Right, prepare to be humoured - or otherwise!
Let me admit at the start that my computer is, at least, 6 years old and some of the on-board components are even older – I think they’re steam-driven – there is a slot for coal on the bottom-left, just next to the whim-wham that winds the sun up.
Well, there’s me happy with this beautiful machine (white-wall tyres and all – those were the days!) and with Windows XP installed. I ignored Windows 7 but, suddenly, MS wanted to install Windows 10 – and for free. Apparently, my computer was suitable and there would be no problems. It was, also, free, just my price - though I did try to get a discount.
Windows 10 was installed and ran fine until the time for up-dates arrived. Well, the up-dates failed because many of my components were so old that the drivers couldn’t be up-dated – some components were identified in Anglo-Saxon – someone called “eorldeward the awkward” made the motherboard, apparently.
Well, Windows 10 manfully (or computerfully) struggled to up-date these, which was impossible, and, after what seemed like a lifetime, it, finally, failed.
You can say what you want about Windows 10 but it does not give up easily – next morning, it’s there again - the dreaded notice – “do not turn your computer off”, et cetera.
I wait, have two or three cups of coffee, fill in the form for the French Foreign Legion, yet again, and, then, it tells me, it’s failed to up-date – I knew that, because it did this every morning.
After several weeks of this, I contacted MS and went through many steps with their “All-Seeing Guide into the Unknown”, until he said, “Your drivers are out of date and there are no new ones available”. Well, you could have blown me down with a hurricane.
I think, however, in the end I’ve won because Windows 10 only does it, now, about once a week.The up-shot is that I have to buy a new computer and I’ve seen a beauty that runs on paraffin – no white-wall tyres, however.
Oh, yes, right at the beginning, I tried turning off automatic up-dates for Windows 10 but with no luck because, it seems, that can’t be done.
Well, having got that off my chest, as they say, I’ve cheered up! Does anyone know where to buy paraffin?
