You have been cradled so much that you think this is whining? Dear me. I guess an even simpler solution to an issue with his PC would be to stop using it altogether though? I mean, it's not helpful in the slightest but still, that shouldn't stop it from being a good comment on the internet!

Still though 2x the same reply in the thread, I'm fairly sure I had done this a while back, but yeah won't be replying anymore on this line of "conversation" with ya, waste of time.

Reporting it was one of the first things I done when coming into the thread!!

Not in a "kick this guys ass mods" way, just in a... "this will cause angst" way, so don't be annoyed at mods if they alter it slightly although that was a while ago and they must think it's fine. Could just see it was written in anger and anger leads to bad comments on here sometimes.

Yeah I know the feeling, work in IT support myself so I know the joys of having to wrap peoples PC's in virtual bubble wrap lol.

I'll be fine if they change it, I am not angry anymore

Edit: Less angrier title now.

I always to clean installs, no update since that slows everything down. So far, five Windows 10 installs, not once have I experienced issues with them so maybe I'm just very lucky :).

You originally claimed it was a user error, which it was not. I'm pretty sure that's a reasonable answer to your original post. Also, there could be a good reason he has to stick with Windows, so a single major annoyance might not be enough to warrant a switch. And even if there's no good reason, a lot of people have only used Windows and switching to a different OS might sound scary, so it's not that easy even if it's actually the best solution.

Oh yeah a windows 10 fresh install would be issue free now, the problem with a clean install of win7 is that the OS came out in 2009 which means there is close to 7 years of updates which it needs (if you're installing from old media, some newer installation disks for it would have some of the core updates pre installed) but yeah there are a few core updates like one which is an actual update ... to windows update, which of course is required to install the rest of the updates. I get paid a commission based on use of the word update!

As for windows 10, on most things it works perfectly, the places where it doesn't work... it doesn't work in the most dramatic way, be it a loss of user data or just a complete loss of functionality, more common on laptops I find than on desktop PCs for some reason, guessing issues with proprietary motherboards and cards.