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JetGardner
...this has a partial happy ending but a dire warning
Edge Version 79.0.309.43 (Official build) beta (64-bit)
Windows 7
Since being unable to save enough for a new computer, I decided in prep for the 14th by doing a disk cleanup on my C;\ drive last night.
B I G M I S T A K E
I had no idea that disk cleanup automatically looks for updates and installs them whether you want them to or not!!! (especially since I configured it to only install updates manually) I discovered this when I rebooted it when it was done cleaning up, and was told it was configuring updates and not to turn off the computer. Having no choice, I let it go and after the reboot, it hung at 100% and stayed there for an hour.
I shut the computer off, and it booted up fine. (premature sigh of relief)
I tried to go on line and discovered that Edge had gone back to where it was when I first installed it. I'd lost my favorites, my ad blocker, dark mode and all my passwords.
I decided to go with panic mode first resort and did a system restore back to the 8th (yesterday) whirrrr click click. System hung on the initializing screen and after half an hour would go no further.
Shut it off rebooted in Safe mode and tried again... same thing.
Rebooted and thought maybe if I uninstalled whatever the updates were, that'd fix it.
Checked and discovered it'd installed 31 updates that I'd skipped over the last year or so, which I then uninstalled
Rebooted and tried system restore again, still no luck, hung at initializing.
Now I learned from experience, and last month I made a copy of Profile1 in my user folder "just in case"
Using that I'm back on line with this warning to others
REGULARLY BACK UP YOUR EDGE PROFILE
Aside from lost recently-added shortcuts it's back to normal, with ad blocker etc. back... but I can't get system restore to work at all and it was working fine last month
any suggestions?
One other detail... I'm using a miracle machine-a HP desktop bought in 2005 which originally had XP on it, updated to win7 home premium and apparently can't be upgraded to Win 10 - Except to change the CD/DVD burner 3 times, it's been trouble free!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm existing on disability checks and can't afford a new computer yet
Continue reading...
Edge Version 79.0.309.43 (Official build) beta (64-bit)
Windows 7
Since being unable to save enough for a new computer, I decided in prep for the 14th by doing a disk cleanup on my C;\ drive last night.
B I G M I S T A K E
I had no idea that disk cleanup automatically looks for updates and installs them whether you want them to or not!!! (especially since I configured it to only install updates manually) I discovered this when I rebooted it when it was done cleaning up, and was told it was configuring updates and not to turn off the computer. Having no choice, I let it go and after the reboot, it hung at 100% and stayed there for an hour.
I shut the computer off, and it booted up fine. (premature sigh of relief)
I tried to go on line and discovered that Edge had gone back to where it was when I first installed it. I'd lost my favorites, my ad blocker, dark mode and all my passwords.
I decided to go with panic mode first resort and did a system restore back to the 8th (yesterday) whirrrr click click. System hung on the initializing screen and after half an hour would go no further.
Shut it off rebooted in Safe mode and tried again... same thing.
Rebooted and thought maybe if I uninstalled whatever the updates were, that'd fix it.
Checked and discovered it'd installed 31 updates that I'd skipped over the last year or so, which I then uninstalled
Rebooted and tried system restore again, still no luck, hung at initializing.
Now I learned from experience, and last month I made a copy of Profile1 in my user folder "just in case"
Using that I'm back on line with this warning to others
REGULARLY BACK UP YOUR EDGE PROFILE
Aside from lost recently-added shortcuts it's back to normal, with ad blocker etc. back... but I can't get system restore to work at all and it was working fine last month
any suggestions?
One other detail... I'm using a miracle machine-a HP desktop bought in 2005 which originally had XP on it, updated to win7 home premium and apparently can't be upgraded to Win 10 - Except to change the CD/DVD burner 3 times, it's been trouble free!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm existing on disability checks and can't afford a new computer yet
Continue reading...