Woke up my computer today and got the message, "Your computer did not shut down correctly". I hadn't shut it down and there was no power outage. Win10 gives you several options for a restart. The fix it deal didn't work, none of the 4 auto back up points worked, apparently I never made an image, so that wasn't an option. Tried a safe start with no success. So finally had to do a system rest. This was an automatic option and meant wiping the hard drive of everything except personal files back to factory settings and reinstalling Win10. It works again but I have lost almost every program and game installed, one tech drawing program and an old version of Firefox remain as far as I can tell. Plus all bookmarks gone. I'm currently using Explorer. I guess first up is find Avast or AVG. One thing after another.
any idea if it was software issue or a hardware one? I know that sometimes when upgrading to a new OS, memory errors that never caused problems before can be an issue with new code, especially if there were significant changes to the kernel and memory addressing. I kinda have doubts that is the issue, but ya never know. You should run some hardware diagnostics to check.
Well I've had a lot of problems since bloody windows 10......I should have stuck with me old set up......Bloody technolgy is in a pain in the arse .....Always looking to go one better.
Gonna run a hard drive scan and forget virus protection for awhile, see how defender works. No idea why this occurred, just reinstalled Firefox, now on to the hard drive.
Good idea. However, I'm guessing one of those programs you installed (or some other file on the machine), is infected or behaves badly under Win 10. Sorry you're having issues. I still can't get my main laptop to upgrade from Win 7 and I spent many days trying. I think I'll give it up now...
I have gone back to win 7 because of the issues I was having with 10 It might look flashy but offers nothing useful also it would not let me use my anti virus ( said it was incompatible ) Win 7 lets me use it
could have been a short power outage. file system ought to be able to handle that without getting corrupted but you never know.
Most of the programs were old, nothing really major installed lately. There was something minor, but can't remember what. Anyway, up and running again all systems, hard drive, drivers check out with no errors and latest updates. Making restore disks now, takes about 6 years. Still using proxy for this site.
There's a reason for that error message, I had the same thing happen with Windows 8.1. Check out You Tube because there is a video on there which explains how to go about resolving that problem in Windows 8.1. I think it's a shutdown problem and a little tweak in the set up menu will fix it. Unfortunately I can't remember how I fixed it.
No it happens on two separate computers and my phone, on the same wifi. The laptop and phone access the site with no problem from a different ip.
No way I'm doing Win 10. My main machine runs Linux Mint. I have a Win 7 machine I need for Magic Jack and Turbotax.
