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Can you click the Cortana button (little circle next to on screen start button)? If so, then type update, and click the appropriate link.

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If not,
 
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zooterkin said:
How do you get there if clicking on the Start menu causes the critical error?
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Rebooting several times has eventually gotten me past that error each time it occurs. Once it took about 5 reboots, but after I was able to get to the Start menu and updated, it hasn't recurred.
 
It isn't rocket science, no. But updating software and dealing with the things that might go wrong is not something that is easy for everybody. On the whole it would be better to help people instead of sniping at them for being less computer literate than an expert.
 
Except in the Start menu and Cortana error that search box doesn't work either Duh!

And rebooting multiple times didn't work for me. Luckily it hasn't come back for now though and overall I am happy with W10.
 
Yalius said:
Rebooting several times has eventually gotten me past that error each time it occurs. Once it took about 5 reboots, but after I was able to get to the Start menu and updated, it hasn't recurred.
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Thanks, I'll pass that on; before I had a go at it, it had recovered the Start menu, but it went away again and didn't come back after several reboots.
 
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The free upgrade is a full version of Windows (not a trial or introductory version) and is available until July 29, 2016. Once you upgrade, you’ll have Windows 10 for free on that device.
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I still have a few days to decide.

I think I'll toss an old ASUS laptop on the sacrificial heap to have a look. My Gateway is still strong and reliable, but I hear the trump of doom for 7 and may go to 10 on that box at the last moment.
 
Agatha said:
It isn't rocket science, no. But updating software and dealing with the things that might go wrong is not something that is easy for everybody. On the whole it would be better to help people instead of sniping at them for being less computer literate than an expert.
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It's not just being computer literate (I suspect I'm more computer literate than average, even for this forum). It's understanding the problem in the first place, and then giving the actual steps to fix it, rather than a vague indication (though that can be useful in some cases); instructions regarding computers generally need to be precise. In this case, I was told to do something, but the actual steps to do it were not given. I asked for clarification, because it appeared to be a Catch 22 situation, the solution seemed to assume that I didn't have the problem I wanted to fix (which turned out to be the case; the missing step was waiting for the problem to stop). If there was a different way to do what was suggested, then it seemed better to ask for details of what was intended, rather than looking elsewhere and finding something that seemed to match but which was not the proposed solution.
 
Were you pressing it repeatedly? It didn't seem to do anything on mine except go to a blank screen. Then eventually it went to log in and booted up very very slowly without the error. Then I managed to fix the boot time and the error has stayed away so far
 
funk de fino said:
Were you pressing it repeatedly?
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Yes. I tried with my finger on the F8, and hitting it repeatedly, and doing the same with Escape, and alternating the two. None had any effect, I suspect they are disabled on this machine; to boot into safe mode I had to select Shift-shutdown.
 
zooterkin said:
Yes. I tried with my finger on the F8, and hitting it repeatedly, and doing the same with Escape, and alternating the two. None had any effect, I suspect they are disabled on this machine; to boot into safe mode I had to select Shift-shutdown.
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You can also force it to go to the trouble shooting menu by forcing a shutdown during boot 2 or 3 consecutive times.
 
xterra said:
Please explain further both what the error was, what was wrong with the boot time, and how you fixed it.

(If I missed a previous post, please tell me so I can look at it.)

Thanks.
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Once I fixed my "Start menu and Cortana" error, my boot time had increased dramatically. I found a solution online that involved adding a new shutdown command as a shortcut on desktop and using that to shut down the machine. Once this had been done my boot time went back to normal. Similar to the boot time when I was using W8.1
 
I have a problem with my Num Lock key not staying on. After all, that's the idea of LOCKING it, correct? (mostly used for logging in with PIN). I did the registry key change which had worked before on this machine (pre Windows 10) but doesn't hold now.

I also just found that one setting on my Logitech mouse doesn't seem to hold. I changed it to my preference yesterday and it's back to the default today.
 
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