On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 4:02 PM, rafael copquin rafael.copquin@gmail.com wrote:
I installed W10 and for about a week _most_ apps ran smoothly. However, in one of the updates, about a week after W10 installed itself, when I started the computer the f....g updating message started and took about half an hour until the computer was in operation. Then I realized that all my Windows apps were gone: Word, Excel,etc, etc. Some of the drivers were also gone such as the printer, fax, etc. I had to download W10 versions. Even my Kaspersky dissapeared and had to download a W10 version. I was naturally very pissed as you might have surmised by now.
That sounds a lot like a family tech support call I got earlier this week. In this case, AVG was promoting its premium version (free had been installed) and lots of links were missing from the desktop and the Win10 tile-thingie interface (do we still call it Metro? Modern? That stupid tile thing?). Much panic ensued, but it appears nothing was actually deleted.
Automated updates. What could possibly go wrong?
What a dumb idea.
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