Windows 8.1 forced me to update my Windows 8.1 last night. When it went through all of its ridiculous rebooting & screen flickering drama, the desktop, task bar & hot corners were gone.
I hit ctrl + alt + del & entered task manager where I could log on as another user on the laptop but I could not access the files on c: for my primary user #1. Since Microsoft OneSkyDrive or whatever they call it this month is a complete joke & it prevents me from using a real cloud drive, I need to use my external TB drive to back up & restore. For the most recently created files, I either lose them or need to somehow recover my User #1.
Then my second laptop started to download the same update. I stopped it permanently.,,,I thought. It started again. So I uninstalled what I thought was the update agent & it stopped again. I went for a bike ride & when I returned Microcrap had downloaded the update & a message read that I needed to restart or it would automatically update in 1 day. I drove to a computer store right that second. I walked toward the store's door & noticed the laptop was restarting. Arghhhh.
That was the shortest 1 day I have ever experienced.
Now that laptop's one & only user has no desktop or app icons, task bar, nothing.
I returned home to find out my only remaining, working laptop had restarted...yup! Desktop gone.
Thank you MS / BS.
1. Does anyone know how to recover the users?
2. Does anyone know how to stop Microsoft from downloading any future updates?
3. And while we are at it, does anyone know how to get rid of the hot corners, which just waste our time & get rid of SkyOneDriveCloudBackupDisk?
Best Regards,
MS Hater.
I hit ctrl + alt + del & entered task manager where I could log on as another user on the laptop but I could not access the files on c: for my primary user #1. Since Microsoft OneSkyDrive or whatever they call it this month is a complete joke & it prevents me from using a real cloud drive, I need to use my external TB drive to back up & restore. For the most recently created files, I either lose them or need to somehow recover my User #1.
Then my second laptop started to download the same update. I stopped it permanently.,,,I thought. It started again. So I uninstalled what I thought was the update agent & it stopped again. I went for a bike ride & when I returned Microcrap had downloaded the update & a message read that I needed to restart or it would automatically update in 1 day. I drove to a computer store right that second. I walked toward the store's door & noticed the laptop was restarting. Arghhhh.
That was the shortest 1 day I have ever experienced.
Now that laptop's one & only user has no desktop or app icons, task bar, nothing.
I returned home to find out my only remaining, working laptop had restarted...yup! Desktop gone.
Thank you MS / BS.
1. Does anyone know how to recover the users?
2. Does anyone know how to stop Microsoft from downloading any future updates?
3. And while we are at it, does anyone know how to get rid of the hot corners, which just waste our time & get rid of SkyOneDriveCloudBackupDisk?
Best Regards,
MS Hater.
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