It appears that Windows 10 Anniversary Update may not yet be ready for prime time. While it has only been available for a couple of days, the list of problems it causes is getting larger and larger. I know that to be true as I have had my own problems with it.
I have 3 computers running Windows 10: a desktop PC, a laptop, and my MAC with Windows running inside Parallels. Two of them failed to upgrade after several attempts. The third one installed just fine the first time. Can you guess which one succeeded? You got it…only the MAC upgrade succeeded. How ironic is that?
Both failed computers gave me the same error message. In checking an article on Windows install failures, turns out that error message is sort of a generic message and Microsoft offers no solution at this time. Thanks for nothing. But many people are getting different error messages while others are getting weird problems after they do the update. I have not spent any time with it on my MAC so I can’t tell you if anything is wrong with my one installation.
I think the bottom line is don’t upgrade yet. You can give it a shot, but I recommend a complete backup first, just in case. FYI, after my failures, Windows 10 worked just fine. I made several attempts to clean up my system and remove questionable software that might be the cause of the problems, but nothing worked. But, as I said, the original Windows 10 works just fine…if it didn’t you would not be seeing this blog. Just make sure you read our first story.
Just a quick note: I will be leaving this weekend for a month-long stay in the San Francisco Bay Area, but I will still publish this newsletter. However, next week I will probably only have time to do one blog instead of the usual two. But, after that, it should be business as usual. Hope you have a great weekend. -JRC
Tech News and Opinions
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Mobile Computing
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