We successfully upgraded Honey’s laptop to Windows 10 yesterday. We did have one serious scare, but in the end, the update worked and everything is working fine.
As you might expect, the process takes quite a while to complete. After I got tired of just staring at the screen, I went out and did some yard work while the process ran on its own. I got back in to see the first welcome screen after the download finished and clicked “next” so the installation could continue.
A minute or two later, things got weird.
We had a brief – almost instantaneous - power failure. It happened so fast that I had to reset the clock on the kitchen stove but not the one on microwave. The computer was connected to the charger, but its battery was full – it shouldn’t have been affected at all, but it was.
The laptop screen was totally black. Neither the mouse nor any of the laptop keys seemed to work. The only way we could tell it was on at all was a couple of LEDs on the keyboard were lit. After waiting several minutes to see if it would recover – and wondering if it had totally crashed – I finally forced a shut down.
When I turned it back on, the installation picked up right where it left off, and completed without a hitch.
So far, Windows 10 looks good and not all that different from the Windows 7 she was running. Windows 10 does come with Edge, the new Windows browser that replaces Internet Explorer, and it is installed as the default. If you would rather run Chrome or Firefox ( or even Internet Explorer) the default is pretty easy to change.
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