Now just hold on a minute old son…
I had two…Yes TWO Allegros and they were a piece of pi$$ to work on. Saved me pounds doing my own servicing and stuff…:-p And did you also know Longy…That Allegro means ‘Quickly’ in Italian…
Well! nobody’s perfect…
Once you can sort out all the crap and stop any outside interference TessA, windows 10 isn’t so bad…
I find Win 10 very good a lot better than Vista and Win 7.
Not true at all
All my laptops and netbooks are Windows 7 and they are only used for surfing the internet and buying things. Windows updates were disabled from the get go. I NEVER update them. If I had allowed updates then I would have gotten the despicable update that MS put out to force people to upgrade to W10.
I have no problems at all using Win 7. It’s a brilliant O/S and leaves the USER in control rather than MS.
My wife has W10 for her work laptop and it’s absolutely awful. MS is in control. You can delay updates but not disable them. Not for me. Win 7 was the last real O/S. Everything now will just be more and more global control and the O/S’s become more and more app selling platforms.
Out of interest if anyone has a proper copy of Windows 7 (any version but OEM) then I’d be interested to make an offer for it.
No problems at all with a Mac 
Coincidentally I was just thinking the same earlier, all that hassle with Microsoft. I’ve been on Macs since the early 1980s and they just go on and on, trouble-free. Updates are available at times but the option to download them or not is always given. Upgrades from one operating system to the latest are free of charge and usually without problems.
I agree with anyone who says they cost more but my experience is that is well-worth it to be hassle-free. They last longer and are, or so it seems, far easier to use generally.
The giveaway with the Macs versus Windows situation is that most who go over to Macs do not usually wish to return to Windows. The reverse however, sees people who just cannot wait to get back on a Mac. 
I find Windows 10 suitable for my purpose, however, I had to delete the Office 360 because they seemed to want to rent it to me and wanted to charge an annual subscription so I loaded an old copy of microsoft office student…Perfect.
I also prefer to use Microsoft Office Picture Manager as opposed to Microsoft Connect…And I’ve kicked Cortana into the long grass…
The man who should know is at this link:-
He is saying that there are 400 million W10 users, worldwide whilst there are 100 million Macs.
What he doesn’t mention is that you can, probably, buy 3 W10 PCs for the cost of one Mac!
Since the hardware inside a pc/Mac is virtually the same, the box is not the issue - but the cost of the software is.
I’ve never quite understood why MS haven’t gone with the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” approach possibly they had to keep updating because the Hackers/virus writers have always favoured going for the biggest volume.
One other thought is that those who experience problems with updates are not necessarily the ones in all of those companies with PC management/fixing skills built on on site.
Maybe the ones who struggle are not the professional people with the skills.
You rarely hear of many problems coming back from the big users.
I read this all the time, so it must be true for most Mac users. However, if you type into a search engine such terms as: ‘mac awful - mac crap - macs suck’ there really isn’t any shortage of complaints about Macs. If there were as many Mac users as Windows users, there might be as many listings and complaints about Macs as there are about Windows.
I think what it amounts to is that, if the computer runs properly, people will rarely mention that in Internet forums and articles. They only write if there is trouble with the computer, whether it’s a Microsoft or Apple system.
For every person grumbling about Windows or Mac, there must be many thousands more who are using these systems with with no trouble at all. I’m one of those people as regards Windows 10 but I know there are a percentage of users who get troubles …and those are the only ones we hear/read about.
My new second-hand refurbished PC came with Win 10 professional and first thing I did was get rid of all the bloat including that ridiculous live desktop feature, stopped all the ETs and disabled auto-update. It’s now set to inform me of updates only and I decide what to update, not M$
The Start bar now works like my old copy of Win 7 and is faster as a consequence.
Installed W10 update this morning.
It took close to 3 hours, but no problems.
Everything still working well, the way it did in the past.
I must say, I did have my fingers crossed.
Windows 10 is certainly better after a bit of setting up.
About Updates. They tend to come in packages of numerous fixes that can either be stopped one way or another or accepted. What’s in a package can be seen by going to the Microsoft page linked to below (updates to version to 1903)
I never notice much difference after an update is installed but everything in that long list of changes must have been brought to the attention of Microsoft somehow for them to issue a fix for it. Perhaps it depends how the computer is used as to whether a bug is noticed or not.
On those grounds, I could stop updates because I haven’t noticed any difficulties or bugs. On the other hand, I see no harm in accepting the update packages as they are released. They are general improvements to the entire system as far as I can see. I feel that not accepting recommended updates is like me saying to Microsoft that I know more about their operating system than they do. Much as I would like to think this was so, it isn’t very likely.
I’ve been running Windows 10 1903 on two PCs since 2/7/19 and have have not encountered and major problems (or differences, either).
I agree with mart’s approach … 
Okay Omah and Mart, I’ve just installed the new win10 update, it took just over an hour and it’s got them off my back…So I hope you guys are right or there’ll be trouble…
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I hope all is well for you and your computer this morning and there’ll be no need to put the boxing gloves on. 
My laptop is playing up now.
Won’t let Flash player work, takes ages starting up. My screensaver or whatever it is is very blurry behind the password bit.
I have done a scan for viruses etc, nothing showing up.
It looks as if the last update you did was a major version upgrade from W.10 version 1809 to version 1903. I say this because the blurry picture on the password screen was something I got after this version upgrade. It is not a fault but has been done by design. I didn’t turn this effect off but it is possible to do so. Have a look at this page:
https://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/disable-login-screen-background-blur-on-windows-10/
If that last update was from version 1809 to version 1903, that would be why it took such a long time to complete. It was a very big update. The bad news is that there has been an update since then and it may be that you will eventually need to do this one as well. This update turns off the blurry password screen by default (or it did on my system).
I don’t know about Flash Player but what browser are you using? The only browser that has Flash Player included now is Microsoft Edge. If you use a different browser to that, Flash will need to be installed again. Flash is thought to be quite a security risk and Firefox won’t enable it by default in their latest version.
Flash isn’t used much these days because of its security implications. The standard now used is called ‘HTML5’. All videos on YouTube play using HTML5. In short you may find you don’t need Flash Player at all. I don’t have it installed and haven’t missed it.
If there is something that absolutely requires Flash, go to the site using Microsoft Edge and see if the Flash content plays.
I’ve installed the latest update but not re-booted yet so I’ll keep my eyes on the (formerly) blurry password screen …
I don’t know about Flash Player but what browser are you using? The only browser that has Flash Player included now is Microsoft Edge. If you use a different browser to that, Flash will need to be installed again. Flash is thought to be quite a security risk and Firefox won’t enable it by default in their latest version.
Flash isn’t used much these days because of its security implications. The standard now used is called ‘HTML5’. All videos on YouTube play using HTML5. In short you may find you don’t need Flash Player at all. I don’t have it installed and haven’t missed it.
If there is something that absolutely requires Flash, go to the site using Microsoft Edge and see if the Flash content plays.
Flash and Chrome:
It’s a well-known fact that Adobe will no longer be supporting Flash Player by the end of next year (i.e: 2020). Its development will be brought to a halt. When Adobe made this announcement nearly two years ago, Google was quick to announce that it would also be casting out Flash eventually. Surprisingly however, it was revealed that by July, Chrome will be completely disabling Flash for all sites, in addition to issuing a warning about the Player’s end, scheduled for next year.
Ever since Adobe made the game changing announcement, Google has been adamant on making its users trust and use other technologies such as HTML5 instead of Flash Player.
One thing that should be mentioned here is that Google is also making it difficult for its users to pick Flash. A couple of days ago, Chrome stopped running Flash supported content by default. In order to allow a site to run the player, permission should be granted to it manually and this process needs to be repeated every time Chrome is relaunched.
Interestingly, Flash Player will be fully disabled, beginning with the new Chrome 76, slated to release in May and become fully functional by July. In order to run Flash content, first of all it will have to be re-enabled in the browser’s Settings. Then, the access will have to be granted to each site separately for running Flash content on Chrome.
So that’s the end of “Neave Asteroids” for me then, I suppose …
Just re-booted - Blurry password screen still there so turned “Transparency” OFF - Re-booted - Instead of blurring, password screen goes darker but I prefer that … 