[Sable99]

Windows 10 downloaded to my laptop yesterday and I am not happy! I liked Windows 7.

What makes it worse is I tried to open Excel to no avail. It only opens Excel for a second. I can see my documents and then they disappear. The same thing happens with Outlook. I purchased Office 2013 a while back because I did not want to pay for an annual subscription to Office 365. But now, I can't access Excel or Outlook and I really need to do some Excel spreadsheets! How do I get Office 2013 back?

Any help would be appreciated,

[rubicon]

I also started a thread on this very subject and for the reasons you experienced

[Sable99]

Originally Posted by rubicon

I also started a thread on this very subject and for the reasons you experienced

I saw one thread about this issue but it had been closed.

[Biker Dog]

You can download free program "TakeOwnership" I had the problem that Win10 made all my files "read only". Installed takeownership, installed it, right click on the folder. clicked takeownership, PROBLEM SOLVED. Good Luck

[Madelaine Amee]

Originally Posted by Sable99

Windows 10 downloaded to my laptop yesterday and I am not happy! I liked Windows 7.

What makes it worse is I tried to open Excel to no avail. It only opens Excel for a second. I can see my documents and then they disappear. The same thing happens with Outlook. I purchased Office 2013 a while back because I did not want to pay for an annual subscription to Office 365. But now, I can't access Excel or Outlook and I really need to do some Excel spreadsheets! How do I get Office 2013 back?

Any help would be appreciated,

I think you are looking for something called Windows 10 which has been discussed in another post, but has disappeared. I am also being bothered with continual upgrades so this morning did a search and came up with this WARNING: Your Computer May Upgrade to Windows 10 Without Your Permission

This is an excellent article on how to handle Windows 10 before it updates on your computer, and also tells you how to get rid of it. Hope this helps.

[TVMayor]

I would think that when Windows created a OS Win10 that did not permit Windows programs like the Office programs to work, that Windows would have created a download update to fix the flaw. More proof I do not know what I am talking about, My main computer is Windows 8 not 8.1 and it will stay that way. No “do you want 10 free, do you, do you”.

I did go from 7 to 10 on a lap top that I use only for the internet and no problem. No problem if I don't count the combined time do download 10 and an updated that came weeks later, a total of maybe 5 hours to complete.

[Rapscallion St Croix]

Windows 10 tried to download to my laptop yesterday, but I was able to stop it. I then ran a utility called Never10, and am now safe and sticking with my Windows 7 Home Premium.

[Record10ti]

Originally Posted by Sable99

Windows 10 downloaded to my laptop yesterday and I am not happy! I liked Windows 7.

What makes it worse is I tried to open Excel to no avail. It only opens Excel for a second. I can see my documents and then they disappear. The same thing happens with Outlook. I purchased Office 2013 a while back because I did not want to pay for an annual subscription to Office 365. But now, I can't access Excel or Outlook and I really need to do some Excel spreadsheets! How do I get Office 2013 back?

Any help would be appreciated,

I have never seen that particular issue with W10 after hundreds of updates - so, there may be something more to it. You can however go back to 7 very easily as long as you are less than 30 days into 10.

As for the "Never 7" utility...NOTHING on the internet is free...NOTHING.

If you need advice to get back to 7 private message me.

[vlm790]

Go to Settings > Update & security > Recovery and selecting either Go back to Windows 7 or 8 depending on which one you had.

[Record10ti]

Originally Posted by vlm790

Go to Settings > Update & security > Recovery and selecting either Go back to Windows 7 or 8 depending on which one you had.

It is far faster and cleaner to go to a restore point. But, that does work (there will be some bad icons left behind).

[Kahuna32162]

OK, first you still have all your office programs and files after being upgraded to Windows 10. The issue may be that the icons you used to use to access the programs are no longer valid. You can re create the icons easily by going to C:\program files\Microsoft Office 15\Root\Office15 Scroll down until you find the program you are looking for, excel outlook word ect, and then right click on the file, a menu will pop up and you can then choose create shortcut. I hope this helps.

[biker1]

This is bad behavior by Microsoft - updating without explicit permission to do so. Microsoft is most likely trying to pad the number of Windows 10 installations and increase the telemetry they collect from you. You apparently have 30 days to rollback Window 10 to what you previously had installed. Corporate users would never allow this to happen and you shouldn't either. Upgrade if and when it makes sense for you, not Microsoft, to do so. I work for a computer manufacturer and if we tried this on our customers the results would not be favorable.

Originally Posted by Sable99

Windows 10 downloaded to my laptop yesterday and I am not happy! I liked Windows 7.

What makes it worse is I tried to open Excel to no avail. It only opens Excel for a second. I can see my documents and then they disappear. The same thing happens with Outlook. I purchased Office 2013 a while back because I did not want to pay for an annual subscription to Office 365. But now, I can't access Excel or Outlook and I really need to do some Excel spreadsheets! How do I get Office 2013 back?

Any help would be appreciated,

[Record10ti]

Originally Posted by biker1

This is bad behavior by Microsoft - updating without explicit permission to do so. Microsoft is most likely trying to pad the number of Windows 10 installations and increase the telemetry they collect from you. You apparently have 30 days to rollback Window 10 to what you previously had installed. Corporate users would never allow this to happen and you shouldn't either. Upgrade if and when it makes sense for you, not Microsoft, to do so. I work for a computer manufacturer and if we tried this on our customers the results would not be favorable.

They DID agree in their EULA...and No, it is NOT forced into any Domain based system, unless you are logged on as a "Local Administrator" (not common). Dont let the facts get into the way of conjecture. BITS only does what is has been instructed to do...sometime in the past, as part of an Update the end user got the EULA and that is that. They do not like the unforeseen consequences? Possibly they should have read what they were agreeing to.

That said, the OP should see if she has a Restore Point from any date prior to the W10 install and use that. As I said, it is FAR cleaner than an "uninstall"

[biker1]

Funny. Why you would try to defend this sort of egregious behavior is beyond me. Most (all) people don't read the boilerplate so don't try to fall back on that sorry excuse for their bad behavior. They are inconveniencing their customers for their own gain - no conjecture there.

Originally Posted by Record10ti

They DID agree in their EULA...and No, it is NOT forced into any Domain based system, unless you are logged on as a "Local Administrator" (not common). Dont let the facts get into the way of conjecture. BITS only does what is has been instructed to do...sometime in the past, as part of an Update the end user got the EULA and that is that. They do not like the unforeseen consequences? Possibly they should have read what they were agreeing to.

That said, the OP should see if she has a Restore Point from any date prior to the W10 install and use that. As I said, it is FAR cleaner than an "uninstall"

[Record10ti]

Originally Posted by biker1

They are inconveniencing their customers for their own gain - no conjecture there.

What exactly is the "gain" Microsoft is going to see? Some need more memory or an HDD (MSFT does not sell hardware). Some need a new computer (again, MSFT does not sell hardware). I am failing to see where it is exactly they "gain". PLUS, if you READ the install information it is not at all hard to turn off the telemetry stuff, Cortina and the other bloatware (then again, this required about thirty seconds of reading).

It is so funny that so many people are complaining - and most do not even know what they are complaining about. Quite simply, they do not like "change". Simply, unforeseen consequences. .