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Conina said:
You know that Windows 10 is out (and the upgrade is free), which would have spared you much hassle, don't you? |
Yep, I installed that on the old laptop to give it a trial period. That took a long time (hours) and lost sound in the process (auto switching between headphones and speakers doesn't work anymore) yet so far so good. A lot of setting have moved around again unfortunately, and homegroup doesn't list my windows 7 pc anymore, but I can access the shared drive via network. There's 1 failed driver update (Toshiba related) and no more settings for updates.
Initially it wasn't responding to windows key shortcuts, yet today it is. Looks like the old control panel is still there, yesterday I could only find the new settings center. I'm not sure what it was doing, yet after the install the hdd was 98% occupied for a long time with background processes. Today it looks ready for user input :)
I'll upgrade the other laptops if it keeps behaving for half a year. No rush.
Btw the laptop never leaves the house, no pin required.
