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Changing hardware and using Microsoft Windows 10 is so much fun! Not.

Well, don't upgrade your hardware on your own PC if you got the 'free' upgrade to windows 10. Even calling them and telling them you have a valid Windows 7 license gets you nowhere So now I have to reinstall Windows 7 and hope that Microsoft doesn't screw with me more, and then either stick with Windows 7 or try the horrendeous Windows 10 upgrade again. Why must my son want to use Windows? Ugh!

To be or not to be, a Steam game.

Is it really a Steam game, when you have to go through hoops to play it? So, you download the game through the Steam interface, and then you go to play it. Okay, a custom launcher comes up for you to login with... you sigh, and sign up with them, and then login, ready to play. But then that launcher starts to download the game... Ugh! I thought Steam handled that!!!! Usually I'll just cancel the game download. I mean, meh, if they can't bother to make better integration, why should I waste my time on their game.

Windows 10, Cancel still means Okay, sometimes apparently.

Yes, I guess cancel still means okay sometimes in windows. I was just trying to add my work calendar to the Calendar widget in windows 10. Google works fine, so I thought I could just add my 365 calendar to it too? Well I go to and it warns me that the Company policy might change my settings... ? What? I hit cancel, of course, and what does it say, "Working on it..." Then it warns me that my computer doesn't meet requirements of the company or some such. My company account is added to the Widget and it looks like I see those entries. So it worked? But I have a bad feeling. Did it change my computer settings? Why? Probably not. I'd expect it wanted to change security settings of the widget or something? But... well... the wording just isn't something I wanted nor apparently had a choice about. So, I removed my work account from my calendar widget, hoping that my computer is still mine.  Ugh!

Windows 10 upgrade "schedule"

When I press, 'schedule' I figure I'll get a calendar or a choice. (Did I miss a check box or something?) But, oh, no, it just starts downloading immediately—oh, how I wonder if it'll let me even schedule the install, or just do that as well right away? At least it let me schedule the actual install! -desktop seems a little faded now :( -"world wide web publishing" was running now automatically This caused Apache to fail to run. Also, why? why is it running?