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Nil Bastardo Carborundum
- Joined
- Nov 29, 2007
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- Location
- Lower Hunter Region NSW
- Members Ride
- CG Captiva 5 Series 2
At present I'm running Windows 7. I'm familiar with it and it does everything I need. I don't use the computer much other than some internet, word processing and Excel. No social sites (apart from this one). As my monthly downloads are extremely low, I just use mobile internet on my desktop with usage rate of about 2-3 GB per month. Yep, that little. The auto W7 upgrades often use up what I have left of my download limit as happened yesterday. I suspect it was W10 trying to download and my low limit exhausted and prevented the completion of the process.
For some months, like probably everybody running older Windows versions, I've been getting offers from Microsoft for a free Windows 10 update. I don't want it so I've just ignored the messages and dumped them. I CBF'd trying to learn new systems if my present one does all I need, no matter how "gee whiz" W10 is. (My age is showing here, I guess.)
I now find that last night, an automatic upgrade to W10 was attempted which fortunately failed. Don't know why and don't care, but it will no doubt attempt another auto upgrade in the next few days.
I've altered the settings on the computer so that updates can only occur with my permission. (previously set to auto-update, obviously). Is that going to be effective when it comes to upgrade to a completely new OS such as W10, rather than just updating the existing OS?
For some months, like probably everybody running older Windows versions, I've been getting offers from Microsoft for a free Windows 10 update. I don't want it so I've just ignored the messages and dumped them. I CBF'd trying to learn new systems if my present one does all I need, no matter how "gee whiz" W10 is. (My age is showing here, I guess.)
I now find that last night, an automatic upgrade to W10 was attempted which fortunately failed. Don't know why and don't care, but it will no doubt attempt another auto upgrade in the next few days.
I've altered the settings on the computer so that updates can only occur with my permission. (previously set to auto-update, obviously). Is that going to be effective when it comes to upgrade to a completely new OS such as W10, rather than just updating the existing OS?
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