem.
Yep, when I booted up the next morning, it took about 5 minutes to even see the sign in screen. There was just the blue spinning circle. (And that kept happening.) Once signed in, my display booted up to FULL Brightness. The brightness buttons on my keyboard were disabled. And when I tried to adjust the brightness via the Win 10 display settings, the slider button was missing off the new updated page.
There was no way to adjust the brightness. I had to wear sunglasses to view my screen.
Added to that, Firefox took 2 minutes to load. Also to change to a new page. Other features just left me with a blank screen for a few minutes before finally working. My antivirus was also screwed up and had to be uninstalled. Even booted up in Safe Mode, my laptop barely functioned. And
this update was simply to change the APPEARANCE of Win 10, a new taskbar and some other changes they think we want.
I didn't want them.
Those changes might have been barely livable, if my laptop WORKED and it hadn't been for the screen brightness. It took 3 days to figure out how to uninstall these updates. It wouldn't just let me uninstall them. The update also had deleted ALL my system restore points. So I couldn't reset that way. I thought I might have to do a factory clean install. I finally found a button to "return to an earlier version of windows." I thought that meant Win 8, which my laptop came with. But, luckily, it was an earlier version of Win 10.
For the past few days, I kept holding my breath every time I shut down and booted up. I was worried another update would be FORCED on me again. I could finally breathe easy when I fully backed up the files I hadn't gotten to.
And TODAY, the laptop I had tried to buy at Christmas,but sold out before I could pull the trigger, was finally in stock again at Costco.
I pressed the Buy button so fast and got the confirmation it has shipped.
The laptop description does NOT list that it will be upgrade-able to Win 11, as it does for some other PCs. That's okay. I've noticed all my previous PCs tend to (fully) break down around the 4-5 year mark. So, plenty of life in the new laptop before Win 11 is forced on us.
This laptop has the exact 5 features that were deal breakers on all the other models I looked at if they didn't have them, and why I waited 7 months in hopes this model (or one like it) would show up again. It's a 17.3 inch screen, with dual solid state & SATA hard drives. A graphics card capable of photo editing. And it has a DVD player/writer AND an HDMI port to cast to my older TV. The latter two are dinosaur features almost no new laptop has anymore, let along
together, but I want them.
So bad that it wouldn't even boot up. My work IT guy has had it for months trying to find time to see if he can at least recover the pictures and documents.
