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M. HalseyWindows 10 Troubleshootinghttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7471-2_31

31. Installation and Restore

Mike Halsey1  
(1)
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK
 

When Windows 10 first launched into its “free for a year” offer, there were plenty of horror stories of people getting unstable systems after upgrading from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, or from people who couldn’t get the new OS installed at all.

The upgrade process to Windows 10 is actually the slickest and most reliable of any Windows upgrade process in the past, though it might sometimes be difficult to believe such a thing. Of the upgrade problems that people had, the faults, I’m sorry to say, were with ...

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