Hi
Yesterday my wife was forced to upgrade her computer to Windows 8.1.
She called to me that she couldn't close the update screen, so I went an looked at her laptop.
She was right, there was no option but to go ahead with the upgrade.
Everything else was grayed out.
You couldn't even shut the computer down.
I forced it to shut down and it rebooted right back to the same screen.
I gave up and told it to go ahead and it updated to Windows 8.1.
I had planned on just waiting until Windows 10 came out and upgrading to that.
When I got online at one of my graphic arts forums the first post I saw was someone saying they were stuck at the upgrade screen and couldn't exit.
Sounds like Microsoft is taking the hard line with the people who refused to update.
I didn't update because when I did I had sound problems that I couldn't fix.
Now I'm running Windows 10, but I'm afraid that if I boot back into Windows 8 it will force me to upgrade and I'll be stuck with the sound problems.
I got the same thing in Windows 10 when I installed Windows 8.1 Media Center.
I had to restore back prior to that, but I'm guessing that if I do that in Windows 8 it will just force my to upgrade again.
Seems a little pushy to me! LOL
Mike
Yesterday my wife was forced to upgrade her computer to Windows 8.1.
She called to me that she couldn't close the update screen, so I went an looked at her laptop.
She was right, there was no option but to go ahead with the upgrade.
Everything else was grayed out.
You couldn't even shut the computer down.
I forced it to shut down and it rebooted right back to the same screen.
I gave up and told it to go ahead and it updated to Windows 8.1.
I had planned on just waiting until Windows 10 came out and upgrading to that.
When I got online at one of my graphic arts forums the first post I saw was someone saying they were stuck at the upgrade screen and couldn't exit.
Sounds like Microsoft is taking the hard line with the people who refused to update.
I didn't update because when I did I had sound problems that I couldn't fix.
Now I'm running Windows 10, but I'm afraid that if I boot back into Windows 8 it will force me to upgrade and I'll be stuck with the sound problems.
I got the same thing in Windows 10 when I installed Windows 8.1 Media Center.
I had to restore back prior to that, but I'm guessing that if I do that in Windows 8 it will just force my to upgrade again.
Seems a little pushy to me! LOL
Mike