So, after fighting with Windows 10 over ownership of my purple laptop and the new Microsoft browser playing games with my school forum boards [where a large percentage of my grade comes from, mind you] I finally got ticked off and restored to Windows 7. I am not gonna do the upgrade on this desktop, either, after my personal experience with my school laptop! I may allow the new Dell to keep using Windows 10, since it is the only touchscreen enabled PC in the house and just might be able to take advantage of some of the new stuff… but this ownership crap is a huge issue to me. I bought every stinking one of the computer’s in this house with my own hard-earned cash and savings, and now Microsoft’s Windows 10 says I don’t have permission to do things because I don’t own it?!?
Issues are still coming up, too. When I finally decided to restore Windows 7, I figured I would do a total system restore to the day before the upgrade. I had specifically created a restore point, just in case, before I did the upgrade. Did I restore? No. Apparently Windows 10 deleted that restore point and the only one left on my purple laptop is two damn years old! It destroyed/deleted every single current to semi-current restore point my laptop had on it! Damn dirty, Microsoft, damn dirty…. And I am back to the ownership issues once again, with my Outlook mail not allowing me to get my domain’s email because I don’t have permission, I’m not the owner, of the Outlook pst data files where all accounts folders are stored. I’m about ready to uninstall Outlook and re-install it fresh, to hell with all those years of saved messages.
I see so many program shortcuts on my desktop with ‘locks’ on them now – I guess I no longer own all of these programs I have purchased over the years and use daily… you did this soooooo wrong, Microsoft! I am not a computer expert and have never claimed to be. However, I have been the Administrator over my own machines for six or more years. As the Administrator, it is up to me to give permissions to the various programs and how/if other users can access them and to what extent. But this Windows 10 upgrade changed all of that, taking away and limiting what I, as the Administrator, am allowed to do – ON MY OWN MACHINE!!!!!!! And then takes away my ability to restore to a point right before I did the upgrade. I am beyond pissed over this – this is messing with my schooling for crying out loud! If I were to use that old restore point from 2013, I would lose half of my BA classes stored on the machine and ALL of my MA classes – and I’m almost finished with my degree. That’s a lot of records, folks.
I suppose I can use my new Dell and move all essential Documents and installation files to it, for safe keeping, and then do the old restore… and take hours to do updates to bring Windows 7 back to where it should be. That is, if either machine allows me to do that, with these ownership issues! And if I can simply download and install the Windows 7 security packs without needing to upgrade to Windows 10 again. Christ, what a mess… *sighs* You did this so very wrong, Microsoft… this is hitting me harder than losing my old blog and my old graphics folder, cause losing those was on me, my stupidity. But what’s going on with my purple laptop – that’s on Microsoft and is so wrong.
Damn. I am so outtie….