I left updating Windows 10 until the last fortnight of Microsoft's
12-month window, in the hope that other mugs would have finished beta-testing it by then, while still giving me time to revert to Windows 7 in the event of a t*ts-up situation. Somewhat srprisingly to me, it all went very well, and everything worked fine afterwards. Have to say I couldn't can't see any benefit at all in having upgraded, but presumably since Windows 7 will be EOL'ed long before Windowes 10, it made sense to do it.Anyway.
Last week, in common with many people, I was given an apparently massive update to Windows 10 - I never had any option, it just happened (highly inconvenient as it took bloody ages to install). Since then, I find that lots of settings changed, notably the ghastly Cortana, which is the
21st century equivalent of that bloody talking paperclip which used to tap on your monitor. But unbelievably, it's now been rendered impossible to disable (unless you start tweaking the registry, apparently. WTF were they thinking?But my main issue is that since this compulsory update my old but excellent scanner (a Kodak i30) will no longer work - my PC now claims to have no driver installed, and that there are none available for this scanner (I tried reinstalling the old one, to no avail). And I'm past the 30-day window for simply reverting to Windows 7. I'm well aware that with legacy equipment you run this risk when you update the operating system, and I made damned sure to check this before I originally installed Windows 10. However, this is the first time I've ever heard of it happening when a patch was installed. Thank you, Microsoft, for converting my scanner into a doorstop.
I do have the original W7 installation disks, so when I have the time I suppose there's nothing for it but to do a clean install of that. Brilliant.