Reverting back to windows 7 is pretty painless, I've had issues with old laptops as well, mostly graphic card issues with old ATI radeon cards 4000 series, they would just shut down, reverting back saved these old PC's
Reverting back to windows 7 is pretty painless, I've had issues with old laptops as well, mostly graphic card issues with old ATI radeon cards 4000 series, they would just shut down, reverting back saved these old PC's
Thanks for all the responses. I just started the go back to windows 7 process. It said its only available for a month after you upgrade so I'm glad it acted up sooner rather than later.
I guess I'll stick to 8.1 on my other laptop. It's probably fine but not worth the risk with my work laptop.
SvennoJ said: Since I upgraded my old laptop to Windows 10 it keeps shutting off randomly. |
Try looking at the performance monitor and the logs that the system creates. Usually the system tells you when something is off or broken but many people don't look at the right places (and Windows doesn't really hint at the right places where to look).
walsufnir said: Try looking at the performance monitor and the logs that the system creates. Usually the system tells you when something is off or broken but many people don't look at the right places (and Windows doesn't really hint at the right places where to look). |
I had the performance monitor up while testing, everything seemed fine, then it suddenly switches off. I didn't find any logs or any hints that anything was wrong. I don't know where to look either.
It's already done reverting, that went fast! The upgrade took hours lol. (probably due to my internet connection) All seems fine.
SvennoJ said:
I had the performance monitor up while testing, everything seemed fine, then it suddenly switches off. I didn't find any logs or any hints that anything was wrong. I don't know where to look either. |
Are you still interested where you can find logs? I can only tell you where to find it in Windows 7 (and probably 8.1) :)
walsufnir said:
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Sure, it's back to Windows 7
SvennoJ said:
Sure, it's back to Windows 7 |
It's in the control panel. Go to "administrative tools" (I think it's called this way in English) and there should be the even monitor. It logs several classes (like System) and aggregates them and sorts them by date and time.
Hiku said:
That only applies to the upgrade system, right? I assume you should still be able to do a clean reformat and re-install Win 7 and your key should still work? Anyway, I'm not touching Win 10 until they get rid of automatic updates not being preventable. |
Yes, there were 2 options. The clean re-install was also available, I guess you lose all installed programs in that case. This way I only lost the ones I had installed with Windows 10. (broken links on the desktop) Anything before that was still there.
walsufnir said:
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Thanks. There are over 53 thousands events in the system log. I don't see anything obvious correlating with the crashes. There are some errors, but not near the times it crashed. I know where to look now anyway.