It said all of my old files were put into a "windows. Screenshot from I'm not sure if this information is relevant but these are pictures of my storage folders as well as a picture of my bootloader. Vrai Well-Known Member. Joined Mar 16, Messages 1, Reaction score Credits 3, Perhaps it is just a matter of updating GRUB?
Sudo or su update-grub. I tried that. I think i found the fedora substitute for it but I am receiving an error. I believe this error was caused by me. I tried adding a windows configuration to grub customizer before posting initially. I think creating this configuration also created a file named "grub.
I'm guessing that there is an error in this configuration that i found online. Gold Supporter. Joined Apr 30, Messages 6, Reaction score 5, Credits 21, It is Code:. BTW a sudo precedes that above command. The only Distros that use Code:. After deleting that custom windows configuration that i originally put in, the error is gone but windows still isn't showing up. You must log in or register to reply here. Members online kibasnowpaw.
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I have installed both Chrome and Firefox browsers. I also have Skype installed it's a Microsoft product now, so it should not have any problems. Windows 10 is really unfriendly. Cannot use any other browsers other than its build in browser.
Cannot event download some software, like Skype. Huge mistake to upgrade to Windows 10! This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Previous Next. If you want to revert to Windows 7 you can. As long as you do it within 30 days of the upgrade. Find Go Back to Windows 7. See screen shot. Mine says Go Back to 8.
How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. Others though. So please, before you upgrade listen to others who post here a lot smarter than me, and get yourself a backup hard drive , download Macrium or similar software and back up your system. You just might need that backup image.
I downloaded Windows 10 and my computer crashed. I have tech service from Dell and spent a total of eight hours with them. The decision was made to send it to Dell.
My laptop was working fine until I downloaded I want my 8. Hopefully I will get it back. What a mess! I too tried the upgrade from Win 7 64 bit to Win All went well for approx. After the first lot of updates the machine just refused to reboot after the restart and looped.
Took it to the repair shop who put my copy of Win 7 back on — all is well…. Once you are back on windows 7, updates will not work, and will keep pestering you to update, and the download and install to windows 10 will start all over again, before anything updates.
The ONLY way to go back to your computer with windows 7 the way you had it before the 10 install is to have created a system image of your windows 7 hard drive, and a suggestion is to uninstall one of the updates of windows 7 which is KB That is all I have to say, the rest of the article is spot on, and very informative.
I tried windows 10 for 3 days, there are no more microsoft games solitare, free cell, etc. Windows media center is no longer supported in windows 10 therefore even if you put microsoft games on a thumb drive before you install 10, and put them back in in windows 10, they still wont work as they played thru media center believe it or not. System sounds will no longer work on startup and logon, I have no idea why, i googled it and the claim was that it was not needed, so if your used to startup and logon sounds they will no longer be there.
Good luck, and happy computering. Leo highly recommends backing up before an upgrade. In fact, he suggests backing up you computer regularly, preferably daily.
How should I back up my computer before an operating system upgrade? Give Windows 10 some time before reverting back to an old Windows 7 operating system. It is very customizeable and you can have it look like Windows 7 or 8. However, I do understand that if your computer is unable to operate with Windows 10, reverting back is the only viable option. Backing up before updating is crucial and should be done periodically anyway.
Hi Leo, I upgraded to 10 and deleted windows. I always make images of my system and I have come to realise if you install a new system they are no use. Trying to revert back to the image copy I keep getting told a format of the drive the copy is on is required which is obviously no good as it wipes everything off. Trying to install a programme to colour the title bars I found my system had changed to 10 pro somehow or other and needed another activation key.
You should be able to restore your latest image back and get your whole, previous, installation back. For me, Windows 10 offers nothing over Windows 7, and my VM tests just confirm that. I also hate the fact that I will lose functionality like the Aero interface in Windows I will keep using Windows 7, past the support deadline if necessary. If successful I might consider installing Windows 10 on one of my computers just to see if this can work.
Whenever I saw Windows 8. I always believe that if the objective of the upgrade is to make the new OS look like the old one, then why upgrade at all? Besides, as can be seen from the comments above and elsewhere, lots of people have problems with the Windows 10 upgrade.
This is one of the few things I can agree with Leo. If you still want to use Windows 10 but are unable or unwilling to do image backups then I suggest waiting until new PCs preinstalled with Windows 10 are available.
An OS is much more than just what it looks like. Since I do not need or want anything else in Windows 10 including the LOSS of functionality like the control of updates and the forced automatic updates , my equally simple response is that I find Windows 10 totally unnecessary at this point. Wait until Microsoft releases a really troublesome Windows 10 update it will, if not now, eventually. Then I will laugh some more.
If your Windows 10 system has a problem after installing some Windows 10 updates you may not even be able to find out which one do you harm since Microsoft now refuses to tell us what the Windows 10 updates actually do.
Are you going to remove it and leave your system open to attack, or install the update and leave your system inoperable? Leo, I have asked several times here but I repeat : have you ever tried to see if we can stop Windows 10 forced automatic updates I mean preventing the download and installation of the updates, just like we can in Windows 7 or 8.
To the best of my knowledge the official answer remains no — as you yourself have pointed out. Yeah, I have tried disabling the Windows Update service on my Windows 10 virtual machine, and it seems to work. After disabling the service Windows Update is unable to check for, download and install updates. But as you said, I have no idea whether that will have other unknown consequences now or in the future.
If I am forced to run Windows 10 in the future I hope not, haha this may be an option for me. Leo, the Digital River links you provided to download Windows 7 no longer work. The Softpedia links apparently are for the SP1 file only and not the whole Windows 7 iso file. The link to download Windows 7 from Microsoft also redirect to the Windows 10 upgrade site. Frankly, I find it perplexing that seeming so many people want to take the Windows 10 plunge less than 1 month after release.
They are facing the very real possibility of something not working correctly, be it software or hardware, after upgrading to Windows 10 from either Windows 7 or Windows 8. Reverting back to the original OS may not be flawless either. Making an image backup or a clean installation is necessary for a successful revert without problems.
My personal opinion is that even if you want to use Windows 10 you should wait at least 6 months before you upgrade, for at that time the compatibility problems will be more likely to be resolved, or it will be clearer whether you need to purchase new hardware or software for use with Windows Windows 10 up grade went very well on my old laptop.
They seem to have gotten 10 right. I was very pleased with Win 7 but 8. Now Win 10 is almost as easy to use as Win 7. Everything you would normally use in an OS is there, just in different places or grouped differently.
My first up grade went so well that after using it a couple of days I decided to up grade my better and newer machines.
Everything went great on all the rest of them. Now I can take my time up grading to a touch screen for my DIY desktop main system. By the way Leo I backup my main system weekly. Thanks for all the good advice over the years. My experience with Windows 10 was pretty uneventful except for a few hiccups installing it keeping all of my programs and settings.
There are a few minor glitches which still show up like losing some file associations which have to be re-established. But working for Ask Leo! I used win 10 to go back to win 7 but it crashed half way through and now it will not boot up can not even use win 7 disc any ideas please.
I assume you did not backup before the upgrade? Why not like W10? I bought the hype, couldnt wait. But… Cortana didnt work. Edge never came to life. Many things i regularly use were were moved, changed, or rolled into something else. I am a geezer. Put the tools in the toolbox, where god intended them! The machine was Slow slow slow, much slower than previous.
Very frustrating days. I never wanted to learn so much about tech stuff, just wanted our 3 computers, one printer, two tablets 4 phones to do their job.
Backup data was in the clouds pictures, G of home movies and music, so i am happy. But i will never trust MS again. Oh, now that W7 is working i am happy. Odd, though, that neither IE nor One Drive will even load. That is all. Just a bitch session. I have a dell Inspiron laptop and upgraded from 7 to 10 and now it boots to a black screen how do I go back to 7 from the boot menus. Thanks in advance for any help you can give. I upgraded from Win 7 to 10 about a month ago. I have not been able to get on the internet since.
I have spent around 10 hours trying to solve this. Airplane will not turn off. I have tried to redo my email address and everything is fine there.
Every once and a while I get the message Server Unavailble. Unfortunately the only options for doing that are in this article. I have my data on a different physical drive. No problems with either upgrade although I wound up putting the 8.
Did a Win 10 backup using Acronis. A few days later the 10 upgrade went crazy. Apparently Win 10 creates a recovery partition. Nothing seems to like that. A proper image backup has been shown to work and work well. I upgraded and had no problems at first. Now, though a problem has come up. My question now is if I go back to Win 7 to get my encrypted files, can I then upgrade again to Win 10?
This article might help: How do I get my attached drive to show in Windows Explorer? In File Manager the drive shows up fine, has a letter assigned. I can open it and get to all the files. Now I understand. Not quite. However a friends computer might be the way to go. Thanks for the tip.
I upgraded form windows 7 to 10 a few days ago. Could there be any reason for this? Anyone else have this problem? I have a problem, I installed Windows 10 and now I want to go back to Windows 7, and optional recovery options exist Go back to Windows 7! Help me I do not know what to do! Windows 10 is Garbage!
I had to revert to an older back up of my system. Windows 10 is worth every penny Microsoft charges for it. It will be a cold day in hell before I upgrade again! I suspect control from another partition and am thinking of reformating. Any thoughts? How to revert, if a machine with win 10 installed , and win 7 iso downloaded with product key is used to install.
Should one format win 10 by win 7 install dvd and install. It depends — and Leo explains it thoroughly in the article. Just remember that if you do a full install of Windows 7 that it will format your drive and delete out all your personal information, your files, all programs and personal data.
So make sure you have everything backed up. I upgraded to win 10 from 7 and wanted to go back. However when I try to go back I receive a message saying that I cannot go back on battery power alone plug in your machine and try again, When in fact my machine is plugged in.
I realize my battery may not be good but it is plugged in so is there a way to work around this? Thanks so much for your input. Personally, I would say to not try to restore back — unless you are restoring to a full image backup taken with a backup program. Windows 10 is not bad enough to risk the problems. Let me say I am no techie.
It was five miserable weeks after I installed Windows 10 that I discovered that the simple uninstall program had been eliminated by those nice friendly folk at Microsoft. I followed advice and directions from here and elsewhere and decided to take the settings, recovery etc. There was no option directly related to Windows 7. The system was locked.
I switched off by pulling the plug and restarted a couple of minutes later. Lo and behold I had dear old Windows 7 desktop back and after updates had finished all my folders were still there. If I go back to Windows 7 after activating Windows 10, can I reinstall and activate Win 10 again for free on the same computer after the free upgrade period expires?
What you can do, though, is take an image backup of your Win 10 system. You should be able to restore from that at any time and it will be automatically recognized as registered. I switched to windows 10 from 7 and I did go back and forth several times for comparison. Suddenly everytime I clicked compose, up popped a major flaw in 1O. This went on for about 5 weeks. For the first time ever, my computer crashed, I could do nothing.
MSN is playing games with us and we need a R alph Nadder to stop them. Sooner or latter all these antics will do is cause another OS company to come in and that will not do Mr.
Gates or MSN any good. I hate to see where their stocks will end up. The internet is turning in to the OK Coral, anything goes, used car dealers and the old horse traders were better to their customers than these modern corporations. Instead of worrying about Hackers they should be stopped from these crazy antics.
To add office which allows you to write letters on your computer, MSN now wants 9. I had office on my windows 7 that I paid good money for, so when you are deciding whether to go to lO, consider the above expens 9. See what I mean, anything goes.
That is 9. Nice work MSN……. Unless you have to have fully compatible documents, those alternative programs do everything the average user needs. I teach a computer course which includes Word and Excel. One of the students is using Open Office. He is able to keep up with all the assignments, and there was only one feature so far that he was not able to find, and that was an advanced function which he was able to work around by creating his own formula.
I might sound like a broken record on that, but my experience reading thousands of comments and questions on Ask Leo! I personally consider this the most important article when it comes to any major or even minor upgrade or change on your computer. In fact backing up should be a daily process. As long as you have an eligible version of Windows ie. Win 7 or 8.
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