My Surface Pro crashed on me on Aug 12 after a brief windows update. It refuse to power on and the power adapter does not seems to get the tablet to charge. Tried to call Microsoft, got to check with the customer service, send photos over via email then nothing.
Thanks Microsoft for ignoring me. But I still need to work so I got a spare notebook from office which is a Dell Vostro V13. It is running a Intel SU7300 processor (which is dual core if i don't remember wrongly) with 2GB RAM and 500GB 7200rpm hard disk. User cannot use notebook as its in Windows XP and frequently hang or slow in operation. Plus V13 got a design flaw with its hard disk cable on the notebook so we have recall all the V13 asap in case the cable stop working and the hard disk cannot be run.
Decided to try to install brand new Windows 10 Pro N edition. N edition is without the media player and other media items. Don't need them anyway since using vlc player. Install and very quickly got all my data back from the surface Pro which after resting for 2 days, able to power on for me to grab the data from the hard disk to portable.
From day 1, there are already patches available for the windows 10 machine. Since I am used to windows 8.1, win 10 does not seems to have any issue with me. The start menu and tiles are together so quite easy to get app to appear on the start page.
So far system is ok so i thought can roll out to limited pool of users in company and since most users are on win 7 or 8.1, there is currently a free upgrade to Win 10 for users. Since the files are large, I decided to download the ISO file for 64bit and 32bit Pro instead and burn to DVD. Domain joined machines do not get the icon to get win 10 upgrade so have to do it manually. The in-place upgrade was one of those more successful ones with no apps and settings lost. All ok
However the in place upgrade introduced a problem i did not encounter before: when i tried to get domain user to log in first time to the machine (both install on notebooks that are supported by Dell to be able to run win 10 in them) it prompt user profile cannot load. I thought only affect domain users so create a local account but also cannot. I panic as already remove the windows.old folder. Went google one day cannot, continue at night also cannot find the solution except for one article where the writer also have a similar experience of mine and its to do the the c:\users\default folder permission. So I set the ownership of the folder to the local admin, remove inheritance, close folder. Then i right click folder again to go to security tab and enable inheritance, change ownership of folder to system (which is the original owner) then ok. All back to normal. both local user account n domain account can log in.
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I understand the issues that you have faced with while using or even struggling with Windows 10. The interface was updated quite quid, but the usability is bad. I was writing articles at the blog of Writers Per Hour Custom Writing Service and I was at the edge of total failure because my PC decided to delete all files which were saved on my desktop, without any notification. I couldn't express the feeling I had... But now I'm ok, and I use Mac.
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