Last evening my wife's computer suddenly "upgraded" to system 10 with no action on her part. This morning I awoke to find my own computer grinding away (at this point it's well past the 3-hour mark) saying "operations are in progress, please wait. The machine will be turned off automatically after the operations are complete." I'm assuming that this is also a forced upgrade to system 10, but 3 hours? Anyone have a suggestion as to what I can do to get my co-opted computer back? I can't believe that this can be legal. Class action suit, anyone?

Last evening my wife's computer suddenly "upgraded" to system 10 with no action on her part. This morning I awoke to find my own computer grinding away (at this point it's well past the 3-hour mark) saying "operations are in progress, please wait. The machine will be turned off automatically after the operations are complete." I'm assuming that this is also a forced upgrade to system 10, but 3 hours? Anyone have a suggestion as to what I can do to get my co-opted computer back? I can't believe that this can be legal. Class action suit, anyone?

Last evening my wife's computer suddenly "upgraded" to system 10 with no action on her part. This morning I awoke to find my own computer grinding away (at this point it's well past the 3-hour mark) saying "operations are in progress, please wait. The machine will be turned off automatically after the operations are complete." I'm assuming that this is also a forced upgrade to system 10, but 3 hours? Anyone have a suggestion as to what I can do to get my co-opted computer back? I can't believe that this can be legal. Class action suit, anyone?

The Win7 or WIn8 to Win10 forced FREE upgrade has been discussed on here for months and months. One must turn off "automatic upgrades" and have the computer request your approval to do so, or this happens.

I also learned from Adobe tech support a month or so ago that if your Windows 10 is an upgrade that Adobe products on your computer won't likely work with it and you'll have to call for assistance and possibly reload the software that's not working BUT if you have a clean new Windows 10 that came on a new computer the Adobe products are 99.9% sure to work perfectly when you load them.

All good to know. Thanks.













Several people on here have had problems with upgrading their Win7 or Win8 to Win10 and ultimately had to return to their original OS (although a friend of mine tried that with his Dell and it really messed up bad). Yet there are people on here who have had NO problems with upgrading. So get ready, and be prepared, to have some or all non-functioning stuff when it's over.

The PC I'm using right now is Win7 and I didn't let it auto upgrade. But I bought a newer, faster, better equipped model of the same Dell about 5 weeks ago and it has Win10 on it from the factory. It has worked virtually flawlessly since I got it. BUT... Dell keeps throwing update notices at me, one of which is a BIOS update. I don't really like to mess with BIOS, especially since the last update sat with a black screen for 26 hours and didn't reboot like it was supposed to. The update said DO NOT turn your computer off during the BIOS update because it could become completely inoperable, so what was I to do? I went ahead and turned it off and had to restart it with the power switch twice but it fortunately came back fine.

Win10 is known for updating itself regularly and it's hard to get it to stop doing that. It doesn't care if you're working on the PC at the time or not. That's a bit irritating but Win10 works quite well otherwise.

This is a very major upgrade, which is why it is taking a long time. I agree with you about resenting the forced upgrade, especially without the opportunity to schedule it conveniently, unless there were notices that you didn't see or pay attention to.

Windows 10 is actually one of the best operating systems Murkysoft has ever produced, and in general they have handled the upgrade process better than any previous Windows version upgrade. However it is not without issues, and this forcing upgrades is definitely not a smart move, it is pissing many people off.

This timing is ironic. I've been using Windows 10 for many months, after testing it very carefully I've upgraded all of our systems ( I have six online currently), but today is the day I've decided to to do a clean W10 install on my main machine to replace the upgraded version from W764.

Good luck, I hope the upgrade goes smoothly.



There are also a bunch of settings that you need to pay attention to. Windows 10 is set by default to be quite intrusive and collects a lot of data unless you meticulously go through the setups and shut things down.

The upgrade to W10 is free, and paid for by all the data that it harvests from you. That is also another violation that needs to be paid attention to.

I took a disliking to Micro$oft way back in 1995 when they released Windows95. My preferred OS at the time was OS/2Warp (IBM) but Micro$oft's monopolistic licensing practices effectively closed the door on IBM's chances of ever getting a foothold on the desktop. OS/2Warp was way ahead on functionality and performance, and 32 bit at that when DOS/Windows was still 16 bit!

I recently bought a Lenovo laptop/tablet that came preloaded with Windows 10 and I can hardly stand to use it. I'm currently thinking of (maybe) trying to load UBUNTU on this machine, but it might be more than I bargained for.