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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
As a rule, you get what you are willing to pay for. One question I ask folks is what value they place on their time. A late friend had the habit when buying cars of getting junkers and running them totally into the ground. Yeah, they were cheap, but the time, effort, and money he spent to keep them running added up. I tried to get across that the way to go was buy a quality used car, maintain it as the factory specified, and run it into the ground. It would cost more up front but cost less in time, trouble, and money over the life of the vehicle.
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^ This is brilliant, Dennis, thanks. But I think I like the challenge of working with the junkers (in this case computers--my car is a 2004 Chevy). I probably shouldn't but there's something thrilling to me about taking something off the junk heap and making it work. (In this instance taking the $59 computer and turning it into a Windows 10 powerhouse. LOL) The computer I'm on now (my best computer) was getting thrown out at work because it crashed (running Windows). Now I have Xubuntu 16.04LTS on it and it's been uber-reliable for years. Now whether I should be doing this stuff is another question altogether.
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
MS is doing its best to make Win10 upgrades painless. Installing from the flash drive here was "Plug the drive into a USB slot, access it, and run Setup."
It will take a while and reboot a couple of time, but shouldn't really require intervention from you while installing. Go make coffee and relax.
Yes, you will want to go in and configure it after installation, but you would do that in any OS install.
The trick the second time around was telling it not to go out and look for updates before installing.
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After reading this a second time I think I could do it.
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Of course, doing what I did requires that you have the upgrade media to install from. Drop me a PM and I can assist.
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Dennis
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Thank you.
Believe me, if I do this, I will.