Vince, I have one quick follow-up question. I was able to turn off the automatic updates, but I was wondering if there was any way to permanently get rid of the Win 10 nag screen so that it doesn't...

OK - thank you very much Vince! I sincerely appreciate all your help.

I'm back up and running in Win 7. I have to reinstall all the programs, which means that I must have made the recovery discs shortly after purchase. Can I assume that there aren't any Win 10...

I was able to find a set of Recovery Discs. Once booted it offers me a number of options. The one that I think I want is "Restore computer and preserve my new or changed files (recommended)". Is this...

I've tried to boot into safe mode several times and it won't take. It keeps going to the Win 10 icon with the circling dots. I have a Dell Inspiron N5050 laptop.

The dots that trace a circular pattern come up underneath the Win 10 logo, which I think means that something is in process. That holds for a bit and then the screen goes black, but the hard drive...

No, that didn't work. It still boots back into the Win 10 upgrade. Are there any other ideas that I can try?

I’m not sure how it happened, but my Windows 7 laptop started doing an upgrade to Win 10 four days ago, and it still seems to be in the process. The hard drive light periodically flashes....