More Windows 10

I took Windows 10 on PC No. 1 (a two year old HP laptop) more or less when it came out (see reference 1), but there was no action on PC No. 2, despite it having reserved the update.

Perhaps because PC No. 2 (a four year old HP desktop) was in trouble, rejecting all the background updates coming out from Microsoft Central. Eventually I happened to notice this - the rejections were by then going back for a year or more, without Microsoft bothering to tell me - and the helpful people at BT had a go. Eventually the PC did something called a refresh which got me back up to what I hoped was a clean copy of Windows 8.1. A first tranche of Microsoft updates was rejected again, but then a second lot went through OK. Did all the palaver about restoring alien applications, but losing various bits of unwanted rubbish on the way. Data fine.

Then after an uneventful day or so, I got another invitation to join the Windows 10 club. On which, I started the install, then paused it, then finished it yesterday. Very smooth, maybe 90 minutes altogether. No restoring application palaver but a bit of fiddling around with Chrome and OneDrive. Plus a shiny new browser, MS Edge to play with.

So far so good. Seems faster to do some things than it was before. Slightly flashier job on pictures, including when you click on them in blog posts.

Reference 1: http://psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/windows-10.html.