I'm not capable after three days of this to ask an intelligent question
other than can I sue Microsoft
or at least get the name and address of the WIN 10 guru?
Lets start with my system is (insert make and model) desktop/ laptop/ zen watch?
No... it's a free upgrade so you can not ask/ sue for your money back... at least not under Australian law.
We have them here... I assume you don't have any backup system in place so at this point (until we learn what type of system it is) the best advise I can give you is remove the hdd from the laptop/ desktop, replace it with a new blank one and install W7 on that.
You feel letting us know what system you have is an invasion of your privacy?
Not a prob mate... hope it all works out for you.
Not at all. You're not asking for my contacts list.
Since I can't get into it now I'll have to go with my short memeory.....
eMachine desktop
Intel Pentium Dual Core Pocessor 3.7 Ghz
Intel Graphics Chipset (can't remember which number)
Background: It started with the Win10 upgrade. Everything was operational until I was about 3 minutes into a flight on Microsoft's Flight Simulator X. Machine locked up, screen went black, speakers hummed. I quickly chose the option to revert to my Win7 64 bit OS. All that in less than 15 minutes after the lengthy upgrade to 10.
After that everything worked fine until I tried flying again. Later I discovered that FSX (the sim) requires DirectX 9 and Win10 installs DirectX 10. I followed instuctions from the flightsim gurus on how to uninstall and reinstall FSX properly, which hopefully installed DirectX 9, but I don't know if there are remnants of DX 10 in there.
Thirty years ago I knew a little something about DOS. No more! So what I'd like to know first is how to get out of this loop. And second how to use DOS to find the problem. I can start with the command prompt but don't know what to do next.
Sorry about yesterday. Three days of frustration, coupled with an issue of an infection that I learned later could have killed me in 36 hours, I was not at my best. (If your tongue ever swells up do something else you may soon quit breathing...or so I'm told.)
Completely erase your HDD and do a clean install of Windows.
Hmm, I suspect that you reverting back to Windows 7 caused some major issues...
Have you tried SFC /scannow?
chkdsk?
Please have a look here:
System File Checker - A great Windows fix tool.
Compute in Confidence with Windows System File Integrity Checker
Try following the steps indicated and lets see if this solves your issue.
A lot of these requests may in fact come down to drive corruption or faltering components, but we need to rule out hardware and software and do whatever we can to try to isolate the problem. Consider "SFC" an integrity check for Windows files and chkdsk essentially checking the NTFS file system for reports of volume mapping issues (software, usually) and actual bad sectors (failed parts of the HDD).
Downgrading an OS is usually a last ditch maneuver so this was not a good idea, so the idea that you should
May actually be a real alternative.
What are the system recovery options in Windows? - Windows Help
Use the command prompt before Windows 7 boots while in recovery mode. The fact that you can't boot into safe mode is a very bad sign, as essentially, pretty much nothing should be starting up automatically.... this would indicate something is wrong with the recovery to Windows 7.