The first of many regrets you will have for upgrading to Windows 10. It's fucked you before you've even installed it!

The only regret I've had so far is buying an xbox one wireless controller and expecting the same flawless integration that the 360 controllers had...
instead I got moving beeps upon moving my mouse and no clicky. Otherwise, it's just a more obscure version of windows 8, except with a valid Desktop mode. Oh well windows 8 drivers seem to work, which were seperately made

What problems have you run into, Echoen?

None. I've avoided it and purged Win 10 from my system. I even deleted the automated Win10 download AND the icon in my WIn7 system tray!

Won't have that shit in my perfectly fine, perfectly usable current Win7 operating system. I have zero reason to upgrade. There are no features that Win 10 offers that make it worth the pain I hear others going through.

Thanks for being a beacon of enlightenment, your hatemail card and Linux or Apple subscription will be in the mail tomorrow. Yes, Win 7 and 8 are fine, and waiting before you adopt is ifne, but don't talk like you know -anything- about the next operating system when you have zero experience. Also, how did you "avoid it" When you had to purge it? It didn't install or even download by itself over here.

Want some pork roast with your salt?

8 was also garbage.

Just because I refused to install Win 10 does not mean I have no experience with it. Those around me that did upgrade to it have regretted it and they have shown me why. Most of them have since 'downgraded' to Win 7 because it's stable, usable, and non-intrusive.

And avoided = not affected by it even on my win 7 machine. MS pushed out updates that forced Win 8 and Win 7 machines to download Win 10 automatically. http://www.howtogeek.com/228551/how.....automatically/

There's some programs you can install to specifically block Win 10 from downloading and from the Win 10 system icon appearing in the tray.

I could show you tons of problems with Windows 7 (Such as this weird User Profile will not load error I just fixed on my laptop) and 8 to mirror Win 10. Every OS is going to have problems.

People who have Windows 10 problems now will mark them for people in the future. Windows 8 works fine on my PC with a little prog to mirror the windows 7 startup menu.
Just because the interface might not be to your liking, does not make the entire operating system bad: I've never had a use for Metro, but Surface Pro's are quite appreciated by plenty of people.

If we don't want technology to advance, we can just ignore new operating systems, but there's no reason to be a prophet for decrying something that doesn't currently cost you anything to try, and they've gone out of their way to allow us to step back out of Windows 10. But that doesn't mean we can't help make it as good as possible to avoid things happening like Windows ME.

Not to mention W10 has only been slowly offered to more and more people without really doing harm as long as it's not installed, like you said, you can Always remove the offending data.

This is sad, since we probably could have saved those files. :<

Rawr, that's a setback :/

To be fair, I've found Windows 10 to be a valid upgrade from Windows 8 or 8.1. It just doesn't have what it takes to beat Windows 7 though.

On another note, how would just disconnecting the SATA cable from the optical drive kill the power supply? Sounds kind of strange to me.

By electrical logic, it -should- shut down your pc when you suddenly have a power drop. Optical drives are cheap, PSU's are decent bids, Motherboards are expensive if you get a good one. But yeah, by logic, it should be able to restart, but it can't hurt. to have it checked.

I would have just thought the optical drive would have been non-functional until it was plugged back in. If she plugged it in while the computer was on I might expect some problems. It just sounds to me like she didn't even touch the power supply connection to it.