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To: goldworldnet who wrote (101307)	10/8/2018 10:28:47 PM
From: Kirk ©	2 Recommendations Recommended By goldworldnet Gottfried Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110581

After wasting hours, days, weeks trying to "repair" a computer that worked great but would not load anything but the original version of W10 it came with.... I gave up and just bought a new one. A young woman I mentor said life is too short and she just tosses computers, phones, whatever new tech and buys a new one every year or two when they start to have "issues." I wish I'd taken her advice sooner. Eventually something starts to have issues or drivers are no longer supported and you are F'ed if you want to be current.... it seems such a waste but when you put a value on your time, tossing it makes sense. KEY is to have multiple hard and flash drives attached to a docking station with all your defaults from the roaming applications folder also backed up (I wrote my own program to do it so I don't depend on MSFT or others screwing it up) and it is simple to get a new PC up and running. Of course, I had much practice trying to get my last desktop working after following MSFT's idiotic instructions to fix it... the worst was turning it on every AM and having to wait for 30 minutes for it to try and load the latest version of W10, fail then reinstall my original. Telling it I had a metered connection helped but the old, original W10 (I bought my PC as soon as it was released and available at Costco on a powerful desktop) was still quite buggy.