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To: Ken Adams who wrote (90173)	8/9/2015 8:12:43 AM
From: golfer72	1 Recommendation Recommended By goldworldnet Respond to of 110642

Yeah i have given up too. It was going less than 10% per hour so i aborted each time

To: Ken Adams who wrote (90173)	8/9/2015 10:28:07 AM
From: dylan murphy	1 Recommendation Recommended By goldworldnet Respond to of 110642

A few weeks ago I noticed I hadn't been using my laptop very often and had gotten way behind on my Windows updates. Almost a hundred. lol. So when I went to update them it got stuck on #36 and wouldn't move off that. I kept getting the rotating dots too for a long time. I tried to shut down but it wouldn't let me. I left it on all day and when i got back it was finished. I now believe that even though it looked to be stuck on 36 actually it was still downloading but not showing it to me. Maybe that is what is happening to you with this upload. Windows 10 is a huge file. 3GB? You may need to give it more time than you think, esp if over a wireless connection. Just an idea. I don't know, it may not be downloading at all. I've had the opposite experience. I got the ok for the download for my desktop in a couple of days, but still haven't gotten the ok for the laptop. Maybe they go by ip address. Give you one then have to wait for the other. I'm not in a hurry anyway.

To: Ken Adams who wrote (90173)	8/9/2015 1:55:46 PM
From: goldworldnet	1 Recommendation Recommended By Eric L Respond to of 110642

RE: Does anyone know if there is a way for me to locate and uninstall whatever Windows 10 has loaded to my laptop? Disk Cleanup is what you want and it's a standard utility included with Windows. Be sure to click on "Clean up system files" on the left of "View Files". Below are links for XP--Vista--Windows 7 describing how to use this utility. For Windows 8 there is a video at the bottom of this post and Disk Cleanup works the same. How to Use Disk Cleanup in Windows XP dummies.com How to Use Disk Cleanup in Windows 7 and Vista dummies.com Disk Clean Up in Windows 8 youtube.com * * *