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Livid users are hitting social media in droves to complain after finding that their PCs have been automatically updated to Windows 10 without their knowledge or permission.
Until recently a user would have to intentionally click their approval before the Windows 10 update would be installed on his/her system, but that’s no longer the case for users who have Windows set to install updates automatically. [Read more…]
Question from Billie: I upgraded my computer from Windows 7 to Windows 10 and now I’m having trouble scrolling web pages with my mouse wheel.
Scrolling worked just fine with Windows 7. What can I do to make it work correctly in Windows 10? Thanks in advance for your help.
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Every day I receive emails from folks who have updated their PCs to Windows 10 and subsequently discovered that they don’t like it.
In most of those emails I’m asked if it’s possible to reverse the update and re-install the version of Windows they were using before. [Read more…]
Question from Cindy P.: I love your blog Rick, and I really appreciate all the great info you provide.
I’ve been following RicksDailyTips for a long time, and now I have question for you.
My company is expanding rapidly and I’ve spent the last 5 months travelling from city to city helping train all the new hires in our stores.
My laptop now has a long list of Wi-Fi networks from the hotels I’ve been staying in. I know I’ll never be staying in most of those hotels again so I’d like to remove those wireless networks.
Can you tell me how to do that? My laptop is a Dell and it’s running Windows 10.
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In an earlier post I explained how Microsoft was making plans to automatically install the Windows 10 upgrade on as many PCs running Windows 7 and 8.1 as they possibly can.
Well, that time has arrived.
Starting immediately, the Windows 10 update files WILL be downloaded automatically along with the next batch of Windows Updates, and computers running Windows 7 or 8.1 that have automatic updates enabled WILL be updated to Windows 10 automatically. [Read more…]