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Old 19 May 2016, 09:24 PM
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Default Wife's laptop gone weird.

Running Windows 7.

It decided to do an update that took it a couple of hours. Now it is just alternating between a black screen and a grey one, with the hard drive whirring slightly as the grey screen comes up. It alternates five seconds of grey screen, two of black, all the time. Been doing it now for half an hour.

What should we do?
Old 19 May 2016, 11:06 PM
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Boot it in to safe mode and do a system restore.
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Boot it in to safe mode and do a system restore.
Sounds like your midget pr0n habit has infected your computer with an STi.

Who'd have thought it. Alcazar got an sti rather than a wrx....
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Thanks for all replies

Turns out it's only updated itself to Windows 10........she definitely did NOT give it permission so to do.

NOW we'll see if it's installed drivers for her printer......
Old 20 May 2016, 04:38 PM
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Thanks for all replies

Turns out it's only updated itself to Windows 10........she definitely did NOT give it permission so to do.

NOW we'll see if it's installed drivers for her printer......
She may not have thought she did, but she will have done
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Uninstall it, you get the option

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Old 20 May 2016, 08:53 PM
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She likes it, says it seems faster and her printer works perfectly, so no probs so far.

If I decide to update my laptop in France, is it a huge download? I only have 3Gb total for a month......
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