Windows 10 auto update fail

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A friend of mine has a Win 7 PC (upgraded from XP). She calls me a couple days ago and says all she sees is black screen. I go over there and noticed Win 10 logo during boot then it freezes. I asked her if she updated and she said every time it asked she said no. I assume it auto updated her outdated machine and now it cant run it.
How do I remove this to go back to 7? F8 does not work.
 
try this yet ?
http://www.digitalcitizen.life/4-ways-boot-safe-mode-windows-10

then once ya get into win 10 in safe mode try this
http://www.howtogeek.com/220723/how-to-uninstall-windows-10-and-downgrade-to-windows-7-or-8.1/

i think i saw a few other links in the forums here for removing and stop the win 10 Auto update thing from windows update , so check the other posts as well so it does not happen again after you roll it back

its highly possible that since her system shipped with XP that the vid chip wont boot to the Win 10 OS ,,trying to get in safe mode is a pain with Win 10 , MS should have made it easier

see also http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/start-your-pc-in-safe-mode which says about the same thing
 
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Windows 10 runs better on older hardware than 7 ever did, I'm shocked at how well it runs. I've got it running on an old single core Celeron in a laptop with an old spinner hard drive and 2GB of RAM, it starts up in around a minute and isn't infuriating to navigate through.

That being said, you will probably need to reinstall if something messed up during the upgrade, the F8 to get to the recovery menu doesn't work anymore.
 
yea if ya can get it to a cmd prompt with admin access

try setting this up with the advanced boot manager settings .. yes the page says win 8 but i set this up on both my laptop and desktop with Win 10 ..and it works for forcing win 10 to let you use your f8 key again
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2809468

just tried it here and i see what ya mean now .. won't work with this new build of win 10 .. :(
 
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-=SOF=-WID99 said:
try this yet ?
http://www.digitalcitizen.life/4-ways-boot-safe-mode-windows-10

then once ya get into win 10 in safe mode try this
http://www.howtogeek.com/220723/how-to-uninstall-windows-10-and-downgrade-to-windows-7-or-8.1/

i think i saw a few other links in the forums here for removing and stop the win 10 Auto update thing from windows update , so check the other posts as well so it does not happen again after you roll it back

its highly possible that since her system shipped with XP that the vid chip wont boot to the Win 10 OS ,,trying to get in safe mode is a pain with Win 10 , MS should have made it easier

see also http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/start-your-pc-in-safe-mode which says about the same thing
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Yeah tried that before posting. I cant get to the desktop to try those. I may be at the desktop but not seeing it. On boot there is an explorer.exe error. I tried a Win 10 disk and it tells me it needs repaired but nothing happens when I select it.
I figure I have to get it working so I can revert back to Win 7 since there is no other way to get back to 7 without losing her stuff.
 
yea sorry for the bad info sparky .. i had it working i never thought about when i installed the last upgrade build it reverted all my settings


the only way to make that work with the f8 key is you have to go in CMD prompt as an admin then set that
Bcdedit /set {bootmgr} displaybootmenu yes

from within the os itself (before you have a problem)

then on my laptop i forgot for the F keys to even work i have to hit the FN key with the f8 key since my f8 key also has another function, so if she has a laptop keep that in mind , if you can get that far ...

its a shame that MS puts win 10 in as a windows update .. and some users don't notice it
i keep win updates off on the only machine i still have with Win 7 on
i don't use it very much anyway ,and do not even know if the win 7 os on it is legit ..i got it used , and it had win 7 on it but the COA sticker says Win XP
 
Microsoft through their negligence causes another person grief. What a swell bunch.
 
Hook up the drive to another PC and copy off the data. The partitions look to be intact. And just how old is this PC? What's the hardware?
 
pop-up nag with no "No thanks, never ask me again" option strikes again.

And people seriously defend this shit.
 
Its a desktop so no fn key.
trying to avoid a factory restore as she has some weird software that was a pain to get working when I set it up 15 moths ago.
Some Church/bible verse changing backgrounds and her browser settings have to be exactly the same or it is "broken".
Yes a 70 year old Church lady that loves Mah Jong and solitaire with no learning curve.
 
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