By the way there were a couple of other lads that posted and so thanks to ya'll as well. Most appreciated.

Bud

Yes, thanks I do have 8.1 on the USB Device they sent me and I'll do a manual delete of all the Dell junk/software.

I have had nothing but custom built machines for over 25 years and this is the...

Oh Boy!! I must have sounded smarter than I really am here.

First of all I should have mentioned that I will not be upgrading to Windows 10 again. I've tried it for about a month now and just...

Hello Everybody;

I recently received an email from Dell about my Desktop XPS 8700 having an issue with my hard drive. They said it was failing and three days later I got a package by Purolator...

Thanks for the reply.

I took my FixMeStick back to Costco and bought the latest one online and it works perfctly without having to disable the Fast Boot or Secure Boot.

After the FixmeStci...

Thanks for piping in there Fast Ram, as it was you who directed me to download and install all the new Dell drivers. That helped quite a bit.

I've been using the sleep mode at night when I would...

Hi;

Sorry for the delay. Still having a little trouble navigating this forum. I'm nearly 70 and techie things don't stick to my brain like they used to do.

I have a 2 Tbyte drive that came with...

Hi;

Thank you for the kind reply. That makes me feel a lot better and your analogy makes sense. Disabling it temporarily seems like a good way to go.

There seems to be two way to disable it...

I used the free upgrade just the other day and so far I'm fairly comfortable with it. Didn't like it all the first day or two but I'm getting used to it as time goes by. It has some very strange...

Hello everyone;

I have a Dell XPS-8700, now running Windows 10 after a recent installation.

I also have what is called a Fixme Stick that removes viruses that happen to get past my Norton 360...

This was very helpful jd, so thank you kindly for that. I don't know how, but a warm reboot is now one minute and 40 seconds and a cold hard start is less than a minute. This is a huge improvemnt...

Hi Dusty;

That "Sleep" thing was a great suggestion as I tried it lst night around 7:30pm. I just came down and hit the spacebar and the screens came on instantly. If this is the way it's supposed...

Thanks, and yes, fast boot is "ON" but I don't understand why "Hybernate" will make a difference in boot up spped.

Thanks all for the kind replies.

Yes, and sorry, but what is a local account?

Hi Ram;

I've had Windows 10 for about four days now and it has done a few updates already. I just did a warm boot and it took 2 minutes and 22 seconds to finally get to the desktop and settle down...

Hello everyone;

I'm new here today so please forgive me if I'm a little off on protocol to start out.

I purchased a new Dell XPS-8700 about a month ago, and just the other day took the leap and...