23 Sep '16 13:44>
I hadn't been home for a couple of days, work out of state.
So last night, I get home and log on to my home pc.
Windows comes up, 'preparing desktop'. Wait, wait, wait.
Finally get my desktop.
It seems the day I was gone, MS being ever so helpful decided to do an update to my comp without even asking for permission.
So apparently that required a reboot.
So I get home, log in, preparing desktop.
When I finally get my desktop, ALL my personal files are gone, no email, no internet, no photos and no music files which I had composed and transfered to the desktop, needing the original WAV files for pro use and also each one in MP3 for upload to Soundcloud or whatever.
I calls a support line, MS would gladly fix it for 200 bucks.
Called an online bunch, 110 bucks and the first person who checked out the comp was flummixed, could'nt figure it out. So they transfered me to some windows expert and after an hour of HIM troubleshooting finally found out when the 'update' was done, it made a temporary login account using my name and pw. So that part looked identical to my ordinary login page.
So finding that, he found my original log in and BOING, everything was back.
I know, Crowley will chime in with you idiot, anyone knows that.
Funny it took some windows guru's two hours to figure it out too.
I also expect the usual, get Ubuntu and dump Windows.
But that is what I have for this comp. I plan to do just that but not on the family machine.
It is clear MS sucks but I am stuck with it for now.
So last night, I get home and log on to my home pc.
Windows comes up, 'preparing desktop'. Wait, wait, wait.
Finally get my desktop.
It seems the day I was gone, MS being ever so helpful decided to do an update to my comp without even asking for permission.
So apparently that required a reboot.
So I get home, log in, preparing desktop.
When I finally get my desktop, ALL my personal files are gone, no email, no internet, no photos and no music files which I had composed and transfered to the desktop, needing the original WAV files for pro use and also each one in MP3 for upload to Soundcloud or whatever.
I calls a support line, MS would gladly fix it for 200 bucks.
Called an online bunch, 110 bucks and the first person who checked out the comp was flummixed, could'nt figure it out. So they transfered me to some windows expert and after an hour of HIM troubleshooting finally found out when the 'update' was done, it made a temporary login account using my name and pw. So that part looked identical to my ordinary login page.
So finding that, he found my original log in and BOING, everything was back.
I know, Crowley will chime in with you idiot, anyone knows that.
Funny it took some windows guru's two hours to figure it out too.
I also expect the usual, get Ubuntu and dump Windows.
But that is what I have for this comp. I plan to do just that but not on the family machine.
It is clear MS sucks but I am stuck with it for now.