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I previously mentioned (here : The Lounge[^] ) that my wife's laptop stopped working and it seemed as if it was because Win10 hadn't been activated on it. Like MS was trying to get our attention.
Ubuntu To the Rescue
She needed Internet access to do some work. I had previously downloaded Ubuntu 16.04 and created a bootable USB. I was able to boot off that USB key and install it to a old laptop drive that I put into her laptop.
She was back up and running in about 30 minutes. not bad.
Also, while she was running on that machine I had her SSD (with win10) loaded into another cheapo laptop and it booted up. I flipped the old laptop over and found the Win 7 product key and was able to register / activate Win10. I couldn't believe it worked.
After that i put the SSD back in her laptop and now she's running fine. Can't beleive it all worked out.
I mean, I'm talking about Win10 getting something right --- 
Of course why it stopped working in the first place still seems a bit of a mystery.
If Running Win10, Keep An Ubuntu USB Distro Available
My suggestion is to build an Ubuntu USB bootable distro available if you're running Win10. That's the shortest path to get working again.
That'll probably be Microsoft's stance soon too. 
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Glad to see got it all working AND activated. 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Thank you. Very nice.
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raddevus wrote: She was back up and running in about 30 minutes. not bad.
It may be a personal thing, but I find it tacky when people refer to inanimate things as she or he.
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote: It may be a personal thing, but I find it tacky when people refer to inanimate things as she or he.
She, may have been his wife as it was her laptop that stuffed up/
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I stand corrected.
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote: I find it tacky when people refer to inanimate things as she or he
So Latin languages are wrong, then?
I'll tell them to stop it at once.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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All vehicles are female in English. This stems from ships and has been applied to other forms of transport since. Interestingly, even if a ship has a male name, such as HMS Prince of Wales, it will still be female.
veni bibi saltavi
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Wow, I had no idea this was even a thing. Would you know why were ships assigned the female gender though?
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Why is a ship always a'she'?: A ship is called a "she" because there is always a great deal of bustle around her; there is usually a gang of men about, she has a waist and stays; it takes a lot of paint to keep her good looking; it is not the initial expense that breaks you, it is the upkeep; she can be all decked out; it takes an experienced man to handle her correctly; and without a man at the helm, she is absolutely uncontrollable. She shows her topsides, hides her bottom and when coming into port, always heads for the buoys."
Alternatively, the oft accepted answer is that it stems from the romance languages.
veni bibi saltavi
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote: It may be a personal thing, but I find it tacky when people refer to inanimate things as she or he.
Well, since my wife _is_ a she I think I used appropriate language.
I was referring to my wife being able to use the computer again. Not the computer being a she.
And what if I were a native Spanish (or French) speaker...?
Nouns have gender in those languages, you know?
Spanish nouns - Wikipedia[^]
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Wait, wait, wait a potton-kicking minute!
Are you saying that all those jerks who, over the years, have immediately responded to windows-problem threads with "You should install linux!" were r1ght?!?
Jeeze, what's the world coming to?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: over the years
Mark_Wallace wrote: were r1ght?!?
No.
Linux installs weren't so great in the past. But now...
It's the year of the LINUX DESKTOP!!!
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And WINTER IS COMING!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A similar thing happened to me. I was ill and penicillin cured me but I'm sure it was a fluke and I'm going back to herbal cures.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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That's an impressive argument you've put across.
Someone wipes off their hard drive without any sort of backup or without having created a recovery media, which leaves them stranded (surprise, surprise). That surely sounds like a problem with Windows. Neat! 
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That's funny! I agree with you...
...back to Win10.
Until it crashes again and then I'll swap out the Ubuntu laptop.
You really are right, though.
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I'm using my "on the road" laptop. Dual boot, Ubuntu 16.04LTS and Win10. Partitioned the disk into 5 slices of various sizes. Windows gets C: and D:, Ubuntu gets / and /home and there is one shared. Oh and they can mount each others' partitions if I'm too lazy to move stuff to the shared one. But keepass lives there!
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Very cool and very smart.
Best of both worlds!
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raddevus wrote: I mean, I'm talking about Win10 getting something right
So activating an OS buy moving your SSD to an other computer it's called 'right'? Aren't we a bit too low..
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Surprised Win 10 doesn't periodically check the license against hardware to prevent this.
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They check, but not so visible as before, and they offered also Win10 mostly for free.
Better for MS to have Windows 10 on all machines rather than deal with a gazillion of legacy things. That's why they do not hassle the user as msoobe did previously.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: So activating an OS buy moving your SSD to an other computer it's called 'right'?
Haha, I had to read that sentence to think about it for a moment.
That is quite a terrible end-user solution, right?
M$ Tech support: "Okay, uninformed user, go and take the SSD out and find another laptop and drop it in there...Hello....Hello...Hmm... I think he hung up!?"
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Ubuntu with it's capability to "try" it without installing has helped me to solve some friend computer issues. It is a good advice having one close. 
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