Over the past few weeks I have received some emails from people saying they are getting warnings on their computers regarding the Windows 10 upgrade. No, this is not a new virus, a Trojan or any sort of malware hitting the scene. Our friend – Microsoft.
Many of you who have not converted to Windows 10 yet are getting popups from time-to-time from Microsoft. It has already been downloaded to most Windows 7 and 8.x computers. Yes, there is a very high probability that it is lurking in a hidden location waiting to get its command to run. If you choose to install it by clicking the popup, then you will have it after a couple of restarts. But what if you choose to never click the OK button?
When MS released W10 for general consumption in July, 2015, they said it would be free for all users of Windows 7 and 8.x. It was and so far, according to one statistics site I read, about 14.8% of all desktop and notebook computers are running W10. For comparison it also stated Windows 7 is 46.8%, Windows 8.1 is 11.4% and OS X (Apple) is 9.33%. They also stated at release time that after one year you would have to pay for W10 if you wanted it on your computer.
Now things have apparently changed. I have read of some people who woke up to find Windows 10 on their computers. The issue is that when they went to bed the night before they had Windows 7. I do not know how true that is but I do know that people are getting continual “warnings” about having to install W10.
So it sounds like sooner or later you will get Windows 10. I do not know if they will auto-install it without your input or allow you to choose “OK,” but I believe you will have it sooner or later. Oh and MS says the update to W10 is for our own safety. Yeah right, that was what all the new versions were supposedly for.
On to one other related issue. I received an email from a reader who choose to bite the bullet and install Windows 10 recently. They immediately had issues connecting to their Wi-Fi and asked me what they could do. I had not heard this before and looked online…there were many out there with this issue along with a plethora of fixes. Since I had no experience with this I suggested he go to a local computer shop. He did and found out that many W10 upgraded computers had this issue. I found online where it could be related to older drivers on computers but sometimes updating them did not work either.
I am surprised that my computers have had no issue with this. I have a 2009 desktop, a 2006 and a 2010 notebook and none of them have experienced this issue. But be warned if you have an older system you could lose Wi-Fi. I have read on a few sites which say your best bet if that happens and a computer repair shop cannot get you fixed is to toss it and buy a new computer.
Thanks, Microsoft, for the mandatory Windows 10 upgrades, especially if it stops us from getting online. Very useful feature…not!
