We’ll re-install your previous version of Windows but it might take a while. Declining here means you’re saying no to the free upgrade to Windows 10. The following, almost-sarcastic window appeared which offered up the following ‘option’: “No thanks, I’ll pass on my free upgrade to Windows 10. Welcome to Windows 10.Ĭonfused, I pressed Next and was presented with a license agreement which I wanted nothing to do with. So while I’ve got nothing against Windows 10 per se, you might imagine my shock when I turned on my Windows 8.1 PC and saw the following screen. It’s a massive pain and something invariably breaks. On every occasion, after suffering months of instability, I’ve had to eventually give up and do a fresh install – something that frequently coincides with many hours of tedium, locating software and usually, buying some new hardware. Despite learning this early on, like an idiot, I have continued to do it with every single version of consumer Windows since 98. Basically, when you do an upgrade install, you are left with an unstable turd of a platform that turns your PC into a crash-happy nightmare and some of your main programs stop working properly.
