Recent content by Ray Clements

Finally up and running. I stayed up late and it finished around 1 am. Total over three days to install incredible. Maybe that's a record. Can't understand why it took so long but it's a relief that it is all done, I can start installing my software now. Thanks for your help

thanks for your input. I have a brand new NUC 5i7 with a 640gb SSD AND 8Gb of ram. I installed and activated my 8.1 from my Windows install disk with no problems as I will remove it from my old PC. I have downloaded the Win10 update three times and have experienced the ultra slow file copying...

Finally after over 35 hours the upgrade is at 32%. It now shows installing features 6% -But- it has been like that for over an hour. I did re download the upgrade with the same results. Wouldn't the ISO have the same problem. After all if I can upgrade it I wouldn't need the clean install. I...

Thank you for your reply. No, I have turned off defender. It is a new computer with 8.1 and no programs installed yet except the drivers for the NUC. To further frustrate me we just had a thunder clap and lost our power so the whole process has been started again. After updating for nearly...

I have been trying to upgrade my win8.1 since yesterday. I left it running overnight and it now shows 14% copying files 48%. It seems ridiculous to take so long to copy the files. I am copying the files to an Intel NUC5i7 with 480GB of SSD storage and 1666 ram 8 GB. I have tried every...