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[Sonlirain]

And i thought i had it bad... i honestly have no clue how to help here aside of maybe suggesting grabbing a Win7 disc and getting a working OS installed.
Maybe asking microsoft support will help?

[Aklyon]

Aaand updoot successful... to some degree. I'm shown the 'welcome to windows 10' screen and hit next. After the welcome to windows 10 screen stops responding, the PC restarts. Every single time.

Clearly your computer does not approve of windows 10.
Not too surprised.

[Insanegame27]

Oh, hey, it's working! I just had to restart, grab the latest driver for my adapter on another computer using a USB drive, then plug the USB into the PC, restart it after the USB driver was installed, update the wifi adapter driver, restart the PC again and finally it's working. Takes 50% longer to start up and shut down, but eh, I'll live.


Maybe the fact that I did it in a blood circle under a full moon may help. Or the fact that I proffered up my soul for the internet via an eldritch being. Plus the illuminati and triforcing the bloodcircle with candles.

[Akura]

Took another shot at trying to get my netbook to work. The original problem still occurred, in that it'd shut off suddenly after a time. I haven't ruled out the original suspected source; that it's overheating. However, now it will not load the login screen. It boots Windows, but then there's just a black screen with a mouse pointer.

EDIT: Running startup repair fixed that one. Had to start trying to boot in Safe Mode and cut off the power to get it to run though.

[Reelya]

I was just reading that Microsoft are scheduling secret updates to Windows 10 whether or not the user asked for it. EDIT: Apparently it got moved to Recommended Windows Updates for Windows 7+. So make sure you've got those turned off if you don't want a surprise upgrade an an inconvenient time.

Anyway, I have a laptop that's running Windows 8.X, and I'm not overly attached to that. My 2 weeks of vacation just started so I don't need to work on the laptop for a bit, so I'm going to roll Windows 10 out on that to give it a go. To keep things simple, I'm starting by a backup of my data, then a factory reset of the laptop, then roll that forward to Windows 10. Here's hoping things go smoothly ...

[feelotraveller]

I haven't ruled out the original suspected source; that it's overheating.

Try manually cooling it.  I ran my laptop without a cooling fan for a couple of weeks by propping it up on a couple of books so the air circulated under it and then directing a room fan to blow underneath it.  Had a plate/tray of ice positioned between the fan and the computer to cool the airflow.  Worked fined - worst thing was trying to hide behind the screen so the constant wind did not dry my eyes.  Even just doing it once (if successful) will confirm an overheating problem.

[feelotraveller]

Edit: Timeout double post.

[Thief^]

They are scheduling it, but it does tell you (its only a surprise if you dont read messages) and you can still refuse. But seriously, just update the damn thing.

I'm not liking Microsoft's tactics much, but they're at risk of another bloody Windows XP if people hang on to 7. The software I work on still supports XP now, FFS, because people won't stop fucking using it. 7 is already out of mainstream support by MS, so it's security fixes only now.

On another topic, I got given another £5 laptop at the weekend, this one's an old teeny tiny business Compaq complete with docking station. It's got Windows 2000 on it and a P3 with 192MB of ram. What the hell should I do with it? Windows 2000 doesn't have the same retro gaming scene as my Win98 laptop.
Runs like a dream though.

[Aklyon]

They're bringing upon themselves another xp on purpose by being too goddamn pushy about 10. They brought this on themselves, they can deal with the goddamn results.

[Reelya]

Right now I'm looking at a more or less bricked laptop waiting for it to get it's shit together with this Windows 10 thing. It's been on it for 8+ hours.

"Just update" = "just turn all my working machines into bricks" at this point in time. I'd like to see it actually running first on at least once machine and not completely useless before I take the plunge and turn my only working box into one of it.

security fixes only now.

Which is exactly fucking perfect. If I want anything else, I'll install programs that I want. With only security patches, they can't break anything, unlike what they did with ASUS motherboard incompatibility recently and Windows 8.

And at this stage I have nothing but utter contempt for any Windows device I own that came out after Windows 7. Windows 8.1 I find an extremely painful experience. "Just update" because it's new would have been a disaster before. Why should I take it on blind faith that it's better this time? I'm only willing to try out Windows 10 on my 8.1 laptop because I figure it couldn't possibly get any worse.

[Aklyon]

I don't have contempt for it (my brother does have a working windows 10 laptop, probably only because that is what came installed), but fuck no am I going to upgrade a perfectly working computer to one that has a good chance of requiring to fix problems that did not exist before.

That is simply just a waste of time I could be doing more useful or fun things with.

[highzealot]

I'm looking for a tablet for my mother and could use some help.

I have a price range of $200-$300 CAD.

My mother is planning is use it mainly for watching videos and browsing the internet with a browser capable of translating to Chinese. She's probably also going to be downloading videos directly on to it. Probably won't be using it as a camera if it has one.

[Sonlirain]

For internet and translating browser i'd guess any el cheapo tablet should do. Especially android (most cheap tablets are androids anyway) since you can run chrome with google translate and (to me at least) it feels the most like a proper PC unlike windows phones.

I can't give any specific suggestions tho because i only have a JXD s7800b and that's not something your mother would approve since it's mostly a gaming tablet that's basically borrowing design cues from the WiiU gamepad..
A JXD might not be a terrible idea tho since it's a midrange "gaming" tablet meaning the CPU will run several open pages smoothly without issues and has a great screen for the price.
It is pretty bulky however and i can't guarantee that it won't break. Mine holds out perfectly a year now but you can never know with chinese electronics.

[Thief^]

I have an older JXD S7300 that crashes 50% of the time when a page finishes loading in chrome. It's a pity, i got it because I liked the idea but I think mine needs to go in the bin. It was free 2nd-hand though, so I don't think I should blame JXD...

My current favourite tablet is Amazon's Fire, it's really powerful, exceptionally cheap (£50 here, was £35 on sale before Christmas), and the "kid mode" is fantastic, Amazon have lots of content even for very young kids (I got the edition with the kids protective case and the anti-kids guarantee). I don't know if it supports Chinese, though.

But seriously, if it's just for browsing cheap should work fine as long as it has a relatively recent android on it (preferably 5.0 or later). Android 4.3 and earlier have gaps in their support for TLS (the successor to the now-deprecated SSL, used by secure websites), which could interfere with your browsing, and 4.4 is getting on a bit now too.

[Lord Shonus]

Rather odd question here.

I work nights, and sometimes can't sleep in the morning. Ever since I ditched cable, I've missed the ease in which I could find something on that isn't news, a soap opera, or a 1950s western. I have plenty of media to watch, but choice paralysis kicks in easily for me. What I want is a program that lets me define a dozen or so "channels" that create playlists from my media libraries so I can just flip through them instead of trying to pick something out. Is there such a program?