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Old May 15th 17, 05:37 PM posted to rec.photo.digital
PAS[_2_]
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Default Windows 10 support

On 5/15/2017 12:05 PM, Bill W wrote:
On Mon, 15 May 2017 11:16:17 -0400, PAS wrote:

On 5/13/2017 12:24 AM, John McWilliams wrote:
On 5/12/17 PDT 6:02 PM, Bill W wrote:
For those of you who read about my issues with a frozen Windows
update, I received a survey today about the quality of their support.
I can only say that it is reassuring that they would take the time and
effort to pretend that they care.
Reassuring as to what??

It's not too late to move to a solid platform.

Windows 10 is working solidly for me, as did 8 and 7.

It's working fine for me, too, and usually does. My issue is how they
act when it doesn't. They break my computer trying to update it, and
then tell me I have to pay them to tell me how to fix it. Isn't that
pretty much the definition of ransomware, even if it wasn't planned
that way?


I've not had a Windows update cause a problem for me, whether it was
Windows 7, 8 or 10. I did have a wonky issue with one PC in the house
(my desktop) after upgrading my Windows 8.1 system to Windows 10. Some
programs, like my photo editors and CD/DVD burning app would take a long
time to open, some over five minutes. Canon Digital Photo Pro, in
particular, was bad. After it would finally open, I could convert a raw
image but when I tried to save it as a TIFF or any other format, the
program would seem to just lock-up. I was puling out what little hair
Mother Nature left me when I got the brilliant idea to check the event
viewer. I experimented with each of the troublesome programs. I found
when I launched each one, the programs were accessing my external DVD
drive over-and-over-over. That was causing the long start-up times.
Saving a file also caused the same access problem for the DVD drive. I
checked the drive and, lo and behold, I had left my MS Office DVD in
it. Once I took the disc out, no more issues. I could even put the
disc back in the drive and leave it there without a problem.